Ingrid Andress doesn’t write around the truth. “Now I Know” is out now, a deeply personal new single co-written with longtime collaborators Derrick Southerland and Sam Ellis, and co-produced with Ellis, that chronicles the journey from naive love to hard-earned self-awareness. Released on the eve of Valentine’s Day, the timing is pointed and the message is clear.
The song isn’t about heartbreak for its own sake. It’s about what comes after, the moment you realize the most important relationship you can repair is the one with yourself. Andress writes from that place with the kind of unflinching honesty that has defined her career from the start.
“I wrote ‘Now I Know’ to encourage myself and others to face and let go of the things that no longer serve us,” she shares, “because we are capable of having the happiness we’ve imagined for ourselves.”
The single arrives as Andress puts finishing touches on her third studio album, the follow-up to ‘Good Person’ and her landmark debut ‘Lady Like,’ which set the record as the highest-streaming country female debut album of all time. ‘Good Person’ featured her Grammy-nominated, platinum-certified number one “Wishful Drinking” with Sam Hunt, and “More Hearts Than Mine” made history as the only debut single from a solo female artist to crack the Top 20 on country radio in 2019.
“Now I Know” is out now, and more music from Andress is on the way throughout the year.