query: who wrote if i said you had a beautiful body lyrics

pos: If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me "If I Said You Have a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me" is a song written by David Bellamy, and recorded by American country music duo The Bellamy Brothers. It was released in March 1979 as the second single from the album "The Two and Only". The song became their first number 1 hit on the "Billboard magazine" Hot Country Singles chart and their second number one overall, after their 1976 pop hit "Let Your Love Flow". The title as shown on the original

pos: If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me single was "If I Said You Have a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me", but on the album and subsequent releases, the title is shown as "... Had ...". "If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body ..." derived its double entendre title from a Groucho Marx line. Songwriter David Bellamy told country music journalist Tom Roland that he regularly watched Marx's program, "You Bet Your Life", where Marx sometimes used the quote while interviewing an attractive female contestant, then shake his cigar and raise his eyebrows to elicit a reaction. The comment stuck in Bellamy's head as

pos: If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me of others." If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me "If I Said You Have a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me" is a song written by David Bellamy, and recorded by American country music duo The Bellamy Brothers. It was released in March 1979 as the second single from the album "The Two and Only". The song became their first number 1 hit on the "Billboard magazine" Hot Country Singles chart and their second number one overall, after their 1976 pop hit "Let Your Love Flow". The title as shown on

pos: If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me in 1994. In 2011, the Brothers criticized pop singer Britney Spears's song "Hold It Against Me" for sounding similar to "If I Said You Have A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me". In a statement, David Bellamy said "professionally, well, in all honesty, we feel completely ripped off. Where's the originality?" The Bellamy Brothers' attorney Christopher E. Schmidt stated that "[it] becomes somewhat uncanny if you simply double the beat of the Bellamy Brothers' song and match it up with Britney's version" and pointed out that it was not the first time that songwriters Max Martin and Lukasz

pos: Hold It Against Me After "Hold It Against Me" was released, The Bellamy Brothers criticized it for being similar to their 1979 hit "If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me". In a statement, David Bellamy said "professionally, well, in all honesty, we feel completely ripped off. Where's the originality?" The brothers's attorney Christopher E. Schmidt stated that "[it] becomes somewhat uncanny if you simply double the beat of the Bellamy Brothers' song and match it up with Britney's version" and pointed out that it was not the first time Martin and Luke were accused of copyright infringement.

neg: Double entendre series. Bawdy double entendres, such as "I'm the kinda girl who works for Paramount by day, and Fox all night", and (from the movie "Myra Breckinridge") "I feel like a million tonight — but only one at a time", are typical of the comedy writing of Mae West, for her early-career vaudeville performances as well as for her later plays and movies. Double entendres are very common in the titles and lyrics of pop songs, such as "If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me" by The Bellamy Brothers, which is based on an

neg: Alice in Chains (album) satellite uplink. The mockumentary "The Nona Tapes", features interview footage regarding the album. Cantrell, in an interview around the release of the album, said, "Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful." With the exceptions of "Grind", "Heaven Beside You", and "Over Now", the lyrics are all written by Staley. Staley said, "I just wrote down whatever was on my mind...so a lot of the lyrics are really loose. If you asked me to sing the lyrics to probably any one of them right now, I couldn't do it. I'm not sure what they are because

neg: Man O'Sand to Girl O'Sea "If you think about it it's quite simple.'O' is an abbreviation for of...if you think of the metaphor of how the sea erodes the rock to make sand. I don't mean to be condescending, but I think it's quite beautiful." In a review in The Age newspaper, Chris Johnston said ""Man O'Sand" is typically (Grant) McLennan and (Robert) Forster in that it wraps up a simple sentiment in obtuse poetic constructs. It's a break-up song. Forster wrote the lyrics: "I want you back, I want you back, I want you back, because I feel no better, feel no better, feel

neg: If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me "Dr. Luke" Gottwald were accused of copyright infringement. On March 2, 2011, Max Martin, Dr. Luke, Bonnie McKee, and Mathieu "Billboard" Jomphe, all of whom wrote "Hold It Against Me", filed a lawsuit against the Bellamy Brothers for defamation and libel because of the accusations, but the Brothers apologized and the case was dismissed on August 11, 2011. The Brothers released a statement that said, "The Bellamy Brothers apologise to Dr. Luke and Max Martin for the Bellamys' public statements and any false impressions suggested by the statements on their website that Dr. Luke and Max Martin copy the works

neg: Bye Bye Beautiful attitude towards the band and its music. This was at first rumoured among fans and later revealed by Holopainen in an interview. The chorus also contains the lyrics “Did you ever read what I wrote you?/ Did you ever listen to what we played?” in which the first part is a reference to the lyrics written by Holopainen, and the second part is about her lack of dedication to the music. In the video for "Bye Bye Beautiful", the four male members of the band are replaced by four female models throughout the verses. Despite speculation, Holopainen said in a

neg: When a Man Loves a Woman (song) said:When I wrote the song at first, it was called "Why Did You Leave Me Baby". And I changed it from that to "When a Man Loves a Woman". I just reversed it. Quin told me that if I was to write some lyrics around that melody and the expression I'd put into "Why Did You Leave Me Baby", he believed it would've been a hit record. He was one of the top disc jockeys at that time. Sure enough, he asked me if I had any lyrics for that. He said, "That's it! Write a story around that title!

