You're listening to song-explanter where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.

I'm Rishi Kesh Hirway.

Lisey McAlpine released her first album in 2020 and her second album in 2022 and between the two she's had a lot of success.

One of her songs, Ceelings, was a viral Tik-Toc hit that's been streamed over half a billion times.

So you might think with all that success, you'd want to keep working in a way that's been working.

But while Lizzy was making you'd want to keep working in a way that's been working.

But while Lizzy was making her third album older,

after almost a year into the process of recording,

she threw the whole thing out.

She brought in a new band and started over with a totally different

approach. I talked to her about the song Staying from her new album. Coming up

you'll hear her original voice memos as well as the first version she made in the studio

and then how it really came to life once she reimagined it. What happens when you love me, tried?

I give myself to help you get by.

I keep on lying and sweating at night.

Hold me until someone sends me a sign. My name is Lizzy McAlpine.

It was nighttime when I wrote staying.

I was sitting in my room in my room. It was night time when I wrote staying.

I was sitting in my room in my apartment.

I was thinking about this relationship that I had in college.

It lasted for a month and a half and then for the next four-ish years. We were just on and off

At this point it was over, but I was still like processing and reflecting. I mean this whole album is about one relationship and every

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