NEW: Lou Doillon – ‘I try my best’

French singer-songwriter and actress Lou Doillon, daughter of the late icon Jane Birkin, has released ‘I try my best’, her first new music in seven years.

The single’s lyrics hint at the struggle to find privacy when the world has always been watching. “I shut the shutters close / I lock the front door to keep them out / I try my best but they still see straight through,” she sings — words that take on another meaning for someone who grew up in a famous family, with public scrutiny never far away.

But there’s more to the song than shutting out prying eyes. Doillon says it was shaped by a period of upheaval, as she cleared out her mother’s house while preparing to leave her own apartment. “There is magic here, a sense of ritual, but also grief,” she explains. “While clearing out my mother’s house and, at the same time, moving out of my own apartment, I found myself confronted by unexpected specters emerging from all these different places…”