The songwriter on why her music had to change; and the family revelation that sparked a new song.
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"And that's interesting to me as an autonomous young songwriter who has an interior life, and who has been projected on and survived, what can be quite an overwhelming passionate experience. "And I just thought that was so tragic in a perfect way, that generation's attempt at carving out their own little bit of freedom."The singer-songwriter has been nominated for best British female at the Brits five times, winning once in 2011
Working on Icke's play Mary Stuart changed her approach to lyrics."The way he directs and the way he writes and rewrites plays, are very much based around rhythm, so I've been thinking a lot about the rhythm of language," she says. "And I don't think that's my necessarily my forte. My forte, I think, is ambiguity, which is definitely still on there, but on some of the songs there's just a very straightforward sentiment."One of her new songs was inspired by the simple straightforwardness of Paul McCartney's work
After falling down a YouTube wormhole, Marling"had a full awakening" after hearing McCartney's 2005 song,, a companion piece to Blackbird, whose lyrics depict a female musician's struggle to hold on to her talent amid poverty, societal oppression and heartbreak. She came to realise and realised that"innocence being taken away prematurely" had been a major theme of her life, which is why the songs on her new album are intended"arm the next generation in a way that I haven't been armed".
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