Sophie Kilburn Shares New Single ‘I’m in Love with My Therapist’

London-based singer and songwriter Sophie Kilburn has just shared her brand new single I’m in Love with my Therapist, the second instalment off her upcoming EP My Room Made Public. 

I am really enjoying her powerful and confident vocal delivery which soars beautifully over the 90s-inspired indie-pop/rock production. I'm in Love with My Therapist is a captivating song about falling in love with one's therapist which is actually something quite common as people are drawn to those that make you feel appreciated, heard and understood. This is a song that unpicks how the need to be loved can quickly turn into an obsession that is projected onto a stranger. 

This message is wrapped around a bold sonic blend of old school rock, modern pop and alt-pop elements that won me over from the start. I am particularly fond of the soaring guitars and how they are nicely paired with punchy drums that create an edgy atmosphere perfect for her attitude-packed vocals to soar.

Accompanying the release, Sophie Kilburn shared its official music video which was shot with an all-female team led by DOP and Creative Director Marieke Macklon (Pixey, The Howlers). The video takes influence from the Truman Show and the reality TV world, exploring the obsessive nature of anxiety and depression and the longing to escape through self-made personas and relationships.

Sophie explains,

I wanted the video to encapsulate the oversharing aspect of the EP project, to be personal and emotionally explosive. It is also a visual introduction to me as an artist, inviting people into my world. It battles with what is in my mind and what is reality, laying it on the table for everyone to watch to the point of being uncomfortable.

 

 

Speaking about the song, Sophie said,

It was lockdown number two, and I was annoyed at myself for killing yet another plant and the story of the song just fell from my frustration. When you go to therapy, you are trying to understand your emotions and behaviours. Sometimes that digging causes confusion, you start to project feelings, like your longing to fall in love, onto a person who ‘gives you the time of day’. It is quite a morbid thought that the only person who you feel who gets you and you can share anything with, is your therapist. They know everything about you, and you know nothing about them but the consistency of being emotionally intimate with them causes feelings to grow to the point of breaking point. What started off as an extreme, slightly comical idea quickly started to make a lot of sense, especially when I found falling for your therapist is a common thing. I didn’t write the song to shock or to be angsty. I am just calling it out for what it is to open a dialogue. At the end of the day, we all want to be heard, appreciated, and loved and if someone makes you feel like you are, it is bound to cross boundaries.