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Warning (Morgan Wallen song)

2021 song by Morgan Wallen

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ108030228 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Warning" is a song recorded by American country music singer Morgan Wallen. It was from his second studio album Dangerous: The Double Album. The song was co-wrote by Ashley Gorley, Ernest Keith Smith and Ryan Vojtesak, and produced by Joey Moi.

Background

Wallen first teased "Warning" on May 1, 2020, with an Instagram post that featured an acoustic performance of just him and his guitar singing about how various things throughout his night "shoulda come with a warning" to prevent him from further heartbreak, and asked his fans if it should be on his second album.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Warning (Morgan Wallen song)” as 2021 song by Morgan Wallen. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Warning, Morgan and Wallen can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2021 song by Morgan Wallen. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q108030228. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Warning (Morgan Wallen song)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.