By Alexa Name
The way no words came about was me, Lavend3r, and Cole Daniels went on a trip to Minnesota. The reason we went to Minnesota was because John is from there. So we rented an Airbnb. We were there about a couple weeks and did a songwriters/producers/musicians camp sort of thing. While we were there one day I was about to walk out the door and John just yells at me like, “Hey check out the Dropbox. There's a file called “no words”. Check it out. The instrumental track is super super weird. I made it with Cole. They played the cello on it but it's super weird. I don't know if you're going to like it. But check it out, and if you do just topline it. Hop on it, write over it, and see what comes out.” And I was like ok. So as I was walking around Minnesota I was listening to the track and I was like this is so so weird I love it. I definitely want to try it and write something over it because it was something so different to what I had done before.
The way no words came about was me, Lavend3r, and Cole Daniels went on a trip to Minnesota. The reason we went to Minnesota was because John is from there. So we rented an Airbnb. We were there about a couple weeks and did a songwriters/producers/
A few minutes later I walked to a park that was near the Airbnb, I sat down and I wrote the first half of the song. It was so funny because “no words” was not supposed to be the name of the song. It was just the name of the file because the track had “no words” on it. It was just instrumental. But as I was writing the song and I got to the chorus it just made sense to add it because of the subject of the song. It was about the situationship I had where nobody said a word. Literally we both felt something for each other but nobody said a word about it So just made sense to add it, and it was very kind of a meant to be moment.
So yeah, I wrote the first half of the song in that park and that same night John and I started recording the first half of the song. After recording that first half we were hearing it again and we got super excited about it because it was so cool. We both thought it was an amazing song. So he told me, “you have 30 minutes to write the rest of the song while I work on it and do my producer stuff. You have 30 minutes and we‘ll record the second half” and I was like let's do it. So that’s what I did. I sat down and wrote the second half while he was working on the first half and we recorded the rest of the song that same night. So we made it all basically in one day. The only thing that was done the next day was Nico added in some synth chords for the second verse. We made it super fast. It was a very easy to make song, it just kind of flowed very easily. So yeah that was how the song came about.
As for the photo shoot, since it's a sexy song I wanted it to be a sexy photo shoot. I was a bit nervous about it, not going to lie. But I was also very excited about it. I was like "you know what I'm committing to what the song is about". The photoshoot looks like I’m on a bed. But it’s actually the guest bathroom at my house. The photographer Jerry, he is my friend and he is amazing, needed a white wall and there was there was a big white wall in the guest bathroom at my house. So we we grabbed a couple covers and sheets and stuff like that and just put them on the floor. And that's where we shot all the promo photos and the cover photos for No Words. So that was very fun.
I think for the song that's pretty much all there is to talk about. But, yeah, go listen to No Words. It's such a fun sexy ethereal otherworldly type of song. For me it just transports me to another place because it’s just so different and the instrumentation and the vocal production everything is done to is honestly incredible. I’m so lucky to have the team that I do. Go check it out and expect to see much more from me soon.
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