The songwriter is being recognized for her work writing on behalf of artists like Harry Styles, Lizzo, Charli XCX, and more.
,” and the emotionally open Lizzo ballad, “If You Love Me.” Read through Allen’s list of credits and one will find that the colossal, soul-baring pop song is the major connecting strand of all her works , one that stretches all the way back to the first song she ever placed: Selena Gomez’ 2018 hit “Back To You.”
Allen eventually transferred to the Berklee College of Music — “and then everything changed,” she says. She made friends with other students pursuing the songwriting major, and it “all started clicking very clearly in my brain.” Her strength as a songwriter distills down to her ability to hone in on that one “really honest lyric, a really heartfelt lyric.” On “My Mind & Me,” you hear that in lines like, “Sometimes I feel like an accident, people look when they're passin'/ And never check on the passenger, they just want the free show,” that are simultaneously hyper-specific and, at their basest level, universal.
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