{"id":728,"date":"2022-12-17T10:32:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T15:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morganwallen.com\/home\/?p=728"},"modified":"2023-01-12T12:45:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T17:45:19","slug":"behind-the-meaning-of-morgan-wallens-breakup-ballad-wasted-on-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morganwallen.com\/home\/behind-the-meaning-of-morgan-wallens-breakup-ballad-wasted-on-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Meaning of Morgan Wallen\u2019s Breakup Ballad \u201cWasted On You\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Tina Benitez-Eves | American Songwriter<\/a><\/p>\n

Leave it to a global pandemic to stir a bowl of emotions. \u201cWasted On You,\u201d the fourth and final single off\u00a0Morgan Wallen<\/a>\u2018s album,\u00a0Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em>, was one song that came from a lingering heartbreak.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just came from a pretty, almost like a pissed off place, and just about being wasted time,\u201d said Wallen<\/a> on the meaning in 2021. \u201cI think we all can relate to that. We\u2019ve all been through that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bourbon and Breakups<\/strong>\u00a0Meaning<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Written by Wallen, along with\u00a0Josh Thompson, Ernest K. Smith, and Ryan Vojtesa, the breakup ballad reflects on getting over an ex, while knocking back some bourbon.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t always wake up in the mornin\u2019
\nPour myself a strong one
\nAh, but when I get lonely I do
\nYour memory gets burnin\u2019
\nLean back on the bourbon
\nSure as hell can\u2019t keep leanin\u2019 on you<\/em><\/p>\n

Looks like I\u2019m learnin\u2019 the hard way again
\nIt\u2019s all my fault
\nYeah, I dropped the ball
\nYou\u2019re gone and I\u2019m gone three sheets to the wind
\nThinking \u2019bout all I\u2019ve wasted on you<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe subject matter seemed right, and we originally just wrote it with just a guitar vocal and we brought in to my producer and went to the band that we record with and they took it a direction a little similar to the guitar\u00a0vocal,\u201d\u00a0shared Wallen<\/a>\u00a0on how the song came together musically.<\/p>\n

\u201cI told my producer it seemed like something was missing so we added a little bit extra,\u201d he added. \u201cWe ended up adding that beat in the chorus, that genre-bending thing \u2026 I don\u2019t know. I wanted to experiment a little bit on this album, and that\u2019s one of the songs that I did the most on, I would say.\u201d<\/p>\n

Learning the Hard Way<\/strong><\/p>\n

By the third verse, the lyrics steer toward Wallen taking some of the blame for the split.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I swore this one\u2019d be different
\nMy heart wouldn\u2019t listen to my head and these boots on my feet
\nLooks like I\u2019m learning the hard way again
\nThat\u2019s why I\u2019ve been
\nWasted on you<\/em><\/p>\n

Life After \u2018The Voice\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

After competing on the sixth season of\u00a0The Voice<\/em>, Wallen moved to Nashville in 2015 and began dating Katie Smith on and off beginning in 2017. Smith gave birth to their son Indie in 2020, and the lyrics are believed to be about his relationship with her.<\/p>\n

No. 1 Records<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWasted On You\u201d debuted at No. 1 on the\u00a0Billboard\u00a0Hot Country Songs\u00a0chart just as\u00a0Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em>\u00a0hit the top of the\u00a0Top Country Albums\u00a0chart, making Wallen the first artist to simultaneously debut at the top of both charts.<\/p>\n

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By Tina Benitez-Eves | American Songwriter Leave it to a global pandemic to stir a bowl of emotions. \u201cWasted On You,\u201d the fourth and final single off\u00a0Morgan Wallen\u2018s album,\u00a0Dangerous: The Double Album, was one song that came from a lingering … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morganwallen.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morganwallen.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morganwallen.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morganwallen.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morganwallen.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/morganwallen.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/morganwallen.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morganwallen.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morganwallen.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morganwallen.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morganwallen.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}