Aldous Harding - Imagining My Man

It can be so hard to forgive.

Album: Party [2nd album]
Recorded: Bristol, England
Genre: Indie, Indie Folk, Singer-Songwriter, Chamber Folk
Album Release: May 19th 2017
Single Release: March 29th 2017 [2nd single]
Length: 5:51
Producer: John Parish
Vocalist: Aldous Harding [age 26/27]
Label: 4AD Records & Flying Nun Records

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Official Audio


Live on KEXP in 2017

Charts, Streams & Sales

Spotify: Over 25 million
YouTube Music: Over 2.5 million

Credits

Choir, drums, guitar, keyboards

Details

• 'Imagining My Man' is an honest song about the reality of love compared to the ideal a girl dreams about when she's growing up. It's sung from a mature perspective which makes it stand out from the crowd of songs about relationships. The liason hasn't worked out and Harding knows it was never perfect. The song recognises the fact that in adult life, shades of grey can replace the vibrant, optimistic colours of youth.
  
  The chorus featurs a little girl shouting "hey" juxtaposed with the downbeat singing of the mature Harding which represents the negotiation between the woman grown and the girl inside. The reality not living up to the ideal can be a difficult thing to deal with and is a complicated subject to write a song about. The man described in the song sounds like a real person "you're so nervous all of the time" instead of the far-fetched Prince charming character a girl might expect to emerge from the cloud of childhood fantasies.
  
  

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