I wrote Cool Girl after re-watching one of my favourite films, Gone Girl. during which we watch as Rosamund Pike’s character (Amy Dunn) slowly transforms into a woman she doesn’t recognise.
At a really poignant part of the movie, there is this incredible monologue that Amy does about the ‘cool girl’. The line “Nick loved a girl I was pretending to be” really stuck with me.

I feel this taps into the societal pressures women face to conform to and live up to these unrealistic standards in a patriarchal society. Women are told to be ‘hot’ and ‘fun’ and 'game,' while remaining ‘cool’ and 'nonchalant' and never causing a scene. How?

I wanted to write a song that says ‘I could do all of these things to fit your mould- drink the beer, get tattoos, pretend to like football- because at the end of the day, you just want a ‘cool girl,’ don’t you?’

Producer Robby De Sa worked his magic on the track and I couldn’t picture writing it with anyone else! It’s a special song to me with a very important message.

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