About The Good Ones

"The Good Ones" is a song recorded by American country music singer Gabby Barrett for her debut studio album, Goldmine (2020). Barrett co-wrote the song with Zach Kale, Emily Landis, and Jim McCormick, while Kale produced the track with Ross Copperman. "The Good Ones" was released to digital retailers and streaming services on July 12, 2019 as a promotional single and was serviced to American country radio on June 8, 2020 as the album's second official single. The song reached number one on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and is certified platinum in the US.

Barrett wrote "The Good Ones" in 2019 alongside Zach Kale, Emily Landis, and Jim McCormick. The song was inspired by Barrett's husband Cade Foehner and was intended to highlight positive relationships, in contrast to the type of story depicted in "I Hope". Lyrically, the song is a "nuanced ballad" that describes the type of man one would hope to marry. Billy Dukes of Taste of Country praised the songwriting of "The Good Ones", writing that its lyricists crafted "the sort of song 19-year-olds aren't supposed to be able to write yet," and added that the song "promises to make a greater impact than ["I Hope"]." Chris Parton of Sounds Like Nashville wrote that the song features "soaring vocals and epic-feeling instrumentation." In a largely positive review for Goldmine, Brian Mansfield of Variety cited "The Good Ones" as one of the examples of the "big hooks and big emotions" that contribute to the album's success.