When Lady Antebellum was looking for their first song to release on their new record label, Charles Kelley says they turned to some of their songwriter friends. “We were writing with Laura Veltz, who we absolutely adore,” says Charles. “She’s an amazing songwriter, and I asked her if she had anything that she thought might fit us that she wrote. And she said she had been writing a lot with Jon Green, who we love as well as a songwriter. And she sent over this song called ‘What If I Never Get Over You.’ And it had Ryan Hurd singing on it and I immediately just gravitated towards it.”
“What If I Never Get Over You” Is somewhat reminiscent of “Need You Now,” which has been the biggest hit of Lady Antebellum’s career to date, and Charles admits, “We’ve been kind of chasing that song for our whole career it feels like. And it felt like perfect timing that, you know, we haven’t put out one of those kind of longing desperation duets in a while.”
“What If I Never Get Over You” is the first release off of Lady Antebellum’s next album, which they describe as the most honest and vulnerable album of their career. The new album will be released later this year.
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Charles Kelley – “So this song is a song that came about kind of randomly. We were writing with Laura Veltz, who we absolutely adore. She’s an amazing songwriter, and I asked her if she had anything that she thought might fit us that she wrote. And she said she had been writing a lot with Jon Green, who we love as well as a songwriter. And she sent over this song called ‘What If I Never Get Over You.’ And it had Ryan Hurd singing on it and I immediately just gravitated towards it. And I sent it to Dave and Hillary and I said, ‘Man, I really think this could make for a killer duet.’ There was something about the sound of it that reminds me a lot of ‘Need You Now,’ and we’ve been kind of chasing that song for our whole career it feels like. And it felt like perfect timing that, you know, we haven’t put out one of those kind of longing desperation duets in a while. So, I don’t know. You know, I think we went in the studio, I don’t think we necessarily knew it was gonna be this ‘first single obvious thing.’ But once we recorded it, it just really became apparent that it was a great first single statement that we wanted to make.”