With his 15th studio album, More Than Words, set to drop on March 19, Brian McKnight drops a new cut called “4th of July.” The mid-tempo track was produced and written by McKnight himself.
“When we kiss, it’s like Christmas/I still feel butterflies/Every time we’re together/Like the 4th of July,” McKnight sings on the pre-chorus.
In a recent interview with Billboard, McKnight revealed that he didn’t create an album that catered to radio:
I kinda went back to that period between ’88 and ’94 where I felt like I was the most creative, without being hindered by powers that be. I was no longer going to try to hinder myself to what I thought was going to be on the radio. I went back and listened to the first three albums I made and tried to figure out what was special about them, why people keep going back to them. I think it was because I didn’t know what I was doing. I had no idea if they were going to play it on the radio or anything. All I did was write songs, so that’s what I got back to.
Listen to Brian McKnight’s “4th of July” below.
Although Brian McKnight didn’t think of radio when creating “More Than Words,” we can definitely see “4th of July” taking over Urban Adult Contemporary radio.
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