In Nashville writing rooms, hit singles often spring from friendly conversation. A couple of writers may be sharing a funny story or dishing on their personal lives when boom, someone utters a clever one-liner that has the group scrambling for pens, paper and the nearest guitar.
Such was the case for country upstart Jordan Davis, whose breakout single "Singles You Up" was born from a lucky conversation with co-writers Justin Ebach and Steven Dale Jones. It was one of the trio's first writing sessions together – Davis had previously written with Ebach once and was a new collaborator for Jones – and they were shooting the breeze about Ebach's recent engagement when inspiration struck.
"It took us a little while to land on something, but at the time Justin had just gotten engaged and through congratulating him on the engagement that term, 'single her up,' got said," Davis tells Rolling Stone Country. "Right when it was said, I think all three of us were like, 'Oh man, that's really cool.'"
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