Reba McEntire has shared a video for her new single, “I Can’t.” In the Dano Cerny-directed visual, McEntire powerfully performs amidst cinematic landscapes and dancers while singing of resilience, new beginnings, and independence: “’Cause this heart’s half full of rain and risin’ high/Sometimes all that you can do is just survive.”
“I Can’t” premiered on NBC’s The Voice and McEntire later performed the single at the Academy of Country Music Awards. McEntire is set to return as a coach on season 26 of the singing competition, which debuts Monday, September 23. McEntire also acts and executive produces the forthcoming NBC sitcom Happy’s Place, which follows her character as she inherits a restaurant from her late father. The show premieres Friday, October 18.
Back in February, the Country Music Hall of Famer sang the national anthem at Super Bowl LVIII alongside American Sign Language translation from Daniel Durant of the Academy Award-winning film Coda.
2024 marks the 40th anniversary of McEntire’s My Kind of Country. The 1984 record was her eighth and first to make the Top 20 of the country charts. The album peaked at No. 13 on Billboard’s Country Music Albums chart and featured the No. 1 singles “How Blue” and “Somebody Should Leave.”
10 years later, following a tumultuous decade, McEntire released Read My Mind. The album reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and country charts and contained five major hits: “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,” “Till You Love Me”—McEntire’s first song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100—“She Thinks His Name Was John,” “Why Haven’t I Heard From You,” and “And Still.” “She Thinks His Name Was John” was the first country song to address AIDS and the song managed to reach top 20 charting position despite its controversial subject matter.
