Trisha Yearwood has a new single out, from her forthcoming new album, The Mirror. Yearwood just released “Girls Night In,” a song she wrote with Rebecca Lynn Howard and Rachel Thibodeau.

“However you’re feeling — we’ve got you,” Yearwood says of the message behind the song. “Having girlfriends who are always right there with you, by your side, good times, bad times, ride or die … it’s all about showing up for each other because we all fit right in… together.”

Yearwood, who recently joined TikTok in advance of the release of The Mirror, co-wrote all of the songs on the record.

 

 

“I’ve written some over the years, but I always would preface it with, ‘I’m not a songwriter,’” Yearwood says on the Today Show. “And I think I had this aha moment. I turned 60 last year, and I highly recommend it. Everything sort of opened up. Somebody had told me in college that I was not a songwriter, some guy. And bless his heart … he probably wouldn’t even remember saying it.”

When Yearwood got her start in music, she had high hopes of being a songwriter as well as a singer. Those hopes were sadly dashed, due to the careless words of someone Yearwood respected.

“How we take things somebody says to you, and especially as young girls — I was 19 years old, and I gave him a bunch of poetry,” Yearwood recalls. “Everybody in Nashville was writing. I was in college and he just said, ‘Yeah, you’re a good singer, but you’re not really a writer.’ And I let it be the truth for 40 years. I just thought, ‘That doesn’t have to be the truth about me, just because somebody says it.’ I started writing for me. I didn’t ever intend to make a record. And then, the more I wrote, the more I loved it, the more confidence I got. And then people in my life said, ‘You should make a record of this.’ And so, here we are.”

When announcing The Mirror, Yearwood said it was a new chapter for her, after 35 years of being part of country msuic

“This is a new chapter for me and one I cannot wait to share with you … I am so proud of this record and hope you love it as much as I loved creating it,” the Grand Ole Opry member says.

Yearwood has hit songwriter Leslie Satcher to thank for inspiring her to start writing at all.

“She’s like, ‘Girl, every time we get together, I think you’ve got something to say,’” Yearwood tells CMT. “So, I finally said, ‘Okay, I’ll do this with you, but I’m really nervous.’”

The Mirror will be released on July 18. Yearwood has already released “Bringing the Angels” and “The Wall Or The Way Over” from the record. Pre-order the project at TrishaYearwood.com.

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