- 2024-10-02
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MUSIC
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Lauren Mayberry Premieres New Song “Something In The Air” on BBC Radio 1
Scottish pop band CHVRCHES' lead singer Lauren Mayberry premiered a new song “Something In The Air” on BBC Radio 1's New Music Show with Sian Eleri.
The song will appear on her upcoming debut solo album “Vicious Creature”, which is expected to be released later this year.
So far, she has released three songs, "Are You Awake?", "Shame", and "Change Shapes" from the album.
The track was written by Lauren Mayberry, and Dan McDougall who also produced it.
“'Something in the Air' is a song that really came out of nowhere,” Lauren Mayberry said of the song. “I was in London finishing another song with my friend, co-writer and producer Dan McDougall. We were taking a break in the shared kitchen in the studio complex when a pretty iconic British musician, who I won't throw under the bus here, came in and started making conversation about electricity, 5G and how it's making us all sick. Dan and I went for a walk around the block before going back to the studio and were unpacking those theories, and why people want to believe them — and the chorus lyric just appeared.”- Lauren Mayberry told Sian Eleri about the album, “It comes from a song lyric. So it's from a track that's on the record, and out of the context of that lyric. The idea of 'Vicious Creature' is something that I think I internalized a lot. I like the idea of a diva theatrical tech on how people talk about the badness of women, like the wickedness of women. But the actual lyric is about nostalgia and how I love living in the past. I love romanticizing past, whether it was good or bad, I just love it. I love to be in there and be thinking about it.”
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She continued, “In some ways, it's been easier than I thought it would be, in terms of, I think I was nervous, but like, what if I tried? What if I tried to write something outside of this project? And it doesn't, I just can't, which is clearly anxiety. That's anxiety brain telling you that. But I think for me, like I always wanted it to be separate from the band and not be just making a knock off CHVRCHES album. I just had a lot of ideas that just didn't feel like they would fit with the band, or things I wanted to do that just didn't feel like they would work in that format. And for the last year, 18 months of the CHVRCHES' touring, I was making this record, or starting to write what would become this record in the off time. And I think that was actually quite a healthy thing to do. And it was odd, once I started doing it, I was like, Oh, this makes all the other stuff better, because you have an outlet.”
Photo Charlotte Patmore - source : BBC Radio 1
