Songfacts®:

• "Highway" traces the long, winding road of recovery after a devastating breakup. Shaboozey sings of being lost in darkness, trying to find his way back to himself.
• Shaboozey recorded "Highway" for his album Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going, which he dropped in May 2024. The following month he had an emotional moment during a performance at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Midway through performing another track, "Let it Burn," Shaboozey choked up and told the audience, "I'm sorry, I just had a breakup and this song gets me. She was amazing and helped me grow, but now it's over."
  
  "Highway" was likely inspired by the same split.
• "Highway" serves as a counterpoint to Shaboozey's previous single, "A Bar Song (Tipsy)," which, while sounding upbeat, skims the darker waters of financial struggles and escapism. "Highway," however, drops all pretense and dives headlong into the rawer stuff: loss, regret, and that peculiar melancholy of finding oneself rudderless on life's road after love has packed its bags and left.
• The song is a collaborative effort co-written by Shaboozey with its producers McKay Stevens (Kaskade's "Atmosphere," JXDN's "Angels & Demons") and Sean Cook. Cook co-produced nearly every track on Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going.
• For the music video, filmed by LA photographer and creative director Aiden Cullen, Shaboozey takes us along on his aimless wanderings through small towns, golden meadows, desolate plains, and a carnival. It's a fitting visual metaphor for the song's disorienting, bittersweet journey through life after heartbreak.