neg: Play It Loud but that version had more of a jazz influence in the guitar parts. This was altered for the version that appeared on "Play It Loud". "Know Who You Are" was originally an instrumental titled "Genesis", which appeared on "Beginnings". "I Remember" features lyrics by Powell about a man who loses his memory. In 1973, Powell would suffer memory issues after being involved in a major car accident. He said in a 2006 interview: "That's strange, isn't it!! I wrote the lyrics! That's spooky! I don't remember what the inspiration was at the time when I wrote the lyrics to that

neg: Love Me Again (song) for the 2014 Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. In an interview with Digital Spy, Newman was asked if he sensed that the song had something special about it in the studio. He said, "Yeah. The guy I wrote it with (Steve Booker), we turned around and had massive grins on our faces thinking, 'There's something good here'. But you just never know how good it is, you know?". Newman was also asked if it was hard to write the lyrics about love and break-up, he said, "No, it's the only place where I really open up

neg: Ted Nugent he had ever been in a romantic relationships with underage girls, other than when he was underage himself. This goes against what Nugent previously said in a Behind The Music episode, where he admitted to several affairs with underage girls. In his 1981 song, "Jailbait", Nugent wrote the lyrics: Well I don´t care if you're just thirteen You look too good to be true I just know that you´re probably clean There's one lil' thing I got to do to you Nugent suffers from hearing loss. He said in a 2007 interview: "The ear's not too good, especially with background

neg: Drive My Soul this element could be anything you feel drives your soul and keeps you in the right path: your parents, a friend, or even something supernatural or a religious element. Lights has stated that "Drive My Soul" was actually a song where she had the title first before she even wrote the lyrics. She's said it all started when she was listening to an indie radio station, and heard a song which she thought had the lyrics "Drive My Soul" sung in a really beautiful way. After hearing the song, Lights, searched for the lyrics and to her surprise the lyrics

neg: Club Disco number one on the UK Dance Chart. After the success of her previous album "Neon Nights", Minogue was asked by All Around the World Records, a major dance label, if she would write the lyrics to a popular dance instrumental track called "Flower Power", which was a huge hit in clubs in Ibiza. Minogue agreed and wrote the lyrics to the song that would soon become "You Won't Forget About Me". About writing lyrics for the song Minogue said: "I'd heard it without vocals and I thought, 'Fantastic'. I had already written loads of vocals for myself and knew I

neg: Daniel Merriweather Smiths' song "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before" released as "Stop Me". It was re-composed with additional lyrics from the song "You Keep Me Hangin' On" by The Supremes. Merriweather admitted in an interview with "The Guardian" that he was not familiar with the Smiths song prior to recording the revised version: "Mark said, 'I want you to sing on this - it's my favourite Smiths song', so I listened to it. I'd heard it once before, but I was never a Smiths fan. But I thought it was beautiful". It was issued as a single

neg: Robert Bruce Barbour House was," and I told him that I had designed it myself. He said, "I want you to design me a house, but I don't want anything like this. I think your house is beautiful, but I don't want anything like it. He said, "I want a Spanish farmhouse. You may design it anyway you want. I won't interfere, and if I don't like it when it's done, I'll sell it. I'm not going to interfere with you one bit. You just make me a beautiful Spanish farmhouse." Rogers created a gracious residence, with large public rooms. From the entrance hall

neg: Hi, Hi, Hi of "Red Rose Speedway". In the UK, the song was banned by the BBC for its sexually suggestive lyrical content. The BBC also assumed that the title phrase, "We're gonna get hi, hi, hi" was a drug reference. The specific lyrics objected to is the apparent phrase "get you ready for my body gun"; McCartney has said that the correct lyrics are "get you ready for my polygon", an abstract image, and later said, "The BBC got some of the words wrong. But I suppose it is a bit of a dirty song if sex is dirty and naughty. I

neg: Claudia Cardinale a February 2011 online feature, named Cardinale among the 50 most beautiful women in film history. Cardinale said of her acting, "I never felt scandal and confession were necessary to be an actress. I've never revealed my self or even my body in films. Mystery is very important." In a 2014 interview, she revealed her secret of success: "If you want to practise this craft, you have to have inner strength. Otherwise, you’ll lose your idea of who you are. Every film I make entails becoming a different woman. And in front of a camera, no less! But when I’m

