Gabby Barrett Gets Honest About Getting Married at 19 in Unreleased Track, ‘Young’
“This wasn’t the ‘smart choice’” but “8 years later,” she wrote.
Photos Courtesy of Gabby Barrett, Cade Foehner
Gabby Barrett has written plenty of songs about her love for her husband Cade Foehner, but now the 26-year-old singer is exploring a side of their relationship deeper than ever before with her unreleased track “Young.”
Fans have seen the lovebirds’ relationship grow from the very start. They first met as contestants on American Idol in 2018 and just a year after their season came to a close, the two announced to the world that they were engaged. At the time they said “I do” on Oct. 5, 2019, Barrett was just 19 and Foehner was 21.
With their seventh anniversary approving this fall, Barrett decided it was finally time to touch on that chapter of her life and the realities of getting married at such a young age.
The tune finds her calling out all the people who had opinions about their decision, citing it was too soon to be that tied down and that they should enjoy being single a bit longer. However, it’s clear that they two of them did not see it that way and that to them, their love story was “Written in the stars.”
Barrett delicately strums her instrument and looks off into the distance as she sings the unreleased tune, “Young, everyone says we’re too young / Supposed to be single and dancing with strangers, waiting on tables / Just starting out, having fun…They say we should just take our time, slow it down / But I didn’t mean to need you like the air that I’m breathing / Baby, you didn’t plan on me now.”
She goes on to reiterate that they do not care about what others think, despite being called “crazy” at times.
“Hey, maybe we are / Yeah, we are,” she sings in response to that accusation. “‘Cause crazy’s how we love / It must be written in the stars / So, what if we are too young?”
In the Instagram caption that Barrett paired with the post she admits, “This wasn’t the ‘smart choice’” but goes on to add that “8 years later,” it all worked out for the best.
Foehner commented, “It’s the ride of a lifetime.”
Even back then the couple knew that this was the right path for them. During a conversation with PEOPLE in 2019, the Pennsylvania native expressed that she was confident in the fact that she had found her person and saw no point in waiting years down the road to make it official.
“It is a blessing to find a husband or wife in this life. Marriage is a profound and special thing, and we are so excited to finally be husband and wife,” she shared.
Fast forward to the present, Barrett and Foehner are now parents to three children: daughter Baylah May, 5, son Augustine Boone, 3, and daughter Ivy Josephine, 2.
In addition to raising their kids, Gabby Barrett has built a successful music career and is gearing up for even more new releases.
Madeleine O’Connell graduated from North Central College with a bachelors degree in Journalism and Broadcast Communications before deciding to pursue her studies further at DePaul University. There, she earned her masters degree in Digital Communication & Media Arts. O’Connell served as a freelance writer for over two years while also interning with the Academy of Country Music, SiriusXM and Circle Media and assisting with Amazon Music’s Country Heat Weekly podcast. In addition to Country Now, she has been published in American Songwriter, Music Mayhem, and Holler.Country. Madeleine O’Connell is a member of the Country Music Association and the Academy of Country Music.
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