“I felt like what we were creating was worthy in its own right. “By then, I was so in love with the song as it was, I wasn’t really worried about it,” he says. “If anything, I felt like the melodic consistency allowed me to stay lost in the story without getting distracted.” Wilson and Schmidt immediately recognized that “Watermelon Moonshine” had a similar plot and title to “Strawberry Wine,” though Kear didn’t quite figure it out until later in the day. “I find the melody somewhat hypnotic,” he says. The top line’s persistence was decidedly not an issue. That morning, he dialed up the “Watermelon Moonshine” title and proceeded to write most of the first verse and chorus, waxing nostalgic about a first sexual experience. But he was under the weather and the COVID-19 omicron variant was raging, so to play it safe for his co-writers, he worked through Zoom. Schmidt (“wait in the truck,” “God’s Country”). Kear was scheduled for an appointment on Jan. 12, 2022, with Wilson and Jordan M. My least favorite food of all time is watermelon and my least favorite alcohol is moonshine … I think I turned those lists into a handful of titles, but ‘Watermelon Moonshine’ is the only one I ever resonated with enough to try writing it.” “Then I looked at the lists and tried to combine my likes and dislikes into titles. “One morning, I made two lists - months before we wrote this song - ‘Things I love,’ ‘Things I strongly dislike.’ Not a fan of the ‘hate’ word,” he notes. The base melodies for those two sections originated with songwriter Josh Kear (“Need You Now,” “Most People Are Good”) building on the title “Watermelon Moonshine,” which he came up with in a simple brainstorming exercise.
But it really just kind of felt like a lullaby, and I didn’t want to mess with that too much.” We kind of massaged it to where it was just different enough. “We decided to go up, you know, melodically on certain words and down on certain words. “When we were working on that chorus, I remember thinking, ‘OK, this sounds really, really similar to the verses,’ because I try to make sure that my verses and my chorus sound completely different from each other,” she says. Wilson had that issue in mind even as “Watermelon Moonshine” came together. No 'Question': Teddy Robb's 'Universe' is Rooted in Real-World Drama
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