Go High

Album: Meaning of Life (2017)
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Songfacts®:

  • Here, Kelly Clarkson sings of taking the high road when not nice people do nasty things. She used Michelle Obama's "When they go low, we go high" speech from the 2016 Democratic National Convention as inspiration for the track.

    "When Michelle said that I was like, 'That is the perfect idea for this song!'" Clarkson told Entertainment Weekly. "Everyone relates to that. No one has gone through life without relating to at some point having to take the high road."
  • Clarkson wrote the song with Jesse Shatkin and MoZella (co-writers of Piece by Piece track "Take You High" and Meaning of Life lead single "Love So Soft").

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