#27mar26

I think ‘Steal My Girl’ – hot take! Imagine if every time someone asked me, ‘What’s your hot take?’, I was like, ‘Well, I think Steal My Girl’ should have been bigger. But no, [seriously], I think ‘Steal My Girl’ was robbed of its day in the sun. I think ‘Fool’s Gold’ is underrated too to be honest, but ‘Steal My Girl’ is the one.

I remember [when] a deluxe used to be a place where I would hide songs that I didn’t particularly like… but now I get excited for the deluxe. A couple of the songs that’ll be on my deluxe this time are among my favourites; I just needed to make a 12-track album and, like, I didn’t really know how to put that jigsaw puzzle together… But maybe I could have a little dig and see what I can find in the old Dropbox. Because there’s probably a couple of good ones in there. Maybe you’ve just come up with an idea?”

I think ‘Tastes So Good’. It’s quite aggressive for me – in a great way. Inspiration-wise, I listened to a lot of Radiohead making this [and drew from] Thom Yorke’s melodic standpoint of, like, not having many words in a phrase… I was just trying to drag the phrase out with not a lot of words. [Whereas] usually I would try and fit in as many words [as possible].