Perfect

Album: Speak Your Mind (2018)
Charted: 41
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Songfacts®:

  • During this anthem of acceptance, Anne-Marie highlights various issues such as body confidence and mental health. She also sings about her sexuality:

    And I'll love who I want to love, 'cause this love is gender-free

    Anne-Marie is bi-sexual. She told The Line Of Best Fit: "I've never ever just been attracted to men. I've never just been attracted to women".

    "I just feel like I'm attracted to who I like," she added. "I honestly feel like everyone is like that."
  • The ode to self-love is all about loving your imperfections. "Right now the meaning of perfect to me is being different to everyone in the whole world, I think that's beautiful," Anne-Marie explained.
  • The song was remixed and retitled "Perfect To Me." The new version was released as the seventh single from Speak Your Mind on November 2, 2018.

    Asked by Billboard why she wanted to release the track as a single, Anne-Marie explained that she feels the song is her "main vibe." She sees trying to get her fans to feel good about the way they look or look as her goal "This song actually put that all into an envelope," she added, "and says, 'You're okay the way you are.'"

    Anne-Marie added that listening to music from people like Pink and Lauryn Hill with "really strong songs" on her way home from school made her feel better, and she "always wanted to have that song for other people."

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