Music has a special significance in everyone’s life and for Lees, it was a place where she could freely use her instincts. Born in South West London to a vicar father and a mother who was a homemaker, religion and traditional morality dominated her childhood and made her feel constricted. This feeling of being trapped made her seek freedom from the religious constraints she was placed under.
While she was an adolescent, Lees turned her back on religion, but it became an important aspect of her life once more. Now, her music is a way to tell stories with no boundaries – about sex, about anger, about femininity, and all of this is backed up by her powerful, emotional voice that was waiting to be heard.
In her previous song “Honeymoon Suite,” Lees incorporated elements from Portishead and Frank Ocean’s Blonde, which she said was “a mess of memories.” That is why her transformation and the newfound independence are so interesting – she is both fragile and ethereal.