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• Montell Fish is an East Coast born and bred singer-songwriter who writes and produces his music himself. He releases his songs on Lord's Child, a label he founded along with his manager and ministry partner Patrick Bradley. "Hotel" is his breakthrough song, entering the singles charts worldwide.
• "Hotel" is the first song released by Fish since his Jamie album, a record about the process of heartache following the dissolution of a romance. Musically, it's stripped down with melancholic guitar instrumentals.
  
  The R&B slow burner finds Fish singing of his desire for a girl he met in a hotel room. He recognized she's bad news but still got involved and let her play with his emotions.
  
  "'Hotel' is meant to represent the beginning of the next chapter after Jamie, a kind of post-break-up anger," Fish said. "Instead of soft, ambient guitars, I wanted to contrast it with dark heavy bass and a more rock guitar solo towards the end."
• The song is the lead single from Charlotte, the second album in Fish's Jamie Charlotte Marshall trilogy centering on the stages of grief. "Denial, isolation, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance," he listed to Billboard. "But I just wanted to do it in three because seven is way too many."