This playful song about girls hitting on guys was written by Ballerini with Josh Kerr, Ryan Griffin, and Jason Duke. "It's a fun and flirty song," she told Billboard magazine, "but I hope when people hear it, they hear that message of empowerment and confidence. It's important for girls to have that voice. I hope people listening to that song think, 'That is so me right now.'"
"Dibs" is an American English term for an informal convention where one declares a first claim to something to which no one else has a clearly recognized right. The equivalent terms in the UK, Australia and New Zealand are "bags" or "bagsy."
Ballerini had logged the title "Dibs" in her phone, and she brought it up during a songwriting session with Josh Kerr, Ryan Griffin, and Jason Duke that hadn't been going anywhere. "I thought it was like a cute, little flirty thing," she told Billboard. "All of a sudden, it was off to the races. We started with the chorus, and as soon as we did the 'hey' we were obsessed with it."
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