00:00You hear it from everyone, like, when am I going to be in love?
00:02You just know it.
00:03For me, it's like when you feel safe and you're able to be who you are with that person, then
00:09I'm pretty sure you know.
00:18When we wrote Stargazing, it wasn't as much of a love story.
00:22The truth is, it was 10 days into being at a writing camp.
00:26We were in Malibu.
00:27Not knowing Malibu, no one exists, so we were going absolutely crazy in this house.
00:32We were like clothes all over the floor, takeaway everywhere, and we're at the very end of this
00:37process and we're like, let's try one more song.
00:39We start writing it and it came together super quickly when we're just talking about all these
00:43things about love and relationships and babies.
00:4615 minutes later, we had the core of the song and it turned out to be my passport for the
00:51world.
01:07When I was writing verse one, I wanted the song to dive straight in.
01:12I love music where it feels immediate and it feels like we're entering midway through a story.
01:18It's not like this is the beginning, the middle or the end, it's sort of like we're here.
01:21Time stood still just like a photograph.
01:23It's for me just like in those special moments, in those moments where you feel so much love
01:29and joy and so much happiness, it's like you take a second and you're in the moment and
01:34sort of it's what I wanted the song to do as a whole.
01:37And so starting it with basically like stand still and be here is what that lyric like tries to do.
02:00When I was writing, you know it, when you know it, when you know it, it's like I had
02:04Pete and Jesse both like about to get married and both like about to have children and it's like
02:08damn, they're pretty sure.
02:10For me, it was like my music career was starting to take off and so it was like I've always
02:14wanted
02:14to do this thing and I've always wanted to be a musician and like however different paths in life
02:20that I took and you know however many B roads I took is like it always came back to that
02:25and
02:25I was just like I know what I want to do.
02:44The kind of love that reaches to your bones is that love that like transcends like common
02:50sense or like rationale you know, the things that annoy you about other people suddenly when
02:55the person with your with does it, it doesn't matter or love that like gives you a piece that
03:01you can't really describe. It's so unconditional and there's no other explanation for it. It just
03:07hits you and you can't describe it. You don't want to describe it. You just accept it.
03:27The song kind of completed itself and we found the words. So we had literally every other word
03:32of this song apart from that. So it was like,
03:39I remember looking at like Jesse and he's on the sofa and he's like he loves those like
03:46Zins and those nicotine pouches. So he had like six in and he's just sat there and we're all stressed
03:51at this point like, what is this word? And he sits there and he goes, what if it's something stupid
03:57like stargazing? Me and Pete look at each other and we're like, that's the word. And Jesse's like,
04:05guys, I'm being dumb. Like, no, no. I sing it in and we were all just like, Jesse, you're a
04:10genius.
04:11It's funny because it's like the most important word of the song and it came from just Jesse
04:16throwing something out into the world. And that's why this song for me has always felt so magical
04:21because had Jesse not said something silly at the moment or had me and Pete not taking it seriously,
04:26like, who knows? A song may never have existed.
04:45Verse two is sort of that like commitment to a person or a thing that I think in this modern
04:52day, it's all about like Tinder and Raya if that's you or whatever it may be. And it's like,
04:58it's so fast and it's so casual, but like there's something beauty about like, you know,
05:04the tradition of like romance and like when you feel that excitement and when you feel alive to
05:09hold onto that emotion and not run from it. I think it's recognizing as opposed to when something
05:14doesn't go right walking away or when someone's not close to preoccupy yourself, just to be like,
05:19hey, I love you. And it sucks when you're not here. And it's awesome when you are. So we should
05:24do more of that.
05:40This bridge, we knew that we wanted to have like a moment. And it's funny because I was always
05:46talking about like, what can someone in the very back row sing and with their hands up and still
05:51feel part of it. Whether we're at Glastow or like somewhere in like Africa or, you know,
05:56somewhere in a non-English speaking country. And it's just like, oh, oh, oh, oh. And it's like,
06:01it felt so good. And then, you know, it's fast forward a year and that exact thing that we wrote
06:05it for is a reality. And I've traveled the world with this song. If people don't speak English,
06:10the one part they definitely is, oh, oh, oh, oh. So tip 20 writers out there, throw an O in,
06:16it'll do all right. There's always this saying that like success is on the other side of like
06:23corny or the other side of cringe. And like, for me, this song wasn't like a cool song,
06:28but it was like a really special song. And I was just like, I love it. And I don't care
06:33if people think it's corny or weird. I just, I loved it.
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