Songfacts®:

• "Giving You Up" is a genuine heartbreak-driven song, with Kameron Marlowe finally ready to move on from a girl who's harder to quit than a smoking habit.
  
  "It came from a really bad place," he told Pandora. "I'd been through this breakup - I thought I was going to marry this girl. She broke my heart and I didn't really know what to do, so I came home one night and I needed to vent. I didn't want to tell everybody, I just wanted to say things to myself. So I came home and I wrote this long, long, long paragraph of things I wanted to say, and it came down to just two verses, and the chorus flowed out of me immediately."
• "Giving You Up" was Kameron Marlowe's first single. He released it independently in 2019, and when the song found an audience on streaming services, he landed a record deal with Sony Music Nashville, which reissued the single in 2020 and included it on his self-titled EP that year. In 2022, it was included on Marlowe's debut album, We Were Cowboys.
• This was one of the first songs Marlowe wrote. He was shocked when it took off.
  
  "It's a really special song for me," he said. "I've gotten so many messages and so many letters from people who have said thank you for writing the song. That's really special to me. That's what it's all about: fan engagement where they really feel my music and understand. Just that they can relate to the song, I feel it's really special that we've built this bond with my fan base over one song. I never thought people would actually listen to the song. I put it out there because I didn't have a song out. It ended up getting on some playlists and it ended up getting me my record deal. I'm very blessed."
• The music video, directed by Jeff Johnson, reads "based on a true story" at the beginning. We see his girl give him back her engagement ring and walk out. Two weeks later he goes to a pawn shop and trades it for a guitar, which he takes to Nashville to launch his career with this song he wrote about her... it's very meta.