Wildest Moments

Album: Devotion (2012)
Charted: 46
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Songfacts®:

  • Jessie Ware told The Sun regarding this song: "It's about a fight I had with my best friend Sarah. She and I argue a lot but we are also the best of friends. This was a song that demonstrates that we can go from being amazing together to being so terrible. I love her dearly but it was easier to write a song about it than enter a fight."

    The argument took place at the wedding of Ware's manager. "It was drunken and it ended up with a mudcake I'd made being thrown in my face and a trifle being thrown at her," the singer recalled to The Observer. "I thought it was quite funny – we were being idiots – but it escalated into her being really angry at me."
  • This is one of three songs on Devotion that Ware wrote with the nu-folk singer-songwriter Kid Harpoon. "He was the one who was like, 'Forget the minimal electronic stuff, let's make some fu--ing big pop tunes!,'" said Ware to The Guardian. "He wanted to bring out the Alicia Keys in me."
  • The single-take video consists simply of Ware sitting while singing the song, with the camera slowly rotating around her.
  • Ware reworked the song for the US version of Devotion inserting a verse by A$AP Rocky. Tweeting about the collaboration, Ware wrote: "Always wanted a rap on Wildest Moments! Dreams do come true eh!"
  • Ware 's collaboration with A$AP Rocky was a last minute addition to Devotion - The Gold Edition. "I love A$AP Rocky. I know I wanted a rapper on 'Wildest Moments'. I didn't know how I was going to do it," she explained to Billboard magazine. Ware added that back in January 2013, "he was promoting his record in the U.K. He got interviewed asking who he'd like to collaborate with, maybe UK artists, and he mentioned me. I was like, 'Oh my God, he knows who I am.' So we were like, 'Let's just send this track and just hope it happens.' And just before the deadline we get an email with his verse in the post. It was just so exciting."
  • This was one of the last songs that Ware wrote for Devotion. "It was scarily easy," she told The Observer. "It came out in a couple of hours and it was like: 'Cool, that's done.' Sometimes the musical gods are on your side; someone is smiling down on you."
  • The song soundtracks a Durex condom commercial. Ware defended the use of her tune during an interview with Radio.com: "People started tweeting me," she said, "being like...'Ugh, Jessie Ware should know that her song is in a Durex ad. It's awkward.' And I was like, 'No, I okayed that!' I'm so happy it's promoting sex and safe sex and I think my best friend who the song's about is a bit iffy about it because she's like, 'Oh God, people are going to think we're more than friends.' But no, I'm so proud of it to be honest. I've always wanted to make sex music. Now I can say I'm in a sex advert."

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