True Colours

Album: How Were We to Know (2023)
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Songfacts®:

  • "True Colours" is a defiant anthem of self-acceptance. The powerful ballad symbolizes the transformative strength found within, even after enduring life's trials and tribulations.

    "It tells a big story relevant to me," Emeli Sandé told The Sun. "I hope it will give people the strength to be themselves. We're all searching for perfection at the moment, especially with social media. I think we're losing the true beauty of who we are. 'True Colors' is about having the bravery to let everything be seen, warts and all."
  • Sandé wrote "True Colours" with Philip Leigh and Matthew Holmes, aka Mac & Phil. The English production duo produced or co-produced eight of the tracks on Sandé's 2016 Long Live The Angels album, including the hit single "Hurts."

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