neg: Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before was re-composed as "Stop Me" with additional lyrics from the song "You Keep Me Hangin' On" by The Supremes by British DJ Mark Ronson featuring Daniel Merriweather on the vocals. Merriweather admitted in an interview with "The Guardian" that he was not very familiar with the original before he recorded Mark Ronson's revised version. He explained: "Mark said, 'I want you to sing on this – it's my favourite Smiths song,' so I listened to it. I'd heard it once before, but I was never a Smiths fan. But I thought it was beautiful." The song was later released as

neg: Howard Gable Play House 6a Sometimes When We Touch 6b Three Times A Lady 7 How Deep Is Your Love 8 You Light Up My Life Credits · Arranged By – Peter Sullivan · Design – Peter Ewers & Associates · Engineer – John French · Producer – Howard Gable · Recorded at TCS Studios, Melbourne, Australia Allison Durbin – Bright Eyes Label: Hammard – HAM 043 Vinyl LP Stereo A Side 1 Lotta Love 2 Sharing The Night Together 3 If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me 4 Some Girls 5 Darlin' 6 Sweet

neg: All About You (The Rolling Stones song) thing in the early '80s with Mick. So you get some songs like 'All About You,' to name just one. There's more on some of the Expensive Winos records." Saxophonist Bobby Keys said of the song, "It had a little bit of sentimental input there about his feelings for Mick at the time. Just listen to the lyrics". In the song, Richards bemoans a relationship he's in with harsh lyrics: On the writing, Richards said, "That song was hanging around for three years. After researching to make sure it wasn't somebody else who wrote it, I finally decided that it

neg: Safe (Westlife song) and knew we had something beautiful, a timeless classic. The lyrics are from an outside perspective, for example, if you were looking at someone from afar, and maybe you have an interest in them, but every time you see them, they look as though they are going through a real rough moment in their life. And, if for that single moment, you wish you could just reach out and make it all better. Inspiration for the track came from a real life experience. There is a cafe that I used to visit when I was meeting my father in Pennsylvania

neg: I Will Sing had". The title track of the album, "I Will Sing", was written by Moen. It was written while Moen was in his car at one of Alabama's gulf coast beaches, trying to write songs for his upcoming album. He had been having a frustrating day, and the lyrics he wrote demonstrated his feelings. However, he did not like the lyrics. He said,I didn't feel anything the entire day. It was one of those times when you wonder where God is. I was driving back home, feeling frustrated, and I said, "Lord, You seem so far away, a million miles or

neg: We the Ghost as better people. While I'll always cherish the music we’ve made as much as any music I'll ever release, nothing will ever matter more to me than the relationships we’ve all built with one another. Before we sign out, I'd like to leave you with a lyric from the final WTG song I ever wrote, as the lyrics seem fitting: “Sometimes something has to die so that it can stay beautiful. Sometimes, when you’ve said everything you have to say, the only thing left is silence.” So that's it. From the bottom of our jet black hearts, thank you. Peace,

neg: Cry Little Sister Then I wrote the lyrics within an hour or two [and] recorded the demo". Despite appearing on the soundtrack to "The Lost Boys", the song's lyrics do not specifically reference vampires, as it was composed before McMahon had seen any footage from the film. After hearing the track, director Joel Schumacher commented: "You nailed my theme song to "The Lost Boys"! I can't believe you wrote this without seeing a frame of film!". McMahon additionally explained: "I always say that if I'd have seen the film first, I would probably not have written 'Cry Little Sister'. I didn't want the

neg: The Fame with lyrics like "What's going on on the floor? / I love this record, baby but I can't see straight anymore". "LoveGame" portrays a message about love, fame and sexuality which is akin to the central theme of album. "Paparazzi" portrays a stalker who is following somebody being his or her biggest fan. The lyrics also portray the desire of capturing the attention of the camera as well as achieving fame. Gaga explained that, "This idea of "The Fame" runs through and through. Basically, if you have nothing—no money, no fame—you can still feel beautiful and dirty rich. It's about

neg: My Body, the Hand Grenade your Christian names / And I know all you bitches by your Christian names"", ""Bless my body and bless my soul / Wrap it in turpentine""), while a line from "Retard Girl", which reads: ""As shines the moon among the lesser fires"", is directly referenced from "Odes", a book of Latin poems by Roman poet Horace. "Burn Black" and "Dicknail" also feature aggressive language and themes alluding to child molestation and incest. "Beautiful Son", written and recorded in 1992, features a more mellow guitar riff, and its lyrics make references to crossdressing. Love said the songwriting process on the track

