Sing To You

Album: Make It Happen EP (2016)
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Songfacts®:

  • Singer-songwriters have an edge when it comes to romance: they can sing a song to their loved one. That what John Splithoff does here; his significant other wants to keep their relationship low-key, but he has other ideas:

    Just try to understand me
    Won't you come a little closer
    And let me whisper to you
    And I'll say
    You don't have to worry 'bout a single thing
    Just let me sing to you


    Who can resist this charm?
  • John Splithoff wrote "Sing To You" soon after moving to New York City from Chicago. He told the story on the Songfacts Podcast: "I was crashing on my buddy's couch before I found my own apartment, and I would just walk around humming that bassline non-stop, and it just took me forever to write the lyrics to it. He was like, 'All right man, that's catchy but will you please do me a favor and write some lyrics and stop humming that song, because you're living in my apartment and I can't stop hearing that in my head too.' Which I think is a good sign.

    That was a song where things just worked out with the writing and the production. It's a good vibe of a song.

    The response and love that that song got was really inspiring and motivated me to keep doing this to the best of my ability. I don't want to say it is like lightning in a bottle, but that song definitely gave me a bigger audience than I had before, and it's very different from this last album, but there are definitely bits of this record that remind me of what I had when I was working on that song."
  • This song was a breakthrough for Splithoff, who started recording just a few years earlier. It took off on YouTube and on various streaming services, especially Spotify, where it quickly amassed over 40 million streams.

    Splithoff, though, didn't release a full-length album until 2021, when he issued All In.
  • Splithoff wrote and produced "Sing To You" with the Los Angeles production duo Noise Club (Chris Petrosino and Rob McCurdy).

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