{"id":162681,"date":"2026-04-10T20:40:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/162681\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T20:40:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:40:35","slug":"freshman-band-debuts-the-lafayette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/162681\/","title":{"rendered":"Freshman band debuts \u2013 The Lafayette"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photo by Gabriela Perilli<\/a> for The Lafayette <\/p>\n

Small Talk unveiled its first original song, called \u201cWaiting.\u201d<\/p>\n

The band of first-years Kaylee Williams, Mac Tito and Jose Padilla was originally named \u201cSex Talk in the Chapel,\u201d an ode to Lafayette College\u2019s orientation sexual conduct seminar in Colton Chapel. The name didn\u2019t stick, but the band did.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just kept coming up with random words or ideas, and we couldn\u2019t agree on any of them, except \u2018Small Talk,\u2019\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n

The band introduced its first original song to an audience of students at a Lafayette Interdisciplinary Music Society event last Saturday, using audience applause to name it \u201cWaiting\u201d over \u201cLose My Mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe like the sound that each of us adds,\u201d Tito said. \u201cI feel like we all each add our own flavor into the song, and that\u2019s what makes it so special.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of\u00a0\u2014 musically, you would say \u2018space to fill\u2019 \u2014 a lot of voids when we\u2019re playing music,\u201d Padilla said. \u201cWe all just find a way to work with that limitation, but it\u2019s not really a limitation, because we make it work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Names aren\u2019t the only thing that has given the band trouble. Though instrumental collaboration comes naturally, writing lyrics, not so much.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like trying to write an essay, and your professor is giving you the most vague instructions, but you\u2019re the professor and you\u2019re just mad at yourself,\u201d Tito said about the group.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re all just really close friends and we get along and we love practicing, and there are a lot of bands out there that are maybe just there to make music,\u201d said Williams, the guitarist and vocalist.<\/p>\n

Tito and Padilla met over the annual admitted students event and decided to be roommates, later meeting Williams through a mutual friend and solidifying the idea of the band.<\/p>\n

The trio has been working with others to bring more sounds to their sets. A member of fellow student band Quest contributed to Small Talk\u2019s performance on Saturday night as a saxophone player.<\/p>\n

\u201cSmall Talk and Quest are really good, personally, for me, I like alternative kinds of music,\u201d said Connor Terribile \u201829, who attended the Saturday set.<\/p>\n

Small Talk will play at an upcoming Lafayette Association of Visual Arts event and Spring Fest, along with other student bands.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really appreciate having the opportunity to play just music in general,\u201d Tito said. \u201cLife would be so boring if there was no LIMS or no Small Talk.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo by Gabriela Perilli for The Lafayette Small Talk unveiled its first original song, called \u201cWaiting.\u201d The band…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-162681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}