Words By: Brianna Vacca

Pop songsmith Payton Lewis finds assuagement in being able to start clean. His debut album Take Me Away garnered over half a million streams and amassed the attention of over a hundred publications. Lewis’s newest single, “Hotel Suite” offers him that brand new start. It’s mysterious, it’s upbeat, and everything in between.

“Hotel Suite,” written alongside producer Ben Soldate and Brooke Jenkins, is on the beam at articulating rejuvenation. Recorded at The Jungle Room, mixed at Soldate Audio Services, and mastered at The Bakery Mastering, “Hotel Suite” envelops a hard-driving, funky bass groove and a shy dose of percussive brushes. The multifaceted artist’s vocals are slick and glide right over the song’s instrumentation as he begs for anonymity coating “Hotel Suite’s” lavish, edgy electric drives.

Laced with rainbow-colored vocal capabilities coupled with ironic and insincere lyricism, Lewis is madly in love with freedom. A hotel is grounds for self-government. A hotel occupies a new body each and every day. Toilet suites, dimly lit hotel bars, showers-for-two, countless stairs, and an assemblage of strange faces permit the facade to materialize and an unaccustomed persona to spend the night, and Lewis and “Hotel Suite” praises just that. Towards the end of the single, Lewis’s vocals parallel muscle, the kind that Adam Lambert keeps. With the aid of Rob Humphreys [drums], Joel Gottschalk [bass], Adam Tressler [guitar], and producer Ben Soldate [bass, guitar], the creative configuration is outfitted for the summer season.

Lewis shares about the song, “The way it’s perfectly clean and tidy when I walk in. Knowing that all evidence of what’s happened in here before has been wiped clean and will be again when I leave. When I go to a hotel, in that room, I can be whoever I want to be. We all can.”

Hailing from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the indie-pop songwriter submerged himself in the arts at an early age. He uprooted to Los Angeles where he found success on NBC’s The Sing-Off finishing in the final four. Presently, the singer + songwriter has taken the stage in Taiwan, Korea, sang on a plethora of motion picture soundtracks, and acted on a few mainstream television shows such as How I Met Your Mother, Jane the Virgin, and The People vs. OJ Simpson.