Balance

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With a bridge in which Spraggan’s voice breaks while promising Caroline’s mum that “the kindness remains”, it’s sure to be a meaningful ballad that people hopefully take to heart. Some of the topics tackled by Lucy are incredibly difficult and tend to be evaded within the media, but she’s unafraid to explore them and her transparency continues to serve her well – from ‘Cocaine’, which appears to tell the tale of a relationship breakdown due to drugs, to ‘Caroline’.

I could be sitting on a train and someone will tell me the deepest, darkest shit they’ve ever been through. With her debut novel flying off the shelves and her seventh album storming the UK Album Chart, it’s safe to say that 2023 is Lucy’s year.It’s one of the things that Spraggan has also touched upon in her memoir which was published this July. Among the 14 tracks are also cultural moments that lean into events of the past 10 years that have impacted and altered the social landscape, such as the death of TV presenter Caroline Flack after hounding from the media ( Caroline), along with uplifting sentiments that nod to an artist who, on the back of a mega launchpad, has worked tirelessly to craft a career in her own vision ( Empire). Similarly, there’s “The Cost of Living,” which she describes as “quite fun – an old school song of mine that’s more like spoken word.

Some people would rather just deny that it ever happened, but I love having songs because it’s a living memory. What is more, writing the book has put a renewed spotlight on how different it is to put music to words and come up with melodies to describe feelings. It’s rare for me to comment in music on something that I’m not directly involved in,” Spraggan explains carefully. It happens a lot on tour, especially with things like sobriety, or things that people have been through. I do really think that we are encouraging and glamorizing burnout and being mentally unwell in the industry.A decade on from her first X Factor audition Lucy releases new album alongside her forthcoming memoir. I can read the story of my life and listen to the music I was producing at the time, they really do sit side by side, and definitely, the later parts of the book represent who I am now. Whilst Cowell adds: “When I heard this song for the first time I was blown away, it is absolutely beautiful and the message is very important, especially right now. For example, in the title track “Balance”, she confronts the fact that perhaps needing help from time to time isn’t so bad. Like to make my life look super cool and exciting online, but usually found at home, with my dogs, sipping wine and listening to Nicki French!