“He Said She Said” is the lead single of CHVRCHES' fourth album, Screen Violence. The band started teasing the song with an Instagram post on April 9th, 2021 and the title of the song got revealed with another Instagram post on April 18th, 2021.
The song was premiered on BBC Radio 1 with Annie Mac...
[Intro]
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh
[Verse 1]
He said, "You bore me to death"
"I know you heard me the first time" and
"Be sad, but don't be depressed"
Just think it over, over and
He said, "It's all in your head"
"But keep an ear to the grapevine" and
"Get drunk, but don't be a mess"
Keep thinking over, over
[Pre-Chorus]
I try
But it's hard to hit rewind
When I feel like
[Chorus]
I feel like I'm losing my mind (Feel like I'm losing my mind)
Feel like I'm losing my mind (Feel like I'm losing my mind)
Over and over, I
Feel like I'm losing my mind (Feel like I'm losing my mind)
Feel like I'm losing my mind
Over and over, I try
[Post-Chorus]
Ooh, ooh, ooh
[Verse 2]
He said, "You need to be fеd"
"But keep an eye on your waistline" and
"Look good, but don't bе obsessed"
Keep thinking over, over
[Pre-Chorus]
I try
But it's hard to know what's right
When I feel like I'm borrowing all of my time
And it's hard to hit rewind
When I feel like
[Chorus]
I feel like I'm losing my mind (Feel like I'm losing my mind)
Feel like I'm losing my mind (Feel like I'm losing my mind)
Over and over, I
Feel like I'm losing my mind (Feel like I'm losing my mind)
Feel like I'm losing my mind
Over and over, I (Feel like I'm losing my mind)
Feel like I'm losing my mind (Feel like I'm losing my mind)
Over and over, I
Feel like I'm losing my mind (Feel like I'm losing my mind)
Feel like I'm losing my mind
Over and over, I try
[Outro]
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh
He Said She Said was written by Martin Doherty & Lauren Mayberry & Iain Cook.
He Said She Said was produced by CHVRCHES.
CHVRCHES released He Said She Said on Mon Apr 19 2021.
Like everybody, we’ve all had a lot of time indoors to reflect. I think it was just having time and space to look back at certain things I’ve done or experienced and as a woman that you just brush it off and keep going, and it’s weird to have a little bit of distance and look at the things and been...
It was very freeing, I will say that, yeah. This was the first song that we wrote when we came back to start writing and the barebones of the song were there in about an hour and the opening line of the song was the first lyric that came out, so it must’ve been in my mind somewhere.
The chords felt like they had this eternal tension in them—they never actually release, even though they get really big. It feels to me like a panic attack, with this grounding force of the drums, which were rigid and quite slow and which are at half the speed of the track.
I liked that the percussion felt more aggressive than anything we’d done in a long time, and that informed the lyrics. It’s interesting to see how people have responded to this song, as we didn’t set out to write a message song.