Amanda Michelina 2

Why include covers? From the outset, it wasn't like it had to be a totally new album. The main goal was to introduce me to a global audience. Don angled for me to include In My Room. That's his DMT song. Paul suggested Here, There and Everywhere, and pushed me to cover it. Ironically, the Hugh Martin song is one that Paul recognises from his childhood. It's from a West End musical which was televised in the 1950's. - What's the message? It's similar to the neo-Luddite views in Machine Fatigue, decrying post-modern malaise, but it's grounded in my own activism and experiences of being a well-known dissenter. I see it like the Yellow Submarine album: we're all in this together.