CASSIDY MANN RETURNS WITH NEW SINGLE, OUT VIA END TIMES MUSIC
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As a lyricist, singer-songwriter Cassidy Mann often reshapes a small moment into a powerful and poetic song that feels both personal and relatable. “My favourite thing is to write about tiny things that make the bigger picture more important somehow,” she says. “It’s interesting to me how memories are interpretable.”
Her latest offering is the new single “Along for the Ride” – a song she wrote alone in her bedroom and then co-produced with Kris Ulrich and long time collaborator Roman Clarke. The track features back up vocals and harmonies by Georgia Harmer, a choice Mann says is “a musical symbol of the people in your life who support you.”
“Along for the Ride” means “so much to me,” she continues. “It’s about getting caught up in someone else’s life and losing your agency for a while. I’ve experienced that in all sorts of relationships, romantic and platonic and it’s always destabilising. Usually by the time you realise you’ve lost yourself in someone, you’re so deep into it that the idea of getting out feels impossible.
“This song is me recalling times when I caught glimpses of my unhappiness, before I felt capable of doing anything about it. Accepting patterns within my relationships and acknowledging I have the power to change them. It’s so easy to fall for another person’s dreams and trick yourself into believing they’re yours, especially if part of you is sort of afraid of your own success or trying to escape the past. I hope this song can be a reminder that our own goals are worthy of pursuing and the right people will encourage them, not try to bury them.
My friend Georgia Harmer is singing harmonies throughout this song and to me, the stacked vocals are a symbol of the people in your life who support you, even when you feel completely lost. I feel so lucky to have an amazing support system and to have made this song with so many friends. I wouldn’t be where I am today without them.”
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Mann’s latest EP, If It’s Not Forever, served as a catalogue of how her early relationships ended and why – and she hopes that other people feel seen and comforted by her stories. Certain moments in a relationship are almost always at the core of her songs, whether it’s the potential start of something special (“Since I Met You”) or the inevitable end (“Stop a Heart”).
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With family hailing from the community of Sagkeeng First Nation, her Indigenous heritage continually influences her music. “Indigenous tradition is based around oral storytelling – songs and spoken stories,” Mann observes. “It ties into my songwriting because that’s how memories and experiences have been captured in my culture forever. Storytelling is something I feel compelled to do. I think it probably has a lot to do with the fact that that’s what my ancestors did.”
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