Best Friend

Best Friend

The Staves

“The song is about friendship and youth. And pretty specifically it was about my group of friends growing up in high school in Watford where we’re from, our hometown. Shout out to them! And I think that sort of heightened sense of awareness and drama you have when you’re a teenager — you’re experiencing these things for the first time, and there’s no time in your life like that. But you don’t realize when you’re in it. And so there’s a lot of nostalgia of being older and looking back on that time. It’s kind of a magical time. Friendships are such a huge part of your life. And you’re sort of standing on the precipice of your adulthood and your future. And at that point, everything is kind of wide open, and it’s all possibilities. I think there’s a magic to that innocence. So that’s what was kind of driving the song for me.”
- Jessica

-via Stereogum by Chris Deville February 2021