Rhinestone Ring

Album: Hate Me (2021)
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Songfacts®:

  • "This is my take on a simple country love song," country singer Abbey Cone told Songfacts of her debut single. "I originally came up with the title and then built the story from there. It's about the love not the wedding and realizing that when you love someone enough, all of the extra stuff doesn't matter."
  • Cone, a native of Argyle, Texas, traveled to Nashville at 12 years old in pursuit of a music career. At 16, she landed a publishing deal and started working with producer/songwriter Nathan Spicer ("Senorita," "7500 OBO") in 2018. She cut six songs with Spicer, including "Rhinestone Ring," and shopped the demo around to record labels. After signing with Valory Music Company, she issued the tunes on her debut EP, Hate Me.
  • The single dropped in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, which added a new layer of meaning to the song. Cone explained to Country Swag: "'Rhinestone Ring' is about these big plans about a wedding and then meeting the person you feel like you could marry and realizing you don't need any of that. It paralleled the pandemic and I think a lot of people learned or maybe feel like they don't need as much as they thought to feel peaceful."
  • The song title came to Cone while she was driving, and she brought the idea to Spicer. They started working on the track together, but Cone credits songwriter Heather Morgan
    ("Beat Of The Music") with bringing it to fruition. "Heather Morgan came in and just dumped magic on it," she told Off The Record. "The idea of 'I'd marry you right now with the 'Rhinestone Ring' was Heather Morgan. She's a genius."

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