Songfacts®:

• Here, Freya Ridings has a moment of clarity that striving for perfection is unrealistic and unattainable. She accepts that nobody is perfect and that it's okay to have some flaws.
  
  "This song is about feeling more insecure than you let on and, in a liberating way, we realize that nobody really cares and that's OK," she explained.
• Freya Ridings wrote "Perfect" with London-based folk singer Ewan J Phillips, who also produced it. The pair were dating at the time, and they later married in November 2022.
• Ridings and Phillips play all the instruments: Ridings (piano); Phillips (bass, drums, guitar, backing vocals).
• Ridings' mother's favorite phrase is "connection, not perfection." When the singer was working with Phillips on music for her album, her mum's pet saying came to mind. "I was really struggling with being in front of the camera," Ridings explained to The Sun, "and I sang some of my deepest fears and 'Perfect' came out."
• Ridings released "Perfect" as the fourth single from Blood Orange. The album was inspired by the singer's breakup with Phillips in January 2020 and reconciliation 18 months later. "Blood Orange is about being as brave as I possibly could be writing from personal experience and I found it very empowering," she told The Sun. "Blood Orange is written in two halves. It's a time capsule of a period of feeling lonely after a breakup and trying to be brave and admitting that I was falling in love again."