Baylee Lynn Shares New Single And Video
17-year-old singer-songwriter Baylee Lynn released her latest single “John, Dear” with an accompanying video on Friday, September 19.
The track arrives on the heels of her triumphant debut single “Cautiously Optimistic” – a late-August release that quickly topped Billboard’s new music poll with 64 percent of the vote, winning out over superstars like Sabrina Carpenter. This time around, the Greeneville, TN-born artist brings her true-to-life storytelling to a highly specific but deeply relatable situation: the frustration of dealing with a guy who gets jealous all too easily.
Produced by AJ Pruis (a GRAMMY-nominated producer/songwriter/musician known for his work with Megan Moroney, Maddie & Tae, and more), “John, Dear” coasts along in lush guitar flourishes and sweetly swaying rhythms as Baylee narrates the scene unfolding before her. After assuring her love interest that there’s no cause for concern, she dials up the gently teasing humor in the song’s second verse. Co-written by Baylee, Pruis, Jenna Shuffler and Mia Mantia, the song fully affirms her status as one of the brightest new country stars of her generation.
The music video for the single picks up the high-school-set storyline from the visual for “Cautiously Optimistic.” After opening on a shot of Baylee kicking back on a lawn chair at a backyard party, “John, Dear” finds her football-star paramour enviously watching from the sidelines as she chats up a few male friends. Dressed in her signature red (including a pair of ribbon-adorned cowboy boots), Baylee ultimately rises above the drama with a playful roll of her eyes, once again revealing the undeniable force of her effortless charisma.
Now based in Nashville, Baylee got her start singing in church and taught herself to play guitar at six-years-old. As the latest in a long line of musicians, she soon took up piano and wrote her first song at 13, tapping into longtime inspirations like Dolly Parton and Faith Hill and quickly uncovering her one-of-a-kind perspective on life and love. Stay tuned for more new music from Baylee soon.
