"Soft Spot" (stylised in lowercase) is a liquid drum and bass song, first released independently on 4 June 2021, where it was credited to Piri.
[5] PinkPantheress was a big inspiration for the record;[7] Piri used a December 2021 NME article to state that the former had direct messaged the pair to tell them the song's "beat goes stupid".
A vox sample erupting into dub-style delay, scattered feedback cranks into the production; the bass line shifting and working the grind, holding a heavy dancehall groove."
[3] Tobi, a reviewer for Tom Robinson's blog Freshonthenet.co.uk, noted that the song "dares you not to dance"[13] and Charli XCX used a 24 August 2021 edition of BBC Radio 1's Future Sounds to air it[16] and state that she ran to it at the gym.
[18] Writing for a July 2022 Rolling Stone listicle that named the track as the fifty-ninth greatest dance song of all time, Michelangelo Matos called it a "twee starburst of liquid drum-and-bass".
[6] In March 2023, Wet Leg named it one of five songs that had soundtracked their year and the band's Rhian Teasdale noted that it took them back to when they were shooting their video for "Ur Mum", in which Villiers played the anti-hero.
She used an October 2021 Reform Radio interview to note that she had bought a projector especially for the occasion and that she filmed herself performing against the bedroom wall of the student house she was living in at the time and to "trippy liquid visuals" she had found on YouTube.