Lose You

The title track of their 2023 album is a declaration of self-reclamation, and the production commits fully to that statement. The sound is expansive, unashamedly maximalist — orchestration and electronic elements braided together in a way that feels triumphant without tipping into self-congratulation. The production draws on disco's DNA and gospel's emotional architecture, giving the track both physical momentum and spiritual aspiration. Smith's vocal performance is among their most technically free — they're not playing it carefully here, they're spending everything, and the recklessness feels intentional and earned. Lyrically, the song is at once deeply personal and universally applicable: about the years of hiding, of shame dressed as discretion, of the exhausting performance of being palatable. The turn toward self-acceptance is rendered not as quiet resolution but as something closer to proclamation, a refusal to continue apologizing for existing fully. Smith's public journey with gender identity has been both celebrated and relentlessly scrutinized, and this track functions as an answer to that scrutiny, transforming it into fuel. It's a song for the moment after you've stopped caring what the wrong people think, for dancing badly and loudly in your own kitchen.