"Softly" is a song by Arlo Parks.
It is her first single of 2022 and the first new music from Parks since the release of Collapsed in Sunbeams in January 2021.
[1] Parks announced the single on social media on 28 January 2022, and it was released on 1 February.
[2] The music video for the song was directed by Zhang and Knight.
[3][4] Describing the song, Parks stated "'Softly' is a song about yearning, about how fragile you feel in the dying days of a relationship when you’re still desperately in love".