Sweet Pill sign to Hopeless, share new single Starchild

Sweet Pill have signed to Hopeless Records, and shared their first new single on the label.

As well as touring with fellow Hopeless labelmates The Wonder Years in the States, the quintet have found the time to pen a new track, Starchild, following their 2021 debut album Where The Heart Is.

Speaking about its meaning and how it was written, Zayna Youssef shares: “I believe myself to be an awkward person trying really hard to have a strong backbone. I sometimes catch myself putting others first, leaving none for myself. Ultimately, Starchild sums up what it feels like to having the burden of someone else’s responsibilities with a million eyes on you at the same time. Throughout it all, I just don’t wanna fuck up, ever. This lame idea of being perfect always swims in my head and I can never get over on it. All in all it leads to burning out and failing. What do I owe to the people around me that have done nothing but take what I have?

“We spent a week in the Poconos recording in seclusion in a cabin – like middle of nowhere Blair Witch vibes. It was so secluded that I was very freaked out. I was so scared that I refused to go to my room to sleep that had these large windows in it and since it was pitch black out you couldn’t see a thing. So I opted to sleep on the floor at like 2am where the boys were still up tracking just so I wouldn’t be alone. I believe this track is a good transitional song from our debut, Where The Heart Is. It has some ‘dancey-ness’ that our first album didn’t really have.”

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