LISTEN: Lauren Spring, “I Remember You”

Artist: Lauren Spring
Hometown: Port St. Joe, Florida
Song: “I Remember You”
Album: I Remember You EP
Release Date: February 26, 2021

In Their Words: “‘I Remember You’ is about choosing to remember someone in a kinder light than what the relationship may have been in reality. If you chose pain, you feel pain when you remember it. If you choose love, then you’re flooded with love and nostalgia. I’ve had plenty of opportunities to learn that lesson and chose the more immature road for longer than I’d like to admit but I’m choosing love more and more and feel it coming back to me all the time now. I love the message of this song and am so glad to put it out in to the universe. It felt weird to celebrate the nostalgia of a past relationship and not honor the glorious human I love who puts up with my shit today. This line was for him: ‘Cracks in the story we learned to fill with something real.’ He’s my real. Here’s to ‘real’!

“My co-writer Scott (Feldman, Darkbloom Productions) wrote a lyric so ridiculously dope that it took me two months and 8.5 billion rewrites to feel like I had written the rest of the song anywhere close to the bar he set. (Jackass) ‘Ain’t nostalgia a funny thing, it paints a picture so carelessly. Prettier than it’s ‘sposed to be, that’s how I remember you.’ It became the chorus and I love it. That TikTok video of the guy skateboarding to ‘Dreams’ was everywhere when we were writing ‘I Remember You’ and when I listen back I definitely hear a Fleetwood Mac influence in there. Probably more Christine than Stevie, but still there. Crazy what you don’t even know what you’re absorbing sometimes!” — Lauren Spring

Photo credit: Shelli McMillan