"We knew that something about it was really special, but we could not figure it out. Was it the key? Was it the verses?”: Producer and songwriter Dan Nigro on finding the gold in Chappell Roan’s Good Luck, Babe!

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It’s become one of the biggest songs of 2024, but according to co-writer and producer Dan Nigro, Chappell Roan’s Good Luck, Babe! didn’t have the smoothest of births.

Nigro has told Variety that the song’s origins can be traced back to November 2022, when he, Kayleigh Rose Amstutz (AKA Chappell Roan) and Justin Tranter came up with a “scratch idea” comprising just a verse and a chorus.