Can’t Help But Think About you is a song I wrote with EMME, a super talented artist/songwriter and friend of mine, at my studio in the west side of Los Angeles. It was our first time hanging in person in over a year, and after taking a bit of time to catch up and going on a walk with my dog, I played her a little idea I had started, which was mainly this nostalgic-feeling drone sound and a bright synth pluck. She immediately started hearing melodies for it, the very first one which became the opening verse’s “I’m out of place, out of reasons why…”
From there, I stripped it all back to piano chords, and we began honing in on the story we really wanted to tell. The song is essentially about b...