There is nothing like a poppy upbeat song to get us through those rainy October walks to class and Tiffany Houghton’s “High” is just that song.
Tiffany told HC how she ended up writing the super-fun song. “I was on the phone with my best friend and I had just started dating this guy and I’m such a girly girl and I’m on the phone with her and I said something to the effect of, ‘I don’t know why they call it falling in love because I feel so high, like I feel so good – there’s no falling about this!,” she laughed. “So I said that and she was talking and I said ‘I gotta go!’ and then I’m on my kitchen floor just writing these different lyrics. Often times songs will come, just in conversation. So then I went into a co-write a couple weeks later with these guys that are great and I’m just snapping and I’m like ‘we need a happy, fun, upbeat feel good song’ and I was like ‘oh my gosh, I have just the song that I want to write, I have all the lyrics for it and everything.’ And we just started snapping and singing that ‘oh, oh, oh’ part and we had so much fun writing it. It was a really great time with them.”
The Texas-born singer, who moved to Nashville to work on song writing as an alternative to college, has always been passionate about music. “My parents say that I used to sing myself to sleep as a tiny, tiny baby and I used to always put on the concerts in my front yard. And I was on Broadway when I was little, I was in Annie, so I had a lot of fun with that,” she explained, adding, “It’s a big dream of mine to sing at a Cowboys game.”
And despite the obvious comparison to Taylor Swift, who Tiffany calls “incredible” and “a great person to be compared to,” Tiffany insists she’s more pop than country.
“I wouldn’t consider myself country anymore. I would say I love writing songs and I grew up on country music and I think that’s how I developed my love for song writing, but I would definitely say pop music is where I fit in….I love Avril Lavinge, P!nk, and Kelly Clarkson – she’s fantastic,” Tiffany says.
For those looking to break into the music industry just like Tiffany, she has some wise words.
“There are a lot of ups and downs, and I’m just barely scratching the surface of what it’s really like to be in the music industry and have that as your lifestyle and lifeline. There are lots of really high highs and lots and lots of low, low, lows because you’re so emotionally connected to it. It’s not a business to you, but it’s a business to everyone else. It’s connected to your heart strings so something really important that I’ve just remembered is to be a dolphin and not to get too high and not to get too low but to just kind of ride the waves and good news is news and bad news is news but you can’t get too high, can’t get too low,” she maturely explains.
While Tiffany may not be getting too high, we do expect high highs from her in the future!