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Elle King unleashed a summer anthem to kick off the weekend on Friday (April 26), shortly before she takes the stage at Stagecoach in Indio, California. “Baby Daddy’s Weekend” is King’s first song to release in 2024.
“This one’s for the people who deserve a good summer,” King, who welcomed son Lucky Levi Tooker in September 2021, said as she shared a snippet of the song on Instagram on Friday. “It’s for people who need a break from their kids but miss them when they aren’t around. It’s for the people working two jobs, the people who never get to put themselves first! It’s a song for all the people who make this world go round. Life isn’t always fun and games, but when it is, it’s my Baby Daddy’s Weekend.”
“Sunset, summertime season/ Drinkin', don’t need a reason/ My songs on the radio/ Turn it up, raise a cup/ You think you feel it but/ Not yet/ My swag, you think it’s stolen/ Why you mad, I wrote it/ My songs on the radio/ Turn it up, raise a cup/ You think you feel it but/ It ain’t even hit yet/ It ain’t even hit yet/ It ain’t even hit yet/ It ain’t even hit yet”
King’s latest full-length album is Come Get Your Wife, a 13-track collection that released in early 2023. The project includes “Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home)” with Miranda Lambert — who is also set to perform at Stagecoach this weekend — “Lucky,” “Worth A Shot” with Dierks Bentley and more. King, 34, released “Baby Daddy’s Weekend” months after a Dolly Parton birthday tribute stirred backlash. She said she was “f***ing hammered,” and appeared to forget the lyrics to Parton’s song during the Grand Ole Opry performance at the Ryman Auditorium in Downtown Nashville, Tennessee. King pushed pack several shows after that performance, and has since returned to the stage. She also spoke out about the tribute for the first time last month, and Parton previously said of King: “Elle is really a great artist. She’s a great girl, and she’s been going through a lot of hard things lately. And she just had a little too much to drink. So, let’s just forgive that and forget it and move on because she felt worse than anybody ever could.”
Listen to “Baby Daddy’s Weekend” here: