Avenue Beat Reveals A Refreshingly ‘Positive’ Message On ‘Woman’ After Saying ‘F2020’

Avenue Beat went viral on TikTok and music charts with their quarantine anthem, 'F2020.' Instead of releasing another rant in pop form, the girl group revealed why they did a 180 on their celebratory song, 'Woman,' that's just as relatable.

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Avenue Beat ā€” made up of members Sam Backoff, Sami Bearden and Savana Santos ā€” was presented with an difficult task going into 2021: create a song that everyone could ā€œrelateā€ to just as much as ā€œF2020.ā€ It was the ultimate F-You to 2020, inspired by Samiā€™s cat dying amid the pandemic, which currently has more than 20 million views across TikTok and YouTube and cemented its status as an official viral hit with a spot on Top 40 radio. Simply put, everyone could agree that 2020 sucked. So, the three creative forces behind Avenue Beat turned to another universal truth for their follow-up single: women are, well, amazing.

ā€œWeā€™re like, trying to think of something else everyone can relate to. And then literally Savannaā€™s girlfriend walked in, and weā€™re like, thatā€™ll work,ā€ Sam EXCLUSIVELY told HollywoodLife in a video interview on Jan. 15, the day their new single ā€œWomanā€ dropped. While looking back at this moment of revelation, Sami chimed in to recall what they had all been thinking at the time: ā€œWomen: hot!ā€ As their new songā€™s title suggests, the romantic track is a celebration of all women. ā€œWhatā€™s more beautiful than a woman? Nothinā€™,ā€ the chorus states, which is hard to argue with.

Sami added that such a message is ā€œa universal opinion,ā€ even ā€œif you are not attracted to women.ā€ This pivot from ā€œF2020ā€ to ā€œWomanā€ ā€” from a funeral to a celebration ā€” was also a conscious effort on Avenue Beatā€™s part to focus on the more ā€œpositiveā€ aspects of life.

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The members of Avenue Beat, from left to right: Sami Bearden, Sam Backoff and Savana Santos. (Photo Credit: Delaney Royer)

ā€œWeā€™ve always written our frustrations out. So a lot of our music does turn into us just complaining aboutā€¦lifeā€™s many issuesā€¦disappointments and crap,ā€ Sami explained (case in point: another one of their popular songs, ā€œi donā€™t really like your boyfriend,ā€ which is as blunt as its title). She continued, ā€œBut we wanted to make sure that we didnā€™t, you know, pigeonhole ourselves into that lane and show that we can be positive, because these things should be celebrated. Women should be celebrated.ā€

What ā€œWomanā€ and ā€œF2020ā€ do have in common, however, is the natural flow of dialogue that flows out of each song. The lyrics could be interchangeable with actual words exchanged between friends in any given conversation, because thatā€™s exactly whatā€™s happening when Avenue Beats gets together to write their songs. ā€œItā€™s going into a room and having a conversation and the conversation becomes the lyric. So itā€™s pretty easy and nice,ā€ Savana said.

Itā€™s a creative approach that Sami, Savana and Sam have used since they were teenagers, after all meeting one another at a musical theater camp. Sam reminisced on being ā€œeach otherā€™s only friendsā€ in high school, convening in her dining room where they ā€œwould literally just write songs or do covers or whatever.ā€  Each step the creative trio took from there on out led to the explosive success that ā€œF2020ā€ eventually brought.

ā€œAnd then we would play shows in our hometown,ā€ Sam continued. ā€œAnd eventually we played a show in Nashville and got connected there. And when we graduated, we moved here full time, and just like buckled down writing songsā€¦once Savana started producing for us, I feel like we really fell into our sound. And then ā€˜F2020ā€™ happened, and now here we are.ā€

The girls of Avenue Beat talk more about the beginnings of their music career in Nashville ā€” which eventually led to their transition from country to popā€“ and more in the rest of their video interview with HollywoodLife above!