They didn’t know where it might lead, but they did what the song suggested — go ahead and jump — with no idea what results their evening collaboration might yield. “It’s not often that I start a song without a hook,” says Ballerini. “This is the first song that maybe I’ve ever written that’s been out into the world that I didn’t start with the title.
The pop-leaning chorus puts a cheery shine on the unknown: Was this going to last forever or lead to a heartbreak? By the end of that stanza, the woman is determined: “I’m gonna jump right in, baby, with my heart first.” They also invented a post-chorus the second time around, using a linear melody that adheres to those pulsing eighth notes: “I gotta have it/ Gotta see if this works.” Before the night of writing was over, they created space for a short guitar solo and extended the post-chorus for the third, and final, run-through of the titular section.
“It felt a little bit brighter,” Bunetta recalls. “It wasn’t as relaxed, and it forced her to push vocally rather than to kind of sit back and sing easy. And then the energy really of the drum sound, rather than it being a close-miked, deep kind of heavy kit — we wanted to give it a little more snappy, roomier, bigger kit.”
— Faith Hill’s “This Kiss” providing one reference — and ’90s pop-rock, including Sheryl Crow and Sixpence None the Richer. The instrumental intro brought an additional twist, with Bunetta blending a mandolin, a piano played in octaves and couple of electric guitar notes to build a compact line that uses a portion of the chorus melody to introduce the song.
“The only other song that I’ve ever spent that much time on was when I did ‘This Feeling’ with The Chainsmokers,” she says. “I guess in pop music, every single little thing is so thought-out, and we treated it like that with this vocal.”
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