Jack Antonoff:

I do this thing a few times in the album where you have a feeling and you look at it from two polar-opposite positions. “Big Life” is this ‘let me go out there, let me get burned and let the world knock me over because I’m trying to find love’, right? I want a secret life where you and I can get bored out of our minds. It’s not a chase. It’s not running out there to prove something. It’s a very optimistic song, which is basically when the chemicals wear off and you’re really in it with someone. At first, maybe I thought it would be a duet with Lana where it could be conversational, but then I realised that if I just put some reverb on her voice and have her kind of crest over the second verse and the chorus, she’s more like a dream of this person I’m talking to.

—via Apple Music

While Lana was never credited on a Bleachers song before, she has worked extensively with Jack Antonoff, Bleachers' frontman. Jack produced most of her sixth studio album Norman Fucking Rockwell! as well as most of her seventh album Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana is also a credited writer and background vocalist on “Don’t Go Dark,” another song from this album.