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“Softly” is a song about yearning, about how fragile you feel in the dying days of a relationship when you’re still desperately in love. The song is about how it feels to brace yourself before the blow of a break up and reminisce about the days where it all felt luminous.
—via press release
"I was watching a lot of films by this director, this French director called Celiene Sciamma. She’s done, like, lots of films, there’s one called Tomboy, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, but at the heart of it is this real sense of yearning. I wanted this sense of desperation.
I was listening to, like, “Runaway” by Kanye, with the piano and the drums, and I was listening to a lot of like, nineties, indie pop disco, funk. And I wanted something that had all those elements weaving through it, with the kind of poetic element that I’ve always loved."
–via BBC Radio 1’s Future Sounds
"This song to me has this distinct, fiery intensity to it – it’s a whirlwind of emotion. The sadness and resignation of loss, the anger of something being over inexplicably the chorus is essentially “let me down gently because if you’re brutal about it, I might not survive it – be soft about the way you leave me because you’re still my person and I’m completely in thrall to you”. I want it to have this anthemic, epic quality to it whilst still having moments of real tenderness and fierce emotion."
"Visually it makes me think of Matthias & Maxime by Dolan, Betty Blue by Jean-Jacques Beineix, Funeral parade of roses by Toshio Matsumoto – that really vulnerable drama with vivid, hyperreal colours (not funeral parade) and frenetic energy mixed with still portrait intensity. I think about scorching suns and fires, 90s references, physicality and animal feeling/fear."
–via Instagram
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