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Danny Myrick and Bridgette Tatum talked about the No. 1 hit they wrote for Jason Aldean. "Originally I was trying to rhyme something with the slang for my state, South Carolina, which is called South Kakalakie, but they ended up taking the line out," Bridgette explains. "The song came to me while I was driving, so I pulled over in the Target parking lot in Nashville and started singing the thing in my phone. Then I took it to Danny."
"I think a lot of us grew up on a combination of bands, like Alabama. I grew up on 80s country, then rock bands like AC/DC and the kinds of bands that Jason is into," Danny continues. "Bridgette and I write a lot of stuff that mirrors the rock guitar riffs with southern rock country lyrics. This song is a perfect marriage of that.
"When we finished it, the only question I had was that in the chorus, where we said 'she's country enough,' was that enough to say? Sometimes when an idea comes along it becomes an anthem. Bridgette mentioned several times throughout the process that it's been awhile since an anthem to country girls has come along. So it kind of took on a life of its own.
"After we finished it, we did the demo with all those guitar riffs ... Our demo is pretty aggressive, and it might have scared Jason a little bit, but we felt pretty confident about it. I had just had a single with Big & Rich So he's, 'Loud,' and they were done recording. So I was thinking, 'Man, the only person left who could do this song is Jason Aldean.' So he was the first one we went to, and they loved it immediately.
"Friends told us what it's like when a song takes on a life of its own, but this is our first time to experience this. It was amazing to watch it on the charts -- every week it made a significant move, it never slowed down. Jason sang the song on the CMA Awards last November, and the record company allowed 24 hours of free downloads after that performance. It had 20,000 downloads in 24 hours, and by now it's had more than 600,000 downloads."
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