[Music] i don't even know how you had the conscience to leave this one off well i had to have something for for the deluxe record i needed a little bit of something oh you've been bringing something for the whole like forever you've been bringing something non-stop you've brought more things than almost
anybody's bought anything in the last 12 months it's been non-stop it's good to see you how are you it's so good to see you i'm good thank you yeah so we got to talk about it i mean in relation to how it sort of it fits in with everything else that ended up being on future nostalgia
before we even get to the club um you know where did this one kind of fall into the recording and the creating of it um this one kind of came i guess towards the end of the process and i wrote so many songs for future nostalgia and there just came a point where i was like it really has to fit
you know the songs that i wanted on the record really had to fit the theme of there being like the future element and the nostalgic element and we're good kind of sits in a more you know in in the same kind of pop sensibility of like the other songs that i was doing but i didn't feel like
was ready to to be heard yet um and i was still working on it i wasn't finished and uh now now it's time that's it i mean it takes real courage to be able to listen to a song like this and know that on its own terms it's going to reach a lot of people and it's going to make a lot of
people really happy and decide that it doesn't fit into an overall theme especially on album two you know your first album there are some there are some concepts that flow throughout and it tease it up beautifully but the second album to your point really is very conceptual it's it's like what goes
on after dark and um and it must have been really kind of tough to make those those decisions knowing that you're sitting on something that is like unfinished or not this is a smash and it's like thank you that's very kind see i never i never know you know it's always about like
me loving a song you know feeling like it it's authentic to me and and the music that i make but at the same time you know you never really know what's gonna happen until that song's out whether anyone's even gonna like it it's definitely a bit of a wild card for me you know coming from the songs of
future nostalgia it is vastly different but it's still in the same world and then the video brings it into that nostalgia world so the moonlight edition of this of this new album and it's all kind of leading into an anniversary when you think about the last 12 months and let's just put aside
gosh this is the first time i've actually asked anybody to do this but it feels kind of good to do let's just put aside all of the massive challenges that everyone's faced in the last 12 months just for like two seconds because i don't want to be insensitive to it but just to focus on
what's important to the creative which is that 12 months old future nostalgia that 12 months of that this album coming to life what have you personally gained out of that i mean i know what we got out of it what have you learned what have you got out of it well i i guess in the process like
you know while i was creating these songs there was in some sense with some lyrics there was like this false sense of confidence there were songs that i wrote because i wanted to feel a certain type of way or they were songs that i like you know i put certain lyrics or certain feelings in that i was like you know i
want to be able to listen to the song and feel that way that necessarily i wasn't always feeling or i wanted you know when i was creating this record i wanted it to serve as a form of escapism and it just i don't know it it felt like during this time it did serve as a form of escapism for me and i
was so happy with the response that the record got and that you know people were like you know this this got me through lockdown and i did so many workouts at home so many workouts i love what you said there before though because that's kind of what i was hoping
your answer would be would be something that that circled the idea of self-confidence because um you know when you have the kind of success we talked about this ages ago but when you have the kind of success that you work so hard to have on album number one and it lands so quickly for everybody
else you know full well what you know all the effort you put in to get to that point but it can actually affect your confidence when it's time to return it's like wow what happens when i have limited time to follow that up absolutely and and you know it was it was that thing of like getting away from
any timelines deadlines people telling me what they think i should do or what my next step should be and just going and making something that i really love something that makes me feel strong and confident and empowered and maybe at times when i was writing these things like especially when i
wrote like future nostalgia and i was talking about the female alpha i didn't necessarily feel myself to be that but i was like the more i you know i think sometimes you have to put things into writing to almost manifest that energy and um i don't know this this album really
pushed me to i don't know to learn to become like the best performer i could be i really spent a lot of time just like rehearsing and practicing and making sure that like i knew from the experience that i had on my first record how much i needed to work to be able to be
the best version of myself and i don't know it was it was a lot about patience a lot about hard work and persistence but confidence really was something that i i was really grateful for from this from this album during the course of the time but it's been out you do such an incredible job of presenting um
your best self and your words in a way that is within the entertainment space that that how has it been you know continuing to grow and establishing this idea of the alpha woman the alpha female but holding on to who you truly are as well behind the scenes and preserving something of who you
are that doesn't just belong to everybody else it's an interesting question because i feel like you know there's not really a you know when i get up on stage or when i perform there's not really a another persona that i put on everything is very much me i think in terms of like trying to just like
stay true to myself i think sometimes it's like getting away from social media and doing stuff like that but also you know surrounding myself with people that i love and people that are honest with me i'm not into the yes man thing um i really i like you know opinions and criticism and understanding
and learning and i always want to learn and i you know for me i i also feel like you know musically i always want to be out of my comfort zone i want to be putting music out that scares me just like with we're good it's definitely something that i was nervous to put out but so excited because
it's quite different what was so scary about this particular one i mean you know it's it's definitely a song that deals with the idea of of you know someone's idyllic image of what romance is it's not panning out everyone feels that someone's going through that right now as we speak
um but what was most scary about putting this particular one out what what felt riskiest for you as the artist i think sonically it felt the riskiest because it's um i don't even know what it is it's like pop with like a little bit of a trap b it's got like interesting like kind of like boston
over style i don't even know what it you know how you explain it or how you would you know start to describe what a song like that is it's just it just is and um that for me was probably the most scariest but i think the content of the song is is really interesting is having that amicable
breakup that i think everybody kind of wants it's like that clean break this isn't working move on we're good like you can't be upset if i move on i can't be upset for you you know what i mean it's just that yeah all right i can't let you go i didn't want to embarrass you i don't want to be
i don't want to throw it in there at the beginning and be all sort of commercial radio about it but um the grammys are coming up six nominations unbelievable you have two already somewhere probably i'm gonna guess one's probably with family they're um in my living room in london on on top of my
fireplace i was i'm very proud of them so they should be um you know a lot is made of awards and and um you know especially when you don't get nominated becomes this push and pull this tug of war and it really is part of a social media now i get it but it matters when you get recognized for the
work that you do and this award ceremony is coming up nominated for sex what are your feelings how are you feeling i mean it's you know the postponing must have almost been painful you know it's it's just such a massive honor and it's i i feel very lucky to have been recognized by my
peers and especially for a record that just means so much to me and because of the way that i feel like i've grown and matured as as a person as an artist during this whole process it just means that much more and i'm i'm just so i'm just over the moon about it i couldn't i couldn't be happier honestly