neg: Yuki-onna She breathed on old Mosaku and he was frozen to death. She then approached Minokichi to breathe on him, but stared at him for a while, and said, "I thought I was going to kill you, the same as that old man, but I will not because you are young and beautiful. You must not tell anyone about this incident. If you tell anyone about me, I will kill you." Several years later, Minokichi met a beautiful young lady, named Oyuki (Yuki = "snow") and married her. She was a good wife. Minokichi and Oyuki had several children and lived

neg: Yao Beina night, you will never be qualified to talk about fate… don't ask me why, because I have fought the devil several times," she wrote in the lyrics. Fortunately, Yao survived, but the cost was high. She underwent a mastectomy and had her left breast removed. "It is a wise choice if you face reality and bravely fight and defeat cancer," Yao said. After the surgery, Yao went through eight sessions of chemotherapy, during which she recorded the songs for Empresses in the Palace. Yao hoped her story and her songs could bring hope to those suffering from breast cancer. "I

neg: Yuki-onna happily for many years. Mysteriously, she did not age. One night, after the children were asleep, Minokichi said to Oyuki: "Whenever I see you, I am reminded of a mysterious incident that happened to me. When I was young, I met a beautiful young lady like you. I do not know if it was a dream or if she was a Yuki-onna ..." After finishing his story, Oyuki suddenly stood up, and said "That woman you met was me! I told you that I would kill you if you ever told anyone about that incident. However, I can't kill you

neg: Vivien Leigh one of the most beautiful actresses of her day, and her directors emphasised this in most of her films. When asked if she believed her beauty had been an impediment to being taken seriously as an actress, she said, "People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap, if you really want to look like the part you're playing, which isn't necessarily like you." Director George Cukor described Leigh as a "consummate actress, hampered by beauty", and Laurence Olivier said that critics

neg: Bebo Norman (album) engage the listener through pacey choruses and mellow refrains." Plus, Wain wrote that "as Bebo himself says about this album, 'I like that we took the core of where I come from as a writer and made it feel new again.' If you want an album with catchy heartfelt songs that stick in your head and profound lyrics make sure you get to hear 'Bebo Norman'." Josh Taylor of Jesus Freak Hideout said, "there is stuff to like, but it is more often than not covered in a format all too similar to listeners. If you are just looking for

neg: I Heart You (Toni Braxton song) and praised "her soulful vocals, distinctive and beautiful as ever, and the way she pulls off dance music surprisingly well." However, he dismissed "the lyrics in the chorus and middle eight that could be better" and said that "the end is rather anti-climactic." He ended up the review, stating that: "I Heart You shows a different, more versatile and fun side to Toni as she takes on an uptempo track and yet manages to keep her vocals as smooth as ever, bar a few Etta James-like growls, whilst still singing at the same pace as if she were doing a

neg: Hold It Against Me to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com by Kobalt Music Publishing Inc., "Hold It Against Me" is set in the compound meter time signature, with a moderate dance beat infused metronome of 133 beats per minute. Lyrically, "Hold It Against Me" talks about seducing someone on the dancefloor. The chorus revolves around pick-up lines; Spears sings, "If I said I want your body now, would you hold it against me?" and "'Cause you feel like paradise, and I need a vacation tonight." James Montgomery of MTV compared the feeling of the lyrics to that of "If U Seek Amy" (2009).

neg: Aye Mere Watan Ke Logo to rehearse it. "It was Pradeepji, ( Kavi Pradeep) the poet, who wrote the immortal lyrics, who came to me and asked me to sing the song. I declined, because there was no time to rehearse. You see, at that time I was working round-the-clock. To give special attention to one song seemed impossible. But Pradeepji insisted," Lata said, admitting that she was very nervous before the performance. Kavi Pradeep, the man who penned lyrics of the song, couldn't witness the event. "My regret is that Pradeepji had not been called for the Republic Day function where I sang the

neg: Nothing Left to Fear (Andy Cherry album) real, relatable manner." In addition, Frigoli wrote that he "definitely recommend this album to anyone looking for worshipful, uplifting music. Andy has proven himself to be a very talented musician and songwriter". "CCM Magazine"'s Grace S. Aspinwall said "with lyrics so vertically-directed, you might expect typical worship fare from Andy Cherry. Turns out, he's full of surprises. Beautiful worship lyrics matched with a soulful vocal make for a gritty, unexpected wedding of sounds." Christian Manifesto's Kyle Kiekintveld wrote the album "is a strong debut album by a talented artist who is able to shine throughout the entire album. The album

