Track listing
- Anti-Hero (Behind the Song)
- Bejeweled (Behind the Song)
- Karma (Behind the Song)
- Mastermind (Behind the Song)
Anti-Hero (Behind the Song)
Anti-Hero (Behind the Song)
The story of “Anti-Hero” is that it really encapsulates this album.
And sort of the darkest corners of your mind when you can’t
sleep.
Playing out a dismal version of your very dark future.
Um, being afraid of what everyone thinks about you.
Really exploring your own self loathing and kind of,
having it a shocking, scary self awareness about your
flaws as a human being. You know?
Anxiety, it’s uh, it’s all throughout this song.
Bejeweled (Behind the Song)
Bejeweled (Behind the Song)
The song “Bejeweled” is a song that I think is really about
finding confidence when you feel that it’s been taken away.
For whatever reason.
You know you’re feeling insecure, you know you’re feeling
taken for granted.
One of the things we love to do at night is we love to go
dancing.
We love to put on an outfit that makes us feel good and
we love to feel like we’re still bejeweled.
And I think that there are tiny inflections of me, hyping
myself up to return to pop music after spending these
glorious years writing folk songs and being in this
metaphorical forest that I’ve created. Which I’ve loved
so much but there, there was like a bit of pumping
myself back up to be like “You can do it, you’re still
bejeweled?”
“Like I’m still bejeweled? Question mark. Uh, we’ll
see.”
But that’s what the song’s about.
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Karma (Behind the Song)
Karma (Behind the Song)
It’s how you’re feeling in the middle of the night.
And that can be intense. Self hatred, intense
self love, you go through these very polarizing
emotions when you’re up late at night and your brain
just spirals.
It can spiral downward, or it can spiral way up. And
you can just be really feeling yourself.
And “Karma” is, uh, written from a perspective of feeling
like, really happy, really proud of the way your life is.
Feeling like this must be a reward for doing stuff
right.
And it’s a song that I really love because I think we
all need some of those moments.
You know we can’t just be beating ourselves up all
the time.
You have to have these moments where you’re like,
“You know what? Karma is my boyfriend” and that’s it.
Mastermind (Behind the Song)
Mastermind (Behind the Song)
“Mastermind” is a song that I put last on the album because
I’m really proud of it.
And I love that when we were making this album, we wanted
the verse to sound like romance and sort of heroes type of
soundtrack.
And then we wanted the chorus to sound like a villain who’s
just entered the room.
And the idea that you’re flipping this narrative and have been
planning and plotting things and making them look like an
accident.
And I think that’s sort of an inside joke between me and my
fans that I tend to do that.
And so this song is the romantic version of that.