Summary
- Morgan Wallen's song "Last Night" is his most famous and successful track.
- The song tells the story of someone contemplating the end of a relationship while sharing a last bottle of Jack with their partner.
- Wallen's personal struggles with alcohol and his experiences with past relationships can be seen reflected in the themes of the song.
Morgan Wallen's romantic life is a constant conversation subject. There were rumors that the singer was dating Olivia Dunne in May 2023. In August 2023, fans linked Morgan Wallen to Kristin Cavallari. One thing is for sure, people are constantly curious about who the country music star is seeing.
Although Morgan Wallen does write some of his songs, he didn't pen the tune "Last Night." This might be surprising for fans to hear since it's the song that people know him for. To say that "Last Night" blew up in 2023 would be a pretty big understatement. Even though Wallen didn't write this song himself, fans can see a lot of his life in the emotional lyrics.
What Is Morgan Wallen's Song "Last Night" About?
Morgan Wallen's single "Last Night" is definitely his most famous song. "Last Night" is track number two on the singer's third album, "One Thing at a Time," which came out on March 3rd, 2023.
Ryan Vojtesak, Jacob Kasher Hindlin, Ashley Gorley, and John Byron wrote the song. It does seem to tell the story of Morgan Wallen's life, though, even though he wasn't the person who sat down and penned the lyrics.
The song is about someone who is drinking a "last bottle of Jack" with their romantic partner and thinking about whether they are going to go their separate ways. Even though it seems that the relationship has run its course, they can't imagine living apart from this person.
The lyrics from the first verse are as follows: "Last night we let the liquor talk/I can't remember everything we said, but we said it all/You told me that you wish I was somebody you never met/But baby, baby, something's tellin' me this ain't over yet/No way it was our last night."
Even though Morgan Wallen didn't write the song about his ex-girlfriends KT Smith and Paige Lorenze, fans could definitely apply the lyrics to either of these relationships. When the singer recorded it, he could have been thinking about the sad, tough moment when he knew that each of these romances was over.
It's never simple for a couple to split up. But both of these relationships ended in a pretty dramatic way.
According to Us Weekly, Wallen and Smith were together from 2017 to 2019. Smith had their baby boy Indigo in 2020. As he explained to People, "We're doing our best to figure it out, just trying to do the best we can with the situation. I mean, many people have been in this situation before — having a kid with someone you're not with — but knowing that doesn't make it any easier."
In 2022, Lorenze and Wallen ended their relationship. According to Page Six, a source said, “She suspected he was cheating on her with multiple people. After they went public, Paige started getting all these messages on Instagram from girls saying, ‘I was with him. We slept together.'” This hasn't been confirmed and there is no way to know if this is true or not.
What Did Morgan Wallen Say About His Song "Last Night"?
Even though Morgan Wallen wasn't the one who wrote "Last Night," he has talked about his relationship with alcohol in a few different instances. It's possible to apply some of what he has said to this song.
In 2021, Wallen was filmed using a racial slur, and it was a terrible video to watch. According to The Daily Mail, the singer was interviewed on Good Morning America afterward and he said that he went to rehab for one month.
The singer said, "I went and checked myself into rehab for 30 days. I spent some time out in San Diego just trying to figure out if I have an alcohol problem or a deeper issue."
Also in 2021, Morgan Wallen was drunk in Nashville and then got arrested. Wallen talked about some of his songs in an interview with The Tennessean and he said that he wrote "Dangerous" about this time in his life. He talked about how he realized that he was using alcohol to deal with feelings and thoughts, and he knew that wasn't a good idea.
Wallen told the website, “If you're in a state of mind to where you're going to drink to get away from something, to mute those noises, it doesn't usually end well for me. Life always has things that you can run from, and I've had a lot of those over the past couple years.”
While the singer hasn't talked much about "Last Night" specifically, he has mentioned his album "One Thing at a Time."
In an interview with American Songwriter, he said that these songs are all full of emotions. Wallen said, “I just try to tell it how it is – the good, the bad, the love, the heartbreak. That’s all I know how to do. My hope is that this album makes my fans proud; makes ’em laugh, smirk, cry, and think—just like it did for me.”
According to Variety, Wallen also said that the songs on "One Thing at a Time" allude to the experiences he has had recently. He explained, “This record represents the last few years of my life, the highs and the lows. There are 36 songs on this album because we just kept exploring with fresh lyrics, music and production ideas and these are the songs that felt right to me.”
Morgan Wallen's "Last Night" is definitely an emotional song, and it has been incredibly successful as a result. Forbes called it the "Song Of The Year (So Far)" in June 2023 and reported that 12 weeks in a row, it was number one on the Billboard Hot 100. As of mid-August 2023, "Last Night" enjoyed more Billboard success and had been number one for 16 weeks.
According to Music Mayhem Magazine, the song was streamed one billion times in 2023.
The accolades don't end there. American Songwriter reported that over 20 entire weeks, "Last Night" was number one on the Hot Country Songs Billboard chart.
