Cody Johnson’s Upcoming Song Needed Carrie Underwood
Cody Johnson gave as many details as he could about the new duet he has coming out with Carrie Underwood. Although he would not give the song’s title or when it will be released, Cody told us backstage at last week’s (6/8) CMA Fest when asked about it, “I didn’t know she didn’t say ‘yes’ to everything, so thank you for making me feel better.”
Johnson explained, “I won’t go into too much detail about it because I want to save some sizzle of surprise. From the moment I heard the song, and this was six years ago, I wanted to record it, and I wanted to do a duet with Carrie because I heard her voice on it.”
He continued, “The artist that wrote the song (whom he would not say by name), the label said, ‘We’re holding that for him,’ and I didn’t get the song; it didn’t work out for him, and it went into her pile and didn’t work out for her record company. So it went back into the stratosphere of who wants to record this, and I said, ‘Whatever happened to that song that guy wrote?’ and They said, ‘Well, it never got recorded,’ and I said, ‘I want Carrie Underwood on it.”
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Cody’s label asked what if she said no and what other female artist he would want on the song. He recalled, “I said I didn’t want to record it unless I could have Carrrie on it.'”
Johnson admitted it’s not that he is a die-hard fan of Underwood, but it just had to be Carrie’s voice on the song. He told us, “I love Carrie’s music, but I didn’t have her poster on my wall, you know. But when I heard this song, I heard her voice, and I just knew that it was gonna work out. We had never sung together, so when we got in the room, and we started singing together, It was like family harmony. The only way I can describe it is the way I grew up singing with my mom. It just instantly fits, and it meshes.”
Cody concluded, “It’s really interesting to me because my voice and her voice are really drastically different. But put together, they make a very, very unique sound, and I’m excited for it to come out. I’m not sure when it is; we’re kind of holding the Ace card close to the sleeve.”
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