neg: The Peace and the Panic Sebastian, who had co-wrote the majority of the tracks on "Life's Not out to Get You", was "really involved this time" contributing a lot of ideas. Barlow mentioned that he wrote two songs on guitar, which was "quite new for me". The majority of the lyrics on the album were written by Barlow. In addition, Barlow and Thorpe-Evans co-wrote lyrics to "Wish You Were Here". "Motion Sickness" and "Parachute" were credited to Neck Deep, Green and Sebastian Barlow. "Happy Judgement Day", "The Grand Delusion", "19 Seventy Sumthin'" and "Beautiful Madness" were credited to Neck Deep and Green. "In Bloom", "Heavy

neg: The Bellamy Brothers Your Love Flow", written by Diamond's roadie Larry Williams. Released in 1976, "Let Your Love Flow" was a No. 1 single on the United States pop charts, as well as more than a dozen countries worldwide. Although "Let Your Love Flow" was also a hit on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, the Bellamys' country music success was limited until 1979, when "If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me" was released. The song, whose "double entendre" title was derived from a Groucho Marx quote, landed the Bellamys their first country music No.

neg: If I Had Eyes a song that said, 'If I had an eyeball on the end of my tail, I'd tell you that you look good as I walked away'. I meant it literally, but once I thought about metaphors (Johnson's friends were divorcing), it was a beautiful way to put it. I switched it around, made it less silly, but kept my son's ideas. I need to give him a songwriting credit." The music video for "If I Had Eyes" shows Jack Johnson and his fellow musicians (see below credits) performing the song in a recording studio. The video was shot in grayscale

neg: Like a Stone and generous, and then you go to hell anyway." The melancholy tone and certain parts of the lyrics of "Like a Stone" have prompted some to wonder if Cornell wrote the song about the late Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley, who died in April 2002. Cornell has denied this, saying "No. I'm not one of those guys where, like, something happens and then I go run around, 'Ooh, 9/11, and now it's 9/12, let me write about that. I wrote the lyrics before he died. [...] You can misinterpret that stuff pretty easy, but I don't tend to sit

neg: Doug and the Slugs before moving to British Columbia in the mid-1970s. Bennett served as the band's chief songwriter, frontman, and lead singer. Keyboardist Simon Kendall described Bennett's writing style: "He had some unique and very interesting lyrics. An anachronistic style, if you like. He was a bit of R&B, he was a bit 1940s, he was a bit Tex-Mex. As a writer, I think he deserves more credit than he gets for being intelligent. He wrote some beautiful and quite provocative songs." After some turnover amongst Slugs in the early months, the lineup stabilized by 1978, and for the entirety of their recording

neg: The Ground Beneath Her Feet (song) the novel, the fictional character Ormus Cama writes the lyrics as a lamentation for his lover, Vina Apsara. U2 uses these lyrics almost word for word, however omitting the following line: Rushdie, himself, was very pleased with the song, claiming it had "some of the most beautiful melodies [Bono] had ever come up with." In reference to the song, Rushdie said, "So I always knew, you know, that it wasn't going to be an uptempo foot-tapper, because it's a sad song. I think it sounds like, I hope, one of those big U2 ballads for which Bono's voice, actually, is

neg: Princess Fiona how wonderful Fiona was, how beautiful she was. She looked like a beautiful girl you would find on the street and make you fall in love with her ... Then I had a certain resistance as a spectator for her to be an ogre. Even if she’s a nice ogre. I was thinking in the back of my brain, they’re going to end up being humans at the end of the movie. That’s what I had to break in myself ... I said, ‘No, I have to accept this end. This is the right ending for a movie like this.’"

neg: From Time one of the beats, Aiko took it home with her to work on the lyrics to it. She said "I actually wrote like a different song to it. I had it for like a month. And then one day, it was super-specific to me, so I was like "I don't know if he's gonna like... you know I don't know what he would be able to do with that. So... I gave it one more shot and I just sorta like free-styled my whole like, my hook and my verse." Despite initial speculation that the song title would be "Momentous

neg: Julianna Margulies said it would be "career suicide" not to return to the medical drama she had starred in for six years, she was never concerned about the consequences. "I'm a smart girl," said Margulies. "I had a year's worth of work waiting and a mortgage completely paid at age 32. I was under no illusion that I was going to be some big movie star. My dad said, 'If you got hit by a bus tomorrow, were you living your life truthfully, or were you waiting to get rich?' If I died and my soul started leaving my body, would I

neg: Our Lady of Medjugorje Finally he asked, "Is Our Lady really beautiful, as you have said?" Their answer was, "Well, really we haven't told you anything about that. Her beauty cannot be described. It is not our kind of beauty. It is something ethereal, something heavenly, something that we'll only see in Paradise and then only to a certain degree." Visionary Mirjana, in her autobiography, says that when they asked Gospa, "How is it possible that you are so beautiful?" Our Lady gently smiled. "I am beautiful because I love," she said. "If you want to be beautiful, then love." As is typical for

