"Not saying this is perfect, but I am very proud of it": Morgan Wallen to Release 'Superman' This Friday 9 May

Big news just in! Morgan Wallen fans will have one less new song to find time to listen to when the 37-track I'm The Problem comes out on 16 May. The 'Last Night' singer shared on an Instagram story on Monday 5 May that the highly anticipated 'Superman' will be released a week before the studio album this Friday 9 May.

“It’s special to me for obvious reasons," he wrote in the post. "I wanted it to have its own moment, and hopefully that’s what this will accomplish.”

The reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year previously shared a preview of the song he wrote as a tribute to his 4-year-old son, Indigo Wilder, whom he shares with ex-fiancée KT Smith.

“Been trying for a long time to write a song I loved to my son," Wallen shared in an Instagram post on Monday 24 February. None of them ever feel good enough because of how perfect I want something like this to be. And not saying this is perfect, but I am very proud of it.”

The lyrics to 'Superman' directly reference Wallen’s troubled past, with lines about his arrest, drunken behaviour and previous relationships, as he expresses hope that when Indigo Wilder grows up, he won’t think less of him as a father.

“One day he's gonna see my mugshot / From a night when I got a little too drunk / Hear a song about a girl that I lost / From the times when I just wouldn't grow up," he sings in the evocative, vulnerable ballad. "And when you ain't a kid no more / I hope you don't think less of me / I try to hide my fallen soul / But you're gonna see”.

In the chorus, Wallen introduces the 'Superman' analogy, likening his shortcomings to the way the Man of Steel is also weakened by exposure to Green Kryptonite, a fictional mineral from the planet Krypton that is radioactive to Superman and other Kryptonians.

“Now and then, that bottle's my kryptonite / Brings a Man of Steel down to his knees / Don't always know my wrong from right / Sometimes I'm my own worst enemy / No, I don't always save the day, but you know for you I'll always try / I'll do the best I can / A Superman is still just a man sometimes / Oh, sometimes”.

Morgan Wallen has previously spoken about his son when he joined Theo Von on his This Past Weekend podcast.

“I think it just gets better and better, the older he gets”, Wallen shared. “I mean, it's always been cool, but you know, he's four years old now, he'll be five this year, just the personality that keeps coming out and the relationship that you build, you know? He's got a little sass on him, he's got a little attitude, which I like”.

"I like that spunk," he told Von. "Like yesterday, my dad was...trying to get him to eat. It's kind of a task to get him to sit still long enough to eat, and my dad was like, ‘Hey man, if you don't eat I'm gonna put you in the bedroom and you gotta go to sleep’...I don't know exactly what my dad said to him, but [Indigo] looked at my dad and he said, ‘I don't want you to stay here anymore’”.

“It's just hilarious... just anything to keep him rocking. But he's a sweetheart... he's almost too sweet, he's too nice to everyone, like, people he doesn't know. It's like, ‘Hey man, we don't like everybody, man! We don't know these people, man’... So I'm trying to teach him a little bit of that”.

It sounds like both of the little boys are doing some growing up at the same time.

Wallen co-wrote 22 of the 37 tracks appearing on his fourth studio record, whichincludes collaborations with pop star Tate McRae, Eric Church, HARDY and ERNEST. The album includes the previously released title track, as well as 'Just In Case,' 'Love Somebody,' 'Smile,' 'Lies Lies Lies,' 'I’m A Little Crazy' and the Post Malone duet 'I Ain't Comin' Back.'

The album is released on Friday 16 May, the first night of Wallen’s sold out, three-day Sand In My Boots Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama, which Wallen will headline along with Post Malone, Brooks & Dunn and HARDY.

I'm The Problem is released on 16 May via Big Loud / Mercury Records

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