Strange

Celeste wrote and recorded this reflection on a broken relationship in Los Angeles during the 2018 California wildfires. She began to think of all the destruction the fires caused with people finding themselves isolated without a home anymore. Celeste also reflected on the loss of her father, who died in California from lung cancer at the age of 49 when she was just 16. She utilized her own emotional turmoil to pen this heartbreaking dissection of the end of a romance.

Isn't it strange How people can change From strangers to friends Friends into lovers And strangers again? Celeste explained to Apple Music: "To a lot of people, this probably sounds like a breakup song. But for me, it's encompassing lots of feelings of loss." She added that one day they passed the LA hospital where she'd seen her father for the last time, before he died, and her stomach dropped. "The emotion was as raw as it had been six years earlier," Celeste said. "I was also feeling heartbreak about the distance that had come between me and some of the friends I'd grown up with."

Celeste was afraid she would lose her voice because the air was thick with smoke from the California wildfires. "All those things came together in the studio," she said. "I approached the microphone very gently, because I was worried about my voice. But that also filtered into how I would treat this song, which was respectfully."