Cole Swindell transported the 2022 CMA Awards again to the ’90s with an lively efficiency of his nostalgic monitor “She Had Me at Heads Carolina,” which included a really particular visitor look.
Wearing a suede fringe jacket and his signature Georgia Southern College hat, the Georgia native rolled by the love track, which was closely impressed by Jo Dee Messina‘s 1996 tune, “Heads Carolina, Tails California.”
Within the midst of an electrifying guitar solo, the group let loose a joyful cheer as Messina joined Swindell to energy by the infectious refrain of her beloved 90s hit.
Swindell teamed up with Thomas Rhett, Ashley Gorley, Jesse Frasure, Mark D. Sanders and Tim Nichols to put in writing an ode to Jo Dee Messina‘s 1996 hit debut single, “Heads Carolina, Tails California.” The playful love track is the third single from Swindell’s fourth studio album, Stereotype, which he launched on April 8. Messina makes a cameo look within the track’s music video, fittingly filmed in one in all downtown Nashville’s fashionable karaoke bars.
Swindell says he selected “Heads Carolina, Tails California” as his inspiration as a result of he is been a longtime fan of Messina and formally sought her blessing earlier than releasing the monitor to nation radio.
“I simply reached out to Jo Dee Messina this previous weekend, ensuring she was all good and understanding that I am an enormous fan and wouldn’t even have this with out her,” Swindell instructed Taste of Country Nights shortly after the track’s launch. “I instructed her, too, that I need her to be part of it, as a lot of it or as little of it as she desires to, as a result of she’s the unique.”
Swindell’s collaboration with Lainey Wilson, “By no means Say By no means” was nominated for Music Video of the Yr and Musical Occasion of the Yr at this 12 months’s awards. The Georgia native was nominated for New Artist of the Yr in 2014 and 2016 however has but to win his first CMA Awards trophy.
The Nation Music Affiliation held the 2022 CMA Awards on Nov. 9 at Bridgestone Area in downtown Nashville. The present, co-hosted by Luke Bryan and former NFL quarterback Peyton Manning, aired reside on ABC.
