Katherine McNamara Found Hope Through Music

Katherine McNamara's latest single, "Just Like James," is an old track of hers being released for the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund. McNamara opens up about the inspiration and discovery of her new music.

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BRITTANY JONES-COOPER: And, you know, you said that that's comforting for people. Music is also very comforting for people. I know I've personally been relying on a lot of music just to sort of spend the day.

And so you have a new song out which is really cool that fans can enjoy listening to the song, but it also has a charitable side to it. So can you talk about that?

KATHERINE MCNAMARA: Yeah, thank you. It's sort of a new old song. You know, one of the first things I did when I started social distancing is I made a playlist that actually I made public on my Spotify that's my social-distancing dance party because that's one thing you can do in your house. You can be active. You can dance. It lifts your spirits, and you can listen to some good music.

And I happened to be cleaning my computer, and I found this file of old music from about six years ago that I never released. And I went, it's not doing any good just sitting here on my computer. You know, it's a silly little song full of a bunch of puns and plays on words which people know I love. And, you know, maybe it'll entertain someone, and it's a bit escapist given that it's, you know, James Bond in theme.

But, you know, I wanted to do something charitable as well. A few years ago I released a song called "Glass Slipper" to benefit Girl Up, and it did really well in the sense that it helped Girl Up a lot and it helped spread awareness for them as well as, you know, give people some entertainment. And I wanted to do something again for COVID.

So Google and the World Health Organization are doing something really special right now in that they are-- Google is matching every donation for the next month that's given to World Health Organization for their COVID response fund.

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