CURRENT SINGLE: “You Didn’t”
This week marks the two year anniversary of the release of Brett Young’s #1 song, “Lady,” which he wrote about his wife for his daughter Presley, before she was born. What a lot of people don’t know is that Brett never intended to formally record or release the song when he wrote it. “I had written it, it made Taylor cry, it was really special to me,” explains Brett “I got to write it with two other writers who both have little girls, so they were able to really influence and pour themselves into that song.”
Brett shared the demo with his producer, Dann Huff, and Brett says, “As a gift to us, as a baby gift, he wanted to record that song for us. So, that’s how it even got recorded.”
Once Brett had the recording of the song, he shared it with friends and family and people at his label, and he says without being able to share that recording, “I don’t know if we would’ve played it for enough people to realize how many people could relate and how many people were really feeling connected to that song.”
From there, the stars aligned for the song. “The pandemic had just started and things had shut down, and my second single off the second record had just peaked and we needed a single,” explains Brett. “We weren’t gonna be getting into the studio, and we didn’t know how long that was going to be. And we had this song that people were so excited about. So, that was a God thing.”
Brett says the way “Lady” went from being a personal song for his daughter to a big hit song for him, “It was the happiest accident in the world. It’s one of my favorite songs I’ve ever written.”
Brett Young – weren’t going to release Lady :48
“I had written it. It made Taylor cry. It was really special to me. I got to write it with two other writers who both have little girls, so they were able to really influence and pour themselves into that song. And I played it for Dann Huff, and as a gift to us, as a baby gift, he wanted to record that song for us. So, that’s how it even got recorded. Had that not happened, I don’t know if we would’ve played it for enough people to realize how many people could relate and how many people were really feeling connected to that song. So, it was perfect timing because the pandemic had just started and things had shut down, and my second single off the second record had just peaked and we needed a single. We weren’t gonna be getting into the studio, and we didn’t know how long that was going to be. And we had this song that people were so excited about. So, that was a God thing. It was the happiest accident in the world. It’s one of my favorite songs I’ve ever written.”