Maddie & Tae
Maddie & Tae are an American female country music duo composed of Maddie Ma… Read Full Bio ↴Maddie & Tae are an American female country music duo composed of Maddie Marlow and Tae Dye, both of whom are singers, songwriters, and guitarists. The duo was signed to the revived Dot Records in 2014. Their debut album, “Start Here”, was released on August 28, 2015, and includes the singles "Girl in a Country Song", "Fly", "Shut Up and Fish", and "Sierra". Following the closure of Dot, they signed to Mercury Nashville in 2018 and announced the release of a second album, “The Way It Feels”, on April 10, 2020.
Maddie Marlow and Taylor Dye never intended to hit a nerve when they sat down on St. Patricks Day and wrote “Girl In A Country Song.” Merely expressing their own reaction to the reductive tilt of today’s BroCountry, the pair and co-writer Aaron Schwerz shamelessly skewered its Xeroxed stereotypes; “Girl” was as much a lark as it was ever “meaningful social commentary.”
Yet the response was so instant and intense, there was no denying it. NPR’s “All Things Considered” cited Maddie & Tae for “turning heads in different ways with their very first single,” Rolling Stone cited them as one of “10 New Artists You Need to Know” and David Letterman couldn’t get the plucky duo to New York fast enough. Even elevated cultural think-tank The Atlantic marveled, “Cheekily appropriating much of the sound of modern country, the two young women directly quote well-known bro-country lyrics and titles…”
No one was more surprised than the natives of Sugar Land, Texas and Ada, Oklahoma. Still in the studio tracking overdubs for “Girl,” they signed their record deal before Dan Huff had even finished four sides on the sunshine’n’moxie pair.
“We wanted to go at it from a girl’s perspective, and we wanted to put ourselves in the shoes of this girl,” says Dye. “You know, how does she feel wearing those cut-off shorts, sitting on the tailgate?”
“Boys, we love you, we want to look good, but it’s not all we’re good for,” Marlow cautions with a laugh. “We are girls with something to say. We were brought up to know how we should be treated.”
Simple as that. But there’s so much more to Maddie & Tae than the song that is either a feminist declaration, an echo of Janet Jackson’s rebuke “I’ve got a name, and it ain’t ‘Baby’,” or this year’s feel-good finger-wag to dumb boys. NPR’s lead pop critic Ann Powers agrees, “Maddie and Tae are more. They’re songwriters, powerful harmonizers, and in the video for ‘Girl In A Country Song,’ natural comediennes.”
One listen to their self-titled EP shows that. The reeling mean-girl send-up “Sierra,” with its bending steel and trotting acoustic guitar, boasts harmonies that turn in on each other and the kind of truth that’s hilarious and straight-up.
“There was this beauty-queen bully from high school who sent my friends and I home in tears plenty of times,” Marlow explains. “In order to get over it, I had to write a song. So I brought the idea of ‘Sierra,’ and started singing, ‘I wish I had something nice to say…’
“Tae and our co-writer Aaron Scherz lit up and ran with it.”
Any one who’s suffered through and survived high school can relate. But the ability to rhyme “Sierra, Sierra, life ain’t all tiaras…” and taking the rejoinder “you’re gonna find out karma’s a…” to the brink is what sets these two late teenagers apart.
Effervescent and savoring every moment, Maddie & Tae laugh when they lean into the cautionary “That high horse you’re riding… can buck you off clean,” then let their harmonies swoop free and high on the outro.
Like a lot of young women, Maddie & Tae grew up on the Dixie Chicks’ full-tilt acoustica. Both dreamers who knew what they wanted early, the pair met at 15 through their vocal coach and came to Nashville for “a summer camp publishing deal.” They met Big Machine’s SVP of A&R Allison Jones – and fate stepped in.
As Tae recalls, “She said, ‘If you really want to pursue this, you will need to move to Nashville.’ I knew that was what I wanted, but moving to Nashville also meant I had to figure out how to graduate from high school early, and Maddie had to turn down college.”
In 2013, it was decided. The pair relocated – and never looked back. Publishing deal in hand, they were immersed in creativity, seeking a voice that was both authentic and truly their own. Like Taylor Swift, the duo knew by speaking their truth, their uniqueness would set them apart.
As Marlow told Rolling Stone Country, “Our whole project revolves around keeping it real and being honest. We didn’t filter anything, because we felt like when it comes from an honest place, the truth will resonate so much better. The thing about Taylor, everything is real and relevant to what she’s going through, and that’s why people connect with her.”
