Tag: Lauren Spring

LISTEN: Lauren Spring, “I Remember You”

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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

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LISTEN: The Krickets, “These Games”

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Artist: The Krickets
Hometown: Mobile, Alabama
Single: “These Games”
Release Date: June 5, 2020

In Their Words: “This song is our answer to a pandemic benching our 2020 tour. Band life went from having a decently balanced tour/fam scene to becoming full-time homeschool teacher/maid service/short order cook shut-ins who were financially shut down. We HAD TO do something constructive to stay positive, so we learned how to remotely write and record. One of us (Lauren) is a studio nerd and she produced the track. We had to get brave about releasing something on our own, because we’ve had some incredible producers in the past and we didn’t want the quality to dip for our listeners. It’s empowering to have that 100% control over the sound as an artist but if your fans hate it, it’s also 100% your fault.

“The sound of ‘These Games’ is definitely different for us, with a nod to some retro doo-wop harmonies and Southern rock ballads we grew up on. Bottom line, we love making music and the incredible people that support it. Since the normal way to play and record isn’t an option right now, we had to decide to embrace the rawness and release the music, bells and whistles be damned. Someday when that normalcy returns, we’ll be able to use fancy studios and producers again, but here’s what we can do now. We plan to release a new one every couple of months until we can tour again. That live music energy thing is real and sacred and necessary and we can’t wait to get back to it.” — The Krickets (Lauren Spring, Emily Stuckey Sellers, Rachel Grubb)

The Krickets · These Games

Photo credit: Laura Lashley