Sad. Sad is sad.
Sad is one of those things that just was
born out of a day in the studio where we
didn't really know that we were going to write it
and James had this chord progression on the piano
I was feeling very much that way,
sad,
about things in my life and I sat down with James
and we wrote this really special song in a very
intimate setting just in front of the piano with
probably wrote it in about 10 minutes,
recorded it in about 20 minutes and it's to me one
of the more sincere moments on the record.
You know the record's got a very big pop kind
of large grand theme to it but this record in particular,
this song really brought it
back down to earth and I think that's really
important to have a song on the record that's
a very pure unadulterated piano vocal that's it.
PJ played beautiful piano on it and I
really wanted to get the vocal right so
I just sang it a hundred thousand times
but I was really happy with the end result.
I think that that's a really
important statement to make on a record that's very big and pop.
It was really, it
was a really weird day because that
morning I'd woken up and for some reason
walked straight to the piano and I just
played those first three chords and sort
of sang that verse melody and recorded it into my phone,
sort of forgot about it
then got to the studio and you were kind
of messing around with something and
then I was even on the fence I was like
oh wait I have that idea that I recorded
this morning I was like no that's that's
nothing I'm sure that's stupid they're
gonna hate it but I'm glad that I only hate the things that you like.
I know.
I love the things that you hate.
I should know that by now.
That's true.
But yeah
that was just one of those kind of
beautiful moments that you can only
you can only hope for those moments they
don't come around that often but when
they do it's really good to kind of
capture them and I liked how we kind of
maintained the purity of what was the
what the idea was behind the song and I
love that song.