Sure Be Cool If You Did

Album

Based on a True Story...

Label

Warner Music Nashville

Genre

Country

Composer(s)

Rodney Clawson;Chris Tompkins;Jimmy Robbins

Entered Chart

Jan 26, 2013

Peak Date

Mar 30, 2013

Released

January 8, 2013

Recorded

2012

Catalog #

Warner Bros. Nashville Digital

B-Side

There's a New Kid in Town

This was the first track to be heard from Blake Shelton's seventh full-length studio album, and it finds him singing about falling for a pretty woman he meets at a party. It was written by former The Voice season 2 contestant Nicolle Clawson (Galyon), North Carolina born singer-songwriter Jimmy Robbins, and Chris Tompkins (Carrie Underwood's "Blown Away"). This may have been the first song to be released in 2013, as it arrived in many people's inboxes on the morning of January 1st. This took only eight weeks to reach #1 on Billboard's Country Songs chart, making it Shelton's fastest-rising single to date. Shelton recalled to Roughstock: "I had an email from my manager Brandon Blackstock, and he said, 'Man, this is a cool song, you need to listen to it.' I did, and I was like, 'Holy Cow!' Rodney's a great singer and it was him singing on the demo and they just did a great job. My only fear was, 'I hope I can make my record as good as what they've done.'" Shelton and his producer Scott Hendricks spent a lot of time working on the track. He explained to Roughstock: "It's kind of a new sound for country music. It's got a little bit of an R&B feel to it and some sounds before it just turns into a straight-up country song about a guy trying to pick up a girl. It's different from start to finish." Blake Shelton explained to CMT News that the album title is all about him getting personal. "I listened to the record several times," he said, "just trying to get ideas, and it hit me as I was listening to it, 'Man, every one of these songs, I either am now or have been in this situation at some point in my life.' It really is true, and that's when it hit me. I said, "We'll just call it Based on a True Story.... It kinda is what it is."

I was gonna keep it real like chill like only have a drink or two
But it turned into a party when I started talking to you
Now you're standing in the neon looking like a high I wanna be on
Baby it's your call,
No pressure at all

You don't have to throw back your pretty pink lemonade shooter
And lean a little closer
You don't have to keep on smiling that smile that's driving me wild
And when the night is almost over
Meet me in the middle of a moonlit Chevy bench seat
And do a little bit of country song, hanging on
You don't have to keep me falling like this
But it'd sure be cool if you did

You can't shoot me down 'cause you've already knocked me dead
Got me falling apart with my heart talking out of my head
Let your mind take a little back road just as far as you wanna go
Baby, I'll do,
Whatever you wanna do, wanna do

You don't have to throw back your pretty pink lemonade shooter
And lean a little closer
You don't have to keep on smiling that smile that's driving me wild
And when the night is almost over
Meet me in the middle of a moonlit Chevy bench seat
And do a little bit of country song, hanging on
You don't have to keep me falling like this
But it'd sure be cool if you did

Have a night that you'll never forget
And now you're standing in the neon looking like a high I wanna be on

You don't have to throw back your pretty pink lemonade shooter
And lean a little closer
You don't have to keep on smiling that smile that's driving me wild
And when the night is almost over
Meet me in the middle of a moonlit Chevy bench seat
And do a little bit of country song, hanging on
You don't have to keep me falling like this
But it'd sure be cool if you did
Yeah, it'd sure be cool if you did