Antidote

Album: In Search Of The Antidote (2024)
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  • In "Antidote," Fletcher finds peace and healing.

    "That song is really about getting in touch with what brings you the most happiness," she explained to Spotify. "Where your passion lies and what the medicine in this lifetime feels like for you, whether that's the love for yourself, your family, your friends, a spiritual practice. Whatever the antidote might be for you."
  • Fletcher wrote the song in 2023 while she was battling Lyme disease. "I was forced to pull everything back," she told Entertainment Tonight. "I disappeared from social media and went into this little cocoon of mine for some deep healing. So much got so quiet for me, but other things got really loud, like all the ways that I felt unworthy or was still dealing with things that I hadn't dealt with from childhood or unresolved feelings and emotions, and realizing how much of that affects your health and affects your sense of self and the way you view yourself."

    She added: "When in the past the antidote has been fans and stages and bottles of tequila, it had now become something totally different, like really getting in touch with my feelings and healing my heart and body."
  • "Antidote" is the last song on Fletcher's second album, In Search Of The Antidote. She got her start on the American version of The X Factor back in 2011 and put out three EPs before issuing her first album, Girl Of My Dreams, in 2022.
  • Fletcher wrote this song with Jon Bellion, Pete Nappi and Gregory Hein - Bellion and Nappi are the producers. All three of these guys have worked behind the scenes on songs for the likes of Shawn Mendes, Thirty Seconds To Mars and Madison Beer. Bellion had a hit in 2016 with his song "All Time Low."

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