Listening to the double harmonies over an acoustic guitar hope-strung-over-doubt mid-tempo “Fly,” Maddie & Tae’s conviction is evident. Will what’s been built be betrayed? How do you keep the faith when you’re so unsure? Where is the courage to maintain your place when you’re afraid of the outcome?
Not since “Wide Open Spaces” has an act embraced the will to grow so unabashedly. In perfect synchronization, Maddie & Tae sing, “Keep on climbing, though the ground might shake, keep on reaching through the limb might break/ we’ve come this far, don’t be scared now ‘Cause you can learn to fly on the way down…”
It’s the sort of song that empowers people wherever they are in life, whatever challenge they may be encountering. Yes, it is about coming of age, but it’s also facing the things that scare you – and having the faith to transcend.
“’Fly’ hits home every time we listen to it,” Dye offers. “We really wanted to write a song that was, ‘You may not have anything figured out, but it doesn’t matter.’”
Indeed. Townes Van Zant wrote, “To live is to fly…” For Maddie & Tae, their wings are in the music. What they feel, how they live, what they dream – this is where they rise. One need only listen to the tumbledown hoedown “Your Side of Town,” that’s all high jinx and higher spirits as the pair warn off a no-good man for the last time, to understand.
Even in the hardcore throw-down, all bucking backbeat and bee-sting guitar, there is a romp and a plucky audacity that shows these young ladies have no interest in letting anything break their spirits. Just as importantly, they fear no fiddles, no banjos, no steel guitars, even as they have bulked up drums that crash and guitars that slash and sting like the big boys.
While Rolling Stone observed, “Cheekily appropriating much of the sound of modern country,” there is so much more to Maddie & Tae than that. Independent thinkers, strong livers, hardcore dreamers, the pair are reaching for the sky – and winking at us all while they do it.
Sometimes, it’s the freshest faces and brightest sounds that pull us in. For Maddie & Tae, who embrace real country, it’s that merge of what’s right now and what they love that sets them apart/captures our imaginations in the best possible way.
Maddie Marlow and Taylor Dye never intended to hit a nerve when they sat down on St. Patricks Day and wrote “Girl In A Country Song.” Merely expressing their own reaction to the reductive tilt of today’s BroCountry, the pair and co-writer Aaron Schwerz shamelessly skewered its Xeroxed stereotypes; “Girl” was as much a lark as it was ever “meaningful social commentary.”
Yet the response was so instant and intense, there was no denying it. NPR’s “All Things Considered” cited Maddie & Tae for “turning heads in different ways with their very first single,” Rolling Stone cited them as one of “10 New Artists You Need to Know” and David Letterman couldn’t get the plucky duo to New York fast enough. Even elevated cultural think-tank The Atlantic marveled, “Cheekily appropriating much of the sound of modern country, the two young women directly quote well-known bro-country lyrics and titles…”
No one was more surprised than the natives of Sugar Land, Texas and Ada, Oklahoma. Still in the studio tracking overdubs for “Girl,” they signed their record deal before Dan Huff had even finished four sides on the sunshine’n’moxie pair.
“We wanted to go at it from a girl’s perspective, and we wanted to put ourselves in the shoes of this girl,” says Dye. “You know, how does she feel wearing those cut-off shorts, sitting on the tailgate?”
“Boys, we love you, we want to look good, but it’s not all we’re good for,” Marlow cautions with a laugh. “We are girls with something to say. We were brought up to know how we should be treated.”
Simple as that. But there’s so much more to Maddie & Tae than the song that is either a feminist declaration, an echo of Janet Jackson’s rebuke “I’ve got a name, and it ain’t ‘Baby’,” or this year’s feel-good finger-wag to dumb boys. NPR’s lead pop critic Ann Powers agrees, “Maddie and Tae are more. They’re songwriters, powerful harmonizers, and in the video for ‘Girl In A Country Song,’ natural comediennes.”
One listen to their self-titled EP shows that. The reeling mean-girl send-up “Sierra,” with its bending steel and trotting acoustic guitar, boasts harmonies that turn in on each other and the kind of truth that’s hilarious and straight-up.
“There was this beauty-queen bully from high school who sent my friends and I home in tears plenty of times,” Marlow explains. “In order to get over it, I had to write a song. So I brought the idea of ‘Sierra,’ and started singing, ‘I wish I had something nice to say…’
“Tae and our co-writer Aaron Scherz lit up and ran with it.”
