Maddie & Tae’s latest single, “Shut Up and Fish,” is the third release off their debut album, Start Here. It’s another honest representation of them through song, and the girls reveal that their current album cover was not the original album cover. Tae Dye says, “So we had an album cover and it was really pretty. It was us standing in front of this rustic old house, but we really wanted to change it because our music is so honest and vulnerable and completely stripped down that we wanted our album cover to look the exact same.”
The girls scrambled and put together a last minute photo shoot and kept things incredibly simple. Tae says, “We took clothes out of our own closet that we probably bought at TJ Maxx, and we did our own hair and makeup, no touch-ups throughout the whole day. But we were honestly so excited to look at those pictures and see how like how raw they were because it completely matched our music.”
Maddie adds, “Yeah, we’re not like these glammed up Barbie doll girls that look perfect all the time. That’s not us and our music’s not that either. We tell it like it is and we tell our truth, and we’re not apologetic for that. And we wanted those photos to match that feel for our record.”
So when you look at the cover of Maddie & Tae’s Start Here album, just know it is the result of their simple, last minute re-shoot.
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Maddie & Tae – changed album cover 1:05
Tae Dye – “So we had an album cover and it was really pretty. It was us standing in front of this rustic old house, but we really wanted to change it because our music is so honest and vulnerable and completely stripped down that we wanted our album cover to look the exact same. So we did a photo shoot, like a seven hour photo shoot …”
Maddie Marlow – “And we booked it like two days prior. It was very last minute.”
Tae – “And we took clothes out of our own closet that we probably bought at TJ Maxx.”
Maddie – “Definitely bought at TJ Maxx.”
Tae – “And we did our own hair and makeup, no touch-ups throughout the whole day. But we were honestly so excited to look at those pictures and see how like how raw they were because it completely matched our music.
Maddie – “Yeah, we’re not like these glammed up Barbie doll girls that look perfect all the time. That’s not us and our music’s not that either. We tell it like it is and we tell our truth, and we’re not apologetic for that. And we wanted those photos to match that feel for our record and so it was really, really fun to get to do that and be completely Maddie & Tae with no glammed up perfect eye shadow stuff, cause Lord knows if I do it, it is not perfect (laugh).”
WHAT THEY’RE DOING THIS WEEK – NOVEMBER 9, 2015 – MONDAY
- Maddie & Tae took home the CMA Award last week for Video of the Year for their video “Girl In a Country Song.”
- On Saturday (11/14), the duo play a show in Jacksonville, Florida at the Backwoods Country Jam.
MADDIE & TAE – JUST THE FACTS
OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://www.maddieandtae.com/homepage/
FACEBOOK PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/maddieandtae
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/MaddieandTae
INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/maddieandtae/
MEMBERS: Maddie Marlow (b.7/7/1995) and Tae Dye (b. 9/18/1995)
HOMETOWNS: Texas and Oklahoma
DEBUT SINGLE: “Girl In A Country Song” – See the CMA award winning video here.
DEBUT ALBUM: EP released on November 4, 2014… Debut album; Start Here, released on August 28, 2015.
CURRENT SINGLE: Brand new – “Shut Up & Fish”
GRAND OLE OPRY DEBUT: September 23, 2014
TOURING WITH: Dierks Bentley this summer on “The Sounds Of Summer Tour.”
LATEST MUSIC VIDEO – 2015 – “Fly” – See video here.
RECENT TWEETS:
Maddie & Tae @MaddieandTae Nov 8
Happy birthday to our manager/mentor/momma hen/life coach/woobie 🙂 Thank God for this beautiful… https://instagram.com/p/92MT45oZqD/
Maddie & Tae @MaddieandTae Nov 8
ryanhurd, you wrote with us before anyone knew our name. We love you so much. Y’all go buy this EP.… https://instagram.com/p/92EKs_IZt8/
Maddie & Tae @MaddieandTae Nov 8
Congrats to @OldDominion for their #1 hit with Break up with Him! Love you guys so much (love @bradtursi a little extra) 😉
MADDIE & TAE AWARDS
2015 – 49th Annual CMA Awards – Music Video of the Year – Maddie & Tae “Girl In A Country Song”