Suki Waterhouse - Back in Love

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Oh, I. Love of my life for life. Turning the dark to light. Happiness hits me when. I'm back in love again.

What was going on in your life around the time when you first started working on Back in Love?

It was in December, and I kept flying back to London to work with my longtime collaborators, Jules Apollinaire and Natalie Finley, who I met when I was like 18, 19, and I was a huge fan of Nat's. She has a project called Finley. And I got talking to them and that was kind of like how we first met and started making music together, and now we've been doing it for, yeah, longer than... Over a decade. It's the most