![]() “In the video, we feature the more melodramatic aspects of my character as she leaves a fight with her ‘wheel’ and drives home through the city only to see an angel-like figure - untamed and floating through the street - near the end of her trip.” “This being my first music video for an original song, I was extremely excited to place a visual to my lyrics for new and old listeners,” she shares. “New Company” comes with a freshly minted official music video - an experience that felt surreal to create, the Toronto-based artist reveals. “That diary entry became the chorus of ‘New Company’ and prompted me to pull from my journals for almost every song I’ve written since then.” “I voice-recorded myself singing the page from my diary over the beat and showed my best girlfriends that night,” Casey recalls. One of her diary entries became the inspiration for the lyrics, and an interesting beat she had found on the Internet served as the catalyst. I was hoping for something more and, after a few months, I realized that he was never going to give me what I needed in a relationship.” “I was involved with someone at the time, and we mainly saw each other after 1:00 in the morning. “‘New Company’ was written in my university dorm room,” she says. But just for tonight, she sits with her phone in her lap and fights with herself and an absent paramour.īut you’ll mess it up like you’ve always doneĪs the predictable predicament plays out in her head, she eventually decides, ‘So, I want some new company/ I want some new company/ Yeah, I want some new company.’ There’s ambiguity blurring at the edges, but we’re not entirely sure – and the narrator might not be either – whether this is what she truly wants.īecause of just how realistically Casey captures this internal monologue, it’s not surprising that it’s based on one of her actual experiences. ![]() Slow, smooth, sassy, soul ballad-y, and fresh from her forthcoming New Company EP, the song eventually concludes that the embattled narrator needs to find a new man. And while Canadian pop songstress Sam Casey knows that, first, she’s going to wrestle with it for a while (like we all do) in her soulful and starkly honest new single, “New Company.” ![]() Sam Casey wrestles with the hurt of a one-sided fling on the single “New Company”ĭrunk dialing your ex - or, worse, that person with whom you were just in a situationship - is never ever a good idea. ![]()
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