Fidelity Lyrics

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“Fidelity” explores the apprehension of falling in love, worrying about the inevitable heartbreak that could arise from yielding feelings to another person.

Not being known as a singles artist, Russian-born sing-songwriter Spektor comments to Entertainment Weekly in 2006 on how she wasn’t surprised at the song’s international popularity:

When we were recording, it just felt so nice, like in my body. I thought, This is delicious. So much of listening to music is physical. It starts in the stomach and it needs to travel up to the lungs in this specific way. When that doesn’t happen, you just feel it, you know when it’s not right. It’s very much a body experience. To me, ‘Fidelity’ felt really good in my body when we finished. I guess people’s bodies are the same in those kinds of ways. Sometimes songs just feel nice."

The song is loosely-based on the 2000 movie High Fidelity about a record store owner (John Cusack) that makes a list of his top five breakups, coalescing with his love for music.

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