Lately

"“Lately” is out on the 31st of October I wrote this song and found myself really digging deep into my past experiences specifically this one where I found myself with a broken heart so I sat down and translated those experiences onto paper. I hope you enjoy my little treasure🤍"

- Brooklyn Wyatt

"Lately" is the sophomore single by Brooklyn Wyatt, released independently under exclusive license to frtyfve Records on 31 October 2020. It was written by Wyatt and produced by Ed Stokes.

Background and composition
The release date was announced publicly on 16 October, with a snippet of the chorus posted the following day. Wyatt wrote it several months back, drawing from his personal experiences.

"Lately" is a pop song, running for the duration of three minutes and thirteen seconds, driven by the guitar, the drums, and the bass. Wyatt gave a guitar riff and vocal melody to the producer Stokes, who has produced and mixed the track, including elements of the drums, the piano, the tambourine, shakers, the bass and the synths. A video was posted to Stokes' YouTube channel on 5 January 2021, explaining the process.

Lyrics suggest recovering from a relationship, the lyric 'I knew we should've stayed friends' suggesting this. 'Don't ring me up to cry / You already said your goodbyes' shows the inability to easily forgive and be hurt again, as he knows they should both move on, though still holds concern for the particular person. With the lines 'I was blinded by our younger years' and 'I'm glad that I know that you're not coming back to me' it implies the sentimental attachment to the past, but the need to lose contact with one other.

Credits and personnel

 * Brooklyn Wyatt – vocals, songwriter
 * Ed Stokes – producer, mixer
 * Jordan Timms – mastering engineer

Lyric video
The lyric video premiered over Wyatt's YouTube channel on 21 January 2021. It was created by Russell Kent Nicholls, who also did the lyric video for his previous single, "Toxic". Being in black and white with use of vintage effects, the video incorporates elements of a telephone call, concluding with static and a beep at the end.