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“And unfortunately, Black artists are usually tied into one particular type of thing, and Tracy was one of the earliest artists to break out of that in her heyday. “I’m not saying that Tracy’s version wasn’t country, per se, but Luke’s version is obviously country,” she says. To Parx, the reason for the cover’s success is twofold: a surge in older songs becoming popular again, and savvy production targeting specific audiences. While there’s no reason to believe Combs’ version of “Fast Car” will have any meaningful effect in widening country music’s audience, Parx says she’s not surprised to see the song resonating across genres. Tracy Chapman Will Become the First Black Woman to Score a Number One Country Song as Sole Writer You have people like Darrell Brown and Dan+Shay and Josh Osborne involved in doing what country music has done in general over the past few years - and that’s allow for a wider audience.” “It reminds you that Nashville and country music is changing, right? And in a great way. She cites her work with LeAnn Rimes and Rimes’ producer Darrell Brown, and raves about her time with Dan+Shay. Still, Parx says she’s had collaborations in country music that were both successful and satisfying. “Every time I think about that story, it just hurts.” (A rep for Frasure declined to comment) When Parx raised the issue, she remembers Frasure telling her that she was lucky to be invited to write on the song at all. “And so you don’t have a lot of women, and a lot of Black women, especially, owning portions of a master. “In songwriting, there’s a major difference between producer and songwriter credits, and it’s the money earned, because producers, more than likely, get points, whereas songwriters only get publishing ,” she says. Parx wrote the chords to the song and played piano while “Overshare” was being composed, and thus, in addition to her writing credit, she believed she was due a production credit too. She co-wrote Kelsea Ballerini’s “Overshare” with hit songwriters Josh Osborne and Jesse Frasure in 2019, and quarreled with Frasure over how she’d be credited. Parx remains hurt over a dispute she had while working on another country song in a Nashville writing room. The fact that the number of Black women with writing credits on country chart-toppers can be counted on one hand illustrates how much Nashville has to do to become more welcoming. But it’s not just Black artists, it’s artists of every color who are really trying to make sure they diversify.” I’ve been working with Mickey Guyton and Brittney Spencer, and all these incredible people and they want to make people know. “But there are a lot of people who are awesome and understand that, and you have lots of artists that speak out on that too. “It’s a boys club,” Parx says of writing country music. But she’s aware that, compared to pop circles, Nashville is a uniquely insular community, one that many of her peers are trying to change. She’s also a recording artist in her own right, and in 2019, released the song “Fight” featuring Florida Georgia Line.

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Donna Summer co-wrote “Starting Over Again,” a Number One for Dolly Parton in 1980, even though Alice Randall has generally been credited as the first with her co-write on Trisha Yearwood’s 1994 single “XXX’s and OOO’s (An American Girl).” A full 26 years later, in 2020, songwriter Ester Dean (Rihanna, Katy Perry) had a Number One for her credit on Lady A’s “Champagne Night,” while a year after that, Tayla Parx (Ariana Grande, Kesha) earned a Number One for co-writing Dan+Shay’s “Glad You Exist.Over the last decade, Parx has written songs in a variety of genres for everyone from BTS to Haim - she cowrote Ariana Grande’s monster “Thank U, Next.” In country music, she’s had songs cut by Kelsea Ballerini and Maddie & Tae. As Rolling Stone wrote then, with that distinction, Chapman joined a very small group of Black women with writing credits on a Number One country song. It’s the first favorite song that I ever had, at 4 years old.”Įarlier this summer, Combs’ recording of “Fast Car,” off his Gettin’ Old album, went Number One on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart and made Chapman the first-ever Black woman to have the sole songwriting credit on a Number One country hit. “I just recorded it because I loved the song. “First and foremost, I want to thank Tracy Chapman for writing one of the best songs of all time,” Combs said onstage. “Fast Car” also was named Single of the Year, which is awarded to the recording artist. Adele Says She Almost 'Shat' Herself When Lady Gaga Attended Her Vegas Show

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