Feature Friday: Sigala & Paloma Faith – Lullaby

First and foremost I should be honest: I’m going through it. The kind of lingering ever present discomfort that kills my appetite and leaves me jumping out of my skin if I don’t do a good enough job at distracting myself. Aside from bothering everyone willing to listen, my go-to is music.

Paloma Faith has been a little favorite of mine for a few years now. I consider her an occasional delight. She’s British, has a voice reminiscent of Sia and she looks like Nelly Furtado. I assume she made a much greater splash in the UK than she did in America, and it’s rare that I hear her music publicly. When I’m listening to her, I’m captivated.

For this song, she paired with DJ/Producer Sigala in one of my favorite EDM tracks of the last few years. The premise is a familiar tale: That one person who holds the ability to pacify or sooth her is holding back, and she’s begging them to grant her relief. Once you relinquish that amount of trust to someone, they have a power over you that you can’t easily re-claim. She wants them to give her even the slightest gesture of love, which means little to them, but everything to her.

“‘Cause all I need is somebody near me
When my heart gets weak
Somebody out there watching over me
When I’m so tired, I can’t even sleep
Won’t you sing me a sweet lullaby?”