From Save The Date Soundtrack to Folk Pop

Song: "Yeah You"

Artist: Freedom Fry

Story: We'd been a band for two years when we decided to make the band a bit more permanent and get married. This was in 2013. Wedding planning is stressful, as anyone who's ever been married can attest to, but the most fun we had during that process was making our "Save The Date" announcement video. We had these wedding cake toppers that looked a lot like us. The groom was holding an acoustic guitar and had dark hair and the bride was blonde. The idea of doing a stop-motion animation with them came up and so we started to make it. Eventually we needed a soundtrack for the video so we came up with an "Ooo" melody overtop of an acoustic guitar and that was that. Years later, we were have a songwriting, brainstorming session and we remembered the "Ooo" melody and talked about turning it into something more. In our iPhone voice memos we had two other melody ideas in different keys that we adjusted and they became the verse and the chorus. We posted a demo on Soundcloud in 2015 and it ended up going to #3 on Hypem and gaining 250k plays on there. It was one of our first successful steps into the folk sound. We just now, in 2018, have released our official version. I guess the moral of this story is that inspiration can come from the least expected places.