Hunger (Florence and the Machine song)


"Hunger" is a song by English indie rock band Florence and the Machine from their fourth studio album, High as Hope. It was written by Florence Welch, Emile Haynie, Thomas Bartlett and Tobias Jesso Jr., and produced by Welch and Haynie. The song was released on 3 May 2018 as the second single of the album. The song impacted US hot adult contemporary radios on 18 June 2018. The song became the band's fifth number one single on the Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart in June 2018.

Background

The song deals with singer Florence Welch's teenage struggles with an eating disorder. Ryan Reed of Rolling Stone wrote that throughout "Hunger", Welch meditates on the correlation between beauty, romance and mortality.

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  1. Hunger

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