Chasing Babies & Raising Dreams

Album: Love & Light (2025)
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Songfacts®:

  • Flipping the phrase "raising babies and chasing dreams," Maddie & Tae pull the curtain back on their real lives with "Chasing Babies & Raising Dreams," a track from their 2025 album Love & Light. Co-written with Anna Vaus, who also co-penned their 2023 "Heart They Didn't Break" single and Tae's songwriter husband Josh Kerr ("Love Me Like You Mean It," "My Girl") the song gives a candid glimpse into the duo's dual lives as country music stars and young mothers.
  • Tripping over toys in my living room
    Got a list a mile long of my to-dos


    The lyrics hit close to home for any working mom, and that's exactly the point.

    "Things that parents really are gonna put themselves in," Maddie Font told Taste Of Country, explaining how the song was written to resonate with the universal chaos and joy of parenthood.
  • Leighton was born to Tae and Josh Kerr in 2022, followed by Forrest, the son of Maddie and Jonah Font, in 2023. Tae and Josh welcomed their second child, Chapel, in 2024. The song emerged during what the duo call "the sweetest season" of life - one filled with diapers, deadlines, and deep gratitude.

    "Motherhood has really enriched our perspective on life and made us so grateful for every breath we take and every moment that we get," Tae Kerr told Taste of Country. "And also really holding ourselves accountable for like, growing and evolving and healing and doing hard things so that our kids have a better life."

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