The track was a major logistical feat, completed entirely during global lockdowns.
: Grace Chatto of Clean Bandit shared that she wrote it during a period when she felt annoyingly obsessed with a guy and used nature walks during lockdown to regain perspective.
: While the lyrics focus on romantic obsession, the music video—set in a house resembling a cuckoo clock—shifts the focus to the band members' personal eccentricities. This includes Jack Patterson's love for trains and Chatto's "obsession" with popcorn. Production During Lockdown
: The group never actually met 24kGoldn in person during production; he filmed his parts for the music video in Los Angeles while the rest of the team worked in London.
: The song captures the feeling of having someone on your mind "24/7" to the point where your head is "screaming, 'Go away'" even as your body remains drawn to them.
The story behind the song by Clean Bandit and Mabel , featuring 24kGoldn, centers on the psychological weight of an "obsessive relationship" . Written just before the 2020 pandemic, the lyrics explore the internal conflict of being deeply fixated on someone while simultaneously wanting to break free from that fixation. The Core Narrative: Obsession
