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"Before He Cheats" tells the story of a woman taking revenge on her potentially unfaithful boyfriend or husband. It was originally written for Gretchen Wilson before it was recorded by Underwood. [12] She imagines him hanging out and flirting with a "bleach-blonde" girl, shooting pool, buying her a drink, dancing, and hoping to "get lucky" with ...
In 2007, Kear co-wrote Carrie Underwood's hit "Before He Cheats" with Chris Tompkins. [2] The song dominated the US Hot Country Songs chart for five weeks and earned a Grammy Award for Country Song of the Year. [3] [4] The song is one of the longest-charting hits in Billboard history, and was the third longest-running hit of the 2000s decade ...
The song is described in the video as what happened before the "Before He Cheats" video. The video starts with some segments from "Before He Cheats" and then goes into a scene three months earlier ("before he cheated", it says) with her in the club drinking with her friends. The same man from the "Before He Cheats" spots her and asks her for a ...
"Before He Cheats" subsequently peaked at number one on the Hot Country Songs chart for five consecutive weeks, and at number eight on the Hot 100; it proved to be a huge crossover hit, making appearances in the top 20 of every chart on which it appeared, and it is the biggest hit overall from the album. When it finally peaked at number 8 in ...
The song sold 2,300,000 copies, making it the fourth-biggest single of her career behind "Jesus, Take the Wheel", "Before He Cheats", and "Blown Away". [3] The song received positive reviews from critics and became the fastest climbing country single of 2009. It also became Underwood's eighth number one country single in the United States.
Tompkins has won two Grammy Awards for Best Country Song, first for "Before He Cheats" sung by Carrie Underwood in 2007, [4] and also for Underwood's 2012 song "Blown Away". [4] Tompkins has written 16 number one hits, [5] and he won Songwriter of the Year by the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in 2007. [citation needed]
[3] Songwriters Chris Tompkins and Josh Kear, who previously wrote "Before He Cheats" for Underwood's debut album, Some Hearts, worked on a track titled "Blown Away" and sent it to the singer. [4] Underwood loved the song and recorded it, also naming her album Blown Away as it was the song that defined the album's darker direction. [5]
The Mastertone of the song was also certified Platinum in July 2008, making Underwood the first country artist to have two songs reach this milestone (after "Before He Cheats"). [14] [15] As of February 2016, "Jesus, Take the Wheel" has sold 2,473,000 copies in the United States. [16] In 2007, "Jesus, Take the Wheel" was certified Gold by Music ...