Listening to it at first leads to a question whose experience it is?

Harry himself explained what ‘Matilda’ is about in his Apple Music interview with Zane Lowe, explaining it’s about someone else’s experience and not his own.

"I wanna support you in some way. But it's not necessarily my place to make it about me; cause it's not my experience. Sometimes it's just about listening. I hope that's what it did,I hope it just says 'I was listening to you'" Harry summarised.

He also said it was disguised in ‘Matilda from the Roald Dahl book.’ Telling Zane Lowe: “Imagine Matilda grown up.”

Harry admitted a few of his friends cried listening to the track, which is how he knew it was one to ‘pay attention to’.

However, when asked on whether the person who it’s about knows it’s about them, Harry replied: “No. I think they’ll know.”

Source : capital fm
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