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In an Instagram Livestream for the Superbloom release, he said:

It’s about my family. If Lauren or my mum, Anne-Marie, or Harry, or anyone in my family is watching this at the moment, I love you so dearly and I’ve been away for so long, but I really love you and I think about you every day and you’re my main motivation to persist in my songwriting and my artistry, and just basic communication with everybody. Everything that I put out into the world is a reverberation of everything you taught me when I was a kid. And I love you guys, I love my family. “SCAR” is about some of the darker paths that life might take us on, but we can always bounce back as a unit, as a family, and that goes for you guys too. Not giving into that darkness and never taking that next step into the darkness.

On an interview with Music Feeds Australia, Ashton said:

I do love ‘Scar’. It really made me feel confident in the project. It made me understand my lyricism more. It felt energetic, to the extent that it would be an incredible live song. It was about my family, and if I want to release anything, it’s about them. Like if I could have a single that comes out that clearly states, “This is for my family”. That’s the most real I could be. Honestly, I have your straight to the core of who I am and what I care about with the song ‘Scar’.
Sonically, it identifies what I’m going for. It really does it. It’s the vocal recording that we were talking about before. I think it’s dynamic and powerful and unique. I think the guitar is heavy but there’s a sweetness to it that resembles a shoegaze era of the ’90s. It has massive vocal harmony, choir parts, which you start to hear all my influence from classic rock like Foreigner or Queen or these bands that did incredible vocal arrangements. That’s my strong point. Working on that stuff was cool. And that makes me say, yes, ‘Scar’, I think is my favourite.