Perfume

Album: Pebble Brain (2021)
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Songfacts®:

  • This uptempo track finds Lovejoy frontman Wilbur Soot addressing an ex. She's found herself a new boyfriend, and the singer resents him. Soot doesn't like his eyes and hates his haircut, but grudgingly admits he doesn't blame her for taking up with the dude.
  • In the second verse, Soot implies that his ex took off with her new fella while they were still together. Although she was lying and pretending, he can't hate her because she's so nice.
  • The chorus finds Soot addressing his ex's new boyfriend. The singer tells him he misses his former girlfriend and can still smell her perfume.
  • Wilbur Soot wrote the song with the other members of the band: guitarist Joe Goldsmith; bassist Ash Kabosu; drummer Mark Boardman.
  • Lovejoy recorded the song for their second EP, Pebble Brain, which they released on October 14, 2021. Soot previewed the track four months earlier on his Twitch as a snippet with unfinished lyrics.
  • The band briefly removed "Perfume" from Pebble Brain's tracklisting until Soot's fellow YouTubers persuaded him to restore it.
  • Brighton-based producer and engineer Sam Coveney produced the song along with the rest of Pebble Brain.

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