In Conversation: Caroline Romano

Slipfast sat down with emerging artist Caroline Romano to talk about her new EP,  It Took Me Falling, which was just released on March 13, 2026, as well as her inspirations, song lyrics, and what song she is most excited for fans to hear. 

Written by Kayla Barnak

Photo by Maggie London

Slipfast: I’m so excited for It Took Me Falling to come out! Why did you choose to release “Unsteady” first as the lead single?

Caroline: It was a really good summarization of this new sound that I’m showcasing in this new project. I tend to put out a lot more high-energy songs, and “Unsteady” was the best taste of the cinematic, romantic themes that are in this project. 

Slipfast: Awesome! I can’t wait to listen to the rest of the EP. What was your writing/creative process like, and was it different from the previous work you’ve put out? 

Caroline: I started writing this project at the very end of 2024, and I didn’t set out to write a record, which made this [experience] different. I was falling in love and figuring some things out about my life that I didn’t intend to, and it was all very sudden. It was over the course of an entire year that I was collecting songs. Some of them I went into intentionally, knowing I wanted to write about this specific thing and thinking it was going to be on this project. Whereas some of them were what happened today, and I just want to write about it. It took about a year for me to listen through all of those songs that I’d written and realize that this [EP] was the project and there was a storyline here. Each song came about a bit differently, which I really love. 

Slipfast: Going off of that answer, were there any cities/big moments that inspired this record? 

Caroline: Definitely Nashville. It all kind of took place there [in Nashville]. Specifically, I went to this place called Rock Island, which I’d never been to before. There were a lot of first moments here, and Nashville is my hometown. To be able to set the story here was really special to me as well. 

Slipfast: I love Nashville, it’s the best! If you could describe this EP in one lyric, which would it be and what song is it from?

Caroline: I really like this question. If I were to describe it in one lyric, it would be from “Unsteady.” It’s the lyric “Love is death a thousand different ways” because I’ve come to realize that over the course of my life, so many different things had to happen that I thought were tragic at the time in order for me to get to where I am today, which is a good thing. 

Slipfast: Which song are you most excited for fans to hear? 

Caroline: I’m most excited for people to hear a song called “There It Is,” and it is not a single; it’s just going to be an EP track that I’m not really pushing. It’s the most personal song I’ve ever written and it’s super specific to my life and I’m interested how people will react to that. If they’ll find real reliability in it, or if they’ll be like “this was just okay.” 

Slipfast: I love more personal songs! When did you know this EP was complete? 

Caroline: I did not know it was complete until November of 2025, because I had all the songs together except for the song “It Took Me Falling.” I didn’t have a title, and I was listening to those songs and was like I don’t know what this [project] is. When I had the idea for [the song] “It Took Me Falling,” I was like, there’s the story, there’s the project, and these songs fit into that. 

Slipfast: Awesome! Do you have any music videos filmed for any songs on the EP?

Caroline: I don’t have full music videos, but we shot some really cool short-form content in a studio with crazy light, and that was really cool. We spent a long time doing that, but I don’t have any full length music videos, which is tragic because I love music videos. 

Slipfast: Those will be super cool to see! Do you have any live shows coming up that you can touch on?

Caroline: Yes! I have a show the day the EP comes out and it’s my first Nashville headline. It’s at The End and I’m very very excited. I’ve lived in Nashville for 10 years and I have played so many shows as an opener here, but this is my first headline, so I’m super stoked!