It might have been released almost a year ago, but Messy - the sixth single from Lola Young’s debut album, This Wasn't Meant for You Anyway - is still everywhere. Having topped the UK singles chart and reached number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100, it’s just hit another milestone by summiting the Rock & Alternative Airplay chart for the first time in the US.
It’s a tune, alright, but one that, in musical terms, is actually very simple. Explaining how she wrote Messy on her acoustic guitar in a new Behind The Track video from Mix with the Masters, Young says: “It was just the C shape, moved up, and it’s literally just that - that’s the whole song”.
