The first time Tim McGraw heard a song his daughter Audrey wrote, he wondered if she should change around her whole plan for her future.

"My dad was like, 'Why are you going to drama school? Why do you want to be an actor?'" Audrey remembers during a new conversation with Sheryl Crow and Maren Morris as part of Elle 's Three Generations of Songwriters .

"I was like, 'Why, is it good?'" she continues. "He goes, 'It's pretty good.'"

Audrey was 17 at the time, and she was interested in writing songs, but she didn't typically show her famous parents — McGraw and Faith Hill — what she was working on.

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During the same conversation, she spoke about the song that made her finally want to go to her parents for feedback.

"I'm pretty sure I call

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