Proving Me Right

Album: released as a single (2025)
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Songfacts®:

  • Built on a mellow groove and the quiet confidence of a man who knows he's already won the argument, "Proving Me Right" finds Tucker Wetmore in satisfying position: watching an ex do exactly what he said she'd do. There's no shouting, no grand confrontation, just the confirmation that the breakup was sound judgment.
  • Released on December 4, 2025, "Proving Me Right" was Wetmore's first new music since his debut album, What Not To, dropped in April. Neither he nor his team have confirmed who inspired the song, but speculation centered on Nashville-based model Bryana Ferringer, particularly when the song arrived just as she appeared at the CMA Awards with her new boyfriend, fellow country artist Riley Green. The cover art added fuel to the fire: the truck featured is the same one seen in Wetmore's "Wind Up Missin' You" video, in which Ferringer starred.
  • Wetmore wrote the track alongside three of Nashville's most prolific hitmakers: Jessie Jo Dillon, Luke Laird, and Chris Tompkins.

    Jessie Jo Dillon, the daughter of legendary songwriter Dean Dillon, has written hits ranging from Cole Swindell's bittersweet "Break Up In The End" to Dan + Shay's chart-topping "10,000 Hours." She won ACM Songwriter of the Year in 2024.

    Luke Laird is a Hartstown, Pennsylvania-born, Nashville-based songwriter and producer who has become one of modern country's most quietly dominant hitmakers. His hits include Carrie Underwood's "So Small" and Little Big Town's "Pontoon." He's also a multiple Grammy winner and nominee, earning Best Country Song for co-writing Kacey Musgraves' "Space Cowboy" and Best Country Album for co-producing her debut, Same Trailer Different Park.

    Chris Tompkins, raised in Muscle Shoals, brings pedigree too; his credits include Jason Aldean's "Burnin' It Down" and Morgan Wallen's "Lies Lies Lies" plus two Grammy wins for Best Country Song for "Before He Cheats" (2007) and "Blown Away" (2012), both recorded by Carrie Underwood.

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