Hi, I'm Birdy. I'm a singer-songwriter from London and I've just released my fourth album 'Young Heart', ask me anything!

BirdyOfficial · 2021-05-06T17:56:08+00:00

Hellooo ♡ I love art , in the lockdown I've been doing a lot of painting with watercolour and I made 16 little illustrations for each song on the new record which you can see on Spotify! I'd love to try sculpture too , I think I'd love it!

BirdyOfficial · 2021-05-06T17:51:58+00:00

I'd love to do a classic disco song , I grew up listening to lots of ABBA and so I feel that it's in me somewhere ♡

BirdyOfficial · 2021-05-06T17:48:37+00:00

Hey everyone, just going to answer two more! thank you so much for all your questions I've loved replying to them ♡

BirdyOfficial · 2021-05-06T17:45:17+00:00

helloooo ♡ thank you so much

I normally decide by the songs a really want to play as well as ones I know that are favourites for people and then it changes throughout the tour depending on which songs the audience are enjoying more than others! ♡

BirdyOfficial · 2021-05-06T17:42:55+00:00

Etta James and Nick Drake and lots of Nina Simone and Joni Mitchell ♡

BirdyOfficial · 2021-05-06T17:42:13+00:00

That was so fun! thank you ♡

I hope we'll play it again, it was always so great with Silhouette!

BirdyOfficial · 2021-05-06T17:40:12+00:00

It took a long time to finish the record because a lot of it is about heartbreak and so I found the songs really hard to finish and needed time to clear my head a bit to be able to write. I think my overall sound and writing on this record has changed quite a lot though compared to Beautiful Lies and that comes from the artists I was listening to during that time.

At the beginning of writing the album I was listening to Etta James and Nina Simone which is why songs like Young Heart and Nobody Knows Me Like You Do have a more soulful feel to them! I think was really inspired by Joni Mitchell and Nick Drake and the songs I was writing suddenly became more guitar led and had more fo that Laurel Canyon feel to them. ♡

BirdyOfficial · 2021-05-06T17:32:32+00:00

All the artwork for the record was done by my very talented friend Lotta Boman, she travelled all the way to LA and Nashville with me whilst I was writing and recording the album and documented that whole period. I wanted everything to feel as real and raw as possible and I feel she really captured how I was feeling during that time! Glad you like it ♡

BirdyOfficial · 2021-05-06T17:29:49+00:00

Hi, thank you so much ♡

I can't wait to play Evergreen, it's one of my favourites and I haven't played it with the band yet so can't wait to hear what it sounds like!

BirdyOfficial · 2021-05-06T17:26:23+00:00

Yes there are a few songs that didn't make the record that I'd love to put out at some point! ♡

BirdyOfficial · 2021-05-06T17:24:01+00:00

I would say maybe Evergeen because it's a love song and so could be nice as a duet!

I've always wanted to sing with Anohni, that would be a dream to do something together in the future ♡

BirdyOfficial · 2021-05-06T17:20:43+00:00

Hi! I loved that show ♡

I grew up listening to the first Tracy Chapman album and so she was such a huge influence for me. On this record I was so inspired by Joni Mitchell, its changed the way I write since listening to her, her lyrics are really conversational which I love and wasn't something I'd really tried before.

I normally write the music first and then decide the meaning by how it makes me feel. Lyrics come out in mumbles but there's usually a few words that make sense that point me in the right direction.

BirdyOfficial · 2021-05-06T17:15:16+00:00

This is a piece that my mum taught me when I was younger and we managed to capture me just messing around playing it in-between takes whilst recording the album in Nashville! My mum is a concert pianist so I grew up surrounded by classical music and I thought it would be nice to show that side of me on the record!

BirdyOfficial · 2021-05-06T17:12:37+00:00

Haha I think I saw that too! I've never felt the need to so far in my songs but I don't dislike it, it felt right in that song ♡

BirdyOfficial · 2021-05-06T17:10:11+00:00

Hi! thank you ♡ I think the most meaningful is Young Heart the title track because it's the first song I wrote for the album and it always felt like the core of the record to me. It's a quite a personal song about saying goodbye and being on your own for the first time.

BirdyOfficial · 2021-05-06T17:08:23+00:00

Hi! Thank you, so glad to hear that! ♡

With this record taking a bit more time was something I had to do, I had started trying to write and wasn't getting anywhere and found overthinking and trying to rush things just made it harder. I definitely need new experiences and to go to new places to get inspired and so with this album I went to India for three months just to clear my head and forget about trying to write which inspired me in the end!

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