Kenny Chesney has teamed back up with his "You and Tequila" duet partner, Grace Potter, for the release of his latest single "Wild Child." The tune is the third single from Chesney's highly successful The Big Revival album. This week, it became the most added at country radio.
“To me, a girl who is so alive, so in the moment, so curious and hungry for life... there’s nothing like her,” Chesney says of the inspiration of the song's lyrics. “You can’t tie ’em down. So free... and so intense because of it. Nothing is more attractive. To me, that makes women really stand out. Whether they want to live in the mountains, become a doctor, play music in Hawaii or surf around the world, whatever their passion is, that’s what drives them – and man, it’s an amazing thing.”
Beyond shifting the way women are currently portrayed in country songs – never the motivation for the yearning ballad that again pairs the 8-time Entertainer of the Year with hippie rocker Grace Potter – “Wild Child” provided a creative pivot for Chesney as he was working on The Big Revival. It reflected his own quests, his own drive to see new things in the music.
“I was writing ‘Wild Child’ with Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne, and it just clicked,” Chesney explains. “Certain songs start a creative landslide, and that was it. The idea of writing about a girl who is so hungry to see the world, she’s scared she won’t taste it all before she’s done... who loves so hard, but can’t be tied down... that put everything into place.
“When you think of my fans, they are passionate people... about life, music, their friends and how they dig in when it’s tough as much as how they have a good time," he continues. "I knew during the last tour, they were hungry for more from this music. They wanted more of their life the way they live it, maybe some different things musically. And I spent a lot of time trying to do that.”
Chesney will kick off his 2015 The Big Revival Tour with a double at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena March 26-27.
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