Verdes wrote the top line in roughly an hour and a half, piecing together a collage of phrases pulled “verbatim from things girls have said to me.” The opening salvo - “She said, ‘you’re a player aren’t you? And I bet you got hoes” - “might as well be stamped on my fucking forehead,” Verdes continues. One of these YouTube rabbit holes led him to the lolling, bass-forward instrumental for “Stuck in the Middle,” which had less than 2,000 plays at the time. at the third level of deep, dark YouTube to find people that don’t have enough subscribers ,” Verdes this gets 1000 likes I’ll put this song out. He held down a job five days a week with Verizon and spent late nights scouring YouTube for beats. “Everyone should do that if your shit is not popping. If at first you don’t succeed, “change your name, maybe get a fucking haircut, try it again,” he says. Now that Verdes is on the rise, he’s using the story of his own breakthrough to urge on other aspiring artists. The song recently passed two million streams on Spotify, an accomplishment that Verdes celebrated with a TikTok video set at the Verizon store where he still works. The winner was “Stuck in the Middle,” a charmingly scruffy single about romantic limbo that established a residency in the upper reaches of the Spotify Viral 50 on July 4 and has been hovering there ever since.
I just played a bunch of lottery tickets.” “If you’re an artist and you’re not on TikTok, you don’t want it bad enough,” Verdes continues. “Some people think they’re too good for the platform, don’t want to disgrace their art - ‘this is the song, only play it on Spotify,'” says Tai Verdes, a 24-year-old, 6’7″ singer-songwriter who once hoped to play in the NBA. You won’t regret trying to make music, ever.TikTok has been downloaded over two billion times, but some artists still remain wary of the app, uncomfortable with its reputation as an engine for dance crazes. Just wanted to say if you’ve ever heard a song and thought “I could do that,” go fucking do it. Isn’t that such an artsy thing to say, “finishing up my EP?” So ridiculous. I’m working on finishing up my entire EP right now, so that’s exciting. What else are you working on at the moment? What's next? Meeting people and trying to figure out if they are the worth spending your time on and vice versa. The video for “Stuck in the Middle” is just showing what dating is like for anyone my age. Tell us about the video for "Stuck In The Middle." but if you can really articulate that feeling that you think inside your head. I think you have to be really honest and relatable in your music in order to make a hit. What's the recipe for a successful (viral) song on TikTok? I knew the song was going to be big when I sent it or showed it to my friends and instead of people giving you the typical “Aww, that’s cute, he’s trying” vibe, they gave me the, “Oh shit, I’d put this on my playlist” vibe. When did you first realize "Stuck In The Middle" was really gaining traction? It took 3 years of taking song writing seriously before I felt like I could consistently make something good.
You gotta realize you’re bad in order to get better. When I started making music, I started making bad music, which I think is really important.
When did you start making your own music? He chatted with NYLON about the release of the official "Stuck In The Middle" video, what it takes to make a viral hit and why if you have an inkling to try something new, you should "go fucking do it." Now, with "Stuck In The Middle" having hit #1 on the Spotify US Viral Charts, Verdes is working on a debut EP.
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