I love doing this thing where a song sounds super light hearted (in a major key) but the content and the lyrics are actually pretty melancholy haha
In the case of Can’t Stop – it all happened very organically. I made this pretty fun uptempo beat that I loved and it made me want to dance, but I didn’t know what to write about because all of the melodies that were coming out of me were so happy and I’m not used to that! After a while, the phrase “can’t stop lovin’ you” just came out of nowhere, so I recorded that but then I got stuck, so I put it away for a while. Fast forward to a cottage trip I took with a couple of my closest friends (who are also songwriters) and my producers Joel and Ben. I played this demo in its very very early stages, and they loved it so we finished writing it that day. It only took us a few hours to write the whole thing! It’s a very special song.