"Leap Year," a new song from British singer-songwriter Billie Marten, comes from that strange, restless experience of lying in bed with your mind wandering somewhere entirely its own. "Leap Year" by Marten, produced by Philip Weinrobe, starts with an unusual creative premise and turns it into a fictional love song. The track was conceived from the feeling of being sick in bed, and thoughts drift into a dreamy space with no clear stopping point.
The song is also a major step in Marten's creative evolution, as it is her first fictional love song. This adds another dimension to the track, especially since the subject fits within such a traditional songwriting structure. Marten's inspiration from 1920s and 1930s music also plays an important role in the song's creative concept. After listening to music from those decades for a project, she wondered what would happen if she went about her own songwriting in that kind of traditional structure and form.
"Leap Year" feels like a movie built around the simple idea that inspiration can strike when the mind is allowed to roam free. Billie Marten turns an ordinary moment of inactivity into the beginning of something imaginative. It's a song about letting your mind wander wherever it may and seeing what happens when you follow it.
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