Album: Emotions (2023)
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  • Music is a kind of time machine - listening to a song can transport us back to the moment when we first heard it. For a songwriter, it can also return them to the time they wrote it, which is the case for Erica Falls when she hears "Up," a romantic track about wanting to be whisked away by her new lover.

    "The song 'Up' came to me initially as just the chorus, when we were in the lockdown and I was cooking dinner," Falls recalled in a 2024 interview with the Songfacts Podcast. "When I go back to listen to it and to hear the progression of the song to what it is now, I can still hear the seasoning sizzling in the skillet as the chorus was coming to me. That one came chorus first, then first verse, then second verse. And then the change came after we started performing it live a little bit, just to test it out. The ending part came to me after that because it was something that I did on stage that came to me naturally and I said, 'Oh wait, this would be great to extend the song and add to it and give it another level.'"
  • Songs don't always reach out to Falls in the same way, but they always come from a place of emotion. She explained: "I got to the writing game a little late in life, and I'm an emotional writer. If I'm feeling something, I have to jot it down. Sometimes I can't sleep until I roll over and get whatever melody is in my head out. Just sing whatever with one eye open and one eye closed to get the melody out. Sometimes it comes to me all at once, and then sometimes it comes in pieces."
  • Falls compares the heady experience of her romance with getting high, singing:

    Take me up somewhere my mind can't explain
    Wanna feel it rushing like heroin through my veins

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