(“New shit!”) I made a song about digital addiction.
Growing up, I wrote a lot and recorded a few dozen songs at friends’ houses in their makeshift studios. I even made an album with two friends during college. Of course, as the years passed, real life outpaced my interest and attention to creative hobbies.
Fortunately, I have a musician cousin in Vancouver, WA, who works as a sound engineer at a professional recording studio — which feels like the creative equivalent of having the friend with a boat. I do my best to visit him once a year so I can scratch my musical itch. So that’s where I went in August.
We ended up working on a song called “Surface.” It’s meant to be a double entendre for screen addiction and our desire to go beyond the superficial, both of which are things that I struggle with.
From start to finish (beat, lyrics, recording, mixing), we put the song together in just 6 hours. I think it slaps! But of course I’m a little bit biased. You can listen to “Surface” by Anthony Cadiz feat. Steven Kendall on Spotify and Apple Music and judge for yourself.