This guitar-heavy rocker finds Gilbert kicking off the weekend. He told iHeartRadio: "Some days are longer than others… and some nights aren't nearly long enough, 'The Weekend' is about making that weekend go on and on, and getting every little bit [of] good time out of it. You're gonna give it up all week long, so make every Friday night, every Saturday, every bit you can, matter."
Gilbert explained the song's impetus: "When we hit the road this winter on the Blackout Tour, we were rolling through the Midwest, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Minnesota, and you see how hard people work – and how much they need to let it go when they get to Friday! All those people coming out to the shows and rocking hard; they meant business. I wanted to write a song that matched that intensity to kick back even harder than you work. That's where 'The Weekend' comes from: all those people who came out and threw it down with us."
Gilbert penned "The Weekend" over the phone with Nashville songwriter Andrew DeRoberts, without ever meeting him face to face.
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