Album: Loosen Up The Leash (2016)
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Songfacts®:

  • "Used" is the first single from Loosen Up The Leash, the debut full-length from Strangers You Know, which is the duo of Adam Haagen and Grady Lee. The song finds lead singer Grady Lee frustrated and feeling used, as he's being honest in the relationship and his partner isn't.

    When we spoke with the duo, Grady explained that their songs typically start with him getting his heart broken and wallowing in pity. From there, they get to work in the studio creating layers of sounds to fit the lyric.
  • At the Coachella festival in 2016, the group performed this song with the UCLA Philharmonia. Haagen told us: "The main first chair violinist, Camille Miller, made a score for our record that she played on, but all the other players just came to perform live with us. All the harmonies and everything, we did live. It's all very unique to the live setting. It's very different."

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