Songfacts®:

• Mary Heather Hickman has bad taste in men. "Treasure" is her humorous confession of this fact.
  
  Blames his s--t on his checkered past
  Like his DUI from his last relapse
  If you spent a couple nights in a county jail
  Well somebody get me a wedding veil
  
  The song is autobiographical, Hickman told the Arkansas Democrat Gazette in a June 2021 interview, though exaggerated for comic effect. She wrote it over the course of a weekend-long cabin trip with her cowriter and friend, Stefanie Joyce. While the two drank margaritas and discussed Hickman's romantic future (or lack thereof), they started playing around with lines about choosing obvious problem men for partners. Out of this came "Treasure," with the title referring to the men she has foolishly chosen in the past.
  
  I'm just picking up trash and calling it treasure
• This song was a casual Tik Tok release that helped launch Hickman to a new level, surprising because Hickman already had her foot in the music industry since she was a kid. The Arkansas-born, Texas-raised artist had been performing live music since she was 10 years old. She played at Opry houses, festivals, and Dallas Cowboys games and events. She was no stranger to music and had had a fair amount of success before "Treasure."
• Hickman had no idea this song was such a, well, treasure. She hadn't been sure she was going to release the song at all, in fact. The day she put it on Tik Tok, she'd been tinkering with posting a different song. After getting frustrated with that song, she threw "Treasure" on Tik Tok on December 6, 2020, basically on a whim. It blew up and quickly racked up about 3 million views. By February 2021 she'd recorded a fully produced and band-backed version of the single, which broke into the Top 40 on both the Music Row Country Breakout Radio Chart (MusicRow is a Nashville music industry publication) and the UK's International HotDisc chart.