neg: If You Say So in a crowded room,' and the music builds as she concludes, 'I thought we would grow old/Mirrors in the smoke/Left me here to choke.'" Jessica Urgiles from "The State Press" wrote, "In "If You Say So", Michele reflects on the last conversation she had with Monteith and her inability to cope with his death. The rawness of the song will touch the hearts of Gleeks with its emotional and sincere lyrics, 'I can’t get away from the burning pain, I lie awake/And the fallen hero haunts my thoughts/How could you leave me this way?'" Kyle Anderson of "Entertainment Weekly" wrote,

neg: I Thought About You I Thought About You "I Thought About You" is a 1939 popular song composed by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was one of three collaborations Van Heusen and Mercer wrote for the Mercer-Morris publishing company started by Mercer and former Warner Bros. publisher Buddy Morris. The other two were called "Blue Rain" and "Make with the Kisses". "I Thought About You" was by far the most popular of the songs. The lyrics were inspired by Mercer's train trip to Chicago. Mercer said about the song: "I can remember the afternoon that we wrote it. He [Van

neg: Love Walks In Love Walks In "Love Walks In" is one of the five songs issued as singles from Van Halen's 1986 album "5150". "The first time Eddie played me that song, late one night, I got goosebumps," recalled singer Sammy Hagar. "It was so beautiful. I wrote the lyrics on the spot and I sang it live with a hand-held mic. If you listen closely, it ain't the best vocal sound in the world, but the performance is slammin'." The song starts with Eddie Van Halen (lead guitar, keyboards) playing a slow synth, and kicks into the song. The song starts in

neg: Do You Hear What I Hear? music in October 1962. This was an unusual arrangement for the two writers. Usually it was Shayne who wrote the lyrics for their songs while Regney composed the music, as they did when they wrote a song based on the classic children's song "Rain Rain Go Away". Regney was inspired to write the lyrics "Said the night wind to the little lamb, 'Do you see what I see?'" and "Pray for peace, people everywhere" after watching babies being pushed in strollers on the sidewalks of New York City. Shayne stated in an interview years later that neither could personally perform

neg: Evelyn La Rue Pittman to 11 different countries. Pittman made a videotape of "Freedom Child" for school children and her Oklahoma friends. "It's something I've always wanted to do. Now children and other Oklahomans who didn't have the opportunity to see Martin Luther King will be able to learn about him," she said. "I wrote the musical because I had a genuine interest in King. When he marched on Washington, D.C., I decided to fly down to join the 250,000 people who gathered. I knew I couldn't face my students if I didn't go." Pittman, who wrote the story, the music and the lyrics

neg: The Two and Only The Two and Only The Two and Only is the fourth album by the American country music duo The Bellamy Brothers (David Milton Bellamy and Homer Howard Bellamy) released in 1979 by Warner Bros. Records/Curb Records. It reached #9 in the US country charts and #12 in Canada. Three singles were released from the album. "Lovin' On" reached #16 in the US and #25 in the Canadian country charts in 1978. "If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me" reached #1 in the US country charts, #24 in the Canadian country charts, #3 in

neg: Say Less (Ashanti song) include "bitch, say less". Ashanti said about the song's lyrics: "I think nowadays we have to make it very clear that if it's B.S., say less, I'm a New Yorker. It's a very New York term. And I think it's just about being bold and getting to the point. I don't have time for you to waste it." During the song, Ashanti and Ty Dolla $ign flirt with one another. In the single edit, she sings: "This is your body/ Ain't no way I could hide it/ I wanna be your top supplier/ Cause I'll provide this all to you".

neg: Brian Wilson (album) wrote the melody, I thought maybe it should be a love song. ... Most of the lyrics were romantic, but then I put in a couple of sexual lines. And then I said, 'Wait a minute. Let’s get rid of some of the love aspects, the romantic aspects of this song, and put in more sexual lyrics' ... It’s like when girls whack their hair off short, and they don’t give a shit. Sometimes, if you prompt a girl, prompt someone to hit the road and get on the stick and let your hair grow long and try harder. ...

neg: Katie Melua lead writer and producer. It also features Melua's friend Molly McQueen, the former frontwoman of The Faders, as co-writer of "Perfect Circle". Melua also collaborated with Andrea McEwan on the album, who wrote the lyrics for "What I Miss About You" and "Dirty Dice". The album also featured a cover of "In My Secret Life" by Leonard Cohen and Sharon Robinson. Melua said of the cover, "[It] completely got to me, about how we all have great ideals but in reality we end up conforming, following everyone else." Melua released four singles from the album: "If You Were a Sailboat",

neg: The Cure (song) be love from her fans who had supported Gaga throughout her career. While performing "The Cure" at 'Coachella', the singer said to the crowd: "I love you guys so much. I have been through so much in my life and I've seen so much. And you cure me every time with your love." The dedication-like lyrics begins with the singer comparing her music as an escape route for her fans. This is expanded upon in the chorus when Gaga belts "If I can't find the cure, I'll, I'll fix you with my love", thus positioning herself as someone who advocates

