On the heels of his breakout 2016, Chris Lane has released “Take Back Home Girl,” a new collaboration with Grammy-nominated pop star Tori Kelly. The single is the first taste of Lane’s as-yet-unnamed second album, the follow-up to last year’s Girl Problems.
Written by Hillary Lindsey, Josh Miller and David Garcia, the track employs a clever bait-and-switch with its title: it’s not a hookup song, but one that celebrates introducing the girl in question to the family and friends in Lane’s hometown. “You’re a help her fix it, having breakfast with my momma / you’re a take back home, home, home girl,” Lane sings, before Kelly takes her own verse: “You’re the kind I want to take a ride with / sit back on a Friday night in the stadium lights side by side / all the ladies like, yeah, she’s doing just fine.”