The track sees the New York artist confront anxiety and isolation.
With her wry conversational tone and the laid-back, jangly bedroom pop aesthetic that runs throughout ‘Back To The Future’, Charlotte Rose Benjamin has crafted a track that feels warmly intimate and personal, almost like a glimpse into the inner monologue of the artist.
Musically, the track moves at a deliberate and painstaking pace, letting the artists vocals and lyrical witticisms take center stage as she compares her post-millennial angst to a scene from the eponymous 1980s movie. There is an innate niceness to the track, but a darkness is hidden within its narrative, and only gets more apparent when you hear about the story behind it.
“‘Back to the Future’ is a piece of the constant loop of intrusive thoughts I experience every day. So much anxiety just comes with being alive in 2020, especially as a young person and looking at social media and my peers and feeling disconnected.” Charlotte has said of the track.
“When I was maybe 7 I watched the movie Back to the Future with my dad and the scene where Marty McFly is on stage at the school dance playing the guitar and his fingers start going see-through and he keeps looking at this photo of him standing with his family and he’s slowly fading out of because he went back in time and (spoiler) almost prevented his parents from ever getting together scared the shit out of me and I made my dad turn it off and didn’t see the ending for years. The idea of having ~never existed~ was horrifying to me. A few months into quarantine I realized that’s exactly how I felt. I moved back into my parents’ house and sometimes it was hard to believe that anything in my adult life had ever even happened.”
