I wrote best friend a few weeks into my senior year of college. I wanted to write a song reminiscing on childhood and how I felt so different from how I used to be. The first thing I clung on to were specific memories with a childhood best friend from elementary school. I let myself lay in that feeling of what it felt like to have a best friend, a BFF, a BBFF (ifykyk). But then I got sad because I realized I didn’t have a person like that in my life anymore. I didn’t have someone who I could count on to be my person for something always, to be my partner in crime. And then I felt sad. And lonely. The classic thing that adults tell you when you get to college is that you have “different levels of friends” and friends who serve “different purposes.” The idea that I could have friends who weren’t my 100% for everything was hard. Navigating friendship in college was hard! I missed having someone I could really rely on all of the time. So I wrote “Best Friend.” It’s both an ode to the beauty of having a childhood best friend and those special memories, but also it's also about a moment where I let myself think about the idea that maybe a best friend was something I would only have in childhood.

*Bonus fact* - the part in the chorus where I sing about “the girl who cuts my hair” is about an actual experience I had when I got my back to school haircut a few weeks before writing the song. I remember having a literal freak out in my hairdresser's chair about my future and social media and wanting to be a songwriter and the words were just tumbling out. Like she did not need to hear all that! “Bless her heart” is right!