Riding the highs of the release of his brand new album, I’m The Problem, Morgan Wallen traveled across the pond last night in the U.K. to perform an intimate set at Roundhouse in London. Despite nearly 300,000 people reportedly trying to purchase tickets, the Roundhouse’s limited capacity only allowed 3,000 fans to attend, an extremely small-scale show for the “Last Night” singer.
The 32-year-old singer/songwriter, who broke a plethora of Billboard records Tuesday including his own for most charted songs in a single week on the Hot 100 (37), delivered a stripped-back set which featured live debuts of brand-new tracks such as the viral “20 Cigarettes,” “Kiss Her In Front Of You,” “Eyes Are Closed” and his current all-genre #1 hit with pop star, Tate McRae, “What I Want.”
Halfway through the set, Wallen delivered a performance of the heartfelt song dedicated to his son, Indigo, “Superman,” a track that he noted took a long time to write due to wanting to make it perfect.
Before the performance, the Tennesee native revealed that he wrote 30 songs about his son before landing on “Superman” and once again reiterated how long it took to finish one that he felt was worthy, “I’ve been trying for pretty much ever since my little boy was born to write a song that was good enough to dedicate to him. I don’t know. I probably wrote 30 songs that I didn’t think were good enough, so we scrapped them all. And right before we were getting ready to turn in this record, we started writing a song…Once we write a song, usually I’ll get Charlie, or whoever I’m writing with, usually Charlie, and he’ll send me the demo so I can listen to it on the way home. Just a rough draft of what we did that day”.
He then got emotional, noting that he broke down crying after hearing “Superman’s” demo for the first time, “The very first time I heard it back, after we got through writing it, I just broke down and was crying, and that’s the first time I had done that, writing a song for my little boy. So I figured if it touched me that way, then hopefully it would touch a lot of you guys the same way.”
Wallen would later play past hits such as “More Than My Hometown,” “Whiskey Glasses” and Billboard’s 2024 Song of the Summer, “I Had Some Help,” before closing the 19-song set with none other than his 2023 smash hit, “Last Night.”
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