His instincts were right, which is the version that is now a mega-hit at radio. We originally wrote it with just a guitar vocal, and we brought it in to my producer and to the band that we record with, and they took it in a direction a little similar to the guitar vocal.”Īfter the original version of “Wasted On You” was completed, the Tennessee native thought it needed something more to make the song really stand out. “It just came from a pretty, almost like a p–ed off place,” Wallen said (via Lyric magazine). Wallen co-wrote “Wasted On You” in the beginning of the pandemic, when everyone was forced to stay home. Smith, Josh Thompson and Ryan Vojtesak is the fourth single from Wallen’s ambitious, 30-track Dangerous: The Double Album project, released in early 2021. 1 with “Wasted On You” earlier this year.
