Sugar Coat

"Sugar Coat" is a song recorded by American country music quartet Little Big Town from their ninth studio album, Nightfall (2020).

The lyrics, which play on the verb "sugarcoat" and turn the word into a metaphorical object, express that her poised demeanor is learned from past generations, and that she desires to break free from it.” The narrator reflects upon how someone who is less inhibited by the pressures to keep up appearances would engage in destructive behaviors in order to cope but that she is unable to, with the chorus noting: “Sometimes I wish I liked drinkin' / Sometimes I wish I liked pills / Wish I could sleep with a stranger / But someone like me never will / Sometimes I hardly can stand it / I just smile with a lump in my throat / Sometimes I wish I could bear it / Didn't have to wear this sugar coat”.

[3] Little Big Town performed the song on live TV for the first time on January 16, 2020, on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

Bosworth's character suspects her husband (played by Isaiah Stratton) of having an affair but is forced to maintain the image of a perfect life until she sees him with the other woman one night through the window.

In a cliffhanger ending, she joins her husband and their children for breakfast wearing a necklace he had intended to give to his mistress, revealing that she knows about his infidelity.