For those who have still found themselves searching for something more–as tends to happen in the night, when one feels at their most alone–there is no better anthem than Mark Ronson’s latest song featuring Lykke Li. With the latter being no stranger to using water imagery (heavily prevalent on her last album, so sad so sexy) to exude the sense of drowning that comes with feeling too much (or at all), the opening line, “I weigh the water, I feel it all” is right in keeping with her latest thematic direction. And, one might add, très Pisces.
And indeed, it would seem she truly does possess an Atlas-like burden as she tries her best to cope with the feelings of insanity and unsettledness that rage within her as she attempts to “lay in silence, but silence talks,” telling her, “heaven is no closer than it was.” That heaven being, of course, the sense of experiencing reciprocal love. Having still not quite found it, Li’s “heart keeps pulling in the wrong direction” as she gives into the late night feelings that force her to cross a line as she seeks affection of any variety, even if it’s the wrong kind.
Like so many of us seeking, seeking–always seeking–Li does her best to “find a new distraction” and to “make it last all night.” The trouble, naturally, is when the morning comes. Then again, it’s not as though one felt that great at the bar they were stewing in before the light of day, “everything that [they’ve] been mixin’/All mixed up inside.”
Extremely 70s in musical tone (something Robyn also showed an affinity for on Honey), the flute makes itself subtly known in Li’s most frantic vocal moments. Particularly as she wails, “on and on and on” about the vicious cycle she perpetuates in allowing the current object of her false desire to “make [her] psychotic, [he] pull(s) away/[He] take(s) the sane in [her]/And tear(s) it like a page.”
And yet, just as Ronson managed to achieve with Miley Cyrus on “Nothing Breaks Like A Heart,” heartbreak as rendered by Li never seemed so worth hitting the dance floor to celebrate. As one of the lead tracks from his forthcoming album, also called Late Night Feelings, it’s sure to offer many more hits just in time for the summer. When flings and their inevitable end are in plentitude for mourning to this record once the season is over.
