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Maddie and Tae is an American country music duo composed of Maddie Marlow and Tae Dye. The duo is signed to Dot Records.
In 2014, Big Machine Records revived the Dot Records name for a new imprint. Maddie and Tae were confirmed as the first signees of the label in June 2014.
Maddie Marlow grew up in Sugar Land, Texas, performing in talent shows and writing songs. Meanwhile in Ada, Oklahoma, Tae Dye mastered the National Anthem by singing at her older brothers’ baseball tournaments and competition in festivals. At the age of 15, the pair met through their vocal coach — who had an operation in Houston, near Maddie, and in Dallas, two hours from Tae — during a showcase in North Texas.
“I heard Maddie’s voice and thought she was so good,” Tae recalls. While some girls would’ve seen her as the competition, I was just excited to have made a friend who had the same passion as I did!”
“Both of us have such a huge amount of respect for each other,” Maddie adds. “When we started harmonizing together that first time, we knew there was something special there.”
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That meeting led to one of many writing trips together to Nashville, and eventually, an introduction to VP of Big Machine Music, Mike Molinar, and his writer Aaron Scherz. It also led to the formal formation of Maddie and Tae. “We’re so real and so honest, why put a name with it?” Tae explains the reason for the duo’s upfront moniker. “It’s cool because people will know our names, even though they’ll get us mixed up,” Maddie adds with a laugh.
“We started writing and recording with Aaron who would then play the songs for Mike.” Maddie explains. “Mike kept joking, “You ladies are making it really hard for me to ignore you.” Aaron agreed that they were progressing fast and committed to even more time with them. The writing trips increased, as did the hours Maddie and Tae spent writing, rehearsing and recording under the watch of Molinar and Big Machine Label Group’s SVP/A&R, Allison Jones.
“Tae and I hung out, wrote and practiced whenever we could. If we weren’t going to Nashville, I would travel to Oklahoma or Tae would come to Texas. Sometimes we just skyped,” Maddie recalls.
“It was hard living 7 hours away, but just like any good, long-distance relationship, we made it work,” Tae jokes. “In the end, we learned so much about ourselves and each other during those trips.”
On one such trip in February 2013, Maddie and Tae performed for Jones, who had a big piece of advice for them. “She said, ‘If you really want to pursue this, you will need to move to Nashville’. I knew that was what I wanted, but moving to Nashville also meant I had to figure out how to graduate from high school early and Maddie had to turn down college,” recalls Tae.
Maddie remembers, “Needless to say, it all worked out. We were offered a “summer camp” publishing deal and five days after I graduated, I’m like ‘See y’all, I’m going to Nashville!”
The result is an organic, rootsy sound fueled by the girls’ upbringing and musicianship — each play guitar on stage, with Maddie picking up the mandolin from time to time — and mirroring the gumption and energy of the early Dixie Chicks albums. “We’re really inspired by ’90s country,” says Maddie who, like Tae, was born in ’95. “Growing up, we were listening to ‘Cowboy Take Me Away’ and ‘Wide Open Spaces,’ so we always gravitate towards that.”
While their music reflects their easy going, energetic personalities, as they wrote together they shared personal, emotional experiences as well. “I had a friend, Jessie, who I grew up with,” Maddie says. “Last summer, right after I moved to Nashville, her dad passed away. I was at their house all the time growing up and I didn’t know what to say, so we put what we wanted to say into a song.”
“At the same time, one of my friends, Kayla, who lost her dad when she was eight, had just been diagnosed with alopecia, which means you lose your hair,” Tae relates.
Those two challenges came together to form “After the Storm,” which the pair later recorded. “I love that song because we were able to send that to each of our friends and boost their spirits,” Tae says.
“Songwriting helps me heal,” Maddie admits, who wrote her first song at 14. “There was this beauty-queen, bully from high school who sent my friends and I home in tears plenty of times. In order to get over it I had to write this song. I figure with bullies you’ve gotta stand up to them with whatever you got. So I brought in the idea for our song ‘Sierra.’ “I started singing ‘I wish I had something nice to say …’ and Tae and Aaron lit up and ran with it!”
One song in particular sent their lives in a whole new direction. “Girl in a Country Song,” is the pair’s take on the reality of what men say they’re expecting from the fairer sex. “Boys we love you, we want to look good, but it’s not all we’re good for,” Maddie says.
The tune pokes fun at few songs you may know, but the girls assure you, it’s all in good fun. “We love every single one of these guys,” Tae adds. “We don’t want to bring them down, we just want to lift the ladies up as well.”
“We are girls with something to say,” Maddie says. “We’re young, but that doesn’t mean anything. We’ve got a new, different perspective that we think is relatable.”
“Girl empowerment is so important to us,” Tae says. “Confidence is attractive.” “We also have a vulnerable side that you hear in the music,” Maddie clarifies. “We’re not like, ‘We’re girls and we’re taking over the world!’ We’re just saying a little something different.”
“We’re really just trying to make you laugh,” Tae says.
The tune may have made Jones, BMLG CEO, Scott Borchetta, and newly appointed GM of Dot Records, Chris Stacey, laugh, but it also prompted them to sign Maddie and Tae. “We actually signed our record deal while we were tracking ‘Girl in a Country Song,’” Tae admits. “That’s how fast it’s been.”
The song became their first single and the first time they got to work with one of their idols, who agreed to produce the track. “We are huge fans of Dann Huff and all of his work, so when we got to meet him and hear the magic he did to our song, I was seriously going to pass out,” Tae admits. “We were star struck.”
“He is just a music lover and he got on board and took the song where it needed to go and brought a whole new energy,” Maddie says.
As all of their dreams continue to come true — just slightly ahead of schedule — the teenagers aren’t afraid to put more hopes out into the universe. “We like to dream big here so we’d say we would love to win a CMA or ACM at some point. Now that would be crazy!”
