Brett Young’s latest single was written with a certain feeling in mind, but not a specific storyline, which he says was intentional. “We wrote ‘Here Tonight’ intentionally vague, kind of the same way that ‘In Case You Didn’t Know’ was written,” says Brett. “You don’t want to get so caught up in details that you tell such a specific story that people can’t make it their story. And what’s nice about that is with ‘Here Tonight,’ it’s about those moments in life that you wish never had to end. So at any stage in your life that could be about any given moment.”
In fact, Brett says that moment has changed for him personally since he wrote the song. “For me, when we wrote ‘Here Tonight,’ I wasn’t engaged yet. And so at the time, it definitely applied to something else, obviously. Now, listening to that song, when I hear it, it makes me actually go to the night that I proposed.”
“Here Tonight” is the first single off Brett’s Ticket to L.A. album, which he released last month.
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“We wrote ‘Here Tonight’ intentionally vague, kind of the same way that ‘In Case You Didn’t Know’ was written. You don’t want to get so caught up in details that you tell such a specific story that people can’t make it their story. And what’s nice about that is with ‘Here Tonight,’ it’s about those moments in life that you wish never had to end. So at any stage in your life that could be about any given moment. For me, when we wrote ‘Here Tonight,’ I wasn’t engaged yet. And so at the time, it definitely applied to something else, obviously. Now, listening to that song, when I hear it, it makes me actually go to the night that I proposed.”