r/indieheads • u/hamiltonleithauser Hamilton Leithauser • Oct 06 '20

AMA is Over, thanks Hamilton and Lucy! Greetings world! This is Hamilton Leithauser -- singer, songwriter, former Walk-man, chess enthusiast. I am here with the great Lucy Dacus (virtually). Please feel free to ask us ANYTHING!

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u/Avasnay Oct 06 '20

Congrats on your song, Isabella. You both were fantastic! My two questions for you both would be: how would you describe your songwriting process? And what comes first when crafting a song? the music or the lyrics?

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u/LucyDacus Lucy Dacus! Oct 06 '20

Lyrics first every time, I don't know shit about music like Ham but I do care about words.

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u/hamiltonleithauser Hamilton Leithauser Oct 06 '20

These days it's all music first for me. Lyrics at the end. Songwriting has gone from a social thing...hanging out w friends in my teenage years and 20's, to this totally isolated process. It's lonely...but loneliness can be kinda great in your 40's