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Your best creations can often come completely out of the blue. Perhaps Charlie Hickey can say that’s true about his new single “Ten Feet Tall,” which he just released today!
Charlie Hickey grew up in South Pasadena, and made sure he constantly surrounded himself with music. By the time he was in middle school, he was recording and performing his own songs that would make heads quickly turn in his direction.
One of those heads belonged to Phoebe Bridgers, who was in high school at the time. Charlie and Phoebe quickly became friends and collaborators, and later down the road, she introduced him to the multi-talented Marshall Vore. They instantly clicked, and started to write and record music together!
In exactly one month, Charlie will be self-releasing his debut EP Count The Stairs. “Ten Feet Tall” is Charlie’s second offering from the EP, and is the first song he wrote with Marshall. Phoebe Bridgers also appears on the song, having contributed backing vocals.
Charlie spilled, “I was going to school at the time and was feeling quite alienated in this little world where everybody was instantly partying with their brand new best friends and fun came so naturally. I found solace in Marshall’s studio on the weekends. This was our first proper attempt at writing together and we were writing something really horrible. We were both kind of delirious and Marshall started singing the verse melody for the song as a joke, making fun of what we had been trying to write. But when I heard it, I said to him, ‘Wait, that’s the song that we’ve been trying to write.’ After that, we wrote the rest that night and recorded it the next day. We re-recorded it a few times before going back to what we did that day.”
“Ten Feet Tall” is quite different from any other song Charlie has written. “I’ve never written or recorded a song like that since, and we weren’t sure it was even gonna come out,” he admitted. “But when I hear it back, it really serves as a time capsule of a very confusing/depressing but also very fruitful and fun time in my life!”
Count The Stairs drops on February 26. Until then, enjoy “Ten Feet Tall” below!
