Another example of this is in the first track, “Go Outside!” The song gives a sense of hopelessness, numbness, and isolation. She sings, “But what's out of sight's not out of mind/ I know the rain, but how do I let in the light?” However, in “Fire,” she sings, “Golden boy in dirty jeans/ Painting me in your light, I wonder why / I couldn’t see it.” Alessia calls “Fire” the most personal song on the album. She says, “‘Fire’ is the first time I’ve written a love song without any fear attached to it or any stubbornness around it. I feel like when I go to write love songs, there is always an angle of melancholy or fear. I tend to get negative about love and the outcomes of love, but I think this song is the first time I’ve written about it in a happy, free way. It’s just a love letter. There are no bells and whistles and that feels kind of scary.” The song has a freedom to it like the sun shining through an open window after a long winter. These are the good parts of love that she wants her listeners to feel. 

Alessia talks about advice she has to give, especially for young women. She says, “We see pain and loss and joy and love as two different things. I do think having contrast in life is super important. You cannot know love and joy without having loss and pain and vice versa. I hope people see they can take a hard time and shape that, instead of pushing it away, and use it to teach you so many things and inform so much of who you are. Loss and pain mean you’ve loved and tried your best.” She urges young women to look at their “failures” as little triumphs that get us closer to who we truly are. Her album gives the same message of using bad experiences in love or life to inspire motivation rather than running away from our problems. 

"Loss and pain mean you've loved and tried your best."