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of these songs are just about feeling to the utmost of your ability. Whether it’s ‘I’m so desperate for you, I miss you so much, I need you NOW’ desperation,’ or ‘American Honey,’ which is nostalgic and wanting to go back to that innocence and sweetness. And then you have ‘Hello World,’ which is this man’s story of this awakening in his soul, opening his eyes and seeing what’s important in his life again.” “When you’re in the valleys, they suck and it’s not fun, but you appreciate the mountaintop way more whenever you’ve gone through something tough,” Hillary continues. “Tat’s how I personally try to live my life, just enjoying every moment—but when it hurts, let it hurt. Because you loved something or someone so much, it’s only natural to grieve that. So that’s what I verbalized to them, that I was proud of our ability to be that honest and just lay it all out there.”


NEED YOU NOW has a good deal of subtle mirroring in its themes. “American Honey,” a gorgeous ballad about being awakened to life by wistful


remembrance of


things past, is followed by “Hello World,” which deals with the same kind of wake-up call, but looking toward a more hopeful future. The album is bookended with two of its most emotionally naked numbers; the closing “Ready to Love Again,” which Hillary calls “probably the most personal song on the record,” provides a sort of answer to the title track, which opens the album.


Tey’re still a little surprised that “Need You Now,” as a single, made such a quick trip to the top of the chart. “Honestly, I thought it would be a grind,” Charles says. But I know there’s something honest in it that people gravitate toward.”


To paraphrase Casablanca, this feels


like the second step in a beautiful friendship. “With ‘I Run to You’ being our first No. 1, it was really the first moment where I felt like with us as artists and the audience, the puzzle pieces fit,” Hillary says. “Tey figured out more about what we wanted to say and the kind of artists we were, and that’s what they ended up liking. And then the same thing with having our second No. 1 be ‘Need You Now,’ this song that we believe in its honesty and vulnerability so much. It’s exciting to feel like that bond is just growing, and we’re getting tighter in that relationship. Like, they get us! We get them! Tis is great!” Here’s to many more years of both sides getting their needs met.


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