Distance

Album: Only Honest on the Weekend (2021)
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Songfacts®:

  • Becky Hill wrote this song during the COVID lockdown in her old bedroom at her mum's house, where she used to write songs as a teenager. She penned it over Facetime with Adam Argyle (Olly Murs' "Busy," James Arthur's "Train Wreck") while he had his two kids with him. It proved to Hill that you can write music wherever and whenever you like.
  • Hill wrote the song about not being able to see her partner during the pandemic and having a sense of physical and social distance. "I almost called it 'Socially Distance,'" she told Notion, "but 'Distance' was a thing where I couldn't see my partner and I couldn't be with him, and that gave me so much inspiration."
  • Hill wrote four songs during lockdown. This track and "Through the Night" ended up on her Only Honest on the Weekend album and the other two landed on other artist's records: "Hold On" on Belgian DJ Netsky's Second Nature, and "Here For You" on Wilkinson's Cognition.

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