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i'm playing some shows, get tickets here: I wrote The Walls Are Way Too Thin about a time in my life where I felt like i’d lost control of where I was heading and struggling a little with finding my place in the world. It was a very strange period, I’d just moved to London away from my family and all of a sudden everything that I knew to be normal had changed completely. I moved on a whim into this little dingy room. I met some cool people but this place was pretty lonely and claustrophobic. I’m such an awkward person and even though I really liked my housemates I still felt worried about small talk in the kitchen or passing each other in the corridors. I had some fun times there, but I felt like I was mostly confined to my room whilst chaos was going on in the flats or streets around us. To avoid confronting how I was feeling I’d sneak out of the flat and go on train journeys to see my mates, get drunk, then come back hungover through the night or morning. I wrote most of Walls and the songs that come next on those trains. It was my place of therapy, in the middle of nowhere. I wanted the music video to reflect how I felt stuck in my room with my own internal anxiety rising. The idea of being trapped in an air vent in a burning building came from that feeling of claustrophobia and panic that I felt throughout my time living in the flat. Shooting the video was chaotic, my elbows and knees look quite different now after 8 hours of crawling back and forth. The fire blast in the vent was totally real too !! Director / Exec Producer: Raja Virdi Creative Director: Josh Sanger Concept by: Josh Sanger, Raja Virdi & Holly Humberstone Production Company: PHASE Co-Production: Base & Apex Producer: Frankie Willcock 1st AD: Chris Malin DOP: Sam Meyer Production Designer: Anthony Neale SFX Supervisor: Matthew Strange Stylist: Amy Holden-Brown HMU: Emma Regan VFX: tk-fx Colourist: Connor Coolbear Colour Grading Company: Electric Theatre Collective Commissioner: Semera Khan Label: Polydor / Interscope / Darkroom Lyrics I heard you talking till the morning heavy whispers from the next room You say it’s never your intention and I’m just in a bad mood There was a possible connection On the table for a second Then she made such an entrance Can’t stand all this tension can you? Then we crossed paths by the bathroom But I’d just rather be out of the picture And I’ll do my upmost to talk to you But I just wanna be out, I just wanna be out of the picture And no I’m not just gonna lay here and bite my tongue I only wanna be here when she’s gone ooooooooo The walls are way too thin Oh I get down I get down when she gets you high I’m bored, I’m ignored, I’m being out my mind ooooooooo The walls are way too thin The walls are way too thin You’re blowing smoke rings in the corridors I feel so cold How come it rains inside, the house is full but I’m alone With all the shit that still needs fixing out of my control It takes a hold of me It takes a hold of me The same old sad songs I cling to Cause I just wanna be out I just wanna be out of the picture And no I’m not just gonna lay here and bite my tongue I only wanna be here when she’s gone ooooooooo The walls are way too thin Oh I get down I get down when she gets you high I’m bored, I’m ignored, I’m being out my mind ooooooooo The walls are way too thin The walls are way too thin And no I’m not just gonna lay here and bite my tongue I only wanna be here when she’s gone ooooooooo The walls are way too thin Oh I get down I get down when she gets you high I’m bored, I’m ignored, I’m being out my mind ooooooooo The walls are way too thin The walls are way too thin The walls are way too thin sign up to my mailing list ‘bored, ignored & out of my mind’: xx #hollyhumberstone #thewallsarewaytoothin #thewalls Music video by Holly Humberstone performing The Walls Are Way Too Thin. A Polydor Records release / Darkroom / Interscope release in the USA; © 2021 Universal Music Operations Limited
