I’m good at pretending things haven’t happened, at compartmentalizing things.
“‘Soul Survivor’ is, for me, the most honest I’ve ever been with myself, let alone my fans. Chris Martin, who is an absolute legend, helped take this song to another level. I wanted it to feel like two girls talking about something they had in common. “Julia Michaels and I were in the studio, both pissed off about something, and I was like, ‘Don’t you just hate it when people just keep talking about you, and they don’t know you, and you just want to scream from the rooftops and be like, 'You’re all wrong!' And she said, ‘They can just keep talking.’ And the song started.
It feels like London-incredible people of all different personalities, cultures, races. London was rainy and dark that day, which is what we had mood-wise, but the song has this sense of empowerment to it. They asked me, ‘What is this city about?’ And I said, ‘Let’s start off with that, because this is where I’m from.’ It became incredibly emotional. “‘Falling to Pieces’ was the first time had come to London. Here are the stories behind a few of the album’s standout songs. “My fans deserve to know exactly how I feel, exactly what I went through, and exactly why they had to wait so bloody long for a Rita Ora album,” she said.
The album is adventurous, triumphant, and unflinchingly honest. “Not anymore.” Armed with renewed self-confidence and a good-vibes-only outlook, she started fresh. “I was like, ‘I’m angry, I’m sad, I’m frustrated, I’m alone, I’m single, I’m sexless,’” she told curator Arjan Timmermans on Beats 1’s The A-List Pop. The seven years between her debut album and this powerful follow-up were, by all accounts, tough, with record label legal entanglements, high-profile relationship drama, and unseemly rumors.
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