A Shot of "Caffeine" For Your Monday Blues
For today’s Music Monday pick, we have Fly By Midnight’s new single featuring Shoffy. What a perfect time for the song to be released seeing as international coffee is just around the corner on October 1!
The collaboration, a first between Fly By Midnight and Shoffy, is centered around a toxic love story. Defining “Caffeine” as “keeping you up late thinking about someone”, they’ve crafted yet another hit reminiscent of the Fly By Midnight sound we know and love. “Caffeine” follows Shoffy’s recent release “I Can’t Help” with Sarcastic Sounds and Fly By Midnight’s last single “Lost Without You” featuring Swedish singer-songwriter Clara Mae. The video for “Lost Without You” achieved over 1 million views on YouTube just a few weeks after its release.
Fly By Midnight co-wrote the song with their friend Brett Truitt who is based out of Nashville. The duo states that as big coffee fans, they’ve been wanting to write a track named “Caffeine” for a while now, owing to the late hours they’ve spent in the studio. They liken the effects of coffee to the feeling of being up all night pining over being someone’s somebody and felt like it was a fun spin on a narrative a lot of people can relate to. It wasn’t until they had recorded it that they had the idea of including a male artist as a feature, something they had not previously done. Being personal fans of Shoffy, it was a no-brainer to have him collaborate on the track.
“I immediately gravitated toward the track when I first heard it. Cut a verse at my home studio, and then linked up with the guys for a socially distant shoot and music video.”
An official video was released alongside the single and paid homage to female icons of the 90’s, including Tiffani Amber Thiessen, Tyra Banks and Jennifer Lopez. And of course, with a title like “Caffeine”, coffee made several appearances as well.
Grab yourself a shot of your favorite cuppa and stream “Caffeine” now, available on all digital streaming platforms!