Songfacts®:

• "2Sided" is a shuffling paean to the yearning and the anxiety of uncommunicated desire in a club. The glossy pop track finds Arlo Parks wearing her heart on her sleeve.
  
  "Having a crush is a million things: vulnerable, exciting, crushing, humbling, life-changing," she told Apple Music. "I wanted to make a song that explored all those facets in a way that felt sonically adventurous."
• "2Sided" was released on January 12, 2026, as the lead single from Ambiguous Desire. The album is a 12-track record described as Parks' most nocturnal and experimental work, inspired by New York nightlife with desire as its thematic center.
  
  "Desire is a life force, it's a wanting, a yearning, a momentum – we are all alive because there is something or someone we want – desire is an engine," said Parks of the album's philosophy. "But it is also mysterious, tangled, random, enlightening and human."
• The song has a distinctly queer dimension. Parks described the sound and spirit of "2Sided" and the broader Ambiguous Desire album as drawing on "the queer hedonism of New York City's Paradise Garage," the legendary club run by DJ Larry Levan, a touchstone of Black and queer dance culture.
• Arlo Parks wrote the song with the track's producers, Rob Bisel, and Baird (full name Baird Robert Wittner Acheson).
  
  "It was made in a basement in New York in about two or three hours," Parks told BBC Radio 1's Jack Saunders. "So it was at this studio called Figure8 in Prospect Park, and I made it with my good friend Baird. On the day, nothing worked. We spent like six or seven hours trying to figure the studio out, and this one synth was the only thing we could get moving. And so he just wrote this little chord progression, and that's really all I had to base this entire song off. And I wrote it top to bottom."
  
  Baird is most notably known for his work with Brockhampton and Kevin Abstract. The Ambiguous Desire album was made primarily with Baird, who experimented with modular synths, samplers, and glitchy textures alongside Parks.
  
  Rob Bisel is best known as a close collaborator of SZA, co-writing and producing smash hits like "I Hate U" and "Kill Bill" on her SOSalbum. He has also worked with the likes of Don Toliver and Jennie, and he engineered for Rick Rubin at the legendary Shangri-La studio.
  
  Bisel's contribution was most likely in post-production, specifically as a mixer and additional producer who shaped and polished the song after the raw session was captured.
• The video was directed by Molly Burdett and shot on location in Georgia (the country), using a local service production company called Industria.
  
  Molly Burdett has a long-standing creative relationship with Arlo Parks, having directed videos for her going back to 2019, including "Black Dog" and "Hope."