"For These Times" is a song recorded and produced by American

country music Country (also called country and western) is a popular music, music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and American southwest, the Southwest. First produced in the 1920s, country music is p ...

artist

Martina McBride Martina Mariea McBride (née Schiff, July 29, 1966) is an American country music singer and songwriter. She is known for her soprano singing range and her country pop material. McBride was born in Sharon, Kansas, and relocated to Nashville, T ...

. The song was written by

Leslie Satcher Leslie Winn Satcher (born 1962) is a singer-songwriter based in Nashville, Tennessee. She has recorded two albums of her own, and has additionally co-written several singles for such artists as George Strait, Martina McBride, Pam Tillis, Gr ...

, who had also written her 2001 single " When God-Fearin' Women Get the Blues".

RCA Nashville Records RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation. It is one of Sony Music's four flagship labels, alongside Columbia Records (its former longtime rival), Arista Records and Epic R ...

added the song to

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on October 22, 2007, as the third and final single from McBride's ninth studio album '' Waking Up Laughing'' (2007).

Background and content

"For These Times" was inspired by former Republican senator

Rick Santorum Richard John Santorum Sr. ( ; born May 10, 1958) is an American politician, attorney, author, and political commentator who represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1995 to 2007. He was the Senate's Chairman of the United Sta ...

, who was defeated in 2006, and his daughter. When his daughter began to cry at his loss, the cameras focused on her, inspiring

to write the song. It was also inspired by her Pastor, who stated "For these times in which we live, you are going to need this book." referring to the

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Music video

The music video for "For These Times" was shot in

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and was directed by Sam Erickson.

Charts

References

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