Lola Young rewrites her history with addiction in 'From Down Here'
"I'm rewriting the next chapter of my story with this song." This is how Lola Young describes her new single. After collapsing in the middle of a concert and canceling her entire schedule at the end of 2025 to focus on her addiction problems, the British artist makes a triumphant return with 'From Down Here'. It's the Song of the Day.
With the help of James Blake in the composition and production, Young changes his half-guitar style for a full synthesized ballad in which his voice shines above everything else. The artist sings about being out of place, getting on a table without being able to dance, not knowing how to start a conversation or feeling strange in her "favorite place": "Why do I hate being here?" she sings.
The chorus addresses his addictions head-on, describing himself as “not quite alive” and “somewhere in between” between life and death: “I miss the high from down here / I used to fly around here.” Despite the serious subject matter of the song, 'From Down Here' still works perfectly as a pop song. Plus, it has one of Lola Young's best vocal performances.
She explains the concept behind the song in an Instagram post: "The day after winning a Grammy, I felt a high, but not like the ones I've usually had, it was a new kind of high, a pure and organic one. I haven't felt like this in a long time. It was something I didn't know I had lost, but damn, I missed it. In the end, he says that 'From Down Here' teaches that "joy and pain can live in the same space and time."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u9TRlZADmg
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