Brittney Spencer on Maren Morris name dropping her:
“Honestly, I was sitting on my couch in my pajamas. It sounds hilarious, but that’s actually what I was doing. I was watching Shameless. And I’m such a millennial, I watch everything later. I’ve watched entire awards shows the day after, and so that was my plan. And so I started getting text messages and phone calls and tweets. I’m like, “Okay, let me see what happened.” And I’m thankful for the internet, because they just have all the things there immediately. And so I watched the video, and I was like, “Oh my goodness.” And that whole thing happened right after Amanda Shires and Maren had noticed my video of Crowded Table on Twitter. And so we already had some interactions there, and honestly it happened months ago, and I’m still not ready for it.”
“I was writing just voicemails. It wasn’t a trend anymore. I would take famous theme songs, and I would flip them around, change the lyrics to basically just tell people I’m not available to come to the phone right now. Those were the first songs that I wrote, and I used to do it with my friends too. And so those were my first co-writing sessions. I didn’t know it was anything. I was just having fun. I was just bored in the summertime. But when I finally started kind of figuring out song structure, the first song that I wrote was a song called Stay With Me, and it was a country song. And I thought, “Man, I want to do this forever.””
“I think the one thing that I always say, or think to myself is, would I actually say that in real life? Is this something that actually is a thought in my head, is this a conversation I would normally have with somebody? And basically what I’m asking myself is, this might be good, but is it me? And that’s my one rule for songwriting. Is it something that I would actually be proud of? Would I post this song on Instagram? Because that’s usually, that’s how you know something is real with somebody. If they post it on Instagram, if they post it on their feed and not just their story, I feel like that’s kind of the marker of what’s important to them, what they really like. And it sounds so silly to say out loud, but I watch it happen all the time. And there are plenty of things that I’ve done that I’m like, “I wouldn’t post that,” so I wouldn’t say it in a song.”
“…it was just me trying to put myself in the shoes of a person who has kind of kept a secret for a long time in a relationship. And if they told the truth now, it doesn’t matter. It’s been so long that you’ve been holding this secret, so long that you’ve been doing wrong behind my back, even if you say sorry, it just doesn’t work. And so I just wanted to put myself in the other’s shoes for a second, and I don’t know, give myself the apology that I wish I had received. Because I’m a fighter, and what I really have wanted to hear in the past is, “I’m so sorry. I want to make this right. Can we find a way to move forward?” That’s the apology that I wanted. But anyway, that’s how I felt in the past at that time. I don’t know if I’d feel that way now if that were to happen to me again.”
