Morgan Wade has joined Brooke Reese on The Chart Show with Brooke Reese on Apple Music 1 to talk about the creation of her debut album Reckless. Listen to the full interview here.
From the beginning we were like, “Man, that sounds like an album name.” And then it just, it really did fit for, I think, how I’ve lived. I’m almost four years sober, just with my past and everything I’ve been through and just kind of how we all live a little bit. And it’s, for me, it’s like putting that behind me and growth
“I grew up listening to Elvis Presley. That was my thing as a kid. It was Elvis. And my mom had to tell me, “He’s not alive anymore. He died long before you were born.” Kind of thing. But I always connected with him because he was different and he did his own thing and he changed music. And then now I look towards women like Miley Cyrus. She can do whatever. I mean, she does all styles and stuff like that. And so I find that I gravitate towards those types of individuals that are just, they’re authentic, Lana Del Rey, Halsey, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus.”
“That’s actually the first song that I wrote to an instrumental track. So it was just sitting in the studio and Paul Ebersold, my producer, just started playing this track and I was like, “Keep it on a loop.” And I was going through a difficult time right then, it was last December, something like that. And yeah, those words “don’t cry,” everything just came out like that. And so that was the first song that I really did that way. And it turned out pretty cool.”
“Wilder Days,” I feel like we worked on that song for so long. That was the first one that we recorded before we even had an idea that there was going to be a full album. We were still like, “Will this be an EP? What will this be?” And so it went through a lot of different phases. There was parts of that song and Sadler would have me sing one line over and over and over again until I was like, “I hate the song now. I don’t care what we do with it.” But we worked really hard on that, I’m glad to see that it’s doing well.”
That’s my favorite thing too, is people being like, “What genre do you consider?” And I’m like, “What is country music anymore? Like really, what is it?” I mean, it’s so many different things and I’m happy that the rules are changing. And it’s like, all right, we’ve got Pink and Keith Urban singing a song together. We’ve got all this different stuff and I’m like, “I love it.” Good music is good music who cares what the label of it is. And I feel like for so long I felt that way. I was like, “I’m not going to listen.” And I’m like, “If you hear something and you like it, you like it. Who cares?”
