Florence Pugh has launched her first materials as a singer-songwriter.
Two of her songs, titled ‘The Best Part’ and ‘I Hate Myself’, seem on the soundtrack of her new movie, A Good Person, which was launched in cinemas at present (March 24).
Pugh confirmed her music would characteristic on the Zach Braff-directed movie’s soundtrack again in January. Between 2013 and 2016, she had uploaded a string of acoustic covers of songs by artists similar to Coldplay and The Lumineers to YouTube as Flossie Rose. More just lately, she teamed up with Harry Styles to sing ‘With You All The Time’, which featured on the soundtrack to Don’t Worry Darling.
More just lately, she guested on her brother Toby Sebastian’s new single ‘Midnight’ earlier this month, and likewise acted within the video.
Pugh defined in an interview that the songs had been written particularly for the movie. “I wrote these songs for my character Allison in the movie to perform, but also as a way to process and digest her mindset and her low headspace,” she advised The Guardian. “It was unbelievably helpful and hard; I wanted a song to reflect the self-hatred she had for herself in a way that the audience can truly understand.”
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Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s The Cultural Life final yr, Pugh mentioned she “would have put money on being a singer songwriter way before being an actor”, earlier than revealing she thought she might write a full album after rediscovering her confidence with music.
The National’s Bryce Dessner additionally labored on the movie’s soundtrack.
Despite Pugh’s contributions to the soundtrack, A Good Person has been met with blended evaluations. In a two-star evaluation, NME wrote: “A Good Person unfortunately won’t stand as Braff’s finest achievement, and while Pugh and Freeman each give strong turns with what they’re given, even they can’t save this patchy effort from misfiring.”