Anabel Englund: The Musician We're Crushing on for Her Sound and Her Style

Any favorite memories you can share while working on this album?

Well, the first one was making "Underwater." I was in my car, and I was chugging some of my coffee

before I went into the studio, and I spilled coffee all over my shirt. I had also come from working out, so I was wearing a sports bra underneath. So I walk into the studio session in a sports bra like, "Oh my god, hi, everyone. I spilled coffee all over myself." One of the songwriters from London literally just had a spare shirt in his backpack, so it was like, "Oh, okay. Perfect." It sounds weird, but it was totally sweet and funny, and I had just met these guys, and they were really cool, and they were working on the basis for "Underwater," and the song just came out so beautifully.

I loved it so much. I was like, "Holy crap, this is something so amazing." And then when we put "Underwater" out, it got to be number one on US Dance Radio, number one on Billboard, and it surpassed 10 million streams. To create something in that one day where I spilled coffee all over myself and then to feel so good about it and know that it was going to do well and then seeing it actually do so well on the radio stations—I could just feel it. Now as I've been playing it out, literally right when the crowd hears the first notes of the song, they scream and know all the words. It's just so cool. 

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