• Portuguese Translation

In an Instagram Livestream, he said:

I spoke about it with a interviewer yesterday for Rolling Stone in Australia. It’s about me growing out of songs that I’ve written in the past. In fact, I’m pretty stocked today when I think about this song but, like, a song for instance like “Voodoo Doll” that I wrote with Calum when I was, like, 17 years old or some shit. It’s like, I just don’t dig that song as much as I used to, in the most gentle way possible. We released “Youngblood”, it’s number one for ten weeks in Australia, and my mom says to me “Well, Gotta Get Out is still my favourite.” So we have to play those songs and we honor those songs forever, no matter how old they get. But “Perfect Lie” us me getting my teeth out and talking about the psychological resistance that I’ve felt with in the past in a poetic way, it’s all emphasized and hyperbolized.

On an interview with Thomas Bleach, Ashton confirmed that “Perfect Lie” was the last song he wrote for Superbloom, and then added:

We knew we wanted to make a 10 track record, as we knew that would be enough to introduce people to my solo lyricism, and kinda conceptualise myself through a record like ‘Superbloom’.