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Kaycee B is a Montana based musician with a gorgeous, soulful, R&B Pop sound. With a lifelong background in music and a true passion for it. Recently she has released a personal project titled I Am Me. This new project is all about who she is and what life means to her.
Kaycee draws from a history of love for Disco and the Classic Rock music that her parents played while she was growing up. Now, these influences have inspired the sound she utilizes today.
I Am Me is a great example of this beautiful and unique genre she has created. “The project is really a group of works with a lot of different emotional directions,” she explained. “I wanted to take my music a step further and really create a full experience for my audience, tell a story.”
Each track on this album takes you through an emotionally charged and thoughtful story. The single and title track from this album, “I Am Me” is about what you can and cannot do in your life. “It's about being confident and needing to cross boundaries,” Kaycee explained. “I want people to know that they should embrace that confident energy. Embrace yourselves.”
She suggests people take this track and run with it. “Don’t let people deter you from who you're supposed to be.”
Other incredible tracks on this project include the song “It’s Okay”. This track is about love and what it is and isn’t supposed to be. “It’s definitely one of the more relationship-y pieces in the album,” Kaycee said. “Bad Side” is also a great track all about looking at yourself in the mirror.
This album is all about having a positive vibe. “It takes you on a little bit of a roller coaster ride,” she said. “There are highs and lows to it but it is truly meant to be a good experience.” She hopes that her audience is truly able to take something from each song and appreciate the honesty and detail that goes into it all.
With the release of I Am Me, Kaycee is looking forward to the next steps in her career. She’s looking forward to working on her next set of singles, projects and collaborations with other incredible artists, including a new project in the works with The Source. “I can’t wait to broaden myself as a musician,” she explained. There is truly so much to come from this artist and you will not want to miss out on it.
Be sure to stay tuned in to Kaycee B on various platforms for new music, visuals and social posts.
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LOS ANGELES — Damion Seraglio Bond and Hannah Leyla are turning up the heat with “Pina in Your Colada,” a playful tropical duet built around flirtation, humor and the kind of chorus that practically demands a room full of people sing along.
Featured as the opening track on Tropical Vacay, “Pina in Your Colada” drops listeners directly into vacation mode. Tiki lights are glowing, steel drums are playing, drinks are flowing and Hannah and Damion are trading lines back and forth like two people who have decided subtlety can wait until after the trip.
That exaggerated approach was intentional.
“I worried that if I hewed too closely to a serious sexual expression, today’s rather Me-Too sensitive folks might misinterpret the point of the song,” songwriter and creator Lloyd Eric Cotsen said. “By keeping it light-hearted and even cheesy over the top, it’s clearly aiming for fun.”
Cotsen envisioned the track as the kind of local favorite heard at a packed tropical bar, where vacationers already know every word and become part of the performance. That idea shaped the song’s crowd vocals and call-and-response structure, including Hannah’s equally confident answers to Damion’s advances.
Creating that chemistry, however, became one of the biggest challenges behind the track.
Cotsen used AI music platform Suno to develop the recording, but directing the male and female vocals proved considerably harder than expected. He ultimately worked through more than 160 versions while trying to get the exchanges right, eventually bringing elements from separate versions to a sound engineer to create the final result.
That persistence helped produce one of the song's defining elements: a performance that feels less like a conventional studio recording and more like stumbling into a beach bar where the entire crowd already knows the chorus.
“Recreating the vibe of a live performance in a bar with a crowd finishing the lines of a song they know and love was something I would have bet Suno couldn’t do,” Cotsen said. “It did it masterfully.”
That atmosphere also made “Pina in Your Colada” a natural opener for Tropical Vacay. Cotsen wanted the album to function almost like a vacation soundtrack, maintaining a tropical atmosphere while moving between comedy, romance and more reflective moments.
“It seemed like the most fun, captured the tropical spirit of the album best,” he said of choosing the song as its first track.
The project continues Cotsen’s genre-hopping approach to songwriting. His work has moved through folk-country, blues, soul, gospel and dance, while Tropical Vacay gives him room to explore Trop Rock and the stories that emerge when people temporarily leave their everyday lives behind.
For Hannah and Damion, that means a relationship that is flirtatious, competitive and occasionally more complicated than the beach-bar antics suggest. Cotsen describes the pair as having a “playfully combative romantic relationship,” with Hannah written as a confident character who can give Damion every bit as much as she gets.
And the fictional duo may eventually move beyond the digital world. Cotsen plans to host a concert with live singers performing selections from his catalog within the next year while continuing work on several additional albums.
For now, “Pina in Your Colada” offers a simpler invitation: turn it up, embrace the ridiculousness and pretend the nearest drink comes with a tiny umbrella.
“Pina in Your Colada” is available now on Spotify as part of Tropical Vacay.
