ABC RadioAs Jordan Davis‘s second single, “Take It from Me,” nears the top of the chart, the Louisiana native’s particularly excited about its success, since he shares it with his co-writer, his brother Jacob.
In fact, it’s based on something their father would often say to them.
“It was Jacob’s idea…” Jordan explains. “He said he’d always loved that idea, or loved that saying and thought that there was a cool way to kind of have a twist on it.”
“We got told a lot growing up, ‘Take it from me. Don’t do that,'” he laughs. “Learn from experience, you know.”
In the end, however, “Take It from Me” veered from the brothers’ initial idea for the song.
“We initially tried to write it, kind of as a grandpa kind of saying ‘Take it from me, do this, do that,'” Jordan recalls. “But I had just written a song about him a couple days before. And so I had to find a cool way to write it. I was like, ‘Man, let’s just take it more literal.'”
In fact, it was something that happened to Jacob that fleshed out the new direction of “Take It from Me.”
“The John Anderson t-shirt that got stolen from Jacob was the kind of line that sparked that,” Jordan points out. “You know, ‘It’s my favorite, but you can keep it.’ It was a fun write.”
“Take It from Me” is the follow-up to Jordan’s debut chart-topper, “Singles You Up.”
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