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Morgan Wallen Calls “I Got Better” The Most Personal Song On New Album, Gets Endorsement From Zach Bryan
I’m The Problem is officially here.
Today, Morgan Wallen released his mega 37-song fourth studio album, which includes features from fellow country artists Eric Church, Ernest and Hardy, as well as Morgan’s first major collaboration with a female artist with Canadian pop star Tate McRae on a duet called “What I Want.”
I’ll be honest, it’s completely overwhelming, and I really don’t even know where to start… I listened to “Number 3 and Number 7” first, and it’s a good song, but generally, I’ve heard tons of those hip-hops beats Morgan says are less apparent on this album, and nothing has really stuck out to me as “the one,” through again, I’ve not gotten through much of it yet.
Morgan revealed they actually started by recording 50 songs, and narrowed it down (kind of) to what the final project is. He says there’s always three styles he wants to include, being straight up country, alternative-indie, and then what he calls a “cross-genre approach”:
“There were three styles on the last album that I had in my head, and I went with that same approach with this album. We had straight up country songs, which I always do, and then we had more of an alternative-indie approach on a few of them. Those songs end up being a little bit countrified, just because that’s who we are and that’s how we do them.
And then the more cross-genre approach might end up on a multi-genre radio station, just because of all the influences that I’ve had throughout my life, listening to every single type of music. I think I’ve stuck to that approach with I’m The Problem, getting an anchor song for each style and once we have those anchor songs dialed in, we fill up those buckets.
We recorded around 50 songs for this album and ended up cutting 13. I feel like we accomplished what I had in mind, and a huge shoutout to my close collaborators on this too. They came in ready and fired up every single day, and they inspire me as much as anything else.”
But as an artist who has 49 songwriters on this album (Morgan co-wrote 22 of the songs), I figured starting with one of Morgan’s favorites might be a good place to begin. He says “I Got Better” is the one song that completely represents his life right now, and
“‘I got better since you got gone’ would be how I feel right now. I’d say that’s one that really came from my heart, and it can mean many things. It’s not just a song to a girl, it could be a song to anything that’s holding you back. That’s why I like that song so much, for a long time I had a lot of things holding me back.
I’ve finally said goodbye to a lot of those things, and I’m proud of the results that have come from doing that. So, I’d say ‘I Got Better’ is my most personal song right now.”
Of course, I think we’ve all seen plenty of the headlines about Morgan’s personal life over the years, and obviously last year when he was arrested for the chair-throwing incident at Chief’s, and this song does reflect on moving past certain things in life that hold him back. In this song, it’s a girl, but it’s representative of larger, deeper changes in his life.
Written by Morgan along with Blake Pendergrass, Chase McGill, Ryan Vojtesak, Ernest and Hardy, I think it has a catchy melody and some of the better production on the album (not any of those 808’s he loves to use), and I think Morgan’s fellow country star Zach Bryan likes it too, because he shared it on his Instagram stories earlier:
Quite the endorsement from ZB…
I’m sure I’ll find a few other favorites, but I already have major beef with the length of this tracklist… even if Morgan was my all-time favorite artist, like I’ve said before, it’s just way too much and so many of the songs run together. I know, that’s just how it works with streaming and things these days, but maybe he can take a cue from his friend and musical hero Eric Church, who recently put out what’s now considered a very modest 8-song tracklist.
