Pretty Please

“Pretty Please” is a groovy mid-tempo track, which features a prominent baseline throughout the song. Lyrically, the song is about needing romantic attention from your significant other. Lipa and her writing team based the lyrics of the song on it’s title.

"This is the first moment you really get to take a breather on the record, especially after “Levitating,” which is so full on. It sounds cool and chill, but it’s about the opposite. I like playing with sounds and concepts in that way. The song is about promising someone—or yourself—that you’re going to be really chill in the early stages of the relationship, but then realising that “Yeah, that’s just not me.” The lyrics that opens it is “Somewhere in the middle / I think I lied a little.” It kind of sums it up."

- via Apple Music

When asked to describe each album track on "Future Nostalgia" during an interview with The Official Big Top 40 on February 9, 2020, Dua said:

"It’s a chill song, but the meaning behind it is not so chill."