The Real Meaning Behind Hailee Steinfeld's Love Myself

Publish date: 2024-05-02

It does not take long into the first listen to find that Hailee Steinfeld is singing about a certain kind of "self-love" on "Love Myself." The first verse begins, "When I get chills at night, I feel it deep inside without you, yeah / Know how to satisfy, keeping that tempo right without you, yeah." There is little subtlety here as to the physical references made. However, Steinfeld told Vice in 2015 that her song, regardless of any and all sexual undertones, is still about "self-empowerment" at the end of the day. The singer-actor said, "Whether you take that as something physical or not... It's about being able to provide for yourself and knowing how much power there is in that."

Even more self-explanatory is the song's leadup to its chorus: "Pictures in my mind on replay / I'm gonna touch the pain away / I know how to scream my own name." Whew! As the popular YouTube commentary channel Music Video Sins amusingly noted, "Extremely disturbing lyric is buried in a summer jam but whatevs...'shrug emoji,' YOLO!"

Steinfeld is happy to leave the tune's interpretation open to listeners because, as she told LadyGunn's April 2016 issue (per JustJaredJr.), "I've had girls come up to me and say, 'Thank you for this song and this message, because it's something that I needed to hear.' ... That's all that matters to me at the end of the day," Steinfeld affirmed. We cannot disagree with that; truth be told, self-love can never truly be too high in supply.

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