It is all about that year, when I was that age just listening to that music that I loved at that time. You know, Christina Aguilera, Missy Elliott […] All of these songs. Yeah, it just takes me back to that time.
–Anne-Marie for Luvpop
I guess childhood. I think it’s just a really different song from other songs. I love to talk about heartbreak and bad, sad times and this song is really different and just makes me reminisce about being a kid and I loved being a kid.
Steve Mack and I, we’ve been working with each other for nearly four years now, just on loads of songs. So he produced loads of songs for my album and I just love working with him. He’s done like some of the biggest songs in the history of our life and he’s so cool. You just go there to the studio and it’s just like hanging with your friend or your dad, depending on what way you look at it. I’m sure he’s gonna hate me for calling him a dad. But yeah, he’s really cool. Everything he does I feel like is just a bit of genius just coming out of him.
When I first got in the studio together, it was actually Ed on the guitar and that was what I recorded my vocal to. And then Steve Mack took it up and produced it into what you hear now. But I never was actually in the studio with Benny when they originally wrote the song. And I basically went into studio with Ed after. Kind of his room studio. I just always felt like I wanted to have a song with him because he’s like one of my best friends and I just think that connection, even though we’ve got that like friendship outside of music, it would just be like amazing to be in the studio with him. And it was and we wrote the second verse and just recorded it on that day.
I went to the studio with Ed and basically, just went from there to recording it in his room, and then went to Steve Mack’s studio and recorded it again. And then Steve produced it up and I love to get really involved in the production because, you know, I think that’s as much of a part of it as the lyrics are. And even though I can’t just go on the computer and do my whole thing on my own yet, I love to get really involved, which might be a little bit annoying for Steve. But he knows that if I hear something, I have to say it. So we worked on this for quite a while, just the production and getting it right and just making it kind of sound like the rest of my album.
The song was nominated at the “2019 Brit Awards” for British single and British video.
Anne-Marie responded to the news via Instagram:
She was born April 7, 1991. In 2002, she was 11 years old, as stated in the song.
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