Scarlett

Album: The Walls Are Way Too Thin (2021)
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Songfacts®:

  • Scarlett is Holly Humberstone's best friend. She sings this soaring synth-pop tune from Scarlett's perspective as she outlines her despair and anger after breaking up with her longtime boyfriend. Their relationship had been totally one-sided; the guy had been stringing Scarlett along before ending their romance in a cold-hearted manner.
  • Ooh, you left me waiting on a heartbreak
    I just cried all the summer away


    Holly went through all the stages of the breakup with Scarlett. "I was her closest confidant and so I knew everything she was feeling, and I'd see how passive he was with her at parties first hand," she recalled.

    After Scarlett vented to her friend for around a year, she began taking back control of her life and realized her ex wasn't worth her tears anymore.
  • Holly Humberstone wrote the song with her producer, former Dog Is Dead singer Rob Milton. The two first met after Humberstone left her performing arts college in Liverpool to focus on her music. They began collaborating and developing her sound.
  • This is a single from Holly Humberstone's second EP, The Walls Are Way Too Thin. She released it on September 7, 2021.
  • Holly Humberstone gave this song its US television debut when she performed it on the October 13, 2021 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. It marked her second time on the late-night talk show, following an appearance in August 2020.
  • Humberstone's visual collaborator Raja Virdi directed the video, which finds Humberstone and the real Scarlett breaking into an airplane hangar. They steal and spray paint an arctic truck before the singer performs on the back of it as her friend drives it down the runway.

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