Songfacts®:

• This steel guitar-laced song leans on a familiar country music theme: the support that alcohol brings. Lambert humorously honors the titular beverage, explaining why tequila brings her more comfort than the beer-guzzling cowboy. The singer goes on to admit that drinking doubles leads her to trouble but nothing else gives her "that border town buzz."
• Lambert debuted the song during a gig at the Huntington Center in Toledo, Ohio on September 20, 2019. She introduced it by saying "it's a honky-tonk song and it's about tequila."
• Lambert is part of a lengthy list of artists that have paid tribute to the Mexican distilled beverage. Other artists that have released songs inspired by tequila include The Champs, The Eagles, Joe Nichols, Kenny Chesney, Randy Rogers Band and Dan + Shay.
• The slow, waltzing verses transition to a fast-paced chorus that pairs drums with prominent steel guitar. "'Tequila Does' is country. And country music makes me happy," Lambert said of the song. "No matter how rock or edgy or scorned you can get, when you come back to a country song with a steel guitar, it makes my soul feel like it's on fire."
• Lambert wrote the song with her fellow Texans Jack Ingram and Jon Randall. Their previous collaborations together include the singer's The Weight of These Wings track "Tin Man."
• Filmed before the COVID-19 pandemic halted the live music industry in March 2020, the performance video shows Lambert out on the road for her Wildcard Tour. During each verse, viewers get to see a different performance of the song along with backstage footage.
  
  Lambert dropped the clip on January 29, 2021. "Filmed this at a show before everything shut down," she commented on social media. "Miss singing with y'all. But love that you have given this song a life of its own since day one."
• When Miranda Lambert recorded a DJ Telemitry-helmed remix of the song she sent it to her brother Luke and his husband Marc to get their opinion. They loved it, giving her the confidence to release the club-friendly version; it was Lambert's first remix of any song in her career.
• Lambert recruited director Reid Long to film the video for her Telemitry Remix. She said he was her first call because "he has filmed a lot of live stuff for us on the road and I knew it would feel a lot like that."
  
  The tequila-soaked clip shows Lambert throwing a rainbow-hued summer party starring some of her friends and family, including Luke and Marc, her shirtless husband Brendan McLoughlin, Brendan's brothers K.C. and Patrick, and Lambert's friend and background singer, Gwen Sebastian.