Songfacts®:

• In the years after the release of Out of My Province in 2020 - a title which, in hindsight, feels a bit prophetic - an awful lot has happened in the life of Nadia Reid. She not only packed up and moved from New Zealand to Manchester in the UK but also became a mother... twice. First came Elliotte in 2021, and then Goldie three years later.
  
  And amid all the upheaval, Reid wrote another album. Enter Now Brightness, her fourth, is full of the kind of reflections you tend to have when you're simultaneously growing a human and experiencing the joys of morning sickness. She wrote much of it while pregnant, and far from sapping her creative energy, the experience sharpened it.
  
  "When she was born I did have this really intense drive to create," said Reid. "I felt very invigorated. Everything felt sharper and accessible and it all came to the surface."
• "Baby Bright" was inspired by the birth of Elliotte, who, Reid notes, had "massive bright blue eyes" and still does. The track is a meditation on motherhood, change, and some of the people who have touched her life.
• "Baby Bright" is a key song on Enter Now Brightness, but it's one that had lingered in Reid's notebooks for almost 20 years.
  
  "I just had the three chords," she told Uncut magazine. "I'd written it in a music room at Queens High School, back in Dunedin. It sort of haunted me. In 2021, I was gifted a little soundproof room in Auckland to write in and it all came back to me. It's a whole mishmash of things – old boyfriends, my mum, friends who've passed."
• Directed by Sunbed (Oscar Keys and Ezra Simons) the video stars actors Robyn Malcolm and DeeDee Comet as a mother and daughter meandering through the sweeping, windswept terrain of Aotearoa (the Maori name for New Zealand). It symbolizes the bond between generations and the emotional depth of their relationship.