![]() ![]() Furthermore, Wilder gets personal and says “I’ve also always looked up to my mom. ![]() When asked who she looks up to, Megan mentions Carrie Underwood Carly Pearce, Kelsea Ballerini, Maren Morris and Emily Weisband, not only for their abilities as artists and songwriters, but for all of the doors that they have opened up a lot of doors for other women in country music. The lyrics were so personal to this pain and heartbreak and grieving that I had been unknowingly burying for a really long time, and that’s when I decided that I couldn’t let go of it and that it carried too much of me in it to have somebody else tell the story.” When it comes to Wilder’s songwriting process, ideas usually come to her when driving which is when the voice memo app on her phone comes in handy. “We got a good demo, which was actually more of a pop piano ballad, but I remember after we finished it, it felt like a weight had been lifted off of my shoulders that I didn’t even realize was there before. And then asking ourselves if we would do it all over again knowing what we know now.”When the song was written, it was originally meant to be pitched to a few other artists the writers, Andrew Hannigan, Whitney Dean and Wilder had in mind. It’s replaying different scenarios and wondering, if we did even one small thing differently, if things would have still played out the way that they did. Women of Country has the exclusive premiere of Megan Wilder’s new song, “If I Knew”, check it out here ! “ “If I Knew” is all of the questions that I think a lot of us naturally ask ourselves after a break up.
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