She looks stunning in the new photos she did for The Guardian. The things she said about the album:
I Don't Care
The song I Don't Care ends with her monologuing: "So let's raise a glass to us and to those still finding the courage to walk away from the gaslighters, the abusers, the narcissists." Who are the gaslighters, abusers and narcissists? "They're the men in my career and my life that have called me difficult because I'm a strong person who understands who I am." They said that to your face? "Oh yeah, all the time. 100%." Was this more in her personal or professional life? "More business. Maybe a couple of guys I dated, but nothing serious. I wouldn't get serious with someone like that."
Complicated
In the song Complicated, she summarises the first decade of her career. I quote her lines back at her. "2010 was the year I didn't know what I was doing. I sang so loud. Insecure, but nobody knew it." Yes, she says, well, she didn't, and she did, and she was.
In 2012, she sings, she broke up with "my beautiful girlfriend" and "With the press in my face, called it a phase, babe I'm sorry." When Cornish became famous, she was dating a woman and said she was bisexual. After they split up, she said it was just a phase she was going through, which alienated LGBT+ fans. Thirteen years on, she's making a public apology – not to members of the public who took offence, but to her ex. She says she worded it clumsily at the time.
In 2014, she was told everyone hated her, in 2015 she was told she couldn't have children, in 2016 and 2017 she grieved for herself, and in 2018 she "met a Magic Mike, will that ever be forgotten? Cos everything they write, that's the headline, that's the topic." This is a reference to her then boyfriend Channing Tatum who starred in the Magic Mike films. "I played him the song to see if he's OK with it and he was." How does she get on with him now? "Oh, he's so sweet. Oh my God, yeah! Channing is such a sweet guy. We were such good friends and had such a good time together."
Threw It Away
I tell her I think the song Threw It Away is about him, too. ("I gave you my love/ You threw it away.") "Haha! That's funny." She starts singing it. "Yeah, I reckon there's probably a little bit of that in there," she concedes. "But it wasn't just about him. I dated a lot of people when I was in LA and there were lots of men who were, like, 'Yeah, ride on my motorbike and I'll show you around', and then they just drop you off. That's the negative of LA."
Two of the songs on the album are about the death of loved ones.
Comes In Waves
Comes in Waves addresses the baby she lost, with Cornish singing: "I hate how much I miss the future we never made." In 2021, when she didn't have a partner, she got pregnant by IVF, and miscarried after 10 weeks. Was it a tough decision to become a single mother? "No, I wanted to be a mum, and I wasn't in a relationship. I had endometriosis and I'd done all these tests, and they said, 'Your egg count is low and if you don't get pregnant in the next year it's highly unlikely that you will be able to conceive naturally.' Obviously, that wasn't true, because I did in the end." The lyrics to Comes in Waves are so raw, Cornish wearing her vulnerability like gossamer armour. But it's also a song of defiance that anticipates the birth of Sky, promising "Next time you come to me I'll make a place for you to stay".
I'll Never Know Why
Here she berates herself for not seeing that an unnamed friend was "lost and hopeless", and she asks him: "How could you say goodbye without saying goodbye?" In 2018, soon after she won Singer, her bodyguard and close friend Dave Last died unexpectedly. I ask her if this song is about him. She nods. Silence. Did he take his own life? Again, she nods, struggling for words. "I miss him so much, man. He was my guy for seven years. He was like my big brother. It makes me so sad that there was a loneliness there that meant it got to that before he would call me. I hope it's a song that can help people who are left behind. And I also hope it helps people who are thinking of doing it to see a different perspective of what they would leave behind and how much they're loved and wanted."
Full interview here.
@Bloodflowers. She gave you the right material, now you can start doing promo.