The Real Meaning Behind 'The Good Ones' By Gabby Barrett

May 2024 ยท 2 minute read

Gabby Barrett's song, "The Good Ones," was written for her husband, Cade Foehner. She told The Boot in June 2020 what was on her mind as she was writing the song. "I had just been thinking of when we were dating, at the time during American Idol, people in my family would ask me, like, 'How's your boyfriend doing?' And I'd be like, 'Oh, he's good. He's a good one. He's a keeper,'" Barrett recalled.

She compared the song to her previous hit. "And so I was like, 'I need to write a song for the good ones,' because with 'I Hope,' it's like, I don't want to give people this false hope of just saying all relationships stink and you can't ever trust anybody, because that's definitely not the case."

"The Good Ones" is clearly a love song about someone stable and familiar. Barrett opens with the lyrics: "He's a phone call to his parents / He's a Bible by the bed / He's the T-shirt that I'm wearing / He's the song stuck in my head / He's solid and he's steady" (via Genius).

The music video is also beautiful. Barrett featured Madeline Delp, who was named Ms. Wheelchair USA in 2017, according to People, who plays out a love story with the male star, Patrick Worstell. Barrett said, "I wanted the video to be authentic and genuine, as well as be captured just the right way, so finding Madeline to play our leading lady was such a gift!"

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