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• Kooks frontman Luke Pritchard told The Sun: "(This) Is the most personal song I've ever written. I lost my dad when I was really young and I never wanted to talk about it until now. It's really intimate, and it was just me and (producer) Inflo in the studio when I wrote it."
• The ballad takes the form of a letter written to Pritchard's late father. It was Listen producer Inflo who pushed him into penning the tune. "We'd been talking about it all day and I was telling him about my dad and he just said you should write a letter to him," Pritchard explained to Sound Of Boston. "And I didn't really want to because it's a bit cheesy, but from there… the song came of it. I think it's really beautiful. I dunno why at that point I decided to let that happen."
• Luke Pritchard wrote "See Me Now" about losing his father when he was 3 years old. Originally released in 2014, the song took on new life years later as The Kooks experienced a renewed surge in popularity, prompting the band to share a live version filmed during their 2025 performance at London's O2 Arena.
  
  The live release is paired with a music video directed by Julien Temple that intercuts footage from the song's original 2014 video with clips from the O2 performance, alongside home videos of a young Pritchard with his father.
  
  "There's been a new meaning in that song for me since having kids," Pritchard explained. "I realized that music was the connection to my dad... sometimes a song just has its time."
  
  Pritchard said he reconnected with the track after his mother dropped off a collection of old tapes he had never seen, documenting moments with his father before his death. Watching them proved emotional and revelatory. "It was like a time capsule experience," he said. "There are videos of him literally teaching me to use a microphone, play guitar, pose like a rock star, all when I was three. It unlocked a lot of memories."
• The O2 performance was chosen for the live recording because of its emotional weight. "It felt like a particularly special performance," Pritchard said, admitting he wasn't sure he'd be able to finish the song with his mother and sister in the audience. "I just thought how much this would blow his mind, that I played the song to that many people in London."
  
  He added that fan reactions have deepened the song's significance. "When I grew up, I didn't know many people that had lost a parent so young," Pritchard said. "I've had so many people contact me and talk to me about their stories."