Any one who’s suffered through and survived high school can relate. But the ability to rhyme “Sierra, Sierra, life ain’t all tiaras…” and taking the rejoinder “you’re gonna find out karma’s a…” to the brink is what sets these two late teenagers apart.
Effervescent and savoring every moment, Maddie & Tae laugh when they lean into the cautionary “That high horse you’re riding… can buck you off clean,” then let their harmonies swoop free and high on the outro.
Like a lot of young women, Maddie & Tae grew up on the Dixie Chicks’ full-tilt acoustica. Both dreamers who knew what they wanted early, the pair met at 15 through their vocal coach and came to Nashville for “a summer camp publishing deal.” They met Big Machine’s SVP of A&R Allison Jones – and fate stepped in.
As Tae recalls, “She said, ‘If you really want to pursue this, you will need to move to Nashville.’ I knew that was what I wanted, but moving to Nashville also meant I had to figure out how to graduate from high school early, and Maddie had to turn down college.”
In 2013, it was decided. The pair relocated – and never looked back. Publishing deal in hand, they were immersed in creativity, seeking a voice that was both authentic and truly their own. Like Taylor Swift, the duo knew by speaking their truth, their uniqueness would set them apart.
As Marlow told Rolling Stone Country, “Our whole project revolves around keeping it real and being honest. We didn’t filter anything, because we felt like when it comes from an honest place, the truth will resonate so much better. The thing about Taylor, everything is real and relevant to what she’s going through, and that’s why people connect with her.”
Listening to the double harmonies over an acoustic guitar hope-strung-over-doubt mid-tempo “Fly,” Maddie & Tae’s conviction is evident. Will what’s been built be betrayed? How do you keep the faith when you’re so unsure? Where is the courage to maintain your place when you’re afraid of the outcome?
Not since “Wide Open Spaces” has an act embraced the will to grow so unabashedly. In perfect synchronization, Maddie & Tae sing, “Keep on climbing, though the ground might shake, keep on reaching through the limb might break/ we’ve come this far, don’t be scared now ‘Cause you can learn to fly on the way down…”
It’s the sort of song that empowers people wherever they are in life, whatever challenge they may be encountering. Yes, it is about coming of age, but it’s also facing the things that scare you – and having the faith to transcend.
“’Fly’ hits home every time we listen to it,” Dye offers. “We really wanted to write a song that was, ‘You may not have anything figured out, but it doesn’t matter.’”
Indeed. Townes Van Zant wrote, “To live is to fly…” For Maddie & Tae, their wings are in the music. What they feel, how they live, what they dream – this is where they rise. One need only listen to the tumbledown hoedown “Your Side of Town,” that’s all high jinx and higher spirits as the pair warn off a no-good man for the last time, to understand.
Even in the hardcore throw-down, all bucking backbeat and bee-sting guitar, there is a romp and a plucky audacity that shows these young ladies have no interest in letting anything break their spirits. Just as importantly, they fear no fiddles, no banjos, no steel guitars, even as they have bulked up drums that crash and guitars that slash and sting like the big boys.
While Rolling Stone observed, “Cheekily appropriating much of the sound of modern country,” there is so much more to Maddie & Tae than that. Independent thinkers, strong livers, hardcore dreamers, the pair are reaching for the sky – and winking at us all while they do it.
Sometimes, it’s the freshest faces and brightest sounds that pull us in. For Maddie & Tae, who embrace real country, it’s that merge of what’s right now and what they love that sets them apart/captures our imaginations in the best possible way.
