Hey and welcome back to the blog! 

I’ve had the same songs on repeat lately. On Friday, Emily Weisband released “The Way I Say Goodbye” off her “Not Afraid to Say Goodbye” EP and I can’t stop listening. I love a good sad love song. I’m excited to follow her artist career because I admire her as a songwriter. I’ve also decided that “Memory I Don’t Mess With” by Lee Brice is one of the top songs of the entire year for me. Lee Brice is one of my absolute favorite country artists next to Old Dominion and Dan + Shay. 

In other news, the date of my next release is officially set! I’m so excited to share it with you. This week is about finalizing the cover art, so we’re that much closer! 

With Thanksgiving being next week (how?), I’ve been thinking of all I have to be thankful for. There is so much. I am so thankful to you for joining my journey. Thank you for listening to my music and thank you for reading this blog. It truly means so much to me. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Until next time.

Hey again! 

This is bad. I honestly haven’t written a whole song in… 2 months. Lately I’ve been so busy that I haven’t had the chance to catch a breath. This weekend I got to slow down a little bit and catch a breath. 

My favorite time to write is when I don’t have to try to write. When my feelings produce the words all on their own. This weekend I started writing a song about regret- a weird thing I’ve been feeling a lot of lately. It creeps in when you do something and then it will come around when you don’t. When you miss a chance and then also when you take it… if you let it. When I’m not careful, I find myself between believing that everything happens for a reason and believing that how I control my life determines how things happen. In reality, the ladder needs pressure and perfection. But believing everything happens for a reason seems more to me like the act of having faith- trusting something out of my hands. It’s mostly about perspective; which one I adopt and how much I have of it. Can you relate? 

In addition to writing more, I’m in pursuit of making more time to read. I recently finished reading Boundaries by Henry Cloud and John Townsend- a book I recommend and will definitely pick up again. I would love to read some good fiction books if you have any recommendations! 

What’s your favorite book? Like the famous tattoo reads, “no ragrets.” More intention, less regret. Until next time!

At the time I wrote KTMS, I was in the early stages of finding my love for songwriting. It was my second or third month living in Nashville, I was surrounded by more creative people than I’d been around in my entire life, and life was better than it had ever been before. 

I remember walking home on an October afternoon when the melody and lyrics, “go ahead and kiss me on the sidewalk like we’re not in front of my momma’s house” came to mind. I recorded a voice memo and went inside to write the rest of the song then and there. Writing it was so much fun because it’s about keeping a relationship under wraps - the whole song is around an idea that I’ve never experienced - but that’s why I think the creativity songwriting allows is so cool. Just a few details in your life can inspire a whole song and you can take it anywhere you want to go with it. 

I’m really thankful for getting to collaborate with some dear friends in bringing this song to life! My good friend Erik Swart co-wrote it with me and a handful of other friends contributed to bringing the record and live performance to life. 

Touring KTMS was so much fun. I got to take the song around Tennessee with 20 of the coolest people I know which is something I hold so close. I also had the awesome opportunity of getting to sing it at a retirement home a couple weeks after I wrote it! It was special to bring music to the residents and interact with them… and a good reminder that at that age there’s no fear behind speaking your mind - thick skin. 

I am so happy that so many beautiful memories are tied to what I’ve chosen to embark my journey of releasing music on. I have so many people to thank, but you know who you are. THANK YOU for listening! It truly means so much to me that you choose to play it. Keep streaming Keep to Myself and soon we'll have another one. Follow your dreams! 

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Rest assured we have reason to smile today guys. As I’m writing this, there are only 31 days until Thanksgiving and 60 days until Christmas. One of my neighbors has Christmas lights on their roof and Halloween decorations on their lawn.. heck, it’s 2020. Anyone else feel like this year has flown by? There’s something bittersweet about growing older and time going faster. *Cue Nichole Nordeman*

We’re getting into my favorite season and the thought of cold weather, sweaters, Hallmark Christmas movies and Starbucks holiday drinks gets me giddy. Jill & Kate’s Christmas EP “Christmas All Year Long” came out on Friday and it will be at the top of my Christmas playlist this year! I love them and this EP. 

MUSIC 

I am really excited that I officially have my next single in my hands! You’re the first to know about it. If you want a first listen, you can hear me singing part of it by clicking here. I’ll share more about the song in another blog post! 

In other news, I’m now on TikTok and posted a cover of Lonely by Justin Bieber and More Than My Hometown by Morgan Wallen. Follow me over there for new videos every week! @molliecoday 

What songs do you want to hear me cover? Leave a comment and let me know! Cherish today in all it is because tomorrow it becomes a memory. Until next time!

Whether you’re a friend from my hometown, someone I’ve met along the way, or if I’ve yet to meet you… Hey, it’s Mollie. I’ve created a space where every week I fill you in on lyrics I’ve been writing, music I’ve been loving, and just whatever’s going on. 

ABOUT ME 

If we haven’t met, let me introduce myself! I’m Mollie Coday, a 21-year old country-pop singer and songwriter. I released my debut single in August called “Keep to Myself.” My next single is in its final stages of production and I’m really excited about it! I currently live in Texas, but I’ve lived in Oklahoma, Missouri and Tennessee! I love to travel, I’m an enneagram 9w1 through and through, and I’m always down for a coffee shop hang and Hallmark movie. 

MUSIC 

I’ve been listening to Caleb LaDuke’s latest EP “R” and “Circles” by Real Face on repeat. “Circles” just hit 100K streams on Spotify and I’m a proud friend! 

I recently wrote a song titled “Haunting Me,” which you can listen to here! It’s one of those songs that when I put pen to paper, the entire thing just flowed out- every word is really, really honest. My favorite line in the song is: “this place is too familiar for my sanity - your ghost is slowly rising up from six feet and haunting me.” 

Leave a comment letting me know what your enneagram number is! If we’ve met, chances are I’ve probably already asked you that anyways. Life’s short but so meaningful- let’s make the most of it. THANK YOU for joining me on this journey. Until next time!