Country Riser Baylee Lynn Shares New Single & Video
“That’s What I’ll Be” – Listen HERE
Bittersweet But Uplifting Ballad Appears On
Nobody Wants This Season 2: The Soundtrack, Due Out 10/23
Today, country riser Baylee Lynn continues her hot streak of new singles with “That’s What I’ll Be” — a beautifully moving ballad built on her captivating vocals. Premiering alongside its poignant video, “That’s What I’ll Be” will appear on the highly anticipated soundtrack to season two of Netflix’s smash-hit rom-com “Nobody Wants This,” due out October 23 via The Core Records in partnership with Interscope Records. Listen to “That’s What I’ll Be” HERE, check out the video HERE, and go HERE to pre-order/pre-save Nobody Wants This Season 2: The Soundtrack now.
Co-written by Baylee, Jenna Shuffler, AJ Pruis, and Mia Mantia, “That’s What I’ll Be” finds the 17-year-old singer/songwriter delivering a full-hearted message of reassurance to all those who need it.
“As soon as we wrote ‘That’s What I’ll Be,’ I knew that the world needed to hear it,” says Baylee. “When you’re going through a hard time, sometimes all you need to help you through is to hear that everything’s going to be okay. One of the things I love most about the lyrics is that they could be for anyone — a friend, a family member, a romantic partner, or anyone else you really care about.”
Produced by Pruis (a GRAMMY-nominated producer/songwriter/musician known for his work with Megan Moroney, Maddie & Tae, and more), “That’s What I’ll Be” brings soulful piano melodies and softly tumbling acoustic guitar work to Baylee’s tender expression of devotion. After acknowledging the delicate nature of the matter at hand (“I know you know that I know that you don’t need saving”), she offers up a sweetly poetic cascade of promises at the chorus: “If your head’s underwater, I’ll be your float / If you’re feeling lost, I’ll be your north star home / If your heart’s broke in two, I’ll piece you back together / Whatever you need, baby, that’s what I’ll be.” Both bittersweet and quietly uplifting, “That’s What I’ll Be” ultimately spotlights the immense sensitivity at the core of Baylee’s songwriting.
Directed by ashtronot, the video for “That’s What I’ll Be” perfectly matches the song’s gentle intensity and heavy-hearted mood. To that end, the starkly lit visual opens on a nighttime shot of Baylee standing by the window of a house deep in the woods, then cycles through a series of subtly evocative vignettes. With its lovely interplay of shadows and light, the video centers on Baylee’s achingly genuine performance of the track, endlessly revealing her rare ability to shine a bright light in the dark.
With her appearance on Nobody Wants This Season 2: The Soundtrack, Baylee joins a genre-spanning and star-packed lineup that includes her labelmates Just Jayne as well as country superstars like Ella Langley, and Kacey Musgraves. Just two months after making her triumphant debut with “Cautiously Optimistic” — a wildly fun anthem featured in the “Friday Music Guide” from Billboard, who hailed the track as “an incredibly charming opening statement that…harkens back to the turn-of-the-century country-pop stylings of Faith Hill and the Chicks” — the Greeneville, TN-bred artist has already amassed a stacked catalog of singles showcasing her phenomenal talent. Along with the playfully unapologetic “John, Dear,” her past releases include “Heart On My Sleeve”: a soul-stirring country-pop powerhouse intended to “remind young women to remember their worth and to never let a heartbreak define them,” according to Baylee.
Newly based in Nashville, Baylee got her start singing in church as a little girl and taught herself to play guitar at six-years-old. As the latest in a long line of musicians, she soon took up piano and wrote her first song at 13, tapping into longtime inspirations like Dolly Parton and Faith Hill and quickly uncovering her one-of-a-kind perspective on life and love. Stay tuned for more new music from Baylee soon.
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