Brett Young knows sometimes a song idea can be sparked by the simplest thing. For instance, Brett’s latest single “Catch,” was inspired by someone just saying that word. “’Catch’ is that song that I wrote with Ashley Gorley and Ross Copperman, and it was a song that kind of was born out of another song,” says Brett. We were in a write and somebody threw out just the word ‘catch’ as an idea, as just a word in a line of the song. And Ashley Gorley stood up and said he’d be right back and he walked outside and he came back and he goes, ‘Okay, we’ve gotta book another write because I’ve got an idea for a song called ‘Catch,’ where it’s a play on the word catch and I think we can go a lot of places with this. I’m very excited.’
Besides the clever play on words, Brett was also excited about writing “Catch” because of the different perspective that it offered. “I think it’s kind of normally the girl that goes out with her girlfriends hoping not to meet a guy or not to be bothered by guys,” explains Brett. “We just thought it was kind of a fun twist on it – the guy going out to spend time with his buddies and ends up seeing a girl and the rest was history.”
You can find “Catch” on Brett’s latest album, Ticket to L.A., which also features his latest number one song, “Here Tonight.”
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“Catch is that song that I wrote with Ashley Gorley and Ross Copperman, and it was a song that kind of was born out of another song. We were in a write and somebody threw out just the word ‘catch’ as an idea, as just a word in a line of the song. And Ashley Gorley stood up and said he’d be right back and he walked outside and he came back and he goes, ‘Okay, we’ve gotta book another write because I’ve got an idea for a song called ‘Catch,’ where it’s a play on the word catch and I think we can go a lot of places with this. I’m very excited.’ And we got back together and just got real excited about not only the kind of tongue-in-cheek, play on word nature of it, but also I think it’s kind of normally the girl that goes out with her girlfriends hoping not to meet a guy or not to be bothered by guys. And we just thought it was kind of a fun twist on it – the guy going out to spend time with his buddies and ends up seeing a girl and the rest was history.”