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• Here, memories of his former lover haunt Bastille singer Dan Smith. They remind him of the happy times they spent together, and he spends sleepless nights reminiscing.
• Smith is a film buff and often incorporates his love of movies into his songwriting. He nods to the 2004 romantic sci-fi film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to illustrate his desire to move on from his ex.
  
  I'm trapped in these scenes that
  I would die to leave behind
  Oh, just like eternal sunshine
  Can I delete you from my mind?
  
  In Eternal Sunshine, Joel Barish (played by Jim Carrey) discovers that his girlfriend Clementine Kruczynski (played by Kate Winslet) had her memories of him erased by a company. Heartbroken, Barish decides to undergo the same procedure.
• Bastille released "Remind Me" as a single on June 10, 2022, four months after their Give Me the Future album. The band began work on the song in LA with Rami Yacoub (Britney Spears' "...Baby One More Time," Ariana Grande's "One Last Time") from Max Martin's production team MxM at the start of the album process. They finished it in London with longtime collaborator Mark Crew and Tove Lo producer Ludvig "A Strut" Söderberg.
• Bastille wanted to make something sharp and minimal. "The lyrics are about how our minds can taunt us with memories that play uncontrollably like scenes on a loop," said Smith, "so we set the track over this hypnotic, rolling guitar riff."
• The song features baroque vocal harmonies by Zimbabwean-British singer Rationale, the band Fours and Bastille keyboardist Kyle Simmons.
• In an email sent to fans prior to the release of "Remind Me," Bastille said they would add the track onto Give Me the Future. "We'd been diving into a bunch of music from the '80s that had sounded futuristic at the time, so it fits with the ideas of the past's versions of the future that we explore across the album," they said. "This song was like a jumping off point for us a couple of years ago and helped shape the sonic tone of the whole GMTF album."