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"Best Days of Your Life" is the title of a song written and performed by American country artist Kellie Pickler, and co-written by Taylor Swift. It was released on December 1, 2008 as the second single from her self-titled second album. Swift also provides background vocals on the song. Pickler debuted the song with a performance on November 12, 2008 on the 2008 CMA Awards. Since then she has also performed the song on American Idol, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and the 2009 CMT Music Awards.
[edit] Content"Best Days of Your Life" is an up-tempo country pop song mostly backed by electric guitar. Its narrator tells about a former boyfriend who cheated on her and is going to get married and build a family with the lover. Although, she wishes them to be happy and have a nice life, she says that he's already had the best days of his life with her (the narrator), and the new partner can never top it. She also feels sorry for his new girlfriend, because she has the concept that a cheater will always be a cheater, and while she is getting the prizes of her future, all the lover gets is the cheater boyfriend.
In an interview, Pickler has said that the circumstances portrayed in the song are based on a real-life experience that she herself went through. Pickler stated that when she was on Brad Paisley's Bonfires & Amplifiers Tour, she discovered her boyfriend cheating, and told it to her friend and fellow country singer Taylor Swift, who had the idea of writing a song about the experience. [edit] ReceptionKevin J. Coyne of Country Universe described the chorus as strong and compared it to the catchiness of Faith Hill's "This Kiss". But, he described the verses unfavorably: "Pickler sounds strained, there’s no discernable melody and the lyrics are no more memorable than the music backing them up."[2] Jim Malec of The 9513 gave the song a thumbs down, saying that "[The song] isn’t funny, nor poignant, nor empowering. It is solely, and wholly, and unapologetically concerned only with expressing its fury. “Best Days of Your Life” is essentially four minutes of Pickler venting, unbridled and unartful."[3] [edit] Music video The music video was shot on February 26, 2009 in Nashville[4], and is directed by Roman White.[4] It was released on March 25, 2009 to members of Pickler's official fanclub, and then to CMT on March 28, 2009. In the video, Pickler goes out to the movies with her friends for her birthday and sees her boyfriend cheating on her, so she leaves. Later on, he is completely unhappy with his new life and has many flashbacks of him and Kellie. One day while he and his girlfriend are walking, she reveals that she is pregnant; he runs across the street and tries to make it up to Pickler, but he is hit by a bus and put in the hospital. Later, Pickler visits him and signs her name on his body cast and leaves. Throughout this, Pickler is shown singing alongside Taylor Swift, & her band, with Pickler's ex watching through his television set. The video debuted at #11 on CMT's Top Twenty Countdown for the week of April 10, 2009; and later peaked at #3. The video also debuted at #2 on GAC Country Countdown, and peaked at #1. [edit] Chart performanceThe song debuted at #56 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the week of November 20, 2008. The song has become her biggest hit on the Billboard Hot 100, debuting at #50 following the song's performance on American Idol. This song has been Pickler's most successful single to date and her first Top Ten hit on the country charts, and her second single to surpass 500,000 legal downloads. After spending nearly 40 weeks on the country chart, it reached a peak of #9 in August 2009. It also became her first major hit in Canada, reaching the Top 25 on the Canadian country chart. It is her highest charting single in the Us to date.
[edit] SalesUnited States: 876,064[5] [edit] References
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