Songfacts®:

• On "My Addiction" Skye Newman takes the old metaphor of love-as-addiction and gives it a streetlight glow. It's the kind of emotional ache that's been wandering around pop music ever since Pink said it was "Just Like A Pill" and Rihanna lamented she must have "Love on the Brain."
• "My Addiction" came from the same turbulent relationship that inspired Newman's song "FU & UF."
  
  "I constantly felt like I was being pulled in and pushed out and I couldn't leave," she told Apple Music. "Love, to me at that point, felt like an addiction."
• "My Addiction" appears on Newman's debut EP, SE9 Part 1, named after the London postcode where she grew up. "SE9 is where I lived, mostly, during the first 20 years of my life," she said. "It's about why I am the person I am today. Early family life, trauma, internal battles. It's incredibly personal to me. It shows you the life I've lived so far."
• Newman co-wrote the track with producers Boo and Luis Navidad, who helped craft the entire six-song project. All songs feature Newman as writer and vocalist, with Boo and Luis Navidad contributing consistently across the EP's production, programming, arrangement, and songwriting credits.
• Fans have shared their own stories of attachment and heartbreak with Newman after shows. "It can be quite heavy," she admitted, "but that's what music's about. That's the person I want to be for people."