Crush

Album: In Search Of The Antidote (2024)
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  • Leading up to 2024, Fletcher went through some dramatic life changes. For one, she sorted out her longstanding situationship with Shannon Beveridge, the woman who inspired Fletcher's songs from "Undrunk" to "Eras Of Us." Also, so got Lyme disease, which made her cut much of the fun from her life but gave her a bit of clarity. This all comes together in her song "Crush."

    "As I've been on this healing journey and healing my relationship to love and unlearning toxic behaviors and patterns and that intense passion of love, I have sometimes found myself missing that intensity," she told Entertainment Tonight. "We've been fed this narrative that everything has to be this crazy fiery burning. That can totally be there, but also being mindful of like, is this unhinged and hurtful to myself?"

    "The peace is in finding this realization that you don't have to keep chasing something," she added. "There's flow in the chaos. There's beauty in the chaos. This present moment is perfect."
  • Fletcher has worked with a wide swath of songwriters and producers over the years. She wrote "Crush" with One Love (aka, Timothy Sommers), Jennifer Decilveo and Mary Weitz, with One Love and Decilveo producing. This is the same team that worked on her song "Doing Better," also on her In Search Of The Antidote album.

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