Strangers

Album: Keepin' The Lights On (2024)
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Songfacts®:

  • "Strangers" is a duet between Kameron Marlowe, known for "Giving You Up," and Ella Langley, known for "You Look Like You Love Me." They play the part of a couple who have decided to break up but have too tight a bond to just walk away. So what will they become? Friends won't work, and strangers is out of the question. We get the sense that after they think this through they might just get back together.
  • Marlowe and Langley met on a songwriting retreat in Maui, but they didn't write the song there. They reconnected when she was his opening act at a show in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and they decided to write a song together. They got together with the writers Chase McGill and Will Bundy, and decided to try a duet, since neither of them had done one before. The result was "Strangers," which landed on Marlowe's second album, Keepin' the Lights On, in 2024.
  • In the music video, Marlowe and Langley are having their discussion in a nice restaurant. All seems normal until the place is engulfed in flames. Everyone runs for their lives except Marlowe and Langley, who stay put.

    The video was directed by Patrick Tohill, whose credits include "Something Greater" by Matthew West and "Hope" by NF. The fire was computer generated.

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