Midland’s latest single, “Cheatin’ Songs,” is about a guy who gets cheated on, and although all three guys in Midland are happily married now, they all had plenty of prior personal experiences to draw from to write and perform the song with such conviction.. In fact, while Cam Duddy, the bassist for Midland, was talking about the song, he decided to share one of his personal experiences. He said, “Now it’s time to exact revenge on Amanda Cervantez for what she did to me in high school. I had a girlfriend and she was the love of my life, my first love, and I come to find out she’s been cheating on me with my best friend. And it ruined me, obviously.”
In all his anger and heartache, Cam challenged his best friend, Noah, to a fist fight, and he says, “Thinking that I had the upper hand in my rage, I went into this fight very arrogant. Let’s just say I forgot that Noah was a southpaw, and he rang my bell. I suffered a concussion from this fight. He’s also twice as big as me. I was concussed.”
However, when it comes to relationships, that high school fight fundamentally changed Cam. He says, “It knocked the jealousy out of me though, I’ll tell you that. I don’t operate that way anymore in relationships.”
Interestingly, Cam and his friend Noah, who stole his girl and cleaned his clock in high school, are still best friends to this day.
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Cameron Duddy – “The song is about being cheated on, and actually, now it’s time to exact revenge on Amanda Cervantez for what she did to me in high school. I had a girlfriend and she was the love of my life, my first love, and I come to find out she’s been cheating on me with my best friend. And it ruined me, obviously, and I challenged the guy, my best friend at the time – and I won’t name his name. We’re still best friends by the way – to a fistfight And thinking that I had the upper hand in my rage, I went into this fight very arrogant. Let’s just say I forgot that Noah was a southpaw, and he rang my bell. I suffered a concussion from this fight. He’s also twice as big as me. I was concussed. It knocked the jealousy out of me though, I’ll tell you that. I don’t operate that way anymore in relationships.”