“Writing this was important for me because it just validated my own sexuality,” says The Regrettes' Lydia Night…
Following on from their recent single Monday, their first new music since their 2019 album How Do You Love?, California’s The Regrettes have released another new song, You’re So Fucking Pretty. It finds singer Lydia Night musing on sexual awakenings, identity, and the frustration and disappointment of feeling you can’t listen to your heart.
“It's the first time I've ever written directly about a girl I had a crush on, and it took me a while for me to even allow my brain to accept the fact that I'm bisexual,” she explains of the track. “I always felt like I couldn't validate my own feelings because I had never been in a relationship with a girl. But I had a pretty big crush on one of my friends a while ago and this song is an exaggeration of that, but it’s still coming from a very real place. It was the first experience where I was like, ‘Oh, these are real feelings, this isn’t just a sexual attraction,’ and that helped me realise I wasn’t straight.
“This song means so much to me because it also represents the time we spent in Joshua Tree and opening up to my whole band about that experience and not feeling embarrassed or scared of talking about it,” she continues. “Writing this was important for me because it just validated my own sexuality.”
The band say they hope that the song can help fans understand themselves, and find something to relate to.
“As a queer person growing up it definitely felt like there weren't many songs I could relate to fully and I feel like this song would have been something I would have held really close to my heart as a kid,” says guitarist Genessa Gariano. “I hope that happens with other people. I don't think it necessarily has to be this queer anthem, but I think someone else could listen to it and feel the same way, or someone could feel that way about a boy they like. Boys can be pretty too.”
