Avenue Beat are great at turning their personal experiences as three young 20-somethings into quirky, sassy, self-deprecating and very relatable songs, like their debut single, “Ruin That for Me.” Savana says the song was born because, “Sam had a garbage ex one time.”
But Sam is quick to point out, “Hey listen, we’ve all had garbage exes, okay, mine just so happened to be written around the same time.”
The song was inspired after Sam went through a break-up, and one night she and Sami were planning to go out, and she was trying to pick something out of her closet to wear. “Sami was like, ‘What about that dress?’” Sam recalls, “And I was like, ‘No I can’t wear that one because he said it was his favorite thing that I wore,’ and I was like, ‘Well, I can’t wear that, the memories are too bad.’”
Sami wasn’t going to allow some dumb guy to keep Sam from wearing her cute dress ever again, so she told Sam, “that was stupid.”
And the rest is history, or as Savana puts it, “And then we wrote a song about it,” now known to everybody as “Ruin That for Me.”
Avenue Beat – Ruin That for Me true story :30
Savana – “Sam had a garbage ex one time.”
Sam – “Hey listen, we’ve all had garbage exes, okay, mine just so happened to be written around the same time. No, I broke up with this guy and then, I think we were in my bedroom back home. We were about to go somewhere and I was like, ‘What should I wear?’ Picking out things in my closet, and then Sami was like, ‘What about that dress?’ And I was like, ‘No I can’t wear that one because he said it was his favorite thing that I wore,’ and I was like, ‘Well, I can’t wear that, the memories are too bad.’
Sami – “And I said that was stupid.”
Savana – “And then we wrote a song about it.”
Sam – “And, here we are.”