I was left with the reality I need to deal with how uncomfortable I am at all times, how unsure of myself I am, every word that comes out of my mouth, in every situation.
Once I started to get older, once I started to grow up, the fabrication that I’d made of how comfortable I was and how secure I was in myself started to go away. That led me to having really crazy panic attacks and having to figure out a way to get all of that under control. "You’d do things where you’re out and amongst, and I was never really comfortable. And then never comfortable in the group," he said. I was always very comfortable in small groups, and I was always very comfortable on a stage. "It came from the idea of still not feeling comfortable in my own skin, and the job sometimes even less so. Lead singer Rob Thomas said in a Genius interview that the lyrics of "Unwell" were inspired by personal struggles with insecurity and discomfort that even lead to panic attacks. I don’t know, it just felt really great to open up like that." I was crying when I recorded it, I was bawling my eyes out. Now, five years later, she’s accumulated 413 million views on YouTube and sold over 10 million. I’ve never been so vulnerable or emotional while recording a song, to the point where I was almost doubled over in tears in the studio. Birdy first captivated audiences with her single 'Skinny Love' when she was only 14 years old. It was so much emotion in it, and to this day, it’s still really special to me. There was something in that first try, that first run through of the song that was kind of magical. I went to treatment and I came out, then I tried to rerecord 'Skyscraper' because my voice had changed and it just wasn’t the same. It was before I went to treatment, before everything had kind of hit the fan. for me when I first recorded it, it was kind of a cry for help. In a 2011 interview, she described the experience of recording "Skyscraper" before and after her treatment: "I was emotionally attached to the song and I really related to it, like a lot of other people. The singer, who is also a mental health advocate, released the song after spending time in a treatment facility for "emotional and physical issues," including an eating disorder. Demi Lovato has said she felt very "emotionally attached" to her powerful ballad "Skyscraper," which speaks to the experience of facing difficult times and getting through it.