Peak
66
Weeks
15
Score
701
Chart Year
2015
The music video for "Crushin' It" was released on May 12, 2015. Paisley created the entire video which features cartoon animations of numerous country singers as superheroes who fight "alien robot beer cans". The video includes Paisley himself, Blake Shelton, Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, Darius Rucker, Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood, the Zac Brown Band, Miranda Lambert, Dierks Bentley, Rascal Flatts, Eric Church, George Strait, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Jason Aldean, Florida Georgia Line, Little Big Town, Jimmy Kimmel, and Guillermo.
This is the opening track from Moonshine In The Trunk. Paisley's previous album Wheelhouse had disappointing sales and was the Nashville star's first-ever record not to generate a #1 single. Paisley alludes to the drop-off on this testosterone-filled cut about letting loose for the weekend, singing, "I guess I've been in a dry spell, but that's about to change." The song is a feel-good anthem full of frat-boy energy. Paisley told People he tried to reflect the bro-country cliché on Moonshine In The Trunk, but with a twist. "There's a lot of stuff on the radio about, you know, put your tan legs on the dashboard and we'll roll around in the truck and go party," he said. "This album was my idea of doing music that fits in this landscape but doesn't pander to that because one of my frustrations with radio now is lyrics. It's like, 'Guys, come on!' – and specifically, yes, guys, cause there are no girls! We can say something too. There are phrases that are totally cliché that we as songwriters owe it to ourselves to not use again." "I'm not saying the songs are bad, I'm just saying that we as writers can do better," he continued. "And when we come around to a little more diversity lyrically on the radio, we can go back and say the word 'tailgate' again and not have people cringe. It's everything in moderation." Penned by Paisley with Kelley Lovelace and Lee Thomas Miller, the song tells the story of a man looking for a change of fortune. "This is a moonshine jar-half-full kind of song for people who work hard and play hard," Paisley said. The song's music video was created by Brad Paisley and features cartoon animations of numerous country singers as superheroes. The clip includes animated versions of Paisley himself as Steel Moonshiner, Keith Urban as Captain Australia, Kenny Chesney as Agua Man and the Zac Brown Band are the Zoro Brown Bandaleros. Other stars that appear in cartoon form include Blake Shelton, Luke Bryan, Darius Rucker, Jason Aldean, Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert, Dierks Bentley, Florida Georgia Line, Little Big Town, Rascal Flatts, Eric Church, George Strait, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Jimmy Kimmel, and Guillermo. Paisley told reporters that he spent "three to four hours a day for a couple of weeks" drawing the cartoon. "I was trying to do it to where everybody would laugh," he added. "My goal was that anybody in it would go, 'That's really funny,' as opposed to, 'I hate you.'" As for how he came up with each star's cartoon likeness, Paisley revealed: "There have to be identifiable traits for it to be funny. It's like 'How do you capture Luke (Bryan)?' With Luke, it's the teeth. Once I got that smile, that's Luke Bryan. With Blake (Shelton), it's just goofy. Just draw goofy. Drawing these people was really fun, and also knowing that they didn't know I was doing that. Then one by one, I texted them their photos." "There were some hilarious exchanges," Paisley continued. "The text I sent to Keith Urban was like, 'You want a laugh?' and he was like 'Sure.' So I sent him this picture and he was like 'Is that an emoji app?' I was like, 'No, that's you and I drew it!' He's like 'Oh. Why? You're just sitting around drawing pictures of me?' And I was like 'No, no, I'm doing a … nevermind. You'll see." "And for Darius (Rucker) I just wrote, 'Hey Darius, I'm drawing a cartoon of everybody. If you could have super powers what would you want?' And he just wrote back, 'Flight and super strength, thanks.'" The animated clip came out much better than Paisley's original idea. "I only did it because we had a video idea that was entirely too elaborate to ever probably pull off," he said. "It was breaking Guinness World Records and dropping huge things on big beer cans, and in retrospect it would have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and I don't know that we'd be talking about it like this in a fun way... And this one cost $906." Brad Paisley told AZ Central the song, "is about [how] I'm not good at anything, or at least I don't feel good at anything right now." "You know that feeling you get in the middle of the week of 'I can't do anything right' or 'It's not going my way?' But every week ends with a Friday, and that's where we excel, I think, at country music," he added. "I see people at the end of long weeks. That's when I have my therapy session with them. I stand there, looking out at them, and they're like, 'Can you help erase what my boss said to me on Wednesday?' That's our job. And it flavored a lot of the record that way."
I sure could use an attaboy Or a big old high five I'd love to hear, "you're killing it, dude" Yeah, it's been a long time Since I hit one out of the park Or nailed it, as they say I guess I've been in a dry spell, But that's about to change 'Cause Every week has a weekend By this time Friday night I'll be done with my third can Of cold Bud Light And I'll be crushin' it Yeah, I'll be crushin' it They say, "your baby's mad", 'Cause you told her that you'd hang some pictures for her You know the ones she framed late last spring of you and her in Florida You're up on the ladder when it shatters into smithereens She shakes her head and Looks at you and says, "ain't you good for anything" And you say, Every week has a weekend By this time Friday night You want a margarita I'll get tequila and ice And I'll be crushin' it With a cold one in my other hand I'll be crushin' it When I'm finished with my can I can stomp it with my boot, Crunch it with my fist, Smash it on my forehead, yeah I got this I'll be crushin' it Oh, I'll be crushin' it, ooh I figured this out in college Walking past them gothic colums That I was gonna probably wind up somewhere, near the bottom I was never gonna be the best and brightest guy around, But like the great George freakin' Straight I'm the king of getting unwound And every week has a weekend By this time Friday night I'll be done with my third can Of cold Bud Light And I'll be crushin' it Every week has a weekend Yeah, I'll be crushin' it (By this time) Friday night Oh, I'll be crushin' it I'll be done with my third can Oh, I'll be crushin' it Of cold Bud Light And I'll be crushin' it (Hey, hey, hey) I'll be crushin' it
| Week | Chart Date | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 16, 2015 | 98 | 28 |
| 2 | May 23, 2015 | 96 | 30 |
| 3 | May 30, 2015 | 100 | 26 |
| 4 | Jun 6, 2015 | 96 | 30 |
| 5 | Jun 13, 2015 | 83 | 43 |
| 6 | Jun 20, 2015 | 79 | 47 |
| 7 | Jun 27, 2015 | 77 | 49 |
| 8 | Jul 4, 2015 | 72 | 54 |
| 9 | Jul 11, 2015 | 69 | 57 |
| 10 | Jul 18, 2015 | 70 | 56 |
| 11 | Jul 25, 2015 | 68 | 58 |
| 12 | Aug 1, 2015 | 66 | 60 |
| 13 | Aug 8, 2015 | 67 | 59 |
| 14 | Aug 15, 2015 | 86 | 40 |
| 15 | Aug 22, 2015 | 97 | 29 |