Boyfriends
By Pacing & Career Woman
careerwomanmusic.bandcamp.com

Quote from Katie McTigue (Pacing):

“We were writing a bridge for a totally different song and Melody started singing the "me and my friends we don't like men" hook. And I was immediately like "wait, that is a hit song." And I took a voice memo of it and sent it to her and was like "you need to write that song cause that's a banger" and she was like "well why don't we just write it right now?"

I think it's about friendship and love and growing up and wasting time. I love how the hook can be interpreted a bunch of different ways. It's one of my favorite songs I've ever been a part of, it just has a great feeling to it. We used some of the original voice memo recording from the day we wrote it in the production, and you can feel how much fun we had writing it. It's a special song in my opinion!

There are also a bunch of dumb lines in the song that I said as a joke and Melody was like "nope, we're keeping that." Like "I have a really cool pen." That's so dumb! But now it's my favorite part. It feels very nostalgic to me, like I can't tell which parts are about being a kid and which parts are about being a grownup.”


Quote from Melody Caudill (Career Woman):

I have never really been one to collaborate when writing songs, especially lyrics. For me, that is as personal and private as it gets, and whenever I have written lyrics with others in the past it comes out forced and wrong and I'm never happy with the result. But this time it was different, and not only did I feel 100% myself and comfortable with Katie but I feel like I may have produced some of my favorite lyrical writing to date. "Boyfriends" contains some of the most true lyrics I've ever been a part of creating, and it's so cool to say that the ideas were literally 50/50 between the two of us. It felt like a really genuine collaboration, where we both put everything we thought of onto the table, and supported each other's ideas as they came out, no matter how silly we thought they were.

The song is my favorite because it can be interpreted in so many different ways. The story could be about 10 different scenarios that I want so badly to explain but will leave up to your interpretation... No matter how you read it, I think every person can figure out a way to relate to it in some way, and that is just so cool.

I can't believe something this important to me also came out of my amazing talented friend and that we get to share it in such a special way!! I hope whoever you are is able to also find something special in it :)