Little Big Town finds themselves in the middle of undeserved drama over "Girl Crush."
Little Big Town‘s 6/8 waltz ballad “Girl Crush” has made some real noise beyond the radio waves and placed the the vocal group comprised of Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Jimi Westbrook, and Phillip Sweet into the national spotlight.
But why?
Well, the “controversy” is just one huge misunderstanding that has spread like wildfire. News outlets such as The Washington Post reported that country radio stations across the country either stopped or limited the play of “Girl Crush” off the band’s latest album, Pain Killer, after receiving angry listener feedback and emails. Apparently the listeners objecting to “Girl Crush” weren’t actually listening to the lyrics at all and claimed the song had a “gay agenda”…
“I want to taste her lips/ Yeah, ’cause they taste like you/ I want to drown myself/ In a bottle of her perfume/ I want her long blonde hair/ I want her magic touch/ Yeah, ’cause maybe then/ You’d want me just as much/ I got a girl crush.”
It’s simply a ballad spun from a tale of pure jealously. A woman feels envy towards her ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend, yet finds her captivating at the same time. No hidden agenda here…
“The lyric of ‘Girl Crush’ is written in kind of a sexy way,” Fairchild explained, per iHeartRadio. “So some people might turn it off when they get to the ‘I want to taste your lips’ and all that. But once they get to the hook they go ‘Oh.’ It turns and it’s about a girl saying, ‘Why do you love her and not me?’”
Despite misinformed naysayers, “Girl Crush” is getting support from a wide variety fellow stars such as Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton. The pair posted the photo below to show their Little Big Town love.
Popular radio personality Bobby Bones stated the following when Little Big Town visited his iHeartRadio studio last week, “Is it frustrating to you that here is your song — that is one of the Top 10 sellers for weeks and weeks and weeks — and people on the radio are still afraid to play it because they think it’s a ‘lesbian song?’ It would drive me insane!—It shouldn’t even matter if it’s a lesbian song!”
Though frustrating, the controversy isn’t hurting Little Big Town overall. “Girl Crush” is currently at No. 17 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and is #1 on iTunes Country.