“Fingers Crossed” by Lauren Spencer-Smith
This piece (“Fingers Crossed”) starts off as a love song. But before the first verse finishes, the vocalist lets it be known that in the here and now, she actually ‘hates’ the addressee. The reason she despises the addressee is because, as later implied by the chorus, the two of them have broken up under tumultuous circumstances.
It is not specified what happened exactly. But in the aftermath, Lauren is under the impression that she vested more into this relationship than the addressee, i.e. devoting endless hours to rectifying his inner “daddy issues” and what have you.
At the end of the day, she does in fact blame them for things going awry, which brings us to the title. When someone makes a commitment with their “fingers crossed”, that means that they’re already acknowledging, secretly, that they’re not going to remain true to their word. And that is what the vocalist is saying to the addressee, that she now realizes when they said ‘I love you’, they didn’t really mean it, which is another way of saying that they ultimately did her dirty. So as it currently stands, it’s like Lauren detests them.
Lauren Spencer-Smith and “Fingers Crossed”
Spencer-Smith is a singer who made a name for herself as a participant on American Idol in 2020 (i.e. Season 18). She didn’t take home the bag but in the process became the first contestant via Canada to make it to the semifinals. But to note, Spencer-Smith was actually born in England.
Lauren launched her professional career via social media in mid-2021 and was instantly met with success, i.e. hundreds of thousands of streams. However, her first song to truly blow up is “Fingers Crossed”, which was officially released on 5 January 2022.
For instance, as of the writing of this post, this song is holding down the number one spot on the US iTunes Top Songs Chart, and it debuted at number seven on the Worldwide iTunes Song Chart.
At the time of Fingers Crossed‘s release, the songstress was just 18 years and a few months’ old.
Lauren wrote “Fingers Crossed” in conjunction with Francisca Hall and T.I Jakke. Co-writer Jakke, a musician from Sweden, also produced the track.
