Caitlyn Smith has lived in Nashville for about a decade now, and she s seen the city change plenty but she s different now, too. After the singer-songwriter found herself considering the weight of all of this change during a drive around the city, she and co-writers Ben West and Stephen Wilson turned the idea in her song I Can t.
The song appears on Smith s 2020 album Supernova
, released on March 13 of that year just as the COVID-19 pandemic was becoming major news in the United States and life as we knew it was grinding to a halt. The record she had spent two years writing and recording, she says dryly, kind of [got] eaten up by the CoronaMonster.