She's My Religion

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"She's My Religion"
Single by Pale Waves
from the album Who Am I?
Released15 December 2020
Recorded2020
Genre
Length
  • 3:09
LabelDirty Hit
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Pale Waves singles chronology
"Change"
(2020) 		"She's My Religion"
(2020) 		"Easy"
(2021)
Music video
"She's My Religion" on YouTube

"She's My Religion" is a song by indie pop band Pale Waves. It was released 15 December 2020 as the second single from the group's second studio album, Who Am I?

Composition

Music

"She's My Religion", written in the key of E Major and played at 162 beats per minutes,[1][2] was written by Pale Waves's guitarist and lyricist, Heather Baron-Gracie, along with songwriter Sam de Jong. The track was produced by Rich Costey.[3] Musically, Baron-Gracie has described "She's My Religion" as "one of the darker-sounding songs on" Who Am I?[4] and "completely different [from] anything [they had] ever put out there before".[5]

Inspiration and lyrics

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"She's My Religion" was written by Heather Baron-Gracie (pictured) and Sam de Jong about the former's partner, Kelsi Luck.

Baron-Gracie wrote "She's My Religion" about her partner, Kelsi Luck. When speaking to Pride Magazine, Baron-Gracie explained: "[The song] describes her as a person, and I wanted that. There are so many songs on the album [that are] about me, so I was like, 'Hey! For a second, I'm going to give the spotlight to somebody else.'"[4] While "She's My Religion" is a love song, Baron-Gracie conceived it to not be "standard or typical"; what sets "She's My Religion" apart from others, Baron-Gracie argued, is that the song emphasizes the importance of "lov[ing] someone in their entirety" and not simply their positive attributes.[6] For this reason, during the chorus, Baron-Gracie describes Luck with a variety of adjectives including "cold", "dark", and "cynical". When Baron-Gracie played the track to Luck for the first time, the latter was confused why the former was using this sort of critical language in a love song.[7] In an interview with Line of Best Fit, Baron-Gracie elaborated:

At first she was just staring at me like, 'what the fuck? Why are you telling everyone this about me?' And then I explained: I didn't want to go with the cliché love song. I have that on the album – I have 'Easy', that’s the 'I'm so in love with you' moment. I wanted to do it in a different way. Society might view all these things as negative, but I think to genuinely love someone, and to love them as an entirety, you have to love every single part of them. Even what people view as negative, or what you view as negative. And then she got it: it's discussing a person's darker and negative sides and saying, 'I even love those things about you.'"[8]

Music video

In an interview with Pride magazine, Baron-Gracie noted that the video was the band's first in which viewers clearly and unambiguously "see [her] intimate with someone".[4] Because the video depicted her "real life relationship", Baron-Gracie was nervous to film the video. While speaking to Jess Iszatt of the Official Charts Company's Record Club, Baron-Gracie explained: "No one teaches you as an artist how much to put on show and how much to keep for yourself. And [with the video] I was letting people in even more ... So I did have a mini freak out about that." Having said that, Baron-Gracie also emphasized that the "video has connected with people more than any of the [other] videos for this campaign, so I'm really glad that we did that."[9] As of April 2024, the video has been viewed over 4.0 million times on YouTube.[10]

Reception

As of May 2024, "She's My Religion" has been streamed 10.7 million times on Spotify.[11]

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Who Am I?[3]

Release history

Country Date Format Label Ref.
Release history and formats for "She's My Religion"
Various 15 December 2020 Digital download, streaming
[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Pale Waves – She's My Religion". Tunebat. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
  2. ↑ "Pale Waves – She's My Religion". Song BPM. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Pale Waves (2021). Who Am I? (Vinyl record liner notes). London, UK: Dirty Hit.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named pride_mag
  5. ↑ Wang, Steffanee (2021). "Pale Waves' Heather Baron-Gracie Is Ready To Let You In". Nylon. Archived from the original on 22 July 2021.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named nme_religion_single
  7. ↑ "Pale Waves' Heather Baron-Gracie is embracing her sexuality with a new sound". Diva. 12 February 2021. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
  8. ↑ Williams, Pip (23 February 2021). "Pale Waves: A different kind of love". The Line of Best Fit. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
  9. ↑ Iszatt, Jess; Baron-Gracie, Heather (26 February 2021). "Pale Waves On Recording 'Who Am I?' In LA & Not Adhering to Pressure". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 7 July 2022 – via YouTube.
  10. ↑ Pale Waves (2020). "Pale Waves – She's My Religion". Vevo. Archived from the original on 23 April 2024 – via YouTube.
  11. ↑ "Spotify – Pale Waves". Spotify. Archived from the original on 12 July 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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