Life Changes (Commentary)

You're listening to the Thomas Rhett Life Changes album release special I'm talking to Thomas Rhett all about the album And we have come to one of my absolute favorite songs on your album I cannot stop listening to this song, it is the title track It's Life Changes and there's such a great groove to it, but the lyrics are so perfect And I mean, I would like to believe that you just sort of sat down And very effortlessly scribbled this out And yet, I find sometimes the songs that sound the simplest, you maybe had to work a little harder So, I'm curious how simple was this song? (Yeah) Because I mean, it is literally your life in three minutes Yeah, this song was tough because there were more moments like that That you have to kind of put them all on paper and be like Well, these 20 things I felt like shaped who I am today over the last five years And so we picked three of those and wrote three different verses about them That I thought were the most just life-changing moments That really I felt like one thing led to another thing and ultimately led me here So, it's a tough song to write because when you talk about certain things of like I had no idea what I wanted to do in college and then You know, thank God he smacked me in the face and said, you're going to write songs And then everyone told me, he's like, dude, you're 22, please don't get married yet I remember that Not in a malicious way Just dude, your career is just starting Like why? Why would you do that now? And you're so young If you love her now, you'll love her when it's a better time (exactly) But I just, it was just in my gut It was like, this needs to happen now And it did, and it completely altered my life forever And then, you know, going on and kind of in the back of our minds Thinking that there was something wrong with one of us because that we couldn't have children And so then, you know, learning that, okay, well, maybe we were supposed to adopt And that's maybe all of our children are supposed to be adopted children And so we adopted Willa and halfway through that Lauren got pregnant And so like, it's just so many crazy things that we kind of just followed our gut and tried to do I guess what was the right thing in that moment And it, you know, it led us to where we are now So, definitely one of my favorite songs to write And definitely probably the most personal song that I have allowed people to listen to And it is so infectious and such an earworm I mean, I could, you know, recite the lines after the first time I heard it And now I, one of my favorite lines in there, where you say She, Lauren now has her own fans and she's got a little blue check by her Instagram Which, which was just so clever to me I'm-, one thing that it made me think about is Talk to me a minute about how gracefully she has managed your celebrity And coming into her own celebrity because I mean She seems still as one of the most unaffected, genuine, sweet people that is just taking it as it comes Yeah, I think every time I say this, it comes across weird But I think one of the best things about Lauren is that she truly doesn't get affected by much Fame, she could care less about Money she could care less about Meeting famous people she could care less about She's such a normal person And I think in the back of her mind, she knows that everyone else is a normal person Somewhere deep down inside And so I think that the way that how she's handled all this stuff is because she truly is just like Well, this is what's happening You know? And she just takes it as it comes And I'm the opposite Like, if there is a moment to freak out in a situation, I will freak out If something is not going how I thought it was gonna go, I'm immediately like, what did I do wrong? Lauren's like, babe, it's fine, like don't worry about it Just go do the thing The show's going to be fine Everything's going to be fine And so, the Lord knew that I needed somebody like that in my life Because I don't know where I would be without her But it's just amazing that her just being her I think is what people just love about her, is that never wears makeup I mean, she's always just like first thing in the morning, like, today we're eating Cheerios You know like that kind of thing And so I think people really just know how to relate to Lauren, so Yeah, I love the song I love the lyrics And I love that it is the title track because it can be taken in so many different ways Life changes as a noun or life changes as a verb (yeah) And I encourage people to get to know these lyrics Because you're going to be hearing this song, "I Have a Feeling" on the radio more than just right now Absolutely