Macy Martin’s current single is called “Stupid” and the song has been played on Spotify over 20,000 times. She said she wanted to cut the song after it was pitched to her because of how the song describes letting go of your inhibitions and allowing yourself to fall in love. She admits that it isn’t something that comes naturally to her. “I’m definitely a planner,” she said, adding that everyone has to tell her to stop overthinking it when she’s starting to dive into a new relationship.
“It’s been almost therapeutic for me to be able to play this role in performing “Stupid” and then the creation of the music video for it,” Martin said. The video has been out less than three weeks. Martin said she wanted something that felt like you were walking out of a fever dream in terms of a visual music video and she knew that story had to be told.
Martin also released another song called “Strange Times” last month. While “Stupid” is about allowing yourself to fall in love, “Strange Times” is about a failing relationship. Martin said she wants people to apply their own story to it. Evidently, people have connected with the song because it has been played on Spotify over 30,000 times.
Last year, Martin’s song “I Miss You,” which was co-written by Carly Pearce, Nathan Spicer and April Geesbright, became her first number one song at Radio Disney Country, where the song spent the summer in radio rotation. “I Miss You” is one of two of Martin’s songs that have received over 105,000 plays on Spotify. Martin’s chart success came shortly after she graduated from Belmont University in Nashville.
The COVID-19 pandemic caused many things in 2020 to be either cancelled or changed drastically. It was a time where many musicians weren’t doing shows because large gathering were not permitted. Martin said one of the biggest things she learned was to pivot, adding that that’s the skill that she believes she has grown the most in the past year. She also believes that everyone on her team would say the same thing. Martin said she did a lot of recording and writing during the pandemic. She also spent a lot of quality time with her shih tzu.
Martin said she told her mom and her grandmother when she was a little girl that she would be a superstar one day. She said she totally believed that she would be discovered in the grocery store and she would sing and dance down the aisles of the grocery store. “One time, I got lost. My mom lost me, but found me because she could hear me several aisles down serenading strangers,” she said.
Although she didn’t get discovered in a grocery store, Martin did get some opportunities when she was younger that helped lead her to where she is today. One of those opportunities was getting to perform at the Miss Houston pageant in 2005 while the older girls were getting changed. Martin said she dressed up as Ariel from The Little Mermaid, and she even had a fake Flounder plush toy and a fake treasure chest box as props. She sang “Part Of Your World” to a crowd of about 2,000 people, which she said was her first real public performance.
When Martin was in junior high school, she met a lady at a performance whose husband was a song publisher and had recently passed away. She asked Martin to record some of his songs. Martin expected the CD to be something she could give to her family. It led her to be connected to producer Kent Wells. Martin said that her mom received an email from Wells in August of the summer before her freshman year in high school and they went to Nashville three weeks later. During that meeting, she said Wells put her in a room with a songwriter to write a song. That song was later included on one of Martin’s early projects.
Even though she was making trips to Nashville, Martin didn’t want to be homeschooled. “Life was not so vastly different that I needed homeschooling or anything like that,” she said, adding that she would make sure her work was caught up or work to get ahead to prepare for an upcoming trip. She credits her peers, teachers, principals and everybody that was a part of her academic life for being so supportive and wanting her to be successful in both realms.
Martin said she is grateful for her hometown. “There’s nothing like College Station, Texas in terms of people’s charisma and their spirit for life. I had a lot of believers behind me,” she said. Martin said that her hometown is a place she can go to be herself. Her parents are still there and work in commercial construction. “It’s my grounding place and it always will be,” she added.
Martin said she has a wide range of influences. Her current influences include Kacey Musgraves and Maren Morris. She was exposed to many different types of music when she was younger. She said her grandmother would listen to Nat King Cole. Her dad is an ex-pro bull rider who listened to country and her mom listened to artist like Fleetwood Mac and The Eagles. She said she was so fortunate to have been influenced by all those music genres in her musical taste, adding that she thinks it shines through in the songs she writes and the songs that she releases.
After Martin graduated high school, she moved to Nashville and studies Music Business at Belmont University. She said she chose music business because she wanted to learn the business side. One of the benefits of studying at Belmont was that it gave her the opportunity to network with many people involved in the music industry. “It totally makes you way better,” she said. Martin said she was fearful that she wouldn’t be as connected after graduation. “It fascinates me. I kid you not, since graduating, I almost feel like I have become even more connected…,” she said. Since graduating college, she has met people that she didn’t a get a chance to meet during college.
For more information about Martin, people can visit her website at www.macymartinmusic.com. Her music is on Spotify and she has a YouTube channel. Martin is also active on social media. She is on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at MacyMartinMusic.