- I was in New Orleans when I found out I've been nominated
but I didn't know and it was so crazy because
my boyfriend who's a producer,
he was talking about how he wants to go out
to LA around that time.
It was to do some work and I was like
hopefully, I'd go to the Grammys after my second album.
I didn't expect that at all.
It's not something that I thought would would happen, no.
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Since I was little, I've always made noise.
I've always written and sang
and just talked a lot.
When I was eight, I learned to play the piano.
I started writing songs when I was eleven
and then I just carried on doing that.
I'd go up to London in the school holidays
and write different producers or writers
and then when I was 18, I didn't wanna go to uni
because I moved to London and I think then
that's when it was, okay, I'm just gonna do this now.
My mom and dad were both really big influencers
because they've always played so much music in the house.
So much, from reggae to punk and jazz and everything.
And they've just always encouraged me
to like just sing and write and just do I what I want.
Lost and found is like songs I wrote from 16 to 20.
And then I made an album and it so happened these songs.
When you listen to it from start to finish
even though it's not in the order of like...
Doesn't go 16, 17, 18, doesn't go like that
but I think you can hear me making mistakes
and decisions and learning and growing.
I'm still growing now obviously
but it's a nice little time capsule, I think.
♪ Need someone ♪
♪ I don't want to need no one ♪
The One song was about...
I wrote that one with my boyfriend actually but
when we wrote it at the time,
we weren't boyfriend and girlfriend
and it was because I was being like, oh,
I don't know if I want a boyfriend right now
but I really like you
and then we kinda wrote this song about meeting someone who
could fit perfect but you just don't know, you're unsure.
And then the idea behind the video was like
not being able to get away.
I keep going back to this room where this person's in.
You can't only see them as a slight thing.
It's just I keep going back
but then I'm also watching myself keep going back.
You know, like when you're looking in on what you're doing
if that makes sense and you know maybe you shouldn't
but you still do it anyway and then, finally, in the end,
I go away but I still keep looking back.
So, I don't know what happened after the video ended.
I might've gone back.
I get inspired by conversations with friends
or overhearing things or situations I've been in
and exaggerating them to, I don't know.
I get inspired a lot.
The Black Panther soundtrack came about because
I was doing Camp Flog Gnaw and I got a message
saying would you like to work with Kendrick Lamar
and I was like, yeah, when?
They're like, oh, tonight.
So, I was like okay.
So, I went straight after the festival
and met Kendrick and Sounwave and his manager
and we were just chatting then they played this beat.
They left me in the room just by myself
and I was just singing because I just come up
with loads of melodies and sing them.
And then he came back in, we listened to the melodies,
shared what we liked and we just like wrote together
and then I Am was made.
♪ Those blue lights ♪
♪ Into strobe lights ♪
♪ Not blue flashing lights ♪
♪ Maybe fairy lights ♪
When I put my song out, Blue Lights, my first song in 2016,
everything kinda just had like a snowball effect
but nothing seemed rushed with me.
It's been quick how I've been able to do
all the stuff I've done and be nominated for
awards that I have done
but I don't wanna look at it like it's fast
because then I think that maybe if it was too fast
and I'd feel pressure and stuff so I try not to.
I feel for my first album,
that it's a way of people getting to know me first
and get to know just me.
I hope fans take away from my music
that it's honest and relatable
and that you're never really alone in situations.
If I'm singing about them I've been through it
and so is the person next to you
or someone down the road, you know?
And just have fun and be you because that's all you can be.