- Globally, we haven't checked ourselves to say,
do we need that thing Amazon Prime tomorrow?
Someone's ordering a dildo to their house,
like, is that an essential item,
does the Amazon workers need to be shipping these items out,
putting their lives at risk to send out a fucking dildo?
Getting takeaway twice, three times a day
because you're too busy to cook, or whatever,
has just been so normalized in spending 10 pounds a meal,
which that adds up to so much at the end of the week.
And then you obviously have to work more
to catch up to that.
We've gotten used to this cycle,
because everything is so convenient and in place.
And that is, it's ridiculous.
We started off with being like, I want like any idea,
and I had just done "STFU,"
so I played Nate, and Chris, and Kyle
who were writing with me
and they were like, "Oh my God, this is so sick!"
So, then I was like, I really wanna mix this,
I want this to be the second song after that,
or something like really nearby
and have N.E.R.D. and Pussycat Dolls
kind of write a song together
where it's like really chaotic
once every four bars or whatever.
It could've really easily
turned into that like quite a sexual song.
But I was quite like,
I was in LA,
and LA is like I love LA
but it's such a world of a lot and then not a lot at all.
There's a really big gap
between the rich and poor.
And seeing that every day,
I was like, yeah, we should totally write about this.
I mean I was trying to create this person.
I'm not gonna lie,
like I sometimes watch Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
There's a part of me that really wants
to aspire to that lifestyle
and we're taught a lot that money and success
is like the measure of how productive you've been,
how good you've been in your life.
And so I kind of like,
thought about this girl just with her handbag
like inside of the elbow and just,
and you know what, I'm sometimes that girl.
I sometimes get into the mindset of
if there's a Prada in the Juicy Free in Heathrow as I'm,
I'm that girl,
I'm like I want that one, that one.
Then I need to stop myself and be like, bitch stop.
I grew up on Sex in the City.
So thinking about Carrie
and the fact that she wrote one column
for a bloody newspaper
and then she was able
to buy all these Manolo Blahniks,
that kind of flex is sort of what I was trying to refer to
and how ridiculous it is
that she was just like,
and then I was wondering,
and then she's like able to blow $800 on a pair of shoes.
Fashion's really suffering right now
because they work on seasons,
they work on seasons ahead.
So there's not gonna be probably Fashion Week in September,
the stuff in February didn't go into production.
So they have just like completely stopped.
No one has looked at the fashion cycle and gone,
is that sustainable?
Is that all right to be
trying to produce a collection every six months
and is that, does that make sense?
I think it's really interesting time right now.
Obviously, it's really, really hard
for a lot of people.
But if you're not too affected by it,
I think it's important to look at yourself and be like,
what can this time sort of teach us
as people living in a capitalist society?
It's just like the modern capitalist monster, really.
We all have a little bit of that though
because we're taught that that is what gives us value,
gives our lives value is productivity
and it's definitely like,
I'm obsessed with technology
but I feel like technology was invented
to make our lives easier
and make us do less,
and so we've got more spare time to do stuff.
But actually it's done the opposite
where it's actually made us work harder and longer.
And so now productivity and consumerism
it's like a hyperspeed
because we're able to cram ore stuff into the day.
It's just this kind of sentiment
of more, more, more, more, more.
The second verse, I really wanted to switch it,
switch the lens the other way
and just be like okay, so what has this cost us?
The Earth is literally taking as much as they can hold
in terms of literally the growing population
and just in terms of the baggage
that humans are bringing onto this Earth
in its short, short time that we've been here.
I do get gifted a lot of stuff.
So I think the temptation to buy is not,
also I'm quite like,
I'm very careful.
Growing up with a single mom,
we didn't have that much money.
So it's just,
she's constantly reminding me that this could end
at any time.
My purchases haven't been crazy yet.
I haven't bought a car or anything like that.
But I think it's because I started in this industry
like slightly later than usual, I guess.
I kind of signed my first album deal when I was 29.
So I'm not coming into this like a teenager
just being like yeah, I just got given an advance,
that's my money,
I'm gonna spend it
when it's not, it's a loan.
But again, Prada is the one that gets me every time,
Prada at the airport,
it's like come here.
It is serious.
It's so serious.
People should be taking it seriously.
There was just a time like last year
when I went through serious climate grief
and there was a lot of things on TV about plastic pollution
and Greta was doing her thing.
So people were really getting more tuned in
to like conscious purchasing and stuff like that.
I think that what everyone can do
is live a little consciously
and feel those pangs of guilt,
like feel those do I need to be getting
three Seamless a day?
Feel the little pang of guilt and then be like,
what can I change in my life, tiny bit,
just so I'm not spending so much
that then I have to earn a lot
and break myself working?
How can I just take the foot of the pedal a little bit?