Daniel

Natasha Khan, who is of Pakistani and English parentage, first came to the attention of the record buying public when her debut album Fur and Gold was nominated for the 2007 Mercury Prize for best UK album of the year. Despite being a favorite amongst the critics to win the award, she lost out to Klaxons' Myths of the Near Future. Six months later she was nominated for Best British Breakthrough and Best British Solo Female at the 2008 Brit Awards. She was also chosen by The Guardian as one of the newspaper's women of 2007, a significant accolade as Khan was the only musician to appear on their list. Despite all this acclaim Fur and Gold did not sell in huge quantities. This song was the much anticipated lead single from her second album, Two Suns.

In this song Natasha Khan (aka Bat For Lashes) sings of teenage love and nostalgia. Khan explained to MTV News that its "the most frightening song" on Two Suns for her, "because it's the most straightforward, naive and purposely simple song I've ever done." She added: " It's about teenage escapism and love and how simple things can be when you're a teenager in love, or how intense and beautiful it can be. I love songs like [Pat Benatar's] 'Love Is a Battlefield,' like when you sing them, you want to be leaning out the window of a car with the stars shining. And I felt like I wanted to encapsulate that feeling of abandon and love and sadness and melancholy, all at the same time."

Khan told The Sun newspaper April 10, 2009: "Daniel wasn't real. He's based on a fictional character that I fell in love with as a teenager. He represents that era of my life and exactly how I felt about my boyfriends at that time. My ambition was to make a pop song like the ones I grew up listening to."