avenue beat

With a knack for writing viral hits, Avenue Beat deserves a spot on all your favorite playlists. We talked to the group about blowing up on TikTok, dream collaborators, and more!

words by VANESSA SALLES photo by DELANEY ROYER

Take us back to the beginning; how would you describe Avenue Beat’s musical journey?

Sam: Our musical journey begins when we were all 14 and doing a musical theatre camp in our hometown! We had a sleepover at my house, learned a cover, and the rest was history! We just spent all our free time doing covers in my kitchen, writing songs, and playing shows at the local bars and restaurants. When we graduated high school, we moved to Nashville full-time and started diving into songwriting. It took us a couple years of writing songs everyday to really figure out what we wanted to say to the world with our music. When Savana learned how to do tracks and started producing for us, we figured out what we wanted our sound to be. It all just fell into place after that.

What can you tell us about the writing/recording process of F2020?

Sav: I think the whole experience of writing F2020 was pretty unusual for a song. It was SO fast because the verses were literally things that had happened in our lives. We had no idea how many people this song would reach, or that it would even be released at all, so we didn’t overthink or stress any of the lyrics.

The track became an instant hit on TikTok and other streaming platforms; how would youdescribe the reaction from fans?

Sami: So. Freaking. Crazy. We’ve never seen anything like it with our stuff before! People have been so kind and gassing us up like crazy! It almost makes the few negative comments necessary so our heads don’t get too big, haha!

How would you describe your creative process?

Sav: Our creative process typically starts with an idea or an emotion. We’ll all get together and if someone has something they wanna put into a song, we’ll talk about it and the conversation just becomes the lyric. We always want to keep our stuff real like that.

Who is on your dream collab list?

Sam: One of our dream collaborators would be Post Malone because his music is fire and his vocals are insane! Don’t even get me started on how catchy and SICK his melodies are! And the way he can get an audience to sing along?! BYE. Where was I?! Oh yeah, and Kacey Musgraves! She’s a magical songwriter goddess woman. Chance the Rapper would be dope too and of course, the queen, Billie Eilish.

When you think of career goals, what comes to mind?

Sav: For me, it would be a DREAM to be playing a show, and then have the crowd sing our songs back with us. I feel like that would be next level.

What’s the best way for fans to get your attention online?

Sam: Slide into our DMs! Ask us questions on our live-streams! Tweet us or send us messages on TikTok! Now that we aren’t traveling and aren’t super busy, we have the time to sit on our phones and connect with fans and really work on our relationship with them. We want to know everything about you so please slide into the DMs and be our best friends!

Any special message to fans?

Sav: Just a big, huge, ginormous THANK YOU and WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH. We’re living our DREAM because of you guys!