MacKenzie Porter and Jake Etheridge Announce Release Date for Viral Duet, ‘Happy Ever After You’

MacKenzie Porter and Jake Etheridge have given fans the news they've been waiting for ever since the husband-and-wife duo started teasing their new duet, ‘Happy Ever After You’.

The beautifully stripped-back, heartfelt offering, which serves as the first song Porter and Etheridge have written together in ten years, will be released on Friday, January 10th, 2025. ‘Happy Ever After You’ has been made available to pre-save ahead of its arrival.

Although MacKenzie Porter was hinting that she might form a group with Jake Etheridge with a new combined artist name, thanks to the immense popularity of their teaser, but it seems ‘Happy Ever After You’ will instead be released as a collaborative single.

‘Happy Ever After You’ marks a bold step in a new direction for both MacKenzie Porter and Jake Etheridge, with the former usually leaning towards mainstream, pop-infused country anthems, while the latter tends to prefer folkier, indie-inspired musing.

‘Happy Ever After You’, on the other hand, is an intimate, acoustic duet that draws equally from MacKenzie Porter and Jake Etheridge's respective worlds, combining the clever lyrical flourishes and sleek harmonies of country with the aching, raw sparseness of folk. The endearing fact that the artists are married, and share a newborn baby together, adds to the familial, warm ambience that pervades their music.

When MacKenzie Porter and Etheridge first shared ‘Happy Ever After You’, it received a plethora of compliments from fans and fellow artists alike, with Luke Combs commenting, “Hey. This is really damn good”, while Brandi Carlile offered, ‘This is rad’.

ERNEST, Ella Langley, Ashley Cooke, Jordan Davis and many others flocked to the original video to clamour for MacKenzie Porter and Jake Etheridge to drop the track as soon as possible.

Thankfully, the wait is nearly over, with ‘Happy Ever After You’ arriving everywhere on January 10th. It will be exciting to see whether this highly anticipated collaboration paves the way for an entire album crafted by Porter and Etheridge, with the duo sharing a moving take on ‘White Christmas’ earlier in the month, perhaps signifying they have plans to continue collaborating beyond ‘Happy Ever After You’.

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