As Kris Allen gears up to release his next studio album, Letting You In, on March 18, the American Idol season 8 winner has slowly been releasing tracks to different media outlets. The latest is “If We Keep Doing Nothing,” which was inspired by the 2015 Umpqua Community College shooting in which a gunman killed eight students and an assistant professor in Roseburg, Oregon.
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“I was writing with K.S. Rhoads the day after and we started talking about the whole situation,” Kris told The Huffington Post. “He sat down at the piano and we knew we had to write that song that day. There was no other option. Right after that it seemed like there was news of one shooting after another and we kept texting each other saying that this is a song people need to hear. ”
Later, the duo decided to add strings to the song.
“We only had a couple of days to really get that done and we gave the job to K.S. to arrange and record them,” Kris said. “I went into the studio with him the day after and he showed me the arrangement and I flipped. It was exactly what the song needed. The right amount of drama and complexity.”
Listen to a full stream of “If We Keep Doing Nothing” right here.
