How Does It Feel (Slade song) following month. It reached No. 15, which was the band's first single not to reach the UK Top 5 since their 1971 breakthrough with "Get Down and Get with It". The melody of "How Does It Feel" was the first Lea had ever written, while he was still in school. He came up with the idea on an old piano which he later described as having half the keys missing. Although the tune never developed any further at that time, Lea later revisited it for use as the theme tune for "Flame". Holder wrote the song's lyrics and it became
Untitled (How Does It Feel) Plus'". In 2001, "Untitled (How Does It Feel)" won a Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance and was also nominated for Best R&B Song at the 43rd Grammy Awards ceremony. It was ranked number 12 on "The Village Voice"s 2000 Pazz & Jop critics' poll and number 4 on "Rolling Stone"s "End of Year Critics & Readers Poll" of the top singles of 2000. "Blender" ranked "Untitled (How Does It Feel)" number 454 on its list of the Top 500 Songs of the 80s-00s (2005), and "Q" included it on its list of the 1010 Songs You Must