ES: “The song is about speaking to your younger self and giving some wisdom. It was written with Ariel Rechtshaid and Sarah Aarons. We were with writers in this room, in this very dark, dingy studio, and I remember just feeling really drained. It was just so tired and gloomy. Wasn’t it where Michael Jackson recorded Thriller? He had this booth built for Bubbles, with a little window. You could just imagine this chimp looking out the window. Sarah was hilarious, just so self-deprecating. She was just a joke a minute, she has such a personality, and her lyrics—it’s different to write with a woman, just to write those kind of female lyrics with another female.”
NM: “She was a huge driving force behind those lyrics, for sure. And once she gets going, it’s like a lyric train that you can’t stop and you don’t want to stop. By the time we left that session, we had loads of options, and we kept a lot of her lyrics but changed some as well, just so we could have a part in the song. Sarah Aarons did not need us.”
MM: “And she was great writing for Natalie’s voice, because she has such a strong voice and she can do these acrobatics. Not many people can keep up with Natalie’s voice and have the same type of inflections.”
NM: “But also—and I’m not saying this is what I am but—I loved her soul. She’s a very soulful singer. It would be interesting to go back and listen to those original recordings, because she made a lot of soul in her voice and her phrasing and I definitely stole some of that.”

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