Sugarland released a new song, āBabe,ā from its upcoming sixth studio album, Bigger, which drops on June 8.
The new album, which was co-produced by Julian Raymond and Sugarlandās Kristian Bush and Jennifer Nettles, features 11 songs, 10 of which were co-written by Kristian and Jennifer.
The outlier is āBabe,ā a song penned by Taylor Swift and Trainās Pat Monahan that features vocals from Taylor.
āWeāve obviously known [Taylor] for many years,ā says Jennifer. āAnd she was excited we were getting back together and reached out, and said, āHey, I have a song.ā That is a short list, ladies and gentleman, of people to whom she has said, āHey, I have a song. Wanna sing it?ā So, we said, āYeah.'ā
āWeāve never really put a song by anybody else on any of our records, so we werenāt really used to kinda sorting through that, and we didnāt want to mess it up,ā says Kristian. āSo we didnāt tell anybody about it, until we got finished. And she liked it, thank God.ā
Taylor posted a video on Instagram on April 20, letting her fans know how happy she is that Sugarland recorded the tune, as well as sharing the songās origin, which Taylor says she initially co-wrote for her Red album in 2012.
āHey guys, I just wanted to say thank you so much for all the nice things youāve been saying about āBabe,āā said Taylor, in part. āItās a song I wrote with Pat Monahan when I was making the Red album. Iām so happy that that it gets its own life. Iām so happy that Sugarland wanted to record it and has done such a great job with it. And Iām so stoked to be able to sing on it, too.ā
Listen to āBabeā below.
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