Clark, Lambert and Wilson wrote the song together on Lambert's back porch, specifically as a song that the latter pair could sing with McEntire, and described how they would call McEntire on the set on her NBC sitcom Happy's Place in order to work out what they wanted to say. Of the song's message of female solidarity, Wilson stated, “We were just having a conversation about how both [Lambert and McEntire] have influenced me and [about] passing the torch and blazing trails for each other. Generation after generation, it’s going to continue, but we got to keep blazing those trails for the next one.” Wilson also felt that the song had a universally relatable message, describing how “this could be a song that a grandmother and a daughter and a grandchild could listen to.” The song also contains hidden easter eggs to each of the three artists, with lyrics including the word "kerosene", one of Lambert's biggest hits, and "Louisiana" and "Oklahoma", the home states of Wilson and McEntire. All three artists stated that the song is strengthened by their friendship, and spoke of how this camaraderie amongst female country artists helped to inspire each of them despite being from different generations. McEntire cried when she heard the song for the first time, explaining “I remember listening to it in the dressing room. I couldn’t find a flaw in it, not a word. It was that great. I was very emotional when I heard it.”[4]
Despite having performed live together several times, this marks the first official recorded collaboration between McEntire and Lambert, and is also the first collaboration between McEntire and Wilson. It is Lambert and Wilson's second collaboration following "Good Horses", a single from Wilson's 2024 album Whirlwind.
Promotion
The trio performed the song live together for the first time on May 8, 2025, a day prior to its official release, at the 60th Academy of Country Music Awards which were hosted by McEntire.[5] Lambert and Wilson also joined McEntire during her headline set at Nashville's inaugural Music City Rodeo on May 29, 2025.[6]
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