Brooke Eden Gives the Rundown on Her Tracks from ‘Welcome to the Weekend’
From high school memories to downright brutal breakups, Eden put forth all of her emotions in each of the songs featured on the 2016 release.
As a songwriter and a country artist, Brooke Eden didn’t want to keep her fans in the dark about her life so she decided to put all her stories into song form on her EP, Welcome to the Weekend.
From high school memories to downright brutal breakups, Eden put forth all of her emotions in each of the songs featured on the 2016 release. Channeling the moments into four different tracks, Eden embraces her constantly changing life when she hits the writing room with her friends in town in order to come out on top with a killer song and a chorus hook to boot.
One of the most popular tracks on the EP happens to be a hit called “Act Like You Don’t,” which was actually inspired by a rough patch in Eden’s life. As everyone experiences at least once in their lives, Eden dealt with the pain that came with a heartwrenching breakup in which she felt as though she lost more than just love in the process.
“’Act Like You Don’t’ is a song I wrote with Cary Barlowe and Jesse Frasure and it was a song I wrote to get through a breakup,” Eden explained in the tell-all video clip. “It was one of the hardest breakups I’ve ever gone through because we knew that the relationship wasn’t going anywhere. He wasn’t the one and I wasn’t the one for him. But we still loved each other, so it was this really hard part of a breakup where you really are best friends, you hang out all the time, you have the same places that you hang out, you have the same friends and then all of a sudden, you have to cut all of that off because if you continue to act in this way, if you continue to hang out and be friends every weekend, you’re going to end up together again. And we did that over and over and over again. I literally got to the point where I was like, ‘If you ever loved me, I need you to act like you don’t love me anymore.’”
Regaining happiness by her song, “Diamonds,” Eden claims that the track stands as the party jam on the release. Throwing it all the way back to the glory years of high school, the country singer paid homage to the makeshift parties she and her pals would throw out in the sticks thanks to the constant supervision of small town life.
“A lot of times, we would get ready at my house and all of us girls would curl our hair and put on our rhinestone belts and our cowboy boots and get all glammed out to go to the woods. So we were like diamonds in the middle of the woods, and the boys were like, ‘Oh, that’s pretty cool!’ So we wrote ‘Diamonds’ from that and it’s a really nostalgic song for me. It kinda takes me back to that time in my life when all we really needed was each other and the night,” revealed Eden about her high school past.
Fans can listen to Eden’s EP, Welcome to the Weekend, on Spotify now.
