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No, really, this is her happy face. Megan Washington's happiness problem: 'What the hell do you write songs about?

Read more. Topics Music Pop and rock reviews. Reuse this content. The bulk of Batflowers was written over the last couple of years, but the song that brought it all together only came recently. It sort of sounds dark and spooky, but it also sounds beautiful and blooming, and it also sounds a bit stupid.

That day she started work on a song with a friend, producer Jason Wu, titled Batflowers. In February, on a layover in LA, the pair met up again to finish it. Washington finished off the record — including teaching herself to animate the video for Dark Parts herself — at home in lockdown. Did she consider delaying its release? It comes back to her new approach. So when I would sing, sometimes — not all the time — people would cry. Normally I think about how other people feel when they hear the lyrics.

But, in this song, I really thought about how I was speaking to myself. I wrote it so that it would be something positive to say. By the time I was finished, I wondered whether it might not be a song that other people might like to hear too.

It's also a real pleasure to sing this song because I think it's the first song I've written with a chorus where I'm not like yelling my head off.

It's just actually kind of spoken the chorus, which is a really nice inversion from what I normally do, which is yell a lot. It's sort of a meta moment for you guys to play this song on the radio, because I wrote the last part of the song as a secret message. So, people who heard it on the radio might think I meant it for them. I don't really remember writing this song.

We just wrote it super quickly in a week where Murray and I were writing a lot of other songs as well. It was actually lost for ages and when I found it, I loved it. I was like, 'I wonder who wrote this with me and apparently I wrote all the words myself. That's good because, because I put it on my record.

It's sort of reminding us to remember our humanity and softness and our kindness and our joy, because you are not a machine, and neither am I. When I was making this album, I assembled it 11 tracks long. I got that master back and I was listening to all the tracks and I felt like something was missing.

That's when I realized that I had to put this song on the album. It was the last song, that final piece of the puzzle. It has an earthiness and a swampiness and it's kind of grimy. I think that was kind of necessary to get in the roots of Batflowers , I guess.

To get in the garden bed a little bit. Obviously there are some song titles that appear as lyrics in other songs that they are not named. There's a kind of sub plot, or another underneath story, to all this music. That's evident when you go into the lyrics and you really disappear into the album, which I have because I've been inside it all year. This song is pretty serious. But it's also pretty silly. I think it's a good sign when a song can do both of those things at the same time.

I think it gives the music this slightly swervy, off-kilter, sort of seasick feeling that helps to complete the illusion of chaos. I also think it's fun when you can include artifacts from the session in the song. Like in the instrumental break right at the beginning of this song, you can sort of hear me laughing.