“Aye” is about the polarity between the left and the right wing, and how that leaves working class people displaced with a lack of political identity, playing into the hands of the 1 per cent. It’s also a rant about my disdain for the greedy tax dodging billionaires of the world.

—via NME

On the first album, I talked about politics as if I knew what I was talking about, but I realised I don’t. This record, I’m like, ‘I don’t know what I’m talking about, but I fucking hate those bastards over there who’ve got the hedge funds—whose taxes I’m paying, who come after my mum, who come after the disabled, who come after all of these people, plunging them into poverty and plunging kids out onto the streets. Yet they’re getting away with that tax-dodging.’

—via Apple Music

There’s a couple of songs on this record that are about the feelings of a lot of working-class people. Blyth Valley just voted Tory for the first time ever. I think we’re in a very, very strange time; the polarity between the two sides has divided the whole world. Even in America, the division is INSANE. And I think the left-wing have sort of discarded the working classes for the culture wars that we’re fighting.

I think we SHOULD be fighting all the culture wars as well, but I also think that the focus needs to be re-aligned. Because when big companies talk about class, it’s dangerous for them. The working-class feel like they’ve been left behind, and I don’t blame them. It’s infuriating. So “Aye” is focused on how the 1% are totally having a great time during all of this. They just watch everything go by, completely untouched by everything. And then the normal people are left with this really embarrassing online presence of the left-wing, which is just so completely snooty, really up their own arses, and really elitist. And the right-wing are just a bunch of racist fucking morons. And that’s ALL you’ve got!

I’m just fucking sat here going, well this is ridiculous. I am very left-wing, and I did like Corbyn. But because of the nature of the press, they made sure that he was never gonna fucking win, or be heard. And the irony is, some of the things that he was doing that were genuinely left-wing, like re-nationalising the railways, I thought that was a great idea. And now, because of the pandemic, Boris has ended up doing loads of socialist shit. But if Corbyn did all of these things, they’d have called him a mentalist. But Boris, he’s been hailed as a fucking champion! But the incompetence of the Tories, it’s a new level. So that’s what “Aye” is about, that kind of ego death that I and a lot of people are having where I just want out. I don’t know where to go, though, so I’ve just gotta live with it.

My music is a snapshot of an opinion of where I was at the time. Things change, your opinions change. And “Aye” isn’t me trying to politically rally people because I’m fucking not. I haven’t got the foggiest. “White Privilege” was written in my early 20s when you think you know everything, and you’re going ‘FUCK THE WORLD!’ But “Aye” is me at 25, realising I don’t know a fucking thing. I don’t know what I’m talking about; I’m just a fucking kid. I give up.

—via Dork