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Between Friends
BETWEEN FRIENDS is the latest endeavor of brother/sister duo Brandon and Savannah Hudson, along with drummer Brennan Benko. All three L.A. musicians were formerly members of indie-pop band The Heirs, known for their run on America's Got Talent, before taking on this new, collaborative project together.

Savannah Hundson In an Interview by rockyourlyrics.com

How do you usually write the lyrics of your songs? Usually, our songs start with melodies over beats at home. Once we have something to hum, we brainstorm concepts that feel familiar but fresh to us, then we start jotting everything down.

In your opinion, what is the most important thing in songwriting? For us it is originality, the songs you never forget are the ones you’ve never heard before.

Are you ever scared of revealing aspects of your personal life/experience to strangers through your music? I feel like honesty has become our favourite writing tool. Instead of covering up lyrics with alternate meanings, we prefer writing an exact moment down, or an exact feeling into a song. Sometimes the innocence of simple things you’d say to your friends is just as elaborate to us as poetry.

What is the best lyric that you ever wrote (the most meaningful for you)? I don’t know, that’s tough, we are constantly trying to top ourselves so it’s difficult to pick an exact one cause we might write something better tomorrow and would have to email u corrected lyrics haha.

AFFECTION This wonderful single is producted by Better Sounds/Z Entertainment/Sony Music. The video pulls you into the sweet aimless wandering of a night in LA, serving up a chilled-out, carefree spirit and flashes of LA glamour through a raw lens.“affection” represents what BETWEEN FRIENDS is at heart…a do-it-yourself project from top to bottom, hell bent on avoiding any boundaries or veils, breaking the fourth wall of their little art collective where everyone is invited to join. “affection is a song very close to us,” the band said of the new song. “At that particular time we made it, we were all individually and collectively going through a major growth period. In every sense, we kept falling back into relationships that weren’t necessarily good for us. Creating it felt like a therapeutic, almost ‘Fleetwood Mac’ way of getting through it.” With Brandon spearheading production from their home studio while Savannah penned the bulk of the lush melodies and lyrics that ponder truth, love and adolescence, and crafted the visual aspect of the project, from styling to directing to editing to personally sourcing photography from friends. The group have embraced the comfort and transparency in their relationship, letting it bloom into the electronically whimsy and spellbinding harmonies on we just need some time together, a series of singles that build into their debut playlist coming in spring of 2019. In an Interview to Savannah: “affection”? ‘affection’ was written last fall, Brandon and i were both in weird relationship scenarios that felt satisfying in the moment but were very unfulfilling overall. ‘affection’ is about falling into what seems to be an infinite loop of love and lust. What is the best suggestion a producer has given you? Don’t try to make someone else’s song, don’t try to be another artist. It’s okay to be inspired, but always be yourself.

What are your plans for 2019? New music every month with new visuals to accompany the noise. Lots of new. Can’t wait for everyone to hear and see. Sensory overloads.

To conclude the interview a short Q/A session, please answer the first thing that comes to your mind:

Define in one word your playlist “u can still come over”: Cute!! The best show you ever played: El Rey Theatre – Los Angeles, California. The one thing that you must have backstage: Laptop, always making new tunes. And SNAXXX. The soundtrack of your childhood: Rumours – Fleetwood Mac. Your favorite song lyrically speaking, but not written by you: It’s super hard to pick a fav of all time but at the moment we really love James Blake’s new record lyrically.. it’s honest and sweet and filled with a rollercoaster of love and sadness and we dig.

ILOVEU The group released their first track “Iloveyou,” along with an artistically driven video, on Friday (Sept. 28). The new single features an electronic melody textured with synths, backed by an infectious bass line and breathy vocals, whose lyrics conjure up images of adolescence and simplicity. The video, shot and created by Brandon and Savannah, reflects this same weightless and whimsical feeling. Filmed on a handheld VHS recorder, the shaky, lo-fi video captures the DIY aesthetic and free spirit of BETWEEN FRIENDS.

“Iloveyou” is the first track released from their upcoming debut playlist we just need some time together. In an interview to Savannah: Do you remember the day you wrote “iloveu”? Oh absolutely, “iloveyou” was the first song we ever created for this new project. it feels like forever ago, but we made the song and knew it was the start of something new for us. we then began creating a sound for ourselves at our home studio, piling songs into playlist folders on my computer. that’s kind of how this project was made.

UCANSTILLCOMEOVER A hazy bedroom pop jam, Between Friends' newest cut is ripe for radio play and chill-out playlists galore, but what's more impressive is the intricacies of the instrumental -- a layered and nuanced thoughtfulness that's rarely present in the minimalism of simple dream-pop. Paired with the lush dual vocals, Between Friends have found a recipe for success.

“'u can still come over' is a love letter to our past relationships that mean something to us and always will even though they’re over," says Brandon Hudson. "As times change and feelings mature, there’s always something beautiful and young about these experiences that live with you forever. Walking through these memories almost feels like sinking into a cold pool in the summer, that’s sonically where we’re coming from on this song. "We made majority of the song over the summer at our home studio," Hudson continues. "We were playing around with tons of textural, watery synth sounds and dry percussion. The goal was to make the track pulse, but we also wanted it to sound like it was dripping wet. Over the course of a week we had it all finished up. Lyrically it all came so easy based on our conversations and ideas conceptually. I remember listening to the final bounce and thinking, “Damn, maybe we should get Drake on this.”

"Our last three music videos were shot in the warm and inviting atmosphere of Los Angeles," shares Savannah Hudson. "At some point in the process of creating our new track, we realized we wanted to do something different for ‘u can still come over.' With that in mind, we decided to shoot the video on a particularly cold and snowy night in Big Bear, California. The lyrics to the song make us feel as if we are coming into a warm home on a cold night and we wanted to capture that. We loaded up our car with six of our friends, a few cameras and some lights. after seven hours of being snowed in, we had a finished product that not only felt true to the mood of the song but also reminded us of what we love the most about creating art: doing it between friends." (by Forbes Megazines) In an interview to Savannah: What inspired the song “u can still come over,” your latest single? Nostalgia was our biggest inspiration on this song. We wrote ‘u can still come over’ to be some sort of, odd love letter to past relationships and past experiences that are important to us even though they are over.