Songfacts®:

• After years spent touring the world, the Ting Tings took the opportunity during the COVID pandemic to slow down. Katie White and Jules De Martino relocated to Ibiza, embracing a quieter pace of life - and becoming parents in 2021 to their daughter, Meadow.
  
  "Song for Meadow," from their fifth album Home, is dedicated to her. The track imagines the moment she'll grow up and set off on her own, with her parents looking forward to the stories she'll one day bring back.
  
  "We were overwhelmed thinking about this love we had found in our newborn daughter and typically started to talk about how we would feel when she grew up and left the nest, like children do, like we all do. That translated itself into 'Song for Meadow,'" Katie told Songfacts.
• Parenthood didn't just change their day-to-day, it reshaped how Katie and Jules approached their craft.
  
  "It's a huge change," Katie said. "Any parent will tell you the same. Becoming parents kinda changes your DNA. Nothing will ever come between me and my daughter. Same for Jules.
  
  She added: "As songwriters we are passionate and focussed writing and creating our songs and music, then all of a sudden a baby cries or needs love and that distraction is the best. It's natural and helps the process enormously. Stops us obsessing and over-analyzing."
  
  Jules echoed the sentiment: "Agreed. Even when we would be on a roll we'd walk away from the session or piano and close up shop for parenting. Good song ideas are just memorable so we found through having a child we never had to worry about saving every clip of nonsense music we created. Just went back to it later and what we couldn't remember or replicate wasn't worth worrying about."
• Though now open about their relationship, The Ting Tings kept it private for much of their early career. They preferred to be seen simply as bandmates, wary of media intrusion. That changed when Katie became pregnant - a moment that prompted them to go public for the first time.
• While The Ting Tings built their name on punchy indie-pop hits like "That's Not My Name," the Home album reveals a very different side of the band. Drawing from the 1970s Americana of Fleetwood Mac, Steely Dan, and more, the album is lush and full of warmth.
  
  "We woke up wanting to be like the Eagles," Katie told Songfacts. "Full band. Brilliant players and singers. We found it and there's no going back."