Cara Delevingne Releases Debut Songs 'I Forgot' and 'Out of My Head'

Cara Delevingne released her first two songs, I Forgot and Out of My Head, last Friday. The 33-year-old London-born model and actress has previously worked with major brands and acted in films including Suicide Squad and Only Murders in the Building.

Delevingne told BBC Radio 1 presenter Jack Saunders that Out of My Head was based on the idea of "everyone talking and no-one really listening or saying the truth".

Speaking on the New Music Show, she said the track was inspired by her first year of sobriety and the "internal conflict and disassociation and all that fun stuff" she experienced at the time. "We changed the chorus to 'out of my head' because I think that's something I have to do every day to get out of my overthinking," she said.

She added that she has previously spoken about struggling with depression and becoming "very good at disassociating from emotion completely".

Delevingne said she wanted I Forgot to touch on "the landscape of what mental health is like sometimes and how hard it can be and how raw it can feel". She said she wanted to create a song she could "absolutely just lose it to". "I think as an English person, I was never very good at dealing with anger, and so this is the healthiest way I've found to release all of that and to express those emotions," she said.

She has also opened up about battling addiction and how the 12-step treatment programme has helped her. Delevingne said she has used humour and being self-deprecating in the past but had to learn to take herself more seriously when it came to music.

She said she wanted the music to feel like her as a person breaking through preconceived ideas, stating "I am a person, I'm flawed and I'm a human and we all have pain and suffering, but music can be the one connector of that".

The seven-minute music video for both tracks was directed by Jessica Lee Gagné, who was a lead cinematographer on the series Severance. Delevingne said Gagné originally declined the job due to being too busy but agreed after listening to the music because she resonated with it. "She is undeniably a visionary in so many different ways," Delevingne said.

"A lot of the music I wanted to make, coming from doing movies, felt to me like it was very cinematic.