Stella Lefty’s Chicks Interpolation Briefly Missing Songwriting Credits

Stella Lefty’s debut album Long Way Home arrived last Friday with a clear melodic debt. “Summer You Were Mine” interpolates “There’s Your Trouble,” the Chicks’ 1998 single that won the Grammy for Best Country Performance. At release, credits for original songwriters Tia Sillers and Mark Selby were absent on streaming services, prompting listener speculation. Atlantic Records confirmed to Rolling Stone that a platform error left their names off the track, and the credits have since been updated.

Label documents show Lefty’s team received clearance for the interpolation from Sony Publishing in June; internal credits listed Sillers and Selby by late July, before the album was out. The correction brings the public record in line with the paperwork.

Sillers, who co-wrote “I Hope You Dance” and “Blue on Black,” framed the overlap as a doorway. “People are gonna fall in love with Stella’s song,” she said, “but then they’re also gonna hopefully learn that it’s an interpolation of ‘There’s Your Trouble.’” The practice has become a familiar release strategy — borrowing a known melodic thread to give new material an entry point. Lefty knows the territory: her earlier track “Boston” drew comparisons to Noah Kahan’s “Stick Season,” and Kahan was credited as a co-writer before its official release.