Lauv: When you’re in that place where you’re just exhausted and you’re seeing everybody
else around you being all romantic and you’re like “ehhhh cute ahh fuck you.”
You’re tired of the songs, you’re tired of seeing it, you’re tired even though deep
in your heart it’s what you want and what everybody needs.
Everybody needs love, family, friendship, romantic, love with a pet, like a dog.
A nice hug from a dog.
Troye: Love that.
Lauv: Love.
Lauv: I put out all these songs that were called ‘I Met You When I Was 18” and it
was all like about one relationship that I like romanticized over and over and I kind
of was coming from this place of like I’m so tired, literally I’m just tired of love
songs.
But at the same time, I also am very much the type of person who like tortures myself and
like beats myself up so like we were talking about songs that you put on, I don’t know,
after you have a night out and you’re all like depressed that reminds you of somebody
you used to be with.
Troye: I love writing so much and I’ve always wanted to write for other people and so it
was a lot about kind of tapping into what Ari was feeling at the time and for me that
involved like going back into the past and past experiences for me, but also into like
a really scary hypothetical future of like: oh God what would I do if I like ended up
in that situation, how would I handle that kind of pain.
Lauv: I feel like all of my best ideas litearlly come like when I try a bunch of other things
like I’ll try really hard to write all these songs and I’ll try to like think about what
I want to say and it all ends up coming out really contrived.
And then like all of the sudden the chorus will just like or an idea will come that’s
just, I think more so from a subconscious place.
So I was kinda just like hanging out at the piano and like most of the chorus just kind
of like came after I was trying to work on something else honestly.
So it wasn’t even really from a conscious place.
Troye: For me the chorus felt like, it’s like one of those choruses that you feel like
you’ve always had in your life.
The fact that the track was so kind of like up and bright and the lyric was just so simple
and so so not and kind of so vulnerable, it really just stuck with me.
Lauv: So I went to the LACMA recently and I remember tweeting that day like I had this
like fantasy like maybe I’ll meet my future wife at the art museum.
That’s the kind of vibe that the first line came from I guess.
When you miss somebody or you’re still like romanticizing a past relationship you sort
of feel like everything is about that person, even if it’s not.
If a song is playing, like you see a name that looks kind of like their name.
It’s like everything is about them.
When you’re still caught up on somebody, especially if you’re the type of person
who like will only remember all the good times and will romanticize something.
You keep thinking like something, i don’t know, that you drink will like numb the pain,
but it doesn’t really, I don’t know maybe you can try like Four Loko or something.
But I don’t know, would that be strong enough?
For the opening lines of the verse, I do this thing sometimes where I really just like let
my mind spiral a little bit, just kind of like worry like oh if this was to happen then
that were to happen then this would happen then that would feel like this and you kind
of like take yourself down this really dark path.
And that’s really easy for me to do and I do it often.
I’ve always thought like I would just have a crazy ho phase, like I would just go and
sleep around as much as I possibly could to try and get past you know this experience.
I know that would be unproductive and unhealthy probably.
That lyrics is really sad to me like
“Buzzcut season like you’re still around” the thought of putting on a song that you
used to listen to with someone that you love and listening to it alone after hooking up
with some random that makes me really really sad.
A big relief was like leaving the session and being like “whew thank God none of that
is happening.”
You know the shitty thing about missing someone is I really don’t think that there is a
cure.
It’s about finding those temporary distractions and there’s nothing wrong with that.
Just surround yourself with family, friends, keep yourself busy if you can.
And don’t do too much crazy stuff.