- Music
- 10 Apr 20
Rosie’s new EP i dreamed I was the night, is out now via Color Study.
Rosie Carney has released ‘i spoke to god’ alongside a new EP i dreamed i was the night today.
The EP was made in New York - with Thomas Bartlett, known for his work with Sufjan Stevens, Vagabon, Florence & The Machine and more, following the success of her debut album Bare.
‘i spoke to god’ was written in Rosie’s family home in Ireland after a 3-month tour, as she explains: “I was very heartbroken at the time and I remember it rained nonstop for a week and I literally didn’t leave my bedroom. All in all, the melody came first, fairly quickly and the lyrics followed slowly after as a poem but made up of gibberish.”
“I basically floated around my room like a ghost talking to myself,” she continues. Despite the title, she says “I’m not religious and I didn’t actually speak to god, but when I did speak to myself, I pretended it was being heard by something much bigger than all of this.”
Although it comes from a place of pain, ‘i spoke to god’ has an edge of optimism: “this song is predominantly a breakup song, but the message is very much one of self-reflection during a time of obsessing over someone who didn’t love me anymore.”
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‘i spoke to god’ follows previous single ‘when i look at you’, an intimate cut capturing the last 10 tumultuous years of Rosie’s life which featured her bravely dancing on camera for the first time.
Listen to 'i spoke to god' below.