Lyrically, "Noises" focuses on
mental health—in particular, struggles with
body image and
self-esteem. In an interview with
Dork magazine, Pale Waves's frontwoman
Heather Baron-Gracie explained: ["Noises" is] such an important song to me. I wrote it when I was going through a difficult time. I was struggling with how I looked and how my body was. A lot of our fans are young, they’re growing up, and they’re figuring out who they want to be. It was important for me to write a song on self-esteem and mental health issues because I know people struggle with that. They need a reason to escape that nightmare in their head. They need someone else to say, ‘You know what? It’s okay "cos I’m feeling the same". ... I know how some people see me onstage ... They see how I dress and how I am sometimes, and I know they think "You know what, she's confident and believes in herself", but I think the people that try and present themselves as the most confident are always the ones that lack that assurance and self-esteem. I've struggled with that growing up and still do to this day. It's slowly getting better, but ... I wish I had "Noises" as a song in my life when I was seventeen. It would have helped me. Ciara Doran, the band's drummer, later revealed in a
BBC interview that they had had the first line of the song (i.e., "My mind makes noises", from which the album derives its name) tattooed on their arm: "It's my favourite lyric," Doran explained. "That's the most personal song [Baron-Gracie]'s ever written. I love that song. That's all about Heather's world". == Release ==