[Meaghan Smith New song “The One” unveiled TODAY Halifax-based, JUNO-award-winning singer-songwriter, Meaghan Smith’s latest project, Our Song - an opportunity for her music fans to have their stories told in song – just released new song “The One” today, September 1st, 2017 at oursongmusic.com.
With a new song unveiled the first Friday of every month, Our Song was a concept created earlier this year in collaboration with multi-instrumentalist / music producer, Jason Mingo, who Smith affectively calls her HusBand.
“Our Song is a way for me to be with my fans and intermingle my life with theirs,” said Smith. “In the past it was all them hearing my stories, but Our Song is a chance for me to hear their stories, write their songs, and share them with even more people.”
Following the highly successful commercial and critical success of Smith’s album, Have A Heart (2014), Smith needed to make a change to her musical life. Things were changing on the home front, and going out on tour, as a major label artist no longer resonated with her. She still wanted the connection that making music provides but after a life-altering experience, she wondered whether she was alone in what she was feeling. The more she thought about it, the more she wondered whether she could find the connection she craved more directly - and Our Song was born.
“I feel like I’ve been through some things in my life and I’ve arrived at this point where I’m done being in my own life by myself,” said Smith. “I want to be with other people. In the past, when I’ve released my own music, I’ve been inviting people to come into my stories. But I want to turn it around, and be invited into other people’s stories.”
The Our Song process works like this: Fans get in touch with Smith and tell her about the song they’d like to have written. She sends them “an extensive list of questions” by email, and follows up with a phone call to really get into the nitty gritty of the story they have to tell. And then, if she feels she can do their song justice, s]