Tim McGraw on the definition of "gravity" for the theme song "Free Solo" – Variety

The most beloved song of country star Tim McGraw is probably still 2004, "Live Like You Were Dying," a walk about a man whose side effects of cancer fear include both emotional and physical pursuit: "I did skydiving / I went rock climbing mountain," is part of the choir. So you can see why McGraw could have related to Alex Harrold's "Free Solo," "Live Like You Die: The Movie". Except that the threat of dying comes from the rise of El Capitan.

McGraw said that he was too busy to consider working on a theme song when the application was received. Early in the year, he was organizing another Soul 2 Soul tour with his wife Faith Hill and a solo album that was still in preparation for 2019. He then watched a screen with his daughters while they were all at home paused, and he was sufficiently trained to accept the offer and co-write "Gravity". "It's scary, the movie – I mean, it's like a roller coaster ride. You are at the edge of your seat all the time. But that will not personally inspire him to live as he was dying. "I would never do that in a million years," says the singer. "I'm afraid of heights. Although, after 400 or 500 feet, everything is relative anyway, going up. "

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He shares writing tasks with his friend Lori McKenna, the famous songwriter from Americana who wrote his recent hit "Humble and Kind", which marks a turning point in the country since the return of the movement brothers to something more humble and kind. She channeled their phone conversations into a finished song. The central line, "Gravity is a fragile thing," seems ambiguous in an otherwise uplifting song. He says it has to do with a metaphorical fear of falling. "For me, this means that if you do not go after your work and what you do with joy, with a specific intention and purpose – or, as a sporting analogy, if you only do follow the patterns when you play this piece – you'll go, finally, and fall from what your true north is. "

McGraw is an infrequent songwriter but has a soft spot for the kind of work written in a movie. "You want to listen to what the viewer sees, but you also want to write something that can stand alone and give you a good message," he says. "So, I think there is an interesting challenge to take up when you are writing something so that a movie is not about the nose, but rather about the face, I suppose."