Jordie Ireland’s return on ‘Throw Away My Number’
Jordie Ireland asserts himself as a musician in his first single in a year. Ireland joins forces with Riley Biederer on ‘Throw Away My Number’. Keeping up the theme of deserted love that emerges in pop, Ireland revives the concept, addressing it through indifference and a calm, optimistic sense of dismissal. We talk to Jordie about the track and his path in music.
Firstly, how does it feel to be back releasing new music?
It feels amazing! In the time between releasing ‘One In A Million’ and my latest track ‘Throw Away My Number’ I took some time to think about who I wanted to be as an artist and what I want my sound to be. I feel like this new song represents that process.
How does the time you take in between releases help you and your bank of ideas develop?
It’s always important between releases to have a wide variety of demos and ideas ready to go for strategy purposes but it also allows you to shape and refine your sound.
How did the narrative of ‘Throw Away My Number’ get pitched as an idea for a song?
When writing the song, Scott, Riley and I wanted to represent the idea of a breakup in a positive and empowering way rather than dwelling on the negatives of the situation. The idea of having the strength of removing someone from your life came up in discussion and we knew it was an awesome idea.
Ireland teamed up with Riley Biederer, Jeremy Drakeford and Scott Effman to write the track. As individual and unique musicians, each of the writers have different perspective and experiences with love, and being used.
Can you talk about how all the different lenses on the situation helped strengthen the song?
With any song it’s important to have various perspectives to make the song as strong and relatable to everyone listening as possible. Having writers that have experienced the things that you are writing about involved in the song is always so important and it allows everyone involved to have a personal connection to the song.
What made it feel like it best fit a female vocal?
When Jeremy Drakeford and I wrote the guitar riff for the song we knew that it was super catchy and had to be saved for the perfect artist. When I heard Riley’s voice for the first time, paired with Scott’s amazing writing ability I knew it was time to use the guitar piece and make it into a great track.
What was it like to work with an LA based group of people? How did it help you as a musician?
The amazing thing that I found about LA is that everyone that you meet in the industry is one connection away from the people that you look up to and aspire to be like. It’s super motivating and empowering to see that in front of you.
Can you talk about how this song is helping your collaborators break into Australia more, and conversely how it helps you break into the USA scene a bit more?
I’ve found that my biggest audience is Australia, so it’s a great opportunity for collaborators featuring on a song to get their name known in Australia. We have such an awesome music culture and market in Australia so people tend to be very enthusiastic when it comes to collaborating with Australian artists.
How has the reception been from listeners?
Amazing! Not only from the general public, but also fellow artists and musicians that have also supported the song. It’s super exciting to see a song, that I feel fully represents me as an artist, going so well.
Lastly, what can we expect next from you?
At the moment my priority is to just keep releasing quality music and to start to build a catalogue of music that I can hopefully start touring in the near future.