![]() You had to have your heart broken, and I’ve had my fair share. “It’s honestly surreal,” Burgess told Advocateabout the song’s origin and success in a 2020 interview. It’s since been certified three times platinum by the RIAA for sales of more than three million copies. 1 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart in June 2019, becoming his second No. Originally published on Wallen’s 2016 EP, The Way I Talk, “Whiskey Glasses” was later included on his debut album, If I Know Me where it was released as the third single in 2018. ![]() It just reminds me of my friends.” The Success of “Whiskey Glasses” “I think that’s a very community-type bridge on that song. “I think friends are really important during a time like that,” he says. The singer adds that the bridge that reprises the lines line ’em up, knock ’em back, and fill ’em up four times apiece makes him think of his friends back home in East Tennessee who’ve supported him in tough times. (I need a better view, where I don’t drink to you) (Ain’t nothing else to do, but sip around the truth) I’ma need a double shot of that heartbreak proofĪnd see the world through whiskey glasses She’s probably making out on the couch right now “I thought that song was a great representation of that feeling.” We’ve all been through something and we didn’t really…for that moment we decided we didn’t want to feel it,” he explains. ![]() In an interview with Genius, Wallen describes whiskey as “good for a heartache.” “I think we’ve all been there in that situation. From there, the writers spun it into the concept of drinking away a painful breakup, seeing the world “through whiskey glasses.” The song’s opening line pour me / pour me another drink was inspired by Burgess’ father, who used to ask a young Burgess to “pour your Pappy a drink” after he’d consumed too much alcohol. Burgess pitched the idea of writing a song about whiskey glasses to his writing partner, but it was Kadish who came up with the first lines of the chorus, Imma need some whiskey glasses / ‘Cause I don’t wanna see the truth. “Whiskey Glasses” was co-written by Kevin Kadish and Ben Burgess in 2015, but it took four years for it to get to the top of the charts.
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