Scarecrow

Album: It's About Us (2014)
Charted: 117
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Songfacts®:

  • After winning Season 3 of The X Factor in December 2013, Floridians Alex Kinsey and Sierra Deaton were given a $1 million recording contract with Sony Music Entertainment. "Scarecrow" was their debut single.
  • The song was written by Alex & Sierra with Martin Johnson (Avril Lavigne, Daughtry) and Sam Hollander (Neon Trees, Gym Class Heroes). "'Scarecrow' is a song about hope," said the musical pair, who were also romantically involved at the time. "It's about believing in a relationship so strongly that a lack of communication isn't enough for you to give up on the other person. Everyone has trouble communicating sometimes... Or all the time, and everyone deserves to be believed in. We are super proud that our first single is something we wrote, and we're super happy that it's something fun to listen to and fun to play."
  • Alex & Sierra released just one album, It's About Us in 2014, before getting dropped from their label and breaking up as both a musical act and a couple. "Scarecrow" and many of their other songs deal with some kind of romantic tension, suiting their male-female duets. Their next single, "Little Do You Know," also followed this path. That song didn't get much attention until after the duo split up, but after it blew up on TikTok around 2020, it became a streaming behemoth and by far their most popular tune.

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