neg: Dennis Wilson of the '60s hits compilation "Endless Summer," Dennis returned to his role behind the drums. According to Dennis' biographer, Jon Stebbins, it was this year that he co-wrote the lyrics and modified part of the melody of "You Are So Beautiful" at a party with Billy Preston. By 1977, Dennis had amassed a stockpile of songs he had written and recorded while factions within the Beach Boys became too stressful for him. He expressed: "If these people want to take this beautiful, happy, spiritual music we've made and all the things we stand for and throw it out the window

neg: Argument from beauty hypotheses, scientists use beauty and elegance as valuable selective criteria. The more beautiful a theory, the more likely is it to be true. The mathematical physicist Hermann Weyl said with evident amusement, "My work has always tried to unite the true with the beautiful and when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful." The quantum physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote to Einstein, "You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that I am strongly attracted by the simplicity and beauty of the

neg: The Beautiful Ones the female lead in the midst of a love triangle between characters played by Prince and Morris Day, but suddenly left Prince shortly before production began. Prince clarified, "I was talking to somebody about 'The Beautiful Ones'. They were speculating as to who I was singing about – but they were completely wrong," Prince said. "If they look at it, it’s very obvious. 'Do you want him or do you want me,' that was written for that scene in "Purple Rain" specifically, where Morris would be sitting with [Apollonia] and there’d be this back and forth. And also, 'The beautiful

neg: Rattlesnakes (album) people". The character in "Charlotte Street" is "based very closely on me. My idea of romance obviously is meeting a wonderful, beautiful girl in the library. I wrote that song and it took me a year to realise that I hadn't actually mentioned that it was set in a library. I forgot to put that in, which is a bit stupid really." Of the album's closing track "Are You Ready to be Heartbroken?", he said, "It's about being "so" in love there's only one way to go – if you get so happy then you're ready to be heartbroken". The

neg: I Like It (DeBarge song) lyrics provided by Randy, El and sister Bunny, who composed the much-copied bridge. While being interviewed for the TV documentary, "Unsung", in 2008, co-producer Iris Gordy told El to sing the final ad-libs "I like it, I like it", in a higher register. El responded by telling Iris that she was "trying to make sound like [his brother] Bobby", to which Iris returned with, "you better thank your lucky stars if you sound even "close" to Bobby". According to Randy, who was also interviewed for the show, while he wrote lyrics to and sang lead on the song's verses, while

neg: If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me a possible hook line for a song. The song earned its first success in Northern Ireland before becoming a hit in the United States. The song was also a minor hit on Top 40 stations, peaking at No. 39 on the Billboard Hot 100. In a 2003 issue, "Country Weekly" magazine named it the number 1 country pick-up line of all time. On their 2005 album "Angels & Outlaws, Vol. 1", The Bellamy Brothers re-recorded this song with Dolly Parton. This rendition peaked at number 60 on the country charts, giving the Bellamy Brothers their first chart entry since "Not"

neg: Nicole Byer for "USA Today", Jaleesa M. Jones said that "it's precisely [Byer's] brazen, ribald brand of comedy that landed her in the creative incubator that is MTV, where she toplines two new comedy shows in 2016, "Ladylike" and "Loosely Exactly Nicole"". Byer supports body positivity and stated in an interview with Brit+Co, "Body positivity, to me, means you accept the body that you’re in...And if you want to change it, you can, but you should love the skin that you’re in currently, forever. Because everyone is beautiful. No one’s truly ugly. You’re always beautiful to somebody, and you’re always ugly to

neg: When Love Takes Over just beautiful. And I remember thinking 'Why is this "touching" me like this?' You know, it was like there was a kinda soul-tie to it!" Upon meeting Guetta, she asked him for the song so she could write its lyrics. "So I met David and asked him for the track... He gave it to me, and I brought it back here to London, UK and wrote the actual song". At a writing session in a London hotel room, Rowland and songwriting duo Nervo wrote the lyrics and melody over Guetta's backing track. Rowland later joined Guetta and Julie Terry Lefèvre-Han

neg: Juwayriyya bint al-Harith wives of Muhammad in Jannatul Baqi'. Juwayriya was described as being very beautiful and refined: Juwayriyah bint Al-Harith reported: The Prophet came out from my apartment in the morning as I was busy in performing the dawn prayer. He came back in the forenoon and found me sitting there. The Prophet said, "Are you still in the same position as I left you." I replied in the affirmative. Thereupon the Prophet said, "I recited four words three times after I had left you. If these are to be weighed against all you have recited since morning, these will be heavier.

