SA: Listen to PHFAT’s Whatever You Like

The song is available on all major streaming platforms. Its video was conceptualised and directed by Paul Ward. PHFAT’s team says ‘Whatever You Like‘ is a rumination on the totality of falling in love, and its oscillations between bliss and apprehension. The track was written and produced by PHFAT and composer Greg Abrahams at the beginning of 2020.

“I’ve found love at this stage of my life to land with a more complex set of emotions than some of the idealisation that characterised love in my early 20s,” PHFAT said. “Love also arrives with a set of responsibilities, with sacrifice and compromise, with the possibility of devastating rejection and pain. Responsibly falling in love really does take a certain type of courage when the stakes are higher. I think the content and tone of the track manages to capture a lot of that, and I’m quite proud of it.”

Commenting on his time away from the live circuit due to COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, PHFAT said: “Creating in isolation was incredibly difficult for me, and has largely been an act of discipline while keeping some type of lockdown-induced OCD under control, and feeling like an underwatered houseplant. I’ve had to completely rethink how I write songs.”

Ward said: “With this film, I wanted to take the viewer on an abstract journey through the rollercoaster of emotions of love. The dark, beautiful honest reality of love. I didn't want to tell the viewer how to feel, to leave it open for interpretation. Everybody has their own personal emotions that resonate around love, and with this highly visual film, we didn’t want the viewer to think. We wanted them to feel.”