Backseat Driver

Album

High Road, The

Label

RCA Records Nashville

Genre

Country

Composer(s)

JACOB DAVIS;JORDAN WALKER

Entered Chart

Feb 8, 2025

Peak Date

May 17, 2025

Released

October 11, 2024

"Backseat Driver" captures a universal truth in the simplest of settings - a father driving with his little girl at 7:30 in the morning. While the adult is focused on the task at hand, barely noticing the world rushing by, the child in the back seat marvels at the ordinary wonders of life. For Kane Brown, this song is personal - a heartfelt ode to life as a father of three, a role that comes with an endless barrage of questions from the back seat. "Backseat Driver" captures the small but profound moments of fatherhood, when you realize these fleeting moments of childhood won't last forever. Jacob Davis (Jordan Davis' "Buy Dirt" and "Tucson Too Late") and Jordan Walker (Luke Combs' "When It Rains It Pours," Kane Brown's "Fiddle In The Band") penned this quiet country ode that had been making its way around Nashville for a while. Brown told Backstage Country that he was surprised the track ended up with him, but once he heard it, he knew it was perfect: "It's every daddy-daughter song, and every dad can relate to it, that's a dad and has a daughter, or, mom and son." The music video, directed by Alex Alvga, opens with a fuzzy, black-and-white TV screen framing memories being made with Brown and his family. Then we see Brown recording the track in a small, dusty studio out in the desert before driving off to a remote campsite.

7:30 in the morning in a Mickey D's drive thru
Two muffins, one coffee and a little bitty orange juice
I saw a man with a sign on the corner
I rolled my window down, handed him a dollar
That's when I heard her ask
"Hey, Daddy, who was that?"
And before I could answer back
She said

"Daddy, look, there's a plane in the sky
Are we there yet? Did you just see that dog run by?
Do squirrels have houses in the trees?
Why'd God put stingers on honeybees?"
It's crazy all the things she sees on the side of the road
Out of that window beside her
I wish I could be more like her
My little dangling feet, pretty in pink, backseat driver

Later on that day, on the highway back home
I saw a lady in a black Mercedes yelling at her phone
She flew by me with her finger in the air
And I had to act like I didn't care
And that's when I heard her ask
"Daddy, why was she so mad?"
Before I could answer back
She said

"Daddy, can you please turn up the radio?
Hey, what are you pushing with your feet that makes us go?
Do squirrels have houses in the trees?
Why'd God put stingers on honeybees?"
It's crazy all the things she sees on the side of the road
Out of that window beside her
I wish I could be more like her
My little dangling feet, pretty in pink, backseat driver

One day, I'll look back and I'll miss when
My whole world wasn't over that dash
It was back there buckled in

Saying, "Daddy, look, there's a plane in the sky
Are we there yet? Did you just see that dog run by?
Do squirrels have houses in the trees?
Why would God put a stinger on a honeybee?"
It's crazy all the things she sees on the side of the road
Out of that window beside her
I wish I could be more like her
My little dangling feet, pretty in pink, backseat driver
Hmm, my backseat driver

7:30 in the morning in a Mickey D's drive thru
Two muffins, one coffee and a little bitty orange juice