About What She Wants Tonight

There's something very film noir about "What She Wants Tonight," Luke Bryan's dramatic new radio single. His main character could be a femme fatale in a James Bond movie if Bond came to rural America. Passing references of trucks and Kentucky keep the song country, but otherwise, "What She Wants Tonight" is a fantasy that finds Bryan subject to a wild woman's charms and urgent sexual desires. The chorus is particularly uncensored: "She wants my hands on her body / She wants to burn like she’s made of fire," he sings. "I wrote it with Ross Koppelman, Hillary Lindsay and John Nye, and John and Ross and I wrote ‘Strip It Down’ and then we had the opportunity to bring Hillary Lindsey who had a part in ‘Knockin’ Boots.’ I’ve went so many years wanting to record a Hillary Lindsey song and especially record one that I’ve written with her. It just talks about this girl. She’s kind of… She owns the night. She gets what she wants, and I get to be what she wants tonight. And it’s funny I feel like it’s something, you know, girls love. Girls love hearing that sentiment. I’m really excited about it. It’s big up-tempo. I’m getting a lot of excitement out of it. You know, the label’s fired up and I’m excited for people to hear it.”