Keith debuted his new single in an interview with Fox & Friends on Friday, July 2, revealing how he was inspired to write the song last summer during a massive boat parade amid the peaking Covid-19 pandemic. “All the boats had radios synced to the same radio station, the award-winning musician recalled. “So you could hear the same thing all the way across the lake.”
He then heard one of his tunes as ‘Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue’ begins to play. “Everybody was honking their horns, screaming and singing… I was like, ‘wow.’ It was in the middle of last summer and this country felt like a dumpster fire about then. So I said, ‘Happy Birthday, America, whatever’s left of ya, ” he continued, noting that he completed the song a few days later. “I live in the heartland, and it just feels like everybody you talk to has got the same worries,” Keith continued. “Feels like democracy’s in trouble and… it just feels like the politicians on both sides a