- 2025-07-29
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MUSIC
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Del Water Gap Premieres New Song “How To Live” on BBC Radio 1
Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Del Water Gap premiered a new song “How To Live” on BBC Radio 1's New Music Show with Jack Saunders.
The song is his first music since the deluxe edition of his sophomore album “I Miss You Already + I Haven't Left Yet”, which was released last August.
It was written by Gabe Goodman, Sammy Witte, and Samuel Holden Jaffe. Produced by Samuel Holden Jaffe, Sammy Witte, Gabe Goodman, and Jonathan Wilson.
Del Water Gap said of the song, “This song is about regret and spiritual confusion and the quiet work of survival - longing to find a version of adulthood that doesn't feel like surrender - how to be vulnerable without being self-pitying? I want to be better and I don't always know how - we live in such an anxious time and I feel anxious a lot of the time too but I also feel hopeful and I hope you do too, at least some of the time.”- Del Water Gap told Jack Saunders about the song, “I think it's the first time i've really been fully honest in a piece of music. So I'm honored and scared and feeling like myself, so that feels good, I'm happy to be sharing it with you for the first time.”
He continued, “I mean, honestly, like deep exhaustion over exposure. I just come off of four months of my first arena tour, opening for Niall Horan. And I was feeling so inspired about music and simultaneously just very cynical about my human life. The work life and the music life and the public life was feeling very good, but I think I'm a pretty shy, sensitive guy, and just being blasted with One Direction fandom every night was a lot for my nervous system. So I came after that tour and just had a big crash and been a pretty closed person. And I think I've been really looking how to open up more without feeling like I'm calling too much attention to myself.” -
He added, “It was a very quick song. I think anytime I've really made something that feels connected, it usually goes quickly. There's just a moment of feeling a bit like a lightning bolt the sky opens a bit. It's flow state. I think everyone experiences it in life, in love and friendship. That was quick. I mean, I think we wrote the whole thing in like five minutes. I made this with two my best friends, a guy named Sammy Witte and a guy named Gabe Goodman and a producer named Jonathan Wilson, who actually got in touch with Joey Waronker, who's a drummer with Oasis right now.”
Photo by Anthony Wilson - source : BBC Radio 1
