Shanna Pagán and her friend Meredith Bready had an artistic epiphany one day: the bridesmaids need their own song.
So they wrote one. Then the two friends of Irondequit sang him. Then they recorded it, produced and sent to the world on streaming services.
And now, this song, simply entitled “Bridesmaids”, bounces on the globe.
“We are a thousand far from 3.5 million rivers,” said Pagán. “Most of them are Instagram. These brides from around the world take this song and make a video with.”
She achieved the international resonance of “bridesmaids” when she learned that Chioma Akpotha, an eminent actress of Nigerian origin, had hung on to the song and had used it as a music background for a video Instagram for the preparation for a wedding.
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Akpotha has more than seven million Instagram followers. And his video was not the only international circles using “bridesmaids” to celebrate the friendships and the ties of, of course, bridesmaids. “In India, it was just this crazy boom that these Indian brides are going crazy with the song,” said Pagán.
Among the other countries that have discovered the song are Ghana, Pakistan and the United Kingdom.
The origin of the song
“The young ladies” merge pop, hip-hop and, lyrically, a little party until you fall. There is champagne, shots, flights to Vegas for “One Last Hourra” and another chapter in history with the gang of “OGS”
Pagán and Bready are singers, with classic training in a conventional way. Pagán works as a guru of marketing and social media; BREADY as an infirmer.
Pagán is no stranger to the world of bridesmaids. She was a bridesmaid in 14 marriages and was 16 years old at her own marriage. “I could be the real dresses of life 27,” she said about romantic comedy about a bridesmaid of 27 times.
It is the planning of the marriage of Bready, where Pagán would be the bridesmaid, who planted the seeds of the song. Pagán found the music appropriate for almost all the members of a wedding party except the bridesmaids. This, she decided, had to be rectified.
“They wrote the story of my life until I get engaged,” she said about her own bridesmaids. “They were my people. We raised ourselves and we built that this relationship was really special.”
Pagán, 36, and Bready, 35, started the song in 2020, planning it for a wedding. The wedding and the song were launched by the pandemic and the first version produced was released in 2022.
Sustainable friendships
The cost for the bridesmaids can cost dearly, but said Bready, she and Pagán achieved the joy of the special moment with friends.
“We realized that there are not many cases where you have an excuse to really rely on this girl and this kind of special community that we have created with these friends. Some for 20 years”, a- she said. “We wanted to recognize and celebrate this.”
The song found bases in the United States, she said, but her reception abroad was the real surprise. “It turns out that people around the world experience this same feeling of connectivity.” … It seems to be more omnipresent in Southeast Asia, South America, and less in the United States, “said Bready.
Although there may be millions of song flows, there is no trip to Vegas or elsewhere. There may be awards for streaming services, but minimal.
Pagán said that she hoped that, somewhere, the song could land in the hands of filmmakers. “It’s a very sound song,” she said. “It is a perfect song for any moment of bridesmaid in a film.”
– Gary Craig is a journalist of a veteran and chronicle democrat who is constantly impressed by the artistic prowess of many residents of the region.