Check it out:
“I Got Better”
“Number 3 and Number 7”
I’m The Problem Tracklist:
1. I’m The Problem (Morgan Wallen, Grady Block, Jamie McLaughlin, Ernest Keith Smith, Ryan Vojtesak)
2. I Got Better (Morgan Wallen, Blake Pendergrass, Chase McGill, Ryan Vojtesak, Ernest Keith Smith, Michael Hardy)
3. Superman (Morgan Wallen, Ryan Vojtesak, John Byron, Blake Pendergrass, James Maddocks)
4. What I Want (feat. Tate McRae) (Morgan Wallen, Tate McRae, John Byron, Jacob Kasher Hindlin, Ryan Vojtesak, Joe Reeves)
5. Just In Case (Morgan Wallen, Ernest Keith Smith, John Byron, Jacob Kasher Hindlin, Ryan Vojtesak, Josh Thompson, Blake Pendergrass, Alex Bak)
6. Interlude (Morgan Wallen, Ryan Vojtesak, John Byron, Blake Pendergrass, Rocky Block)
7. Falling Apart (Morgan Wallen, Blake Pendergrass, Josh Thompson, Ryan Vojtesak)
8. Skoal, Chevy, and Browning (Joe Fox, Chase McGill, Josh Miller)
9. Eyes Are Closed (Morgan Wallen, John Byron, Blake Pendergrass, Ryan Vojtesak)
10. Kick Myself (Morgan Wallen, Rocky Block, Ernest Keith Smith, Ryan Vojtesak, James Maddocks)
11. 20 Cigarettes (Chris LaCorte, Chase McGill, Blake Pendergrass, Josh Miller)
12. TN (Morgan Wallen, John Byron, Ashley Gorley, Chase McGill, Taylor Phillips, Ryan Vojtesak, Geoff Warburton)
13. Missing (Morgan Wallen, Chase McGill, Josh Thompson, Blake Pendergrass, Ryan Vojtesak, Luis Witkiewitz)
14. Where’d That Girl Go (Morgan Wallen, Rocky Block, John Byron, Ryan Vojtesak, Blake Pendergrass, Joe Reeves, Geoff Warburton)
15. Genesis (Morgan Wallen, John Byron, Rocky Block, Jacob Durrett, Blake Pendergrass, Ryan Vojtesak, James Maddocks)
16. Revelation (Trannie Anderson, Rodney Clawson, Nicolle Galyon, Chris Tompkins)
17. Number 3 and Number 7 (feat. Eric Church) (Rocky Block, Blake Pendergrass)
18. Kiss Her In Front Of You (John Byron, Jaxson Free, Taylor Phillips, Ashley Gorley, Ryan Vojtesak)
19. If You Were Mine (Chris Tompkins, Jessie Jo Dillon, David Garcia, Geoff Warburton)
20. Don’t We (Morgan Wallen, Ryan Vojtesak, Ashley Gorley, Rocky Block, Blake Pendergrass, John Byron)
21. Come Back As A Redneck (feat. HARDY) (Morgan Wallen, Ernest Keith Smith, Ryan Vojtesak, Michael Hardy, James Maddocks)
22. Love Somebody (Morgan Wallen, John Byron, Shaun Frank, Nicholas Gale, Ashley Gorley, Yaakov Gruzman, Jacob Kasher Hindlin, Elof Loelv, Steve Francis Richard Mastroianni, Martina Sorbara, Ryan Vojtesak)
23. Dark Til Daylight (Rocky Block, Chris Tompkins, Jimmy Robbins)
24. The Dealer (feat. ERNEST) (Blake Pendergrass)
25. Leavin’s The Least I Could Do (Morgan Wallen, Michael Hardy, Josh Miller, Ernest Keith Smith, Ryan Vojtesak)
26. Jack and Jill (Jacob Hackworth, Jared Mullins, Ned Cameron)
27. I Ain’t Comin’ Back (feat. Post Malone) (Morgan Wallen, Louis Bell, Michael Hardy, Austin Post, Ernest Keith Smith, Ryan Vojtesak)
28. Nothin’ Left (Josh Miller, Greylan James, Matt Jenkins)
29. Drinking Til It Does (Josh Thompson, Jimmy Robbins)
30. Smile (Morgan Wallen, Rocky Block, John Byron, Ernest Keith Smith, Ryan Vojtesak, Luis Witkiewitz)
31. Working Man’s Song (Morgan Wallen, Ryan Vojtesak, Josh Miller, Blake Pendergrass, Rocky Block)
32. Whiskey In Reverse (Morgan Wallen, Ernest Keith Smith, Ryan Vojtesak, Michael Hardy)
33. Crazy Eyes (Chris Tompkins, Josh Miller, Jessie Jo Dillon, Daniel Ross)
34. LA Night (Chris Tompkins, Travis Wood, Josh Miller)
35. Miami (Morgan Wallen, Ryan Vojtesak, Ernest Keith Smith, Blake Pendergrass, Chase McGill, Michael Hardy, Dean Dillon, Hank Cochran, Royce Porter)
36. Lies Lies Lies (Jessie Jo Dillon, Josh Miller, Daniel Ross, Chris Tompkins)
37. I’m A Little Crazy (Michael Hardy, Smith Ahnquist, Hunter Phelps, Jameson Rodgers)The post Morgan Wallen Calls “I Got Better” The Most Personal Song On New Album, Gets Endorsement From Zach Bryan first appeared on Whiskey Riff.
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