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“Beautifully Unconventional” is the third single from Wolf Alice’s second album. The single was teased days before premiering on BBC Radio 1 on August 14th.
Based on the 1989 film Heathers, this song is from the perspective of the character JD, as portrayed by Christian Slater.
“It’s inspired by a friend of mine, me kinda imagining us as Christian Slater and Winona Ryder in that film Heathers I think I’m Christian.” – Ellie Rowsell, BBC Radio 1 Interview, 14/08/17
In an email to Fader, lead singer Ellie Rowsell said:
"This song is a celebration of all your non-conforming friends; a celebration of individuality and the adventures that come with embracing that."
In a track-by-track breakdown for Consequence of Sound, drummer Joel Amey said:
"Another song that has a few demo versions floating about before we surrendered to letting it be what it is; a tight, groovy pop song. There was a few moments while writing it where we tried to jam in other musically sections, almost in fear that it was just too short, but after taking a step away from it we realised they were all filler bullshit and it was so much stronger being as concise as it is. It’s probably the driest song we’ve ever recorded and certainly the least reverb we’ve ever used! For the drum tones we had Jacques Dutronc and some of Caans funkier moments in mind. in the studio, I couldn’t get the snare sound right, everything sounding too dense or too rock and it was throwing everything out until our drum tech (legend Mike Fasano) showed me this weird, old piccolo snare that he’d picked up and totally changed everything. We were listening back at one point after to a isolated drum take, after so much trial and error, kind of at that point of going mad over snare sounds, when the wonderful Blake Mills walked into the room from his studio to check out what we were doing. He was listening and tapping his foot and goes, “Cool! It sounds like Caan!” Which was good enough for me to say, “We’ve got it!”"
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