Hungover

Album: Kameron Marlowe (2020)
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  • In this song, Kameron Marlowe is not just hung up on his ex, he's hungover her, meaning he has to stay drunk to deal with the heartache - not recommended.

    The song was inspired by a more traditional hangover.

    "'Hungover' came from a real spot," he told Pandora. "I wrote that became I woke up after a rough night in midtown, I think at Red Door. We just drank our asses off. We just decided to throw down that night.

    But I woke up the next day and had to write - it was dumb on my part to go out drinking the night before. But you know when you wake up and you're super hazy and your mouth is dry? I wrote down, 'a little hazed over this morning,' and after that the next lines rolled."
  • The Nashville songwriters Aaron Eshuis and Joe Clemmons wrote this song with Marlowe, but his roommate Matthew Gatewood also got a credit.

    "He was with me at the bar and he helped write the song," Marlowe explained. "We wrote half the verse and half the chorus. I took it to my write that day and we finished it at the write."

    "That was head-pounding, for sure," he added. "I was drinking as much water as I possibly could. I was taking Advil, I was doing everything I could, but we finally got the song out."
  • "Hungover" is part of Kameron Marlowe's self-titled debut EP, released in 2020. It's in the vein of his breakout single "Giving You Up," which is about a real breakup.

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