Didn’t overthink it. On all fronts, 2024’s Twisters was a smash hit. For the movie itself, it proved to be a worthy successor to the original 1996 film starring Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt, Twister. With some help from lead actor, Glen Powell, who was coming off some huge buzz thanks to his role in Top Gun: Maverick, the film was a success both critically and commercially, raking in an impressive $372 million at the box office. What stood out to many country fans about Twisters, however, was its absolutely stacked soundtrack. Though not every song made it into the film itself, it was absolutely loaded with talent from both the mainstream and alternative scene. In addition to featuring superstars like Luke Combs, Miranda Lambert, Lainey Wilson, Jelly Roll and Thomas Rhett, the filmmakers called upon some of the best and brightest stars in alternative country, with Tyler Childers, Charley Crockett, The Red Clay Strays, Wyatt Flores, Dylan Gossett, Sam Barber, Flatland Cavalry and many more appearing throughout. While the Twisters soundtrack was a success on all fronts, there’s absolutely no denying that Combs’ “Ain’t No Love In Oklahoma” was the standout commercially. In a somewhat rare decision, given the song was made for a movie, the track was sent to country radio as one of Combs’ 2024 singles. Flying up the charts, it would reach #1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart and #3 on Hot Country Songs. Additionally, it would receive a lot of love on streaming, racking up a staggering 520 million streams on Spotify alone en route to receiving a 3x platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). “Ain’t No Love In Oklahoma,” which was written by Combs, Jonathan Singleton and Jessi Alexander, is undoubtedly an absolute heater from Combs and one of those songs that almost feel too good to simply be written for a movie soundtrack. As it turns out, the story behind how the song came to be is actually quite interesting. In a recent interview on the Zach Sang Show, the “Hurricane” singer revealed that the writing process was a bit strange. As Combs recalled, he got pitched the idea to write a song for Twisters on a Zoom call with the production team for the film. When asked what direction they wanted him to go with a track, they didn’t have much to offer him. “When we wrote the song for the ‘Twisters’ movie, I wrote that with Jonathan [Singleton] and Jessi Alexander. I got pitched the idea… I got on a Zoom meeting with all the big-time movie people. They’re all LA people; I’m in Nashville. I’m at my producer, Chip’s, house with Jonathan and myself, and we’re on this meeting. I’m like, ‘What do you got?’  And they’re like, ‘We don’t really have anything. We don’t have a trailer. Can’t really tell you much.’ It’s ‘Twisters’. I’m like, ‘Cool, I saw ‘Twister.’ I’m familiar with the kinda what the concept is probably going to be.”  Combs would go on to note that the Twisters team only gave him bullet points of ideas. However, it was their insistence on the film not being a love story that ultimately sparked the idea for the title. After writing down 15 or so titles and ideas for a song, “Ain’t No Love In Oklahoma” was ultimately the title that stuck for the North Carolina native. “So they were just kind of giving us these bullet points of this is what we do want. This is what we don’t want. One of their big buzz things was there’s no love story in the movie. The movie’s not a love story. There’s a little bit of undertones, but that’s not the focus of the movie. And they kept saying that.  They kept being like, ‘It’s in Oklahoma. People will know it’s in Oklahoma. It’s this big thing that it’s in Oklahoma.’ I came up with the title in the meeting. I had written like 15 titles down as they were talking, just things they were saying. I’m amalgamating, putting together those things they were saying — one of which was ‘Ain’t No Love In Oklahoma.'” After finishing the Zoom meeting, Combs was locked in on the concept of “Ain’t No Love In Oklahoma.” Just hours later, Singleton would send over the now-iconic opening guitar riff, and they hit the ground running the next morning. “We closed the Zoom meeting. I sit with Jonathan, and I’m like, ‘Here’s this title, this title, this title.’ And we landed on our favorite one being ‘Ain’t No Love In Oklahoma. Jonathan goes home. Three hours later, he sends me over a voice note [of the intro]. And I’m like, ‘That’s so sick. I’ll be at your house in the morning; let’s write it.” And the rest was history. Singleton would then call Alexander, and the trio would pen the track in just two hours. “Jonathan called Jessi. We’re there at 10. [We] wrote the song in an hour, made the demo, sent it to the movie people within two hours. They’re like, ‘We love it. It’s the song.’ And I’m like, ‘Sick.'” It’s pretty safe to say that it takes an entirely different approach to write a song for commercial use, whether it’s for a film, TV show or whatever. With that being said, however, Combs and Co. absolutely knocked it out of the park for Twisters. Simultaneously feeling perfect both for the film and Combs’ discography, in addition to being a smash hit, it’s hard to think of a better result. “Ain’t No Love In Oklahoma” My Kinda Saturday Night Tour Dates April 4 Scott Stadium – Charlottesville, VA April 11 Jack Trice Stadium – Ames, IA April 18 Notre Dame Stadium – South Bend, IN April 25 Ohio Stadium – Columbus, OH May 2 Neyland Stadium – Knoxville, TN May 9 Gaylord Family – Oklahoma Memorial Stadium – Norman, OK May 15 Lambeau Field – Green Bay, WI May 16 Lambeau Field – Green Bay, WI May 30 Parc Jean-Drapeau – Montreal, QC June 5 Rogers Stadium – Toronto, ON June 6 Rogers Stadium – Toronto, ON July 4 Ullevi – Gothenburg, Sweden July 7 Accor Arena – Paris, France July 11 Johan Cruijff ArenA – Amsterdam, Netherlands July 18 Slane Castle – Slane, Ireland July 19 Slane Castle – Slane, Ireland July 25 Scottish Gas Murrayfield – Edinburgh, UK July 31 Wembley Stadium – London, UK August 1 Wembley Stadium – London, UK The post Luke Combs Reveals He Began Writing His ‘Twisters’ Hit, “Ain’t No Love In Oklahoma,” During The Initial Meeting For The Movie first appeared on Whiskey Riff.