I ve pedaled upstream where the river ran, they harmonize in the chorus. I ve turned sticks and stones to an olive branch/ I ve made a full house from a (expletive) hand/ Yet, here I am, still gotta be bigger than the bigger man.
Robbins and Veltz also co-wrote Morris award-winning hit The Bones with the country star. In a note she shared along with Bigger Man s release, Oladokun says the song was written on the same day she first met her three co-writers.
“We were bouncing ideas around the room, and I had this song idea that came to mind when I was meditating that morning. The idea was about being the bigger man. In my life, I sometimes experience being the youngest and the most inexperienced, and yet I have to conduct myself as though I am way above my years or my maturity. I think it’s an old feeling, especially for women and people of color, of having to be stronger, better, brighter, and harder working at everything just to get a shot. We wrote from that place a