Brandy Clark wrote this song with Jessie Jo Dillon (George Strait's "The Breath You Take") and frequent collaborator Shane McAnally. She first debuted the empowering and irreverent tune at a show in early November 2015.
The song first came together around the time that Clark's debut album, 12 Stories, was released in October 2013. It was inspired by a story Dillon told Clark about a relationship. "It's just a hook that's been sitting there waiting to be written forever," McAnally told Billboard magazine. "We write songs every day - it's so rare that a hook like that happens, where you're like, 'holy s--t, how has this not been said?'" "Little Big Town had it on hold for a while," he added. "But it wasn't long before 12 Stories started to make an impact, and Brandy was like, 'I think that song could really be the next chapter.'"
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