Kelsea Ballerini released her new single, “Cowboys Cry Too,” featuring Noah Kahan, just weeks after Ballerini announced her upcoming fifth studio album , the follow-up to her 2022 release, Subject to Change. The singer, 30, captioned a collection of photos and videos of her in the recording studio on Instagram: “Album: recorded mind: lost dibs: unimpressed.”
Cowboys Cry Too featuring Kahan, 27, comes almost two months after the duo joined forces on the stage of the 2024 Academy of Country Music Awards, merging their hits “Mountain With A View” and “Stick Season.” The track was co-produced by Ballerini and Vanderheym in Nashville, with Kahan’s vocal produced by Gabe Simon. The song also features lead electric guitar from John Osborne of Brothers Osborne.
Shared Ballerini: “In our world and culture and echo chamber of highlight reels and pretty things, sometimes real feelings start to feel like something you just set aside or push down to keep up. Especially the way so many men grow up, that kind of toxic masculinity mindset of ‘saddle up, brush it off.’ I wanted to write my perspective and essentially celebrate the vulnerable men in my life, and Noah adding his really unfiltered perspective into it just brought it to life in a more meaningful and beautiful way.”
Kahan adds, “It’s the writers who are willing to go to the awkward places that inspire me. Kelsea is one of those, and I knew if we could find something we both believed to sing, it would expand how we look at the way we live, what society decides and we should reject. ‘Cowboys Cry Too’ is everything I believed our collaboration could be.”
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