The life of Duncan Laurence changed on May 18, 2019 in one fell swoop: he won the Eurovision Song Contest and all the world suddenly knew who the singer was. On his first EP, Worlds on Fire, he sings about love, his family and friends and sadness.
“Last year my life was on fire, after winning the Songfestival it went so fast and everything has changed. That is super cool, but also quite intense. Last year I really noticed how important it is to have a tight bubble around you, not a lot of people, but people you know you can rely on. I think I figured out who my real friends are and who really matter “, according to the singer in conversation with NU.nl.
The song is on his EP, which will be released on May 13 Beautiful, the first sentences of which are about how everyone sees and thinks he knows, but that there are really only a few people who really know him. “You could interpret it as a love song, but I wrote it with my family and friends in mind. The people who know me through thick and thin, literally. I learned that your circle can be closer and smaller because . “
Numbers are self-produced
The singer wrote the five songs on the EP with a team. The lyrics can be interpreted as a diary, because Laurence always translates it according to his own feeling. “We talk about things with the team, we come up with sentences and we replace words. It is a joint process. But in the end I am the one who will sing it and so I have to feel it right for me. I always give my own meaning and must be fully behind the texts. So eventually every text can be translated to me. “
Worlds on Fire is extra special for Laurence because he has two songs, Yet and Beautiful not only wrote himself, but also co-produced. “You really see who I am, because every element in the song has passed through my fingers. Here I left my mark, this is my music.”
‘I process everything I experience by singing about it’
The EP also includes Arcade and Love don’t Hate It, and was largely made in LA. That while Laurence already had a lot of songs with which he has been in theaters and so he could easily choose from. “I love those songs and I keep singing them. But I started to think about the stamp I want to leave. It is not easy to release an album or an EP or a single, it has to have a thought and a meaning. Worlds on Fire represents who I am now and what I have experienced. “
In his songs, the artist searches for an edge; an element in life that most people would like to ignore, but where the singer emphasizes. “In Someone Else I sing about being able to dive for your emotions, but that you are confronted with it when you come home. We all recognize it, but you will pass it by. It’s something you may not even think about later. “
“I just want you to think about it and to dance to it and process that feeling in a new way,” the singer continues. “In that way I also use my own songs: everything I experience; I process it by singing and writing about it.”
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