Here's everything you need to know about Best Ex's new EP, 'Good At Feeling Bad'
With her new EP ‘Good At Feeling Bad’, Best Ex looks to balance the yin and yang of her life from the past two years - from the ups, to the downs, to th...
With her new EP ‘Good At Feeling Bad’, Best Ex looks to balance the yin and yang of her life from the past two years - from the ups, to the downs, to the, well, downs again. Mariel Loveland tells us more.
We recorded most of the EP in a kitchen
I recorded most of 'Good At Feeling Bad' in Andy Tongren's kitchen, which was the opposite of what I was used to. With Candy Hearts, we had that traditional Hollywood experience where we flew out to LA and locked ourselves in a big studio for gruelling 12 to 15 hour days. It was amazing, but with Andy, it was amazing in a different way, like hanging out with an old friend. We'd get together every month or so and trade voice memos. I felt a lot more creative because I didn't have that added pressure of staring out of a vocal booth watching (but not hearing) everyone on the other side (my least favourite part of legit studios).
'Good At Feeling Bad' started on a bus
When I wrote 'Good At Feeling Bad,' I was splitting my time between the US and UK. That day, I was riding my usual bus route, just absolutely ecstatic to pass some little lambs on the way into Canterbury. I thought, "I want to always remember that it's possible to feel this happy," so I sang a quick line into my iPhone. When I got back to Jersey, we built the whole song around that three-second voice memo and recorded it the same day.





