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when ur crowd loves u so much that u just cant handle it

When I was growing up, there were these news stories that kept popping up in my life about children who would get swept out to sea, and the parents would dive in after them. I’d seen these news stories crop up again and again, and it made me think of this idea of the sea being this entity that needs a sacrifice—like, if it’s going to take your children, then you have to give yourself. It got me thinking about the power of water, like in Virginia Woolf, and that sense of really being overwhelmed by something. I also remembered this idea, I think from a childhood story, about a river that has to have someone drowned in it before you can cross it—like, if you see a river running smoothly, it’s because someone has drowned in it, and if it’s raging, it means that it’s still got bloodlust … It’s all very morbid. My dad always gets asked at parties, “What did you do to her?”

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Florence + The Machine – Sydney, Channel V Secret Show

Photographed by Maria Boyadgis

Hey guys, you probably haven’t noticed but I haven’t been very active on here lately, mainly because of the lack of new music (until june 1st or the next single that is). So for that reason I won’t I’m be on tumblr until the next album is released, however I’m finding it a lot easier to post on instagram, so if you’d be interested in following my personal insta @jackdxckett there will be some fatm stuff happening over there. Thanks :)

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Ivor Novello Awards 2014

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COSMIC LOVE: HANGOVER HELL TO ELECTRIC HEAVEN. Cosmic Love was composed in about an hour: I had a hangover crushing down on me and when the song arrived it came as sweet release. That name was always a joke: a bad working title that’s ended up sticking to it forever: neither the words ‘Cosmic’ or ‘Love’ appear at any point in the lyrics. The song is about being blinded by love. At first you want to escape, to find your way out of the darkness. You see a map in the stars above and you know that you can find your way back home, but then you realise that your love is the darkness, so you decide to stay: you give yourself willingly to a starless existence. Pretty much just that, yep. A lot of people read this song in a lot of different ways. I like that a lot and I encourage it. David Vann - one of my favourite writers out - once wrote something beautiful for me about this song. I will always be grateful for that. I drifted through a dreamy day making the dreamy video for Cosmic Love. I danced around in whirls of smoke and autumn leaves and a bazillion lightbulbs, me all catsuited, hot to the point of hallucination. I love the dress that Petra made: hundreds of little lights congregating around the heart: my electric blood, electric love. This is my favourite song from the album, so the video had to be special. I knew wanted my friends Tabitha and Tom to direct it. I think it’s the best video so far and I hope you like it. As I was typing this I found another leaf in my hair … x

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Avril 2010 : Florence avec Oliver Sim et Romy Madley Croft (The XX)

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Florence + randomly mentioning Isa

"Me and Isa got into loads of trouble because we did get really drunk and she was banging on JLS’s dressing room door because she had this tiny piano, like, this tiny Snoopy piano and was just like ‘JLS! JLS HAVE YOU GOT PERFECT PITCH? I WANTED YOU TO TELL ME IF MY PIANO’S IN TUNE!’ She was in this monkey hat and, like, an acid smiley t-shirt playing this piano. And then we drove around in a golf buggy literally just shouting at people."