Just Let It Go

Album: Relentless (2023)
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Songfacts®:

  • Here, Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde sings about escaping from the internal struggles and torments that linger despite the passage of time. These "torments" could be anything from past regrets and disappointments to feelings of dissatisfaction or stagnation.

    "Listening back, it occurred to me that it sounded like someone giving up on life and ending it all," Hynde told Uncut magazine. "Well, that's one interpretation. It was supposed to be more about moving forward and not letting the past drag you down."
  • "Just Let It Go" is the 10th track on the Pretenders' 2023 album, Relentless. Hynde and Pretenders guitarist James Walbourne wrote the songs together remotely. They'd honed down this method of working to an art after working remotely on their 2020 album Hate for Sale.
  • Hynde and producer David Wrench recorded the song with the Pretenders Collective. For this song it comprises James Walbourne (electric guitar, bass, Mellotron), Carwyn Ellis (acoustic guitar) and Kris Sonne (drums).

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