Sugarland just released their brand new single, “Babe,” which was written by Taylor Swift with Pat Monahan of Train and features Taylor singing with Sugarland. Jennifer Nettles explains it was Taylor who reached out to them to offer them the song. She says, “We’ve obviously known each other for many years when she was just getting started. We had just had our first little EP out called Premium Quality Tunes. She still has a copy of it that we signed for her whenever we played a couple shows together, and she was excited we were getting back together and reached out and said, ‘Hey I have a song’ and that is a short list, ladies and gentlemen, of people to whom she has said, ‘Hey, I have a song, wanna sing it?’ So we said, ‘Yeah.’”
Kristian Bush admits they loved the song the first time they heard it, but he says, “We’ve really never put a song by anybody else on any of our records. So we weren’t really used to kind of sorting through that and we didn’t want to mess it up. So we didn’t tell anybody about it till we got finished. And (Taylor) liked it, thank God, because it’s a good song.”
“Babe” will be on Sugarland’s new album, BIGGER, which will be released on June 8th.
Sugarland – story behind Babe :39
Jennifer Nettles – “She reached out. We’ve obviously known each other for many years when she was just getting started. We had just had our first little EP out called Premium Quality Tunes. She still has a copy of it that we signed for her whenever we played a couple shows together, and she was excited we were getting back together and reached out and said, ‘Hey I have a song,’ and that is a short list, ladies and gentlemen, of people to whom she has said ‘hey I have a song, wanna sing it?’ So we said yeah.”
Kristian Bush – “We’ve really never put a song by anybody else on any of our records. So we weren’t really used to kind of sorting through that and we didn’t want to mess it up.”
Jennifer – “Nope.”
Kristian – “So we didn’t tell anybody about it till we got finished. And she liked it, thank God, because it’s a good song.”