This empowered breakup track is about how trying to stay friends with an ex seldom works. Yesterday you said I'm the one But now you say you're done Stop telling me what I need Baby, if you're over me Frontman Olly Alexander said: "'If You're Over Me' is about the emotional torture that ensues – meeting up and making out, then breaking up all over again, then making out some more."
Speaking to BBC music reporter Mark Savage Olly Alexander admitted Palo Santo is "quite a petty album." He added: "When I listened to it all the way through, I was like, 'Wow, I was so angry!' "But it's good to show that stuff, you know? I think it's human."
This was written by Olly Alexander with Steve Mac - the pop mastermind behind such hits as Ed Sheeran's "Shape Of You" and Clean Bandit's "Symphony." The song came about really quickly, but was then left on the shelf as the band were unsure if it fitted in with the rest of their material. Alexander recalled to iHeartRadio: "It was done in two hours basically 'cause it just can sometimes happen really quickly, you know? We were, like, 'Does it sound like Years and Years?' We fought over it for like six months, and then finally we all became happy with it. So, it got there in the end."
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