Songfacts®:

• Like many of us, the COVID-19 lockdown really threw Florence + the Machine frontwoman Florence Welch. Unable to do the things she loves - going to clubs, dancing, performing on stage – Welch also experienced writer's block, which prevented her from putting her love of music into writing. She wrote this song about her search for a creative outlet in a pandemic era.
• "My Love" started off as an acoustic "sad little poem" written in Welch's kitchen. As she looked out of her window at the bare winter trees, the singer-songwriter hoped that with spring around the corner, she would soon get inspiration.
  
  There is nothing to describe
  Except the moon still bright against the worrying sky
  I pray the trees will get their leaves soon
  
  But with spring came the pandemic. Welch couldn't play her music or socialize, and her friends were catching COVID.
  
  And when it came, it was stranger than I had ever imagined
  No cracking open of heaven
  But quiet and still
  All my friends are getting ill
  
  On the chorus, Welch questions whether she won't have a creative outlet until the pandemic passes.
  
  So tell me where to put my love
  Do I wait for time to do what it does?
• Ironically, this song where Welch bemoans her creative standstill became her creative breakthrough. It broke her writer's block and opened the floodgates for the other songs on Dance Fever.
• Welch recorded the song in London with Glass Animals' Dave Bayley on production duties. When she played him her sad, acoustic demo, Bayley suggested adding synths. He transformed it into an energetic anthem reminiscent of "Nick Cave at the club."
  
  "Sometimes," Welch told BBC Radio 1's Greg James, "the biggest dance songs, I think, have a really sad core to them."
• Dave Bayley created a remix titled "My Love (Dave Glass Animals Remix)," which was released on April 1, 2022.
  
  Bayley described Florence Welch as one of the most authentic artists he's worked with. While producing tracks for Dance Fever, he aimed to respect Welch's strong creative vision, but for the remix he wanted "to sneak out of that world a little and make something as heavy and clubby as possible, while still letting her incredible voice and powerful words sit front and center."