The track is from the artist’s incredible new EP It’s Not Me, Its U
With her brand new EP, It’s Not Me, It’s U littered full of tracks that deal with breakups and the general messiness of life as a young adult, ‘You Don’t Want Me Like That’ feels like a moment of clarity and perspective for the artist that feels satisfying and cathartic.
The track sees Rachel coming to terms with how somebody feels about her and how they don’t see her in the way that she perhaps thought they did, leading to an anthemic and powerful track about letting go and freeing yourself from this prison of second guessing and romanticising something that isn’t truly there. The consistently melodic and exciting nature of Rachel’s upbeat sound ensures that this track feels every inch the passionate and rewarding single that it had to be, with the artist taking on a stance of defiance, emboldened by her newfound sense of clarity and revelling in the chaos of the fallout. Rachel Bochner’s immersive and thoughtful writing always leads you on adventures with the artist, whether fun, poignant, heartbreaking or otherwise, and this track just continues to assert the artist’s innate ability of the artist to take you on these journeys and have you feel all of these emotions with her, this time it being a euphoric sense of closure and liberation.
“If my life was a movie, this is the song I’d be singing into a hairbrush, dancing around my room after realizing that the guy I was losing sleep over is literally not worth my time.” Rachel says of the track. “It’s about unrequited love, but more in a way when I realize I’ve been romanticizing someone in my head for months while they were giving me the bare minimum. When I began writing it, that repetitive, intrusive thought-like inspired chorus felt so reflection of the involuntarily obsessive nature of trying to get over your feelings for someone. In all of its chaotic glory, I feel like this track is a pretty accurate glimpse into what you’d hear bouncing around inside my head.”
