Maddie & Tae are both great songwriters, having co-written every song on their debut album, including their latest single, “Sierra.”  While it might seem that they would need to be on the same emotional wave-length when writing, Maddie says, “Throughout the past five years there’s been times where I was completely heartbroken and she was madly in love and we wrote a ‘in love’ song.  And then there was times where it was opposite, and there was times where she was really content in life and I was really, really struggling with all the change or whatever I was going through and then vice-versa.”

Maddie says one of the reasons the opposing emotions often works when trying to write is because, “It’s two different perspectives, but sometimes when like if I was going through a harder time, it was definitely harder to write like a more up-beat song, but whenever you have someone that is feeling that it’s like, ‘Oh, OK, I can latch onto that.’”

Maddie’s personal experience of being bullied by a particular girl in school was the inspiration for Maddie & Tae’s “Sierra.”  She co-wrote it with Tae and Aaron Scherz.

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Maddie & Tae  :38 – feelings in writing room

Maddie Marlow – “Throughout the past five years there’s been times where I was completely heartbroken and she was madly in love and we wrote a ‘in love’ song, and then there was times where it was opposite, and there was times where she was really content in life and I was really, really struggling with all the change or whatever I was going through and then vice-versa. It’s kind of like, if one of us is down the other one’s up, to pick the other one up and it always kinda flip-flops, but, in the writing room it actually really comes in handy because it’s two different perspectives, but sometimes when like if I was going through a harder time, it was definitely harder to write like a more up-beat song, but whenever you have someone that is feeling that it’s like, ‘Oh, OK, I can latch onto that.’”