I was definitely in the want and hope categories, but I just didn’t see a way that it would. “There’s a difference between wanting it to happen, expecting it to happen and hoping it will happen. Looking back, she accepts that she could never have given up making music for good, but at the same time, she never dared to expect that the album would be the success that it has been. It was a difficult period of introspection, but after periods of therapy and “working really fucking hard” to like herself again, she found herself working on the set of songs that would become A Common Turn.
#RADIO SILENCE PRODUCTIONS FULL#
Savage entered a period of radio silence as an artist for five full years following that EP. “And then people having a positive reaction to it, it was a split between thinking, ‘they do not understand how shit I am’ and also, ‘well if they think it’s good, then I’m a piece of shit and I’m never going to be able to write something as good as that ever again’.” “The main thing was just having incredibly low self-esteem at that point in my life,” she reflects. That release also got more than its fair share of positive feedback, including from the likes of Jenny Hval and Father John Misty, but Savage struggled to process the compliments. It is a policy that dates back to her debut EP in 2015. If people don’t like my album, it’s like, 'OK, you don’t like me as a person.' As a perpetual people pleaser, the worst thing in the world is for people not to like me.” “My curiosity doesn’t dominate my self-protection.
“I think it’s very unhealthy to be able to read what people think of you all the time,” she says.