00:00I'm pretty sure this song was called
00:01My Regards, comma, From His Bedroom.
00:03And then it got shortened to My Regards
00:05when we were all speaking about it conversationally,
00:07and then I guess it just stuck.
00:08It's like a cheeky sign off.
00:10It's like, best of luck, My Regards, I'm in his bedroom.
00:13Where are you?
00:13Not his bedroom, because I'm in there.
00:21I made it in Nashville with a producer and writer
00:25called Nick LaBelle, who's amazing.
00:26And it was just the two of us.
00:27It was actually the first day we ever worked.
00:29And I get to his studio,
00:31and he plays me this guitar piece.
00:34And it really inspired me,
00:36and I sort of immediately started typing.
00:38So we wrote the whole song that day.
00:39We did the version in the studio,
00:41and then Nick reworked it,
00:43and then sent me the version that's very similar
00:45to the one that's out today.
00:46And was like, I've tried some stuff,
00:48let me know what you think.
00:48And I was obsessed with it.
00:51Girl gone reckless, this love's got me possessive.
00:54Like if you lay a hand on him, we're both getting arrested.
00:58Opening lines are actually hard to write.
01:00I always find in a song, they're never the thing that I do first.
01:02I think that it sort of, yeah, definitely immediately sets the scene and tells the story.
01:06I love to tell a story in a song.
01:08I'm a big reader, so I feel like this is a great first page.
01:11I would be turning.
01:12Excuse me, sorry, his kisses make me cocky.
01:15Call me Kevin Costner, the way I'm guarding his body.
01:18I have watched The Bodyguard, iconic.
01:21Kevin Costner really did me a solid.
01:23No, Kevin Costner's mum really did me a solid
01:24when she called him Kevin Costner,
01:26because that fit in my rhythmic map so perfectly.
01:32And yeah, I mean, also obviously Whitney Houston,
01:34Angel Among the Living.
01:36Felt like sort of like a funny little nod to film.
01:39And I have lots of references like that in my songs.
01:42I really sympathize, I do, I do.
01:46If I saw him in this light, I'd want him too.
01:49But the problem is he's mine and it's headline news.
01:53He took me off the market and I took him to the moon.
01:56My sister one time said to my boyfriend,
01:58do you ever worry that you won't be taken seriously at work
02:00because you look the way you look?
02:02Well, I was like, what, because he's so handsome?
02:04She was like, yeah.
02:05What can I say?
02:06I'm a shallow woman.
02:07The face card is not declining.
02:08I'm tapping it every time.
02:11It's good to have a beautiful muse.
02:14God bless all of those other eyes.
02:17They can look, but they can't ever touch.
02:19Now I'm sewing his name in my 509s
02:22and he's skipping my heart double dutch.
02:25Said muse of this song and I do go pretty far back.
02:28So I like to think a past version of myself as a teenager writing out some of our initials.
02:35The initials would be like MP and his first name P because he will take my last name.
02:40Tell the rest of the world that he's with me.
02:42The only air that he'll breathes my perfume.
02:45Send the boys and the girls of the city.
02:48Best of luck.
02:49My regards from his bedroom.
02:51Send the boys and the girls of the city.
02:54Which means like a lot of my gay male friends really locked into my regards.
03:00They were like this is this is a song for me and I said absolutely it is.
03:03Like primarily it's a song for you and then secondly it's a song for my boyfriend.
03:08Ride or die I said it and I meant it.
03:12If he jumps I'm jumping no coming back for our senses.
03:16His hand in mine his initials in my necklace any man or woman who wants him I'll have for breakfast.
03:23And I actually do have a necklace that I got from him which has both of our initials in it.
03:30So yeah I loved the visual of that and I also loved putting in that little nod to my actual
03:35real life.
03:35It's like so cool as a songwriter when you get to do that and sort of immortalize something that's very
03:40everyday and obvious to you.
03:42I'll listen back and remember things that otherwise I would have completely forgotten.
03:45Remember details or things that somebody said to you and without writing those songs you would just forget about them.
03:51I really sympathize I do I do if I saw him in this light I'd want him to.
03:58But the problem is he's mine and I am his he took me off the market so I took him
04:03to the Ritz.
04:04In this song I say he took me off the market so I took him to the Ritz which is
04:08true I did do that period.
04:10What can I say it's good to be me and it's good to be him to be so fair and
04:14he would say the same.
04:16From his bedroom, from his bedroom, now my address is his mattress in his bedroom.
04:22From these white sheets I've got the best view and everybody's calling me but my phone don't work in his,
04:28don't work in his.
04:29I love the lyric and everybody's calling me but my phone don't work in his, phone don't work in his.
04:34I think it's so fun and clever and I remember writing it being like I did something there.
04:40You know there are lyrics I write that are like very intelligent and songs that I write that are very
04:44complex.
04:45And it's funny that your favorite lyrics end up being my phone don't work and his phone don't work in
04:48like it's actually not even a full sentence.
04:52The lyrics that I will read for you guys that did not make it into the song.
04:56I said it and I meant it, yeah I know his
05:00but I thought that that was potentially inappropriate to come after ride or die as well.
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