Catching Up with Candy Apple Blue: Episode: 001

 

Catching Up with Candy Apple Blue 🍬🍎🟦

A "Behind the Music" Podcast Video Series 

Episode: 001 - "Mad About You"

Songwriter Carly Emerick talks about composing "Mad About You".

Get behind the music! "Mad About You" took a dark turn during the songwriting process. "It's not really a love song. It's a song about obsession." - Carly Emerick 

Join songwriters & bandmates Carly and Hoyt Emerick as they go behind the scenes. In each episode, they'll share their craft of composing and tell you never-before-heard stories about their music. To keep things interesting, the duo will be sharing these podcasts as visual stories to help bring more focus to their back music catalog.

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Behind the Music: "Moving Out of Town"

Behind the Music: "Moving Out of Town"

A few of our listeners have asked us what sound they can expect from our forthcoming summer pride anthem Moving Out of Town. 

If I had to best describe it, I'd say it has a classic disco-rock sound. The kind that was big in the late 70s and early 80s. It was influenced by songs like Hot Stuff by Donner Summer, I Was Made for Loving You by Kiss, and Call Me by Blondie. We also threw a pinch of 90s Europop in there for good measure. (Think "Be My Lover" by La Bouche.)

The song is about what a lot of us LGBTQ+ Gen Ex'ers did. We moved to big cities to find acceptance and get the chance to live our lives authentically. That's what Hoyt and I did. We packed our bags and moved to New York City! (The Big Apple!) We wanted to write about that experience in a universal way.

Moving Out of Town is a song that I started composing back in 1997. Hoyt and I picked it back up again in 2014 and officially demoed it. However, thank god we had the good sense to not release it. Admittedly, we couldn't quite deliver what the song called for vocally speaking. 

This time around we have Nick Bramlett on board to deliver the goods! Not to mention our trusted go-to guitarist, Micah Blakeslee, who gave our dance song some much-needed rock edge. 

After 27 years and a few re-writes later; this song will finally see the light of day. The timing feels right!

Big love, Carly 🍬🍎🟦