Lauryn Marie released her EP, Using My Words on April 15. Some astute listeners may find that the project's tracklist is full of familiar titles. There's a reason for that.
"Back in February, Taylor Swift announced her Tortured Poets Department album and released the tracklist and I thought all of the titles were really cool," Lauryn recalled. "We hadn't heard any of the songs yet. So, I decided to try to write some of my own songs based on some of those titles and kind of predict what she was going to do with it but also see what I would do with that title," she added. "Her writing style is similar to mine and I am pretty familiar with it. It was pretty cool to combine both of our styles."
At first, she didn't have plans for a release. Instead, she was just flexing her songwriting skills on social media. "I took the title, 'I Can Do It With a Broken Heart' and I wrote a little chorus and posted it on Instagram and TikTok and it kind of took off," she said. "Then, I started doing more of those videos and decided to record five of those songs and release them before the album came out which meant I ended up recording most of them in the span of a week in my bedroom."
"I got to perform it in Belmont's Best of the Best Showcase. They do genre showcases throughout the year and I played the songwriter showcase in 2022 and won that. So, I got to play the Best of the Best Showcase in 2023 and that song's what got me there," Lauryn said of the song's early success.
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