LA’s Career Woman and San Jose’s Pacing have joined forces for a new single “Boyfriends.” It’s an indie-pop acoustic home run, both gentle and rolling, but clever and fun. THere’s a certain joie de vivre you’ll instantly recognize as the song plays out.
Melody Caudill (Career Woman) and Katie McTigue (Pacing) both have in-depth statements about the origins of the song, which we’ll put underneath the stream.
True story: When I was away for Super Dimension Convention in LA in Oct 2023, my wife and daughter watched the Barbie movie both Friday and Saturday night, and then again with me when I got home on Sunday.
Career Woman Bandcamp (digital DL), Spotify, Apple Music
Pacing Bandcamp (digital DL), Spotify, Link page
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.
Melody Caudill (Career Woman)
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 🙂
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.
Katie McTigue (Pacing)
the white drew carey (aka – Jeff Sorley) is the founder and head editor of TGEFM. He’s lived (outside of) Chicago, Madison WI, (ugh) Penn State, Lyon FR, Oxford UK, central New Jersey, and now within earshot of SFO in the Bay Area. When not scouring the web for more great bands and labels to post about, he also spends time drawing (mostly) silly sci-fi and anime stuff under the name Asplenia Studios.
