Emerging from the ARIA-winning group, All Our Exes, Katie Wighton launches her new solo single, Take You Home, with an accompanying video.
Texas-hailing vocalist and guitarist, Katie Wighton has unleashed a new single, Take You Home, and it’s an absolute bop! Instantly serving up a feel-good energy, Wighton captivates us with an infectious melody, infused with rhythmic riffs, upfront humorous lyrics and a beat that drives it home.
As Whighton’s impeccable vocal harmonies, bright and vibrant jolts of brass, and trickling stream of synths bring Take You Home to its triumphant ending, you will find yourself reaching for the replay button once more. Recently, the songstress returned home from a trip to Nashville, where she was involved in a series of inspiring songwriting sessions. She co-wrote Take You Home in Sydney with her best mate, Elizabeth M Drummond (Little May).
Remembering their songwriting sessions, Wighton chuckled that “Lizzie [Drummond] was playing and singing and I thought she sang something like, ‘I saw your brother naked on the stairs’.” She continued, “We’d been like, ‘Wow, I just saw your brother naked and I don’t even care, because I’m so not in love with you anymore’.” The embracing of awkward and potently real experiences definitely shines through on this track.
With this humorous, satire-like tone, Wighton packs this attitude into the tongue-in-cheek music video for Take You Home. Sporting a ’50s-inspired aesthetic, Wighton gives off a housewife that is no longer putting up with her husband’s bullshit. In visualizing the inspiration, Wighton says, “I fantasize about killing my husband as a ’50s housewife!” I mean, if I was a suppressed ’50s housewife, I would too.
She laughs about the actor playing the husband: “My poor friend Mark who was in my first film clip playing the devil is the boring husband in this clip. He’s SUCH a nice man so it’s actually quite rude of me to keep casting him as the villain.”
Wighton’s latest track is centered around “that fear of taking a big leap to be alone, cause you can’t face yourself.”
After getting through high school, Wighton went to university to study Jazz: “I feel like I have a musical rebellion every few years,” she expresses. “I did a pop EP and then, once I’d done that, I joined a folk band.” What an incredible way to explore and experiment with different kinds of genres and expand your musical skills!
Reflecting on her solo work, Wighton reveals that “It’s nice to have total creative control”. Reveling in her era of musical freedom, she is excited to delve into the unknown: “I want throw stuff at the wall and see what happens – it has been so liberating.”
Getting into a yelly vocal state, shredding echoes of wails on the guitar, and creating music that others can dance to, has generated feelings of happiness and pride in Wighton throughout her musical journey: “I feel really, really lucky that I get to put something out that I’m super-proud of. And it’s entirely of my own making.” Stream Take You Home via Spotify below.
