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MENU Jimmy's Got a Girlfriend ~ It Was Only A Kiss One Of Us Is In Love ~ Till You Let Go Shame On Me ~ Hypothetically 1999 ~ Don't Look At Me Like That I'll Know Love ~ Me, Myself And I The Only Rose | |
Steve: "Even though this song is so different, I've had radio people tell me it's a straight ahead country song, because lyrically it's a song about loss. I think people can really relate to it."
Amanda: "Dad wrote this with Gary Burr, and when he played it for Mom, Tyler and me, we all started crying. It's not one of those corny songs, but it lets you know how important it is to tell the people around you that you love them. This song is really inspirational and it reminds me that I need to tell my family how much they mean to me every day, because there may be a time when I'm not able to do that. It's a beautiful song and I think it will really touch people. I know it has touched me."
"Hypothetically"
Amanda: "Gary Burr gave a tape of this song to our producers and they brought it to us. They said, 'It's kind of weird, but we love it.' So we popped it into our CD player and we flipped out the very first time we heard it.
It is so Beatle-esque, so we came up with an arrangement that sounds like the early Beatle days, kind of like 'Octopus's Garden.' The funny thing is that the drummer that played the session, Shannon Forrest, is an incredible drummer. He was playing perfect time, and we had to say, 'No, you've got to lay it back more, it's got to be a little more raggedy. You have to play like Ringo!'"
Tyler: "This is probably my favorite on the album. The first time we heard it, I thought, 'Man, this is so cool. It's weird, but it's so cool. And it's so Beatles...we have to do it!'"
Steve: "I didn't even get to the hook...I was about three lines in and looked at the kids and said, 'Oh yeah. We have to cut this.' It just grabbed hold of me."
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The Wilkinsons' comments on each of the songs in the
Song by Song feature are courtesy of Giant Nashville.