Weakness

Album: All American Made (2017)
Play Video

Songfacts®:

  • The title track of Margo Price's Weakness EP, this started out as a poem that the songstress wrote one night. She recalled to NPR:

    "I think it might have been a late-night scribble in my notebook. And my husband just found the first couple lines. I had written, 'Sometimes I'm Virginia Woolf. Sometimes I'm James Dean.' It's probably something that nobody would have heard, had it not been for him going back through my notebook and telling me what was salvageable and what was not. We're always very critical of each other. So if something's good, we tell each other that it's good, and if something's s--t, then we toss it out the window.

    I definitely feel the counterplay of feeling like - sometimes things feel really nice, as far as where we're at now. But there still is pain and temptation and all of these things that kind of make up a human."
  • The song was later included in Margo Price's second album All American Made.
  • All American Made was ranked by American Songwriter magazine as their #1 album of 2017. They said:

    "Second albums often feel safe - you want to keep and cradle the fans you carefully cultivated. Price doesn't play that game. Instead, she doubles down on her beliefs, sonic ambitions and lyrical explorations, and comes out with a jackpot."

Comments

Be the first to comment...

Editor's Picks

Strange Magnetics

Strange MagneticsSong Writing

How Bing Crosby, Les Paul, a US Army Signal Corps Officer, and the Nazis helped shape rock and Roll.

Spot The Real Red Hot Chili Peppers Song Titles

Spot The Real Red Hot Chili Peppers Song TitlesMusic Quiz

The Red Hot Chili Peppers have some rather unusual song titles - see if you can spot the real ones.

Penny Ford of Snap!

Penny Ford of Snap!Songwriter Interviews

The original voice of Snap! this story is filled with angry drag queens, video impersonators and Chaka Khan.

Glen Burtnik

Glen BurtnikSongwriter Interviews

On Glen's résumé: hit songwriter, Facebook dominator, and member of Styx.

Peter Lord

Peter LordSongwriter Interviews

You may not recognize his name, but you will certainly recognize Peter Lord's songs. He wrote the bevy of hits from Paula Abdul's second album, Spellbound.

Band Names

Band NamesFact or Fiction

Was "Pearl" Eddie Vedder's grandmother, and did she really make a hallucinogenic jam? Did Journey have a contest to name the group? And what does KISS stand for anyway?