Burn It Down (Parker McCollum song)

"Burn It Down" is a song by American country music singer Parker McCollum. It was released on June 19, 2023, as the second single from his fourth studio album Never Enough. The song was written by McCollum and the Love Junkies (Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna and Liz Rose) and produced by Jon Randall.

Background
During a writing session that Parker McCollum hosted at his Nashville home on September 27, 2022, he confided to Liz Rose that he did not feel like writing anything. When he and the Love Junkies began their session, they spent about half an hour talking and strumming guitars. McCollum developed a groove and repeated the phrase "burn it down", eventually filling in extra lines after each repetition.

They wrote much of the chorus, before shifting back to the beginning and working on the verses, and made a guitar/vocal work tape at the end of the session. Hillary Lindsey provided harmony, singing "burn it, burn it" ahead of the third chorus. McCollum brought the recording to Jon Randall, who helped with the instrumental along with session player Jedd Hughes and engineer F. Reid Shippen.

Composition
The song is about a person ending a relationship with a former significant other and removing everything that brings to mind the good times they had together. The narrator is in a house full of said memories; in the first verse, the goodbye is scattered across the lawn, while the second verse focuses on the bed and its related feelings. More than two minutes through the song, a guitar solo is played.

Music video
An official music video was released on May 12, 2023. Directed by Dustin Haney and filmed in the desert of New Mexico, it opens with Parker McCollum wandering in the desert. As the guitar solo starts, he is seen performing with a band, with pyrotechnics in the background.