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Maddie & Tae Lyrics
"Girl In A Country Song " Well, I wish I had some shoes On my two bare…
After The Storm Blows Through You've been walking around with a dark cloud Hanging over ev…
Ain't There Yet Na-na-na, na-na-na, na Na-na-na, na-na-na, na Na-na-na, na-n…
Bathroom Floor Girl, I know He done did a number on your soul It…
Christmas Lights that twinkle red and green Charlie Brown on the TV…
Die From A Broken Heart Hey, mama, how do you get a red-wine stain Out of…
Downside Of Growing Up Pack your bags and hug your mom Been dreaming about leaving…
Drinking to Remember Just gonna be me tonight I ain't waitin' on anybody I won't…
drunk or lonely You're always twenty minutes late 'Cause you can't find your…
Every Night Every Morning He said, "Baby, how was your day? Did you call your…
Everywhere I'm Goin' Ooh Ooh He's as cool as California Homegrown like they do i…
Fly Baby blue staring in the window pane Just counting drops of…
Friends Don't They don't cancel other plans Have conversations with nothin…
Girl After My Own Heart Girl, I ain't mad I see just what you're looking at He's…
Girl an a Country Song Well, I wish I had some shoes On my two bare…
Girl In A Country Song (No country music was harmed in the making of this…
Girl In A Country Song by www.RadioFLy.ws Well, I wish I had some shoes On my two bare…
Good Girl Good little girl Ah haaaa Baby I'm not from here I'm from th…
Heart They Didn't Break It's two hundred miles from Ole Miss Said, she had class,…
Holly Jolly Christmas Have a holly jolly Christmas It′s the best time of the…
I Don't Need To Know I got a text about the dress that she was…
Lay Here With Me These walls could use some silence These eyes could use some…
Life Ain't Fair Tell me something Do y'all ever feel like you're the punch…
Madness You're my north star You're my hideaway You're my lighthouse…
Merry Married Christmas Ho ho ho Wishin’ you a Merry Christmas Ho ho ho…
Mood Ring You go dark when it's sunny You light up like summer…
Move She just want all my love And my time Girl I'm one…
My Man When he kisses my lips, I fall apart Sendin' shockwaves stra…
New Dog Old Tricks It's a full moon, it's the weekend Lookin' for a little…
No Place Like You California cherry cola, sandy skies in Arizona Smoky mountai…
One Heart To Another Can't keep a secret In a tell-all town this size Figured I'd…
People Need People Today I tried to start a fight again 'Cause I saw…
Play It Again I just sit back, and I play it cool Watch and…
Right Here Right Now Stop thinking about it, been dancing all around it Standing …
Shut Up And Fish He pulled up in his red Corvette Salmon shorts and a…
Sierra I wish I had something nice to say About that girl…
Singles You Up Real niggas always gone link up Real Street Niggas Ayyyyyyee…
Smoke Wanna know who burned you so bad Left your heart in…
Strangers You see the me no one else sees And I see…
This Christmas Hang all the mistletoe I′m gonna get to know you better This…
Tourist In This Town I have to find myself a new coffee shop I have…
Trying On Rings Look at us Two Sugar Land kids looking all grown up The…
Waitin on a Plane Rain, you ain't gonna slow me down Pain, you can have…
Watching Love Leave It's one key in the drawer One in the ignition Two feet…
Water in His Wine Glass I know he's broken Maybe he just needs a break And as…
Watermelon Sugar Tastes like strawberries On a summer evening And it sounds j…
We Need Christmas Lights that twinkle red and green Charlie Brown on the TV…
Wish You The Best Here comes the breakup Here comes the fallin' out of in…
Woman You Got Baby, you put a ring on a wild thing A whole…
Write a Book Baby, when you say my name It sparks up a flame…
Your Side Of Town You better stay, stay on your side of town Because I'm…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Maddie:
Die From A Broken Heart Hey, mama, how do you get a red-wine stain Out of…
Fly Baby blue staring in the window pane Just counting drops of…
Girl In A Country Song (No country music was harmed in the making of this…
tryhard of the century Coffee's bitter Your thoughts are even more Time doesn't pas…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Tae:
All Night Now wait a minute, its about time …
Alone Time Spent so much time Being alone The scars on my center My hou…
Come Back to Me 가끔 불어오는 바람 나를 안으면 그 안에 담겨진 기억들이 내게 들어와 녹아있던 추억과…
GOODBYE Goodbye 轻轻挥别了 双眼模糊 say goodbye 故事飞出了门外 远走 等到哪天 想起来 一遍遍 一…
Jaded Maybe its time to let it go The sheets are cold,…
Moonlight Hey I don't know where to start with this You…
Nostalgia Baby its nostalgia Bike rides in the summer My golden…
Oh Baby Oh,Baby! 今天去应征服务生的工作 照例又要回家等候回音 回来路上碰上大雷雨 没想到在街角咖啡店遇见你 隔着玻璃窗…
Rose Gold (Rose gold or ice?) (Hmm, hmm, can't decide) (Tokyo, Du…
The Fool I'll keep looking forward I'll keep looking I'll keep I'll k…
What Love Is Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, lil' bruh came in with a…
Where am i 1 in the morning I gotta stay up Help me count…
Yet Na-na-na, na-na-na, na Na-na-na, na-na-na, na Na-na-na, na-n…
男孩追女孩 男孩追女孩 别那么见外 再靠近一点好不好 你那么可爱 男孩追女孩 我身家清白 想要你做我女朋友 啊 说不出来 我先擦擦汗…
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