my little heart <3 by kylekelly

"I took a lot of inspiration from late 90s / early 2000s rom-coms for this era, and I did not have a single song touching remotely close to the subject of the ~love at first sight~ or meet-cute trope (wonder why). In all honesty, ‘my little heart <3’ is the only love song (or sort of love song, I guess?) I’ve ever been able to write, and I knew it’d be a favorite of mine when it only took me 45 minutes to write and was awarded the group chat replies of 'YO WHAT' and 'DUDEEEE' from my best friends and cowriters. The feelings, the imagery, the descriptors just fell out of me, and it was the best summer-sounding, bop-around addition. More than anything I love the rom-com references (how incredibly meta of me), and the self-awareness written into the chorus- something rom-coms don’t typically touch on but is typical of myself. The song’s just as fun as it is an admission of not really understanding what I feel for this someone."
- kylekelly