Wild Woman
by Aerosmith (featuring Yungblud)

Album: One More Time (2025)
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Songfacts®:

  • "Wild Woman" is the third track on the Aerosmith and Yungblud collaborative EP One More Time. The song features Steven Tyler and Yungblud in a bluesy, country-rock call-and-response arrangement with Joe Perry's guitar driving the energy.
  • The song is about the kind of push-pull romance that rock music has been documenting since approximately the invention of amplifiers. We get knowing nods to the touring life ("Another day, another plane") echoing One More Time's lead single, "My Only Angel." The repeated "Why, why, why, why wild woman?" is the exasperated chorus of anyone who's ever tried to date a free spirit.
  • Country star and walking bell-bottom testimonial Lainey Wilson rode in to join the fun with a new version of the track. She takes the second verse, flipping the song's perspective with lines like, "Ain't got a white horse. I'm a cowboy, baby."

    Built on the original's bluesy backbone and briskly strummed chords, her version adds a fresh country edge, fusing the swagger of "Sweet Emotion" with the boot-heel stomp of a Nashville Friday night.
  • Joe Perry re-recorded guitar segments for the Lainey Wilson version, giving it a subtly reshaped arrangement that leans a little more into twang without losing any of the Aerosmith bite. It's another example of the band's loose definition of genre on One More Time, in the same way that Steve Martin's banjo elevates ""My Only Angel (Desert Road Version)."

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