On her recurring dream of her husband cheating on her at a festive gathering, which she tackles on “Holiday Party”:
“I always think Matt’s going to leave me for some coolio indie songwriter that he works with.”
“Which is so insane,” Matthew Koma quipped in the interview, easing her fears. “But also very real. Those are real things to get hung up on emotionally.”
On her rocky relationship with her dad, as referenced on “The Optimist”:
“There’s times where I talk to my dad and times where I don’t talk to my dad. I do have a pretty sunny disposition, but a lot of s–t has gone down, and that’s life.”
On “We Don’t Talk,” speculated to be about her rift with sister Haylie Duff:
“I feel almost like when I got divorced [in 2015], where I dealt with it privately, and then the news comes out and you’re like, ‘OK, great. I’m going to deal with this all over again.’ I was prepared, a little bit. I made a choice to put that song on my record. That’s definitely the most lonely part of my life, and I struggled with, ‘Am I going to share this?’”
“People have known my life since I was a child, and so they know all the characters in it and they know what I’m talking about. For me, it was important to be open about that theme. It genuinely came from the heart.”
On speculation that the couch she performed the song on during her tour was an Easter egg to a previous video:
“I was not, however, prepared for people to be like, ‘The couch is the color of the couch…’ That is absolute bulls–t, and totally not true and crazy. And I don’t have the time to make threads for people to catch on to about that. I have a full life and a busy family, and this was literally just a song about my truth, and that was it.”
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