Credit: Jared Thomas KockaOn Flora Cash's single "You're Somebody Else," which has reached the top 10 on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart, husband-and-wife duo Cole Randall and Shpresa Lleshaj [luh-SHEGHZ] sing "You look like yourself/But you're somebody else." And just one look at the comments section of the song's YouTube page shows how much people are relating to its message about anxiety.
Speaking to ABC Radio, Randall and Lleshaj say that those comments have meant a lot to them.
"There was one comment that I thought really summed it up...where they said, 'This might be the most powerful comment section in the history of YouTube,'" Randall says. "'Cause it really is, it's almost turned into this big group therapy session."
"Honestly, I would encourage anybody to go look, because it's actually kind of inspiring," he continues. "It's sad in some ways, but it's also inspiring, I think, for people to realize what others are going through."
Randall and Lleshaj wrote "You're Somebody Else" while they were going through "a little bit of a rough period."
"It wasn't like a premeditated thought of, like, 'Oh, you're somebody else,'" Randall remembers. "It just sort of organically sprung up, the melody and the riff, but it totally described how we were feeling, where you're kind of unrecognizable to yourself. And it's a little bit of a wake-up call when you feel that way."
Musically, "You're Somebody Else" is mostly an acoustic ballad, except for the bridge, when you hear Randall's distorted voice, and one of the track's verses is played in reverse. But in addition to simply "sounding cool," that section served both a lyrical purpose for the song.
"To me, I think it's when you're not yourself, you're basically backwards," Lleshaj says.
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