Thomas Rhett’s latest single, “Remember You Young,” is a song title he had in his back pocket for a while, and the first time he got together with his co-writers to write it, he says, “The first way we wrote it was strictly about the person that you’re with. And we wrote an entire song about, you know, I’ll always remember you, even when you’re in a black cocktail dress, I remember you in your pink prom dress. It’s like you always envision who you’re with when you met that person because those images are just ingrained in your head.”
It was a decent song, but TR says, “It just didn’t come out the way that I wanted it to. I think all of us were kind of like, ‘I think we just missed where we should’ve gone with the song.’”
Normally, at that point, a song would usually be put in the archives and Thomas would move onto writing the next one, but he says, “We all really felt like ‘Remember You Young’ was too cool of a title to just let a song kind of go by the wayside. And so we were like, ‘Let’s get back together and really just re-approach these verses.’ Then we started to really just relate it to life as a whole like it’s really just about those people in your life that you love, always just seeing them in their youth.”
Thankfully, “Remember You Young” got a second chance, because it became the beautiful song we hear on the radio today, that touches not only on Thomas’ wife, but also his buddies, his kids and the way God sees all of us as his young, innocent children. And Thomas says, “God, this song, like even just talking about it makes me want to cry, and this is definitely one of my favorite tracks on the record.”
Thomas Rhett – rewriting Remember You Young :55
“The first way we wrote it was strictly about the person that you’re with. And we wrote an entire song about, you know, I’ll always remember you, even when you’re in a black cocktail dress, I remember you in your pink prom dress. It’s like you always envision who you’re with when you met that person because those images are just ingrained in your head, and you’re always young together even if you’re old, at least you hope you are. And we wrote the song and it just didn’t come out the way that I wanted it to. I think all of us were kind of like, ‘I think we just missed where we should’ve gone with the song.’ And so a couple of weeks later – this never happens – usually when you write a song you’re just like, ‘Okay, well we kind of missed that one, we’ll move on.’ We all really felt like ‘Remember You Young’ was too cool of a title to just let a song kind of go by the wayside. And so we were like, ‘Let’s get back together and really just re-approach these verses.’ Then we started to really just relate it to life as a whole like it’s really just about those people in your life that you love, always just seeing them in their youth. And God, this song, like even just talking about it makes me want to cry, and this is definitely one of my favorite tracks on the record.”