She wants her new song to be the We Are The World moment of this crisis

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This B/B- list actress singer, who no one normally pays all that much attention to is in the spotlight and is being asked to do her part to support her A+ list actor husband as savior of the world.

She wants her new song to be the We Are The World moment of this crisis and programming directors are being told to play it even though she has never really had any luck with radio airplay ever.

Rita Wilson

Tom Hanks

After Coronavirus Recovery, Rita Wilson Is Saluting Essential Women Workers With New Music: Exclusive

Rita Wilson certainly hasn’t let quarantine, or even COVID-19, keep her from being creative.

Hot on the heels of her hit remake of Naughty By Nature’s “Hip Hop Hooray” and the subsequent remix version with the group (benefiting MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund), Wilson has dropped a new single, “Where’s My Country Song,” and companion video today (May 8).

Both salute women’s contributions to society, and are timed specifically to Mother’s Day.

“I felt that there was something to be said about the fact that so many essential workers now in America are women,” Wilson — who wrote the song with “American Idol” champ Lee DeWyze before she and husband Tom Hanks left for Australia, where they contracted COVID-19 during March — tells Billboard.

The song was also inspired by Wilson’s own mother, an immigrant “who reminded me that these women, single parents sometimes, go about their jobs and their daily lives with such grace and dignity. They’re really unsung heroes. So I wanted to write a song acknowledging them. It was a chance to put the spotlight on that.”

So where does the “Country Song” come in? “I write down in Nashville a lot,” Wilson explains, “and I’m increasingly aware that when women are written about in country songs it’s a partial representation. You don’t hear a lot of songs about single mothers. You don’t hear a lot about the women who are working behind the scenes. It seemed to me there was sort of a fantasy about the kind of woman that is portrayed — not just in music but also in movies, in TV.

“And there’s a huge part of this population that is doing amazing things with their lives, but they’re not having the spotlight on them and really should be looked at and applauded and revered every day.”

Wilson recorded “Where’s My Country Song?” after she and Hanks returned from their quarantine in Australia — in, she assures, a proper socially-distanced fashion, with the musicians in separate quarters, and she and producer Mikal Blue well apart from each other in the studio. “I have immunity from coronavirus antibodies, so I’m a little bit safe to be around,” Wilson notes. “But I still practiced social distancing just to be 100 percent sure and make sure everyone was comfortable.” – Source