"Your Ex" by Katie Gregson-MacLeod [2023]

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From Scotland comes the uber-talented indie singer/songwriter Katie Gregson-MacLeod with her latest release, say hello to "Your Ex". With this fantastic blend of melodies and lyrics she gives life to a world so human, so real and so refreshingly palpable and exciting. It's a bittersweet tale that embraces the fragile and insecure side of life and relationships from a point of view that I think most can connect with.

There's something about "Your Ex" that makes for a truly mesmerizing world to explore, for it is surely hers but also offers us bit and pieces that could be ours. It's a soundscape that comes alive from the moment you press play, pulling you in and turning you into a character that has much do within this story. So listen closely and embrace all the feelings and emotions that are part of this hypnotizing must-listen gem. Enjoy!

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"‘Your Ex’ began as an attempt to make light of the discomfort and insecurity that arose from starting to date someone who had a lingering and complicated friendship with their ex. I wrote the lyrics initially as a bit of a pisstake, focusing in the first verse upon a night where I saw the two of them interacting and noticed we shared some likeness, whilst also wondering if there was a grey area there that I didn’t know about.

The purpose of the song’s chorus was initially to reflect my surprising lack of insecurity about it, to make light of it all. Kind of saying, ‘If I were to spiral about this, these are the things I’d imagine were happening’, but acknowledging that in reality, I was in a totally secure position where my feelings weren’t yet at risk of being hurt. It was also the end of a session and I mainly just wanted to write a pop song referencing getting head to a relatively obscure contemporary americana song.

I left the song alone for a while and wrote the rest of the lyrics when the relationship was coming to an end. Suddenly, the intention behind the chorus changed for me and instead the anxieties it centered upon were genuine. As in a lot of what I love to write and listen to, I felt to properly serve this song, the sonics had to be in a more pop and upbeat space. Both timbre and lyric are an attempt to impound and dismiss the insecurity underwriting the song."
Katie Gregson-MacLeod about "Your Ex"