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"Hot & Heavy" is a song about a painful nostalgia for something. Most often another person, but it could apply to your hometown or even you from the past.
The title “Hot & Heavy” is a clever usage of the idiom. The idiom implies a relationship that is “sexually intense, active, or exciting”. Here, Lucy uses the phrase on a surface level to describe the past and a former lover, but uses the words separately to describe her current emotions running into them again “(Hot) in the face / (heavy) memories.”
This song is about the pain of knowing some things can never be reproduced, the pain of stumbling back on it and wondering “what if (X) was different” be it a relationship, or a childhood, or a dream you never reached.
"I thought I was writing ‘Hot & Heavy’ about an old friend, but I realized along the way that it was just about me outgrowing past versions of myself.
So much of life is submitting to change and saying goodbye even if you don’t want to. Now whenever I go to places that used to be significant to me, it feels like trespassing the past. I know that the teen version of me wouldn’t approve of me now, and that’s embarrassing and a little bit heartbreaking, even if I know intellectually that I like my life and who I am." - via NME
"My first big tour in 2016—after my first record came out—was two and a half months, and at the very end of it, I broke up with my partner at the time. I came back to Richmond after being gone for the longest I’d ever been away and everything felt different: people’s perception of me; my friend group; my living situation. I was, for the first time, not comfortable in Richmond, and I felt really sad about that because I had planned on being here my whole life. This song is about returning to where you grew up—or where you spent any of your past—and being hit with an onslaught of memories. I think of my past self as a separate person, so the song is me speaking to me. It’s realising that at one point in my life, everything was ahead of me and my life could’ve ended up however. It still can, but it’s like now I know the secret." - via Apple Music
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