She also dished about the latest music she’s been working on, including a new single which came out last Wednesday, titled “What I Would Say.”

“I guess, so many families suffer from loving someone who has an addiction, and is struggling with something — alcoholism, drug addiction,” Wilson said of the song.

“Our country is in a place where it’s all too familiar to so many people. I wanted to write a song that somehow was able to put my anxieties and my fears into something that was a story that might resonate, or feel that [it] is giving voice to people that may have had those very same thoughts.

“If you know anybody — I believe that there is not a family around that hasn’t been touched by addiction in some way. So this song is really imagining what that might be like.”

Wilson also spoke about a song she wrote called “Everybody Cries,” which is set to play during the end credits of war film The Outpost, starring Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones and Orlando Bloom. “People are saying nice things about it, and I’m always happy to hear nice things when it comes to anything I’m working on. It’s better than not hearing nice things,” she quipped.

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The actress/singer also recently worked on a song with Jimmy Allen, titled “When This Is Over,” which came out earlier this year. “I think in some ways [it] really does apply to this period of time. It could be about any sort of hardship or any period of time. It certain applies to this period of time,” she said of the pandemic. “It’s hard to believe that we’re already six months into this, and it’s not going away.”

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“Where’s My Country Song” is a particularly powerful song of Wilson’s. “I wrote that because I feel that sometimes in country music, women are idealized, and I started to think about the women that I really know that are hardworking,” she told Newsweek via Zoom. “Some are single moms, they are doing their best to have good lives for themselves and their families, and I started thinking about my mom, who was a housewife and was an amazing mother and entirely creative and great.”

“Sometimes we look at moms — I’ve heard my friend say “well I’m just a mom,” like it’s not the most amazing job in the world. So I started thinking about women who are generally the ones who really make things happen.”

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Wilson noted that she read an article that stated 75 percent of frontline workers were women. “I started thinking that there’s room for everybody in country music, and there’s room for all sorts of characters and to be portrayed, but I wanted to write about the woman that was not necessarily the idealized woman you sometimes hear about in a country song,” she said.

Check out Rita’s music on Spotify.