How Did Koe Wetzel And Ella Langley Get (So) ‘Jaded’? Wetzel on Making ‘The Most Pop Song I’ll Probably Ever Record’

When Yellabush/Columbia/RECORDS Nashville released Koe Wetzel ’s collaboration with Ella Langley , “Jaded,” the imagery included a sparkly, green mirror ball.

The visual spoke volumes about the song.

For starters, its emerald shade runs close to the color jade.

But it also suggested disco and/or danceable pop, and given that Depeche Mode and The Bee Gees’ “Stayin’ Alive” were among the reference points that Wetzel’s creative team mentioned along the way, it fit the style.

Enjoy it while it’s here.

“It’s 100% the most pop song that I’ll probably ever record in my life,” Wetzel says.

It wasn’t something he set out to do, but he didn’t fight it either when the opportunity came along.

On Jan.

14, he and Langley were writing at the home studio of Nashville songwriter Jordan Schmidt (“Kid Myself,” “Who Told You That”).

They’d tried to launch an upbeat song with several other basic ideas but weren’t getting anywhere.

The fourth writer in the room, ERNEST, solved the issue.

“ERNEST kept humming this song, ‘How’d you get so jaded?’” Wetzel recalls.

“I was like, ‘What the hell is that? What are y’all doing?’ They had the bare bones of it.

And I was like, ‘Dude, let’s finish that right now.’” “Jaded” was a chorus that ERNEST, Langley and Schmidt fashioned a few months prior.