Young Up

Album: Pleasure (2017)
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  • Leslie Feist completes her Pleasure album with a message in a bottle to her future self. She explained to The Globe: "I had very slowly felt this real bone fatigue – a lethargy of the weight of decision-making. It was causing me to get way older than I am. Just in a stodginess. You sense of humor is the first thing to go."

    "So, this song is a message to that part in me that I feel will have a tendency to reoccur," she continued. "The message is 'don't be a living dead, in a type of habitual repetition that ceases to mean anything.' That's my aspiration for the 70year-old Leslie: That she has that message in mind, first and foremost."

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