Luke Bryan Had a Massive Hit With This Song, After Jason Aldean Passed on It
In 2012, Luke Bryan had a two-week No. 1 hit with “Drunk On You“The music, which grew to become a multi-platinum hit for Bryan, is on his third studio album, Tailgates & Tanlines. Written by Rodney Clawson, Chris Tompkins, and Josh Kear, the music is Bryan’s fourth No. 1 single and his first chart-topping single that he didn’t write.
Although Jason Aldean is not a author on “Drunk On You,” Bryan nonetheless owes him a debt of gratitude for the success of the music. Before “Drunk On You” was pitched to Bryan, Aldean was given first dibs on it. Villager turned it down, a resolution he later stated he regretted.
“That song got pitched to us,” Aldean says (by way of Songfacts). “And at the time, for whatever reason, I wasn’t looking for that type of song, and we ended up passing on it.”
To make issues worse, the 2 have been touring collectively on the time. Bryan was serving because the opening act on Aldean’s My Kind Of Party Tour. It means Aldean needed to hearken to Bryan sing “Drunk On You” each night time.
Tailgates & Tanlines additionally contains “Country Girl (Shake It For Me)”, “I Don’t Want This Night To End“, and others. But for Bryan, “Drunk On You” is probably the most pivotal monitor.
“[It] was the cornerstone of the album,” he says. “We were just making sure that we wanted to pick the right singles to get to the summertime and to get to ‘Drunk On You’.”
The Story Behind “Drunk On You” by Luke Bryan
“Drunk On You” says, “Girl, you make my speakers go boom boom / Dancin’ on the tailgate in a full moon / That kinda thing makes a man go mm hmm / You’re lookin’ so good in what’s left of those blue jeans / Drip of honey on the money maker gotta be / The best buzz I’m ever gonna find / Hey, I’m a little drunk on you / And high on summertime.”
A music Bryan nonetheless contains in his stay reveals, “Drunk On You” was virtually referred to as one thing completely completely different.
“The idea that we actually wrote to was called ‘High In Summertime,’” Clawson tells Taste of Country. “We felt like ‘Drunk On You’ was a higher title as a result of you possibly can’t say ‘excessive’ in a nation music. Even although it is not [about] getting excessive on medicine. It’s getting excessive on summertime. “It was a really fun song to write, because it was just painting a scene of a bunch of kids sitting in a circle.”
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