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<\/a>\u201d Read on as Ware walks us through That! Feels Good!, one song at a time. \u201cThat! Feels Good!\u201d \u201cI needed it to feel like you landed straight into a groove, which is very different to how I started What\u2019s Your Pleasure?. It felt like I was imagining me as D\u2019Angelo or James Brown. With the spoken thing at the start of this track, I\u2019d said to [producer] James Ford, \u2018Let\u2019s really enjoy this intro: What do you think about [including] loads of different people so it felt like were in an orgy?\u2019 It was about making people feel slightly uncomfortable, particularly British people, and to make you go, \u2018Hang on, what is she about to do?\u2019 Those voices are Ro\u00eds\u00edn Murphy, Kylie Minogue, Aisling Bea, Jamie Demetriou, Gemma Arterton, benny blanco, my mum [Lennie Ware; Jessie\u2019s co-host on their podcast Table Manners), my [podcast] producer Alice and her husband, who speak French, because they sounded really good, an ex-boyfriend who\u2019s Spanish, and Clara Amfo. We got them all!\u201d \u201cFree Yourself\u201d \u201cWe nearly didn\u2019t write this song.<\/p>\n
It was the first day I\u2019d worked with Stuart [Price], and he\u2019d played this house song but I felt it was a bit too close to What\u2019s Your Pleasure?. Respect to Stuart, because he never gives up and said, \u2018Can we just listen to that instrumental again?\u2019 We put the vocal down just to see what happened and then Coffee [London-based songwriter and producer Clarence Coffee Jr.] sang, \u2018Free yourself\u2019\u2014and it was really fun. Me and Coffee went and celebrated after\u2014we had tequila and toasted the song because it felt like it was going to change things.\u201d \u201cPearls\u201d \u201cIt felt very camp and soulful, immediate, bombastic, glorious, and fun. It\u2019s saying, \u2018Here are some of the ladies I\u2019m going to be on this record.\u2019 The lyric \u2018And I do what I wanna\/A perfect prima donna\u2019 is said with a wink because I know that I can play up to the role of being a pop star when I need to, but I never take myself too seriously.<\/p>\n
And when I say prima donna, it\u2019s very much playing with the notion of women being thought of a certain way when they have an opinion, but also acknowledging that I am quite perfect at being a bit of a diva. Hopefully I don\u2019t do it for too long!\u201d \u201cHello Love\u201d \u201cI needed there to be a breather because I didn\u2019t want people to feel exhausted by those first three songs, which are supposed to hit hard and feel like a bang. I hope this song lives on forever, because it feels quintessentially me, but with me having grown with experience in writing. It\u2019s me tapping into romance and Donny Hathaway and soul music and groove like The Gap Band. I\u2019m a sucker for a love song, but I wanted to do one that didn\u2019t feel like a ballad per se. I also kind of wanted this to feel like the opportunity for a new first-dance song [at weddings], because I feel like everyone\u2019s been using \u2018Champagne Kisses\u2019 and \u2018Say You Love Me,\u2019 but they\u2019re both really sad songs so they should just give up on those and do this one.\u201d \u201cBegin Again\u201d \u201c\u2018Begin Again\u2019 is the pathway from What\u2019s Your Pleasure? into That! Feels Good!.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s where this album started\u2014and was written over Zoom between LA and Hackney. The lyric \u2018Why does all the purest love get filtered through machines?\u2019 probably came from that\u2014I\u2019m sick to death of Zooms! But if you think further into it, it\u2019s about being a prisoner to screens and it becoming so habitual and wanting to escape that, but not being able to. It was very much inspired by Stevie Wonder\u2019s \u2018Another Star\u2019 and Talking Heads\u2019 Stop Making Sense, and bossa nova, Brazilian disco, and longing for travel.\u201d \u201cBeautiful People\u201d \u201cI wanted this song to feel like it went from a monologue into a conversation. That there was a bit of a narrative, however fantasy-led that was. You go from talking yourself out of a crap day to going to a club and feeling free and happy.<\/p>\n
I think that\u2019s what dance music, particularly going clubbing, can be, and I love that feeling\u2014there\u2019s nothing greater. But as a mother of three, who also works insanely hard, clubbing isn\u2019t on the agenda every week. This was my way of transporting myself to that place.\u201d \u201cFreak Me Now\u201d \u201cStuart made this instrumental and he was adamant that we were going to use it. This song has kind of French house nods and I was thinking about how R\u00f3is\u00edn Murphy would say something, as well as Mousse T.\u2019s \u2018Horny\u2019 and Gwen McCrae\u2019s \u2018Keep the Fire Burning.\u2019 It\u2019s another commanding song like \u2018Free Yourself\u2019 and I\u2019m in the driver\u2019s seat\u2014it\u2019s not requesting, it\u2019s like this person\u2019s going to have to do it. That was a really fun position to be in.\u201d \u201cShake the Bottle\u201d \u201cThis is almost my cabaret song.<\/p>\n
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