Someone To You

Banners is the British singer Michael Nelson, who released "Someone To You" as a single in 2017 and included it on his first full-length album, Where The Shadow Ends, in 2019. The song didn't find a substantial audience until 2020, when it took off on TikTok thanks to its jaunty and very danceable hook.

In this song, Banners has a lot of love, and just wants somebody to share it with. It's tinged with loneliness, but also hopeful - you get the sense that when he finds that special girl, he'll treat her right.

Banners wrote this song with Grant Michaels and Samuel Hollander, who have teamed on tracks by Goo Goo Dolls ("Indestructible") and Fitz And The Tantrums ("Roll Up"). In a Songfacts interview with Hollander, he said: "It's an interesting song because it came out with so little fanfare and it was sort of thrown against the wall and it disappeared. But there's an emotional resonance to it, and I think a lot of it has to do with Michael - Banners' - his voice. There's a longing in his voice when he sings. There are moments where I get that strange goosebump, sort of visceral response, even now when I listen to it. And it's all in his vocal to me. I think it's the emotion, because I really believed everything about him when he was singing it. I really truly connected with it. A strummy, uptempo record like that can do its thing, but there's something just so innately cool in his voice when he hits that chorus."