Album: Pain Killer (2014)

Charted: 18

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• I got a girl crush
  Hate to admit it but
  I got a heart rush
  Ain't slowing down
  I got it real bad
  Want everything she has
  That smile and that midnight laugh
  She's giving you now
  
  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
  I got a girl crush
  
  I don't get no sleep
  I don't get no peace
  Thinking about her
  Under your bed sheets
  The way that she's whispering
  The way that she's pulling you in
  Lord knows I've tried
  I can't get her off my mind
  
  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
  
  I got a girl crush
  Hate to admit it but
  I got a heart rush
  It ain't slowing down Writer/s: Elisabeth Wagner Rose, Hillary Lee Lindsey, Lori Mckenna
  Publisher: BMG Rights Management, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, ENDURANCE MUSIC GROUP, Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

• Kawa from Tokyo, JapanI think this song was released in 2014. On that year, there was another controversial song called 'Same Love'. I think it was one of the songs nominated a Grammy nominees on that year. Also think that this song 'Girl Crush' was written under influenced by the song 'Same Love'. So the lyrics of the song 'Girl Crush' was controversial, too. Hope it'll help the explanation. Oh, by the way, the music came from the song 'It's A Heartache sung by Bonnie Tyler in 1980s. It was very similar, Very !
• Camille from Toronto, OhHere are some reasons I don't like this song. The two women in Little Big Town have amazing voices, are knock-out gorgeous and incredibly successful yet they sing about crushing on another woman who has taken their man, so first of all, it comes across as not believable. With everything going for them, why are they singing a degrading song about wanting what another woman has to get a man back? The song does not empower women in any way. It bows down to the notion that a woman must be lacking in something if she lost her man, and that it's okay to want to change who you are to get him back because he is the important one in the relationship. I thought that was a thing of the 50s and 60s.
  
  The group sings another song that shows a bit more of a woman's backbone in their tune "Better Man". It is much more realistic.
• K.c. from NhI honestly don't get the big deal about this song. It's not even close to the best song on the album. How much of the popularity is due to the controversy (which I didn't give a hangnail about) as opposed to the actual song?

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