Songfacts®:

• "You Were Right" is the lead single from Rüfüs Du Sol's second album, Bloom (2016). The mellow dance track finds lead vocalist Tyrone Lindqvist trying to make amends with his former flame after he realizes they're meant to be together. "You were right, I know I can't get enough of you," he repeatedly sings.
• The warm vibe of the summery love song has an underlying chill of melancholy as Lindqvist doesn't know if his romantic efforts are in vain. The clashing tones are a result of a frigid German winter colliding with a scorching Australian summer. For Bloom, the Aussie alternative-dance trio took inspiration from the techno clubs they visited in Germany during a songwriting stint in Berlin. The cold weather kept them locked indoors, where they crafted songs based on the electronic music that excited them. Months later, returning home to sunny Sydney was a shock to the senses.
  
  Lindqvist told Spin in 2015: "Coming home to summer in Sydney, being surrounded by the familiarity of everything that being home entails, we were suddenly approaching songwriting in a different way, both technically and emotionally. We were able to unlock a different side to our writing."
• The album takes its name from this song's chorus, where Lindqvist admits his mistakes and hopes their relationship can flourish in spite of them: "Leave it all to bloom."
• Peaking at #22 on the ARIA Singles Chart, this is the band's first Top 40 hit in Australia.
• "You Were Right" won the ARIA Award for Best Dance Release in 2015.
• The song lent its name to the band's 2015-2016 concert tour of Australia and North America leading up to the album release. They followed up with another US tour in the spring of 2016 that included their debut performance at the Coachella music festival.
• In a 2015 interview with The Huffington Post, keyboardist Jon George explained how the band's songwriting approach differed for their second album compared to their first (2013's Atlas).
  
  "We were essentially trying to write a new song each day," he said. While the album was in Sydney, where the band also wrote Atlas, it was shaped by the clubs in Berlin.
  
  "We would take everything we heard and try to channel that the next day or later that night," he continued. "So I guess we ended up with a pretty huge collection of material as opposed to our last record, Atlas, where we kind of built it up from nothing and expanded it into the full record. This was more a process of culling and cutting and pulling back in the end."
• This was used in the 2021 movie Haymaker, which follows an ex-boxer (Nick Sasso) who becomes a bodyguard for a trans female pop star (Nomi Ruiz).