Blake: I think we love each other too much—it’s not healthy! The performance you did that night, it’s the best thing I’ve been to yet.
Florence: It was so nice having you in the crowd. I remember meeting you after my first show in New York. You got the band pizza, and they instantly fell in love with you. It was so sweet.
Blake: I feel like the story of our meeting should be a little more happenstance so I sound less like a stalker, but it’s not. My brother was obsessed with you. When he played your album for me, my jaw dropped. Two days later you were playing the Bowery Ballroom, and we said, “This is serendipitous! We’re supposed to see her.” So I got a ticket, and when they said, “Do you want to come backstage?” I’m like, Oh my gosh, I would love to meet this wonderful goddess! And then you were the nicest person I’d ever met. I thought, I need to know her better.
Florence: And then Vegas was really fun as well, wasn’t it? That sealed the deal on our friendship, spending New Year’s together in sparkly outfits, standing on a table.
“The first songs I ever wrote were all about, like, failed relationships… but I’d never even had one. So it was already going to like, the dark side. Before I’d even had a boyfriend, I was already singing about the break up.”
I am done with my graceless heart
So tonight I’m gonna cut it out and then restart
