dodie announces second album, Not For Lack of Trying

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"I Feel Bad For You, Dave" is the second song to be lifted from the record, following "I’M FINE", which was released last month. The track, says dodie, “a song about the ego of people who feel as though they lack power, so try to gain it in ways that ironically have the opposite effect. We all know a Dave!”

It is also partly a fiery riposte to keyboard warriors after she watched her close friend endure racist abuse online. “I did not know what to do — I wanted to just drag them down, I wanted to reply to them and make videos about them,” she remembers. “And I was like, ‘OK, I can't do any of that, so I'll write a song.’”

Not For Lack Of Trying is the product of a lengthy gestation period where dodie spent three years turning inwards to pen what would become the “sibling’” to her 2021 debut Build A Problem, packaging her reflections on everything from falling in love and breaking up to comparison culture and struggles with depression.

She couldn’t quite find the thread that tied all of these intimate portraits of her life together, until she finally landed on a title that gave her the clarity she was seeking. “Not For Lack Of Trying is so simple, so sad and it really painted this picture of all these songs, of me trying to figure it out,” she explains.

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