The Real Meaning Behind Hailey Whitters' 'Fillin' My Cup'

Hailey Whitters kept things simple on her song "Fillin' My Cup," which features Little Big Town. The track is about making the most of life when things don't always pan out the way you would like them to. Whitters opened up to Maverick-Country in January about the song's meaning, saying, "I wrote this song with Hillary Lindsey and Nicolle Galyon. I'd had the title 'Fillin' My Cup' for a while, but then Nicolle had the brilliant idea to turn the lyric into a recipe."

As for what that "recipe" is, she continued to explain, "It's a concoction of all of those little things in life that have a way of making my glass feel half-full. It's been a hopeful reminder throughout the year and just felt like the right note to start 2021 on."

When Whitters sings (via Genius), "It's one part happy and one part chaos / Whole lotta borrowed, little bit paid off / You can't appreciate the sugar if you never had the salt / Ain't it nice and sweet even when it's on the rocks? Yeah," it's clear she's noting that you can't appreciate the good times without going through the bad. She makes a point with "It's a high-low life when you shake it on up / Fillin' my cup," alluding to the fact that while some parts of life can be great, others aren't as rosy.

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