In October of 2019, Luke Bryan released “What She Wants Tonight” as the second single from his 2020 album Born Here, Live Here, Die Here. Co-written by the country star at home with three ace tunesmiths, the song became Bryan’s 24th career No. 1 single in late March of 2020.
Below, Bryan shares the story behind “What She Wants Tonight” in his own words.
“What She Wants Tonight” is a song that I co-wrote with Ross Copperman, Jon Nite and Hillary Lindsey. That group of amazing songwriters, they came out to my house.
We didn’t have a title, but Ross had, like, a track going, and him and Jon Nite had worked on some melodic stuff. And then having Hillary in the room to kind of tell the girl’s perspective of what a girl wants to hear and what she doesn’t want to hear really made the song come together.
We created the title in the room, and I felt like it was gonna be a big, big song for me, and I was excited that we had written something that I was really proud of. Now, to get it out on radio and it’s a big hit for me, is pretty surreal.
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