Sugarland and Taylor Swift have teamed up for a country collaboration, “Babe."
The surprise single is the third track – following “Still the Same” and “Bigger” – to be unveiled from Sugarland’s forthcoming album Bigger, due out on June 8.
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“We’ve never put someone else’s song on a Sugarland record, but we were immediately interested in ‘Babe’ the first time we heard it!” said the group’s Jennifer Nettles of the Swift-co-written track, according to Variety. “This one really felt like it belonged so we saved it for the final afternoon of our recording session; a special time for us.
“Our last hours in the studio have always been good luck,” added Kristian Bush. “‘All I Want to Do’ was from a final session, so was ‘Stuck Like Glue.’ The biggest compliment was when she heard our take on the track and emailed us to say she wanted to be a part of it!”
The day after “Babe” was released, Swift reached out to fans with an Instagram video to explain the track and to thank them for all the positive feedback.
“I just wanted to say thank you so much for all the nice things you’ve been saying about ‘Babe.’ It’s a song that I wrote with [Train's] Pat Monahan when I was making the Red album,” Swift revealed. “I’m so happy that it gets its own life, I’m so happy that Sugarland wanted to record it and has done such a great job with it, and I’m so stoked to be able to sing on it too. So just wanted to say thanks, and 18 days till tour, and I can’t wait to see you.”
Listen to “Babe” below: