Hurt by Arlo Parks Song Info
I was coming off the back of writer’s block and feeling quite paralysed by the idea of making an album. It felt quite daunting to me. Luca [Buccellati, Parks’ co-producer and co-writer] had just come over from LA, and it was January, and we hadn’t seen each other in a while. I’d been listening to plenty of Motown and The Supremes, plus a lot of Inflo’s production and Cleo Sol’s work. I wanted to create something that felt triumphant, and that you could dance to. The idea was for the song to expose how tough things can be but revolve around the idea of the possibility for joy in the future. There’s a quote by [Caribbean American poet] Audre Lorde that I really liked: “Pain will either change or end.” That’s what the song revolved around for me.