But I still find it thrilling when people release something that doesn’t sound like anything else – I’m always fighting to work with producers coming up with whole new soundscapes. I think it’s important to know the way pop is changing – I would never release something completely blind, without listening to any radio or Spotify, and expect people to like it and for it to compare with what’s out there. There’s a bit of a pop-rap feel to some of the new tracks – were you trying to do something new ?
So there probably are small pieces of the songs that relate to things that frustrate me, and things that are happening in the world, but I’ve always been conscious that I want to keep songwriting as an escape. There was a period where I felt someone was trying to sabotage me. But I still didn’t feel the need to be angry – so maybe that’s a good thing.Īre you talking about Ed Sheeran? Įr … not specifically. I found it really baffling, and just sad, that something that I’d built entirely by myself, my career, was somehow at risk. Somebody tried to write a song to damage me, and it was a really horrifying thing to go through. But I can’t help writing with empathy, trying to understand why a person has behaved the way they have. Electricity is about a friend who had been cheated on quite cruelly for a couple of years. Flux is about thinking about the person who you almost ended up with – I’m a sucker for what could have been.
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