Part of change means learning to say goodbye — especially when that change happens rapidly, like it has in Nashville over the past half-decade.

Teagan Stewart recalls Music City’s changing landscape — and the culture that has changed alongside it — on her latest single, “New Nashville.”

“‘New Nashville’ is a traditional country-sounding scream into the void of a construction pit where a great venue once was,” Stewart said. “The lyrics point out several iconic places in Nashville that have recently closed due to skyrocketing rent prices and greedy developers, while pointing out the more subtle changes of a life in Nashville, like, ‘Why isn’t PBR cheap?'”

Co-written alongside Zach Cornell, many of the lyrics of “New Nashville” were born from conversations about the ever-evolving city, which serve as the perfect complement to this quintessential Nashville soundscape featuring dobro, steel guitar, and an old shuffle beat.

(At least, those things were quintessentially Nashville, before the bachelorettes found out about us…)

“It was a hard needle to thread, but we wanted to get across that we love the city of Nashville, and we’re not blaming the folks who are moving here,” Stewart said. “When I took this song to Skyler and Andrew, they knew exactly what it needed, and hearing all the musicians track this together at the same time was a spiritual experience.”