“Stinks”, He confessed in one of the two interviews conducted with Cultura Colectiva, when asked what it was like the first time his heart was broken, according to . “It’s a feeling of helplessness because you can’t make someone fall in love with you again.” That same idea is replicated in Lost on You, where Laura, The narrator begs her lover for an explanation as to why everything is over, but the desperate thing is that – even if she finds her – there is nothing she can do to make her return.
The idea is even clearer in the music video, where she appears herself in a dark context thinking about the woman who left her life. The same singer assured in an interview for Noisey: «It’s the closest I’ve come to having an intimate representation of my memories and my real life mixing. “It increased my sense of moving forward and what that looks like.”
Besides, LP He has said that he thinks the first verse of the song is the most beautiful lines he has ever written. «When you get older, simpler, healthier, will you remember the danger? Where we come from? Burning like embers, falling tender, waiting for days without surrender, years ago, and would you know? He prechorus It’s herself raising a glass to the memory even though it hurts, before reaching the chorus where she simply asks him if everything there was was for nothing and why he’s leaving. It is possibly the epitome of all the emotions of LPand without a doubt it is the most honest of his songs, speaking directly to that figure who left.
With a duration of just over four minutes, the song is part of their third album Death Valley, and marked her biggest success, reaching the popularity charts of more than 10 countries, and is listened to mostly by people in Mexico City. It’s not strange: we love the pain, identifying with the songs and singing them until all that emotion has been purged from the depths of the soul.