Hold tight it’s a sing-along.
I’m alright I’m alright but I could be wrong, baby.
For me this song is just like an outburst of emotion.
It’s an angry conversation.
It’s like you know what you need to stop speaking now, and I’m gonna tell you exactly
how I feel.
it was like a residential studio.
So we were having dinner and there was ping pong tables, a dining table and like a big
counter so all had finished.
We had these spoons and we started banging and we were like… through that relentless
clapping you could really go for it.
And that’s what I wanted to do in this song.
Really let loose and show different emotions that I go through just like anybody else.
So that’s where that production really stemmed from, banging on
the table.
You know I studied in Glasgow.
I spent a lot of time in the library and I am 5’3” and that was the real me.
I’m still the real me but that was me before singing, before anything else.
I wanted to get it right back
to basics.
So when you’re a student and you’re broke, we used to have Cineworld cards.
Cinema is where you can chill out.
You’re being inspired by visuals and the back of the cinema.
It’s where secrets are shared, and you have real intimate time with someone even in a
public place so it’s like you can kind have your own secret world at the back of
the cinema.
With this song I really wanted to match anger but with vulnerability.
You know I’m angry because I’m hurt.
It’s like you’re so passionate about how you’re feeling after so long so the line,
“When all that's left to do is watch it burn.”
It’s like it’s too late now.
Penny drop is like, you reach a moment or like “Bong!
Ah shit.”
I love star signs.
I’m a Pisces, and I feel like that combined with my personality, I love being in love
and I love being with someone and just being completely down for them.
I wanted the “ah” to be the time it took for the penny to drop.
Don’t pretend
with me.
That’s the most hurtful part.
And then you forget our times together.
That’s the most vulnerable part of the song.
I feel like that’s the heart of it.
But when it comes out of the melody, “No more,” it’s like actually I am angry.
And then you just hit them with the final chorus and it’s like way way way up there.
But that was the moment of reflection I’d say.
We did all the gospel choir recordings together for the album.
So I got there on the day and I heard these crazy, crazy harmonies so then I get in the
booth at the same time--I’ve never done this before--there’s a whole choir there
and we sang the whole song together and it just felt like “Wow.”
Because when you have a choir, it’s like everybody’s personal journeys and stories are in their voice.
That was a really, really special moment.