- I spend all my money on guitar pedals,
and shoes in my life, pretty much.
[Upbeat Music]
(singing)
(pop rock music)
Hey, I'm Lindsay E and I'm from Nashville, Tennessee.
And the song I chose for tracks is called, Want Me Back.
So really on this last album, I wrote my process.
I wrote my record in order from track one to track twelve
how I really unraveled through heartbreak.
So Want Me Back is the fourth track on the record.
Want Me Back is sort of in that stage
of where you're kind of mad at yourself.
(singing)
If you were to listen to the voice memo list on my phone,
you'd probably be like, Lindsay, are you all right?
Are you all right?
When I'm walking through airports,
when I'm at the grocery store,
a melody will come in my head
and I will literally be singing guitar lines.
I'm like, (mimics guitar pluck)
I have so many voice memos on a plane
and I'm like, I hope nobody hears me.
(sings random words)
I tried to write it down because I know
if I'm like in the middle of something and I'm like, okay,
you'll remember this.
Literally two minutes later, I'll be like, what was that?
I'd, I don't, what was that brilliant lyric idea
that I knew was gonna change my life.
Can't remember it.
Sometimes going into writing a heartbreak song
you think you're gonna be writing an angry song
and you're actually really sad or vice versa.
You think you're really sad
and you're actually pretty angry.
I never really tap into that,
like spitefulness.
I find I write songs a lot more
for me than for the other person.
It is only when you can scratch down
to those layers is where the vulnerability
and where the true magic is.
If we wanna get into like emotional heart chords.
(guitar plucking)
Like that A minor is so, it's just so much more accessible
and you can do so many things like
(guitar plucking)
Compared to just playing it (guitar strums) down here,
which that sounds so depressing and sad,
but this is more like uplifting and like,
(guitar plucking)
I'm so grateful to have worked with Dan Hoff on this record.
He would take my little ideas and then stretch them out.
And then if I would be like,
(guitar plucking)
so that's where I ended, and he would be like,
okay, we'll jump up the octave and play that.
(guitar plucking)
So I truly felt like it was like a football coach
with his quarterback being like, all right, that's great.
Now try to do this
or try slipping this play in on the end of that.
I feel like Dan is my guitar coach to let me sit down
in the studio, give me his 80's Strat
and be like, all right, let us just play.
And so we came up with the like,
(guitar strumming)
But then the part of the solo
that I probably do not have enough gain for this, but like
(guitar plucking)
(pop rock music)
That was definitely through experimenting things with Dan.
I started playing instruments
before I started writing songs.
I would totally start with the music first
and I would just start singing a melody
and then I'd fit words to it.
And then I find the lyrics that fit over that.
And as a singer, I definitely want my lyric
to say something.
I also want the lyric to really feel good singing.
(singing)
So we had the top of the chorus
pretty much from the start of the song.
Like the top of a chorus always has to hit pretty hard.
(singing)
We kind of took the pop approach.
We used the same progression
through the whole song and just made that chorus hit.
(singing)
It, like, had that like, Oh.
I don't think I really heard how much this chorus hit
until I played it in our live stream last week
for the very first.
(singing)
If I could choose like, the Holy grail,
tiniest pedal board ever.
I would have, you know, a tuner obviously,
and then a compressor, really good overdrive.
Tuner, really good overdrive,
wait. Tuner, compressor, really good overdrive,
delay, and maybe reverb.
That's how my pedal board would flow. (laughs)
(pop rock music)
I'd say, if people want a few tips writing heartbreak,
just be one as honest as you can.