Girl in a Country Song

Marlow brought the title while discussing how similar songs on the radio sounded; Scherz built the track on drum loops around 74 BPM, with a rap section to satirize current radio, and co-produced with Huff at Blackbird. Its lyric references songs including Thomas Rhett's "Get Me Some of That", Chris Young's "Aw Naw", Jason Aldean's "Dirt Road Anthem", Blake Shelton's "Boys 'Round Here" and Florida Georgia Line's "Get Your Shine On". Marlow told Taste of Country it was written in good fun and never meant to hurt anyone's feelings, and told Grammy.com it is about how hard it is to be the perfect Barbie doll girl they are portrayed as. Wikipedia's claim that it was written in 90 minutes has no primary source we found.

It debuted at 58 on Country Airplay in the week of July 19, 2014 and reached number 1 on the chart dated December 20, 2014, after 23 weeks, the first debut single by a female duo to top the chart since the Wreckers' "Leave the Pieces" in 2006. It reached 3 on Hot Country Songs and 54 on the Hot 100, and sold 667,000 by September 2015. TK McKamy directed the video, premiered by NPR First Watch on July 24, 2014, with gender roles reversed; it won the 2015 CMA Music Video of the Year. Brian Kelley of Florida Georgia Line told the Chicago Tribune he didn't know one girl who doesn't want to be a girl in a country song. Setlist.fm counts 218 plays, their most played song.