Janice At The Hotel Bar

During this song, Hailey Whitters recounts the story of an encounter with a wise 80-something-year-old woman named Janice. And we were talkin' like old friends, down at that hotel bar She said a glass of red every day is damn good for the heart And she said I'm not trying to preach, but it's just my own two cents That the prize is looking back and knowing it was all time well spent Janice is a senior citizen that Landyn, the writer of the Living with Landyn lifestyle blog, met in a New York bar. The grandmother started dishing out various bits of life wisdom and Landyn spent hours soaking up her sage advice before posting it on her blog.

Whitters penned the song with Lori McKenna. She recalled to Apple Music that when she arrived at her songwriting session, she told McKenna, "I would really love to write a song of what a grandmother or an older woman would say to a younger woman about life." McKenna follows Living with Landyn and told Whitters about the blogger's encounter with Janice. They started pulling some of Janice's pearls of wisdom, plus some things from their own lives. Whitters explained to The Boot that after combining the various little bits of wisdom, they came up with a "little four-minute [manual] on what to do and what not to do."

Well, go on and make a good living, girl, don't forget To make a good life The hook is one of Whitters' favorite lines on The Dream. She explained: "It's something that I've just been trying to live life by lately."