May 24, 2019
“Who could have planned for an artist we signed to have her first record go four-times platinum and it’s still rocking like mad?” asks Warner Music Nashville chairman/CEO John “Espo” Esposito. “It’s crazy.” Here’s how one of 2020’s defining crossover hits came to be.
“When The Teeth Come Out, It’s Something That Really Grabs People”
Gabby Barrett: I had a terrible relationship in high school that just went south, and I ended up getting my heart broken. It has happened to me and people close to me. Jon and I were going back-and-forth on ideas for the chorus, and he [joked], “What if we said, ‘And then I hope she cheats?’ ” I said, “We should go with that because that’s really how people end up feeling.” You can’t go wrong with another good cheating song in country music.