Hold My Hand

Hold My Hand

Jess Glynne

“Hold My Hand” is the third track on I Cry When I Laugh and is Jess Glynne’s third solo single. It has topped the charts (including #1 in the UK) without Clean Bandit, but not without the help of Clean Bandit. In an Idolator interview, she gives some background about the song and why it sounds a little country:

I actually wrote it with Jack [Patterson] from Clean Bandit and this girl called Janee [Bennett] who I pretty much write all my songs with. When we started it, me and Janee had this idea before we even got to the studio of the line “Darling, hold my hand.” It wasn’t originally like, “Oh we’re thinking country.” But when we put the chords down and started singing, it kind of sounds a little bit like Dolly Parton’s “9 To 5.” I later on realized that, but it wasn’t done on purpose.