I feel like a lot of the hate, anger, and darkness comes from what we can do to ourselves.  

We need to heal ourselves, love ourselves.  

We need to fight for ourselves.  

It’s fair to say L.A. Foster’s latest single ‘Honestly’ hits a nerve, a devastatingly raw ode to healing oneself as the Montreal-based singer explores a sense of rootlessness that has brought ‘a lot of darkness and of course much light’ after ‘[h]aving lived in many places far from where I was born.’ 

Her warm, husky vocal, meanwhile, floats atop a sensuous, lo-fi Latin rhythm seemingly inspired by Foster’s time living in Argentina, where she learnt to speak Spanish fluently and heavily immersed herself in the culture.

Foster says about the track (via Clash):

'’Honestly' just as the name of the song suggests, is about the raw truth. Having lived in many places far from where I was born has left me vulnerable, exposed, and at the mercy of others. In that experience, there has been a lot of darkness and of course much light.

'Honestly' is an ode to healing ourselves, loving ourselves, and fighting for our purest honest self and trying to maintain that through the harsh obstacles that we face in our lives.

Feeling exposed and vulnerable, 'Honestly' affirms that I will not change the rawest form of myself. I feel like a lot of the hate, anger, and darkness comes from what we can do to ourselves.’