Wild As Her

Album

Blacktop

Label

OVO Sound

Genre

Country

Composer(s)

Brett Tyler;Kelly Archer;Morgan Wallen

Entered Chart

Jul 2, 2022

Peak Date

Mar 18, 2023

Released

Unknown

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

OVO Sound

Oklahoma native Corey Kent has been playing live since 11, when he fronted a Western swing band. A stint in 2015-16 when he made the finals of The Voice under his full name, Corey Kent White, introduced him to a larger audience. Following opening slots for Chase Rice, Parker McCollum, and Eli Young Band, Kent released "Wild As Her" independently. The song earned him a deal with Sony Music Nashville after topping Apple Music's country chart. This country rocker finds Kent singing about his relationship with a free-spirited woman. Though they share a bed, she insists on living life on her own terms, so he doesn't try to tie her down. Kent is a songwriter himself, but "Wild As Her" came from the pen of three outside songwriters: Morgan Wallen, Brett Tyler, and Kelly Archer. Once his team played him the tune, he immediately graduated to it as he saw similarities between the independent woman in the song and his wife, Dana. "If she was having a good time, she would get up on a table and dance and everybody would stare at her like she's crazy - and she would not care because she was having so much fun," Kent told Billboard. "That is like the essence of what this girl in the song is about. You're not going to control her, you're not going to tame her. And the best way to make her fall for you, is to embrace who she really is." Morgan Wallen not only co-wrote "Wild As Her" but also sang the demo. Kent thought it would be quite some challenge to take on one of Wallen's songs. "Songwriting-wise, he's one of my favorites that's in the game currently, and is great at what he does and he didn't cut this song," Kent told Everything Nash. "I was kind of surprised, because it's right up his alley too. But hearing Morgan's voice on it, knowing that it aligned with my brand, knowing that my team was jumping up and down about this song - they were like, 'Man, you've gotta sing this song. Your voice would be incredible on this." "Wild As Her" isn't Kent's first entry on the Country chart. Three of the songs he performed on The Voice entered the listing in 2015: covers of Garth Brooks' "To Make You Feel My Love" (#44), Jason Aldean's "Why" (#49), and Bad English's "When I See You Smile" (#44). Wallen, Tyler and Archer wrote "Wild As Her" on May 31, 2017, at Nashville's Combustion Music. Wallen, who'd yet to score his first hit, passed on the song, but Combustion Music kept pitching it. Texas country singer-songwriter Colby Keeling eventually released his version on January 10, 2020. Canadian country artist Tyler Joe Miller's take peaked at #94 on the Canadian Hot 100 two years later. Kent's interpretation came about after his day-to-day manager Chris Fox heard "Wild As Her" and suggested it to him. Archer bought the "Wild As Her" title to the session with Wallen and Tyler. They came up with a song about a relationship between a freewheeling woman and her supportive male partner. After they wrote the chorus, Archer felt it needed something extra. She suggested Travis Tritt's 2000 cut "It's a Great Day to Be Alive," where he ends the hook with a wolf-like howl. Tyler proposed holding the word "wild" out for a dozen "wi-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ild" syllables. "I'm 99% sure I threw this out as a joke," he recalled to Billboard of the 12-syllable ride. "And then Morgan did it. Morgan's voice is about 100 times better than mine. If you're gonna sing a song with the word 'wild,' you want to hear it that way."

She never wanted to be white picket fenced in
Her heart's like a feather in a Tulsa wind
Seaside breeze'll bring her to life
And all them other boys say she's a goodbye girl
She'll wreck your world
And leave before the mornin' sun
But here she is, free, layin' next to me
'Cause I ain't tryna to tame her love

I keep the windows down and the wind in her hair
Keep her heart hangin' on 'round every turn
She ain't scared to get tied down, scared to get burned
Just looking for somebody as wild as her
Wild, wild

Saw that highway unwind in her deep brown eyes
She saw a long stretch of dirt road dreamin' in mine
She ain't living for a diamond ring
Just living like the rock'n'roll song she sings out loud
We're burnin' it down
Blazin' up a trail of smoke
Wherever we are, wherever we go
Yeah, that's where she calls home

I keep the windows down and the wind in her hair
Keep her heart hangin' on 'round every turn
She ain't scared to get tied down, scared to get burned
Just looking for somebody as wild as her
Wild, wild
Yeah, man

Yeah, I ain't tryna fix her
I just wanna kiss her
Fuel a little fire in her soul
But we don't say forever, but when we're together
Swear that we ain't ever lettin' go
'Cause she knows

I keep the windows down and the wind in her hair
Keep her heart hanging on 'round every turn
She ain't scared to get tied down, scared to get burned
Just looking for somebody as wild as her
Wild, wild
Yeah