“It’s really amazing that people say to me that my songs have helped them get through heartbreak or a difficult time,” she says, her eyes widening a little to convey her surprise. “It was really important because I never felt as connected to my songs before,” she says.īefore her words started flowing into the music, though, she also had to overcome a debilitating spell of writer’s block – something she now puts down, at least partially, to the fact that she couldn’t listen to music at the time. She found it emotionally challenging to delve into the pain she was feeling, but decided she needed to be brave. If you think the experiences on this record having happened very viscerally to Birdy would have made it easier to write, you’d be wrong. “Some of it was from personal experience, but not to this extent.”

“In the past, the things I’ve written about have been taken from other places I can draw inspiration from, like books,” she explains. As poignant as these tracks were, though, their words weren’t as close to their creator’s heart as those on ‘Young Heart’. Three years later, 2016 album ‘Beautiful Lies’ detailed a relationship that was on life support, particularly on the moving ‘Deep End’. On her second album – and first of original songs – ‘Fire Within’, she sang of unrequited love on ‘All You Never Say’. It took us three days for us to write seven lines.”īirdy – aka 24-year-old singer-songwriter Jasmine van den Bogaerde – has written about romantic sorrow before. She’s smiling now but, back then, it was a different story. “I went there with and played it to him, but it was in the middle of the heartbreak so it was the worst timing,” she recalls. The heartbreak she was going through at the time had other plans.

She met up in the studio with renowned producer Ethan Johns (Kings Of Leon, Laura Marling) with a vision of making the whole record with him. When Birdy began work on her fourth album ‘ Young Heart’, she envisaged things being fairly straightforward.

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