Hardy Says Writing “Wait In The Truck” Was A Spiritual Experience: “I Don’t Remember Writing It”

It was almost as if one of the biggest songs of Hardy’s successful career came to him from a higher power.

Hardy recently sat down with the Blurry Creatures Podcast. If you haven’t ever heard of that show, Blurry Creatures hosts Nate Henry and Luke Rodgers (Aaron Rodgers’ brother) discuss the unknown: bigfoot, ghosts, aliens, and other unexplainable creatures that are often blurry when photographed or caught on camera. Featuring a number of different guests in the paranormal space, they examine these phenomenon through Biblical lenses, exploring some wild topics that the Christian faith generally tends to avoid or ignore.

They recently had country music star, Hardy, on to discuss paranormal experiences, Nashville-adjacent ghost stories, and a whole lot more. Some of that “more” was Hardy’s career, how it came to be, and how the “Truck Bed” singer’s faith has acted as a guiding light for him ever since he decided to be an artist.

Hardy even said in the conversation that some of his experiences in the music industry thus far have bolstered his faith:

“I have had so many opportunities fall into my lap that are unexplainable. I believe in myself and think that I have talent, but I have always, in my mind, seen it as there is a hand that is sort of pushing me this way. Those are reasons that I believe in God.”

The conversation moved on to discuss creativity, and host Luke Rodgers asked a great question: Is there something spiritual about creativity and the creative process? Often times you hear artists talking about a song “coming to them,” or some of the best songs ever being put together in a matter of minutes.

For Hardy, he truly believes that there’s a spiritual component that plays a role in creative moments:

“Definitely. I don’t know (how it works). It is the most supernatural (thing). You feel like when you are onto something really great, (it’s unexplainable). ‘Wait In The Truck’ is a great example. It was one of the first times, that song, I don’t remember writing it. I felt like myself and others were a vessel for a creative moment that just kind of happened.”

Hardy further explained that it maybe took him an hour or an hour and a half to craft the murder ballad “Wait In The Truck.” The story song released in 2023 is considered to be one of the best – if not the best – in his catalogue, and he and Lainey Wilson together on it were absolute magic. The track has now gone platinum three times.

The country music artist says that it doesn’t happen like that all the time, but when it does, it’s an undeniable feeling:

“I just put a song out called ‘Bottomland’ that’s now one of my favorite songs ever and that song was the exact same way. It took maybe 25 minutes. It’s like your eyes roll in the back of your head and you just sort of spit it out and there it is.”

The Blurry Creatures podcast hosts then brought the conversation to artificial intelligence in the music industry. Nate Henry, a musician himself, stated that A.I. couldn’t replicate that spiritual, creative process. Hardy agreed, and piggybacked off that by saying that good songwriting requires a soul:

“I still think for songwriters, the people that write the song and they have the idea and they write the lyric. It comes from the soul. It comes from somewhere that is not… it’s something that A.I. will not ever be able to do.”

You can hear more from Hardy in the latest episode of the Blurry Creatures podcast:

Oh, and if you wanted to watch the spine-tingling music video for “Wait in the Truck” once more, you can press play on that as well.

“Wait in the Truck (feat. Lainey Wilson)”

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