Moody Joody Release Newest Single "Loretta's Last Call"
- Mikaila Storrs
- 2 days ago
- 2 min read
With a new album on the horizon set for release later this year, pop trio Moody Joody continues building momentum with their newest single, “Loretta’s Last Call.” The track leans into glossy, feel-good pop while telling the story of a desperate, last-minute bid to save a relationship on the brink.
“This song brings out our ‘hopeless romantic’ side,” says Forbes. “ Romanticizing a past relationship, and really leaning into the yearning of it all. It’s that feeling at the end of a rom-com, when the protagonist realizes they’ve made a huge mistake and they’re frantically running through a city or wherever they are trying to get to this person to tell them they’ve messed up and can’t picture their life without them. It’s their last call; their last chance. I like to picture it ending well – with a dramatic kiss as the end credits roll.”
“On our last tour opening for the band Arizona, I was walking down the street in Boston with my ex’s sister who was our tour manager at the time,” adds Hall. “We were debriefing the debauchery and crash out I’d had over my ex the night before at our Philly show. The kind of crash out where I’m crying to my ex’s mom at the merch table after the show level crash out. We walked by a bar called Loretta’s Last Call and I wrote it down in my notes app where most of my initial lyrics and ideas live. I originally thought maybe I’d save it for a country write, an ode to Loretta Lynn, or something in the future. The day we were in the studio hashing out the song we still hadn’t landed on a chorus and I remember pulling up the title and throwing it out there. Ironically and unintentionally, the song beautifully captures a place and time and emotion I was feeling when I wrote that title down during a specific chapter of heartbreak, longing, yearning that I don’t know would’ve been captured otherwise had we not written this song. It’s a special one to me and for anyone out there romanticizing a past relationship in a place of longing, my heart goes out to you.”
Multi-instrumentalist/producer Andrew Pacheco adds of ‘Loretta’s Last Call’: "It's one of my favorite songs on the record. The bridge— where the band is just gleefully jamming while the vocals are pleading — kind of encapsulates that feeling of someone breaking down in the back of the bar on a night out. It’s that juxtaposition that really makes the song for me.”
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