Kylie Morgan’s ‘If He Wanted to He Would’ Has a ‘Crazy’ Backstory

Kylie Morgan owes her breakout 2022 single, “If He Needed to He Would,” to TikTok — in additional methods than one.

The Oklahoma native has been listening to that specific piece of knowledge, “In the event that they wished to, then they’d,” for years. Nonetheless, it’d by no means have occurred to her to make use of it as a music title if the phrase did not begin popping up throughout social media. Morgan first seen it as a TikTok development — after which she began seeing it in all places.

“I used to be shocked that nobody had really written the music,” Morgan instructed Style of Nation in November, on the pink carpet for the 2023 BMI Nation Awards in Nashville.

She checked by each channel she may discover, and when she discovered that the title wasn’t taken, Morgan realized she’d struck gold.

“As a songwriter, to discover a title that nobody has written already is sort of a one-in-a-million factor,” she explains.

However TikTok did not simply give her a title thought — it additionally gave her a co-writer.

“That is really a loopy story. I met this woman [Zandi Holup] on TikTok. She did not have a deal. She did not actually have something occurring. [I was] scrolling by my feed, noticed her, cherished her and reached out to her. I would by no means carried out that earlier than,” Morgan continues.

So she teamed up with Holup and Ben Johnson, and “If He Needed to He Would” was born.

In October, she expanded her output with Making It Up as I Go, her debut full-length album on UMG Nashville. “If He Needed to He Would” clocks in at observe 10 on the 12-song mission. A self-described “album fan without end,” Morgan says that as proud as she is of the singles and up-tempo songs off Making it Up as I Go, she’s equally happy with the vulnerability she was in a position to share on tracks like “Outdated Me” and “Quarter Life Disaster” — the latter of which she wrote solo.

“Particularly with the weak songs, you kinda simply need to be your personal editor,” Morgan explains, when requested what sort of songs are greatest served by a solo write.

“[You want to] not have somebody be like, ‘Yeah, however that is the technical manner we must always do it for the method of songwriting,'” she elaborates. ” I am all about that in relation to radio singles. However when it got here to the album, I simply wished a music that was me, myself and I.”