“A purple head, a blonde, and a… soiled blonde stroll right into a studio.”
Final month, Reba McEntire, Miranda Lambert and Lainey Wilson teamed up for a brand new single “Trailblazer,” a day after debuting the track on the ACM Awards. And just lately, the powerhouse trio dropped a brand new video taking followers behind the scenes of the writing and recording course of that went into creating the brand new track.
Launched again in early Might, “Trailblazer” was a fascinating collaboration that celebrated the trail that previous nation artists had paved for brand spanking new artists. As Lainey Wilson says:
“To me, being a trailblazer type of means tipping your hat to the ladies of the previous, but additionally serving to someone over that wall. I feel that’s one thing that we should proceed doing for the remainder of without end.”
Because the refrain goes:
“Livin’ on a prayer and a rhyme,
You set a flag within the floor to a rustic sound
To the rhythm of your personal freeway.
Speak about a trailblazer,
I’m rolling down the highway you paved”
The track is an ode to a number of distinguished feminine artists within the trade, mentioning them by identify within the second verse. Amongst these names are Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, and Tammy Wynette— all artists that modified the sport and paved a means for ladies within the county music style.
“They taught me easy methods to write,
easy methods to maintain on tight
On this rhinestone rodeo.
It was Dolly and Loretta
Patsy and Tammy, too
They gave me a seat on the desk
So I’m saving one for you”
Within the video, Reba, Miranda, and Lainey sit down within the studio to mirror on their songwriting course of, discussing why the track was essential for them to jot down. Lainey and Miranda labored on the track with Brandy Clark whereas Reba was in Los Angeles filming her TV present. They usually discuss how they at all times knew they needed to do a track collectively, and the way being influenced by each other—in addition to by the feminine nation artists that got here earlier than them—is what impressed them to jot down it.
“Thank God for the ladies earlier than us, as a result of I used to be at all times watching and learning Barbara Mandrell, Dolly, Loretta, Tammy—all of them caught collectively and helped one another out.
That’s what it’s about. Excessive fiving one another and working to the end line collectively.”
I couldn’t have stated it higher myself.
The video additionally reveals some behind the scenes studio time, permitting us to take a look into what recording was like. The ladies converse on how magical of an expertise recording was and the way as soon as the refrain was completed, they knew that they had one thing particular.
Reba says:
“Attending to sing with you guys, and y’all singing the concord components, it’s simply… angels singing. It simply makes my coronary heart so comfortable.”
The harmonies on that refrain are so lovely, no marvel it made them emotional. The three nation stars positive do have some unimaginable chemistry, each within the studio and on the stage.
Try their reside efficiency of the track throughout the sixtieth annual Academy of Nation Music Awards ceremony.
Their musical imaginative and prescient for this track shines by with each stylistic alternative made throughout their writing and recording course of. I hope to see extra collaborations from them sooner or later.