neg: If I Should Die Tonight he was prepared to walk away from her for the last time, she asked, "is that all you have to say?", to which he responded, "no...if I should die tonight, Lord, before my time, I won't die blue 'cause I've known you." Townsend later returned home where he later wrote out the rest of lyrics. He felt the song would be better suited for Gaye to record. But Gaye, known notoriously for not being able to sing a song unless the lyrics pertained to him personally whether he wrote them or not, turned the song down initially. He explained to

neg: Do You... (Miguel song) through the use of simile: "I'm going to do you like drugs tonight". Miguel said of the song's lyrics, "I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life. If I wanna know something I just ask. Like, 'Hey, do you like drugs?' Because I do! Sometimes! ... MDMA… on occasion." Alex Macpherson of "The Guardian" observes "faded psychedelia" and "promises of narcotic trysts" in the song's lyrics. "Pitchfork Media"s Carrie Battan said that "Do You..." is "not so much about being in love as about a shared love of vices." "Do

neg: If You Had My Love You Had My Love" became the subject of some controversy when it emerged that Jerkins had written a "nearly identical song" for singer Chanté Moore. Moore asserted that her song "If I Gave Love" was re-written with the same arrangement for Lopez after it was requested by Sean Combs, one of "On the 6"s producers. Moore said: "He wrote the same song for her. I heard that it was because Puff Daddy walked in and heard my song and said 'I want that song,' and he [Rodney] was like 'Well that's already taken. We wrote that for Chante,' and he

neg: Wynken, Blynken, and Nod eyes while mother sings Of wonderful sights that be, And you shall see the beautiful things As you rock in the misty sea, Where the old shoe rocked the fishermen three: Wynken, Blynken, and Nod. </poem> By 1890, the lyrics had been set to music, by American pianist and composer Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin. About 70 years later, songwriter Lucy Simon wrote a setting (she claimed it was "the first song I ever wrote") that has been recorded by many artists, including: herself with her sister Carly as the Simon Sisters, released as a single and on album in 1964; The

neg: Above (Mad Season album) shows. So this has been the most spontaneous thing I've ever been involved in. This was done even quicker than "Temple of the Dog" which took about four weeks... With Mad Season we just went in and started jamming on tunes and everybody had ideas and it just happened with three or four days." McCready said, "I told [Staley]... 'You do what you want, you write all the songs and lyrics. You're the singer.' He'd come in, and he'd do these beautiful songs." During the making of the album, Staley read "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran. Martin said, "Layne Staley

neg: If You Say So song received generally positive reviews from music critics. Jason Lipshutz of "Billboard" wrote, "If You Say So" takes place a week after the passing of its unnamed subject, with Michele repeating the phrase "seven whole days" while trying to shake off the numbness she feels. In the chorus, she recalls their last encounter, 'You said I love you girl/I said I love you more/And a breath, a pause, you said, if you say so/If you say so/If you say so.' The final verse is the most harrowing, with Michele declaring, 'I check my phone and wait to hear from you

neg: I Could Fall in Love Jose Mercury News" reporter wrote that "I Could Fall in Love" and "Dreaming of You" helped Selena to become "the new Gloria Estefan". Richard Torres of "Newsday" considered both these songs to be romantic anthems. Enrique Fernandez of the "Sun Sentinel" described "I Could Fall in Love" as "beautiful", while an editor from "The Sacramento Bee" called the song a "Latin-influenced R&B lite". Because of its "overly simplistic and repetitive lyrics", Ramiro Burr of the "San Antonio Express-News" assessed "I Could Fall in Love" as the "weakest track" of "Dreaming of You". Elizabeth Rodriguez Kessler and Anne Perrin wrote in

neg: More Beautiful You listeners. Cartwright implies that the album shows his hard-work and says his vocals are worthy to join the "CCM" stars, although this album is not "groundbreaking". Cartwright additionally said that Diaz should be compared to Chris Sligh and Mark Harris, who are radio friendly singer-songwriters. Akinola said this album achieves a delicate harmony in the lyrics that the radio stations will love. Yet, some followers of the genre do not like radio songs, and may be put off. These tracks according to Akinola are "accessible" to most listeners although if you dislike acoustic pop this album is to be avoided.

neg: Why So Lonely a slow tempo, reggae-pop dance song with "soft guitar riffs and steel drum rhythm". Hyelim said the lyrics "are about the lonely feeling after a romantic relationship, material that many people can sympathize with". The original chorus had a modern rock feel before Park advised the group to make it more reggae like the verses. "To the Beautiful You" was written by Sunmi, Yubin, and Hyelim, with songwriter Frants, who also co-wrote three songs on "Reboot". It is an uptempo track featuring digital and analog sounds, and is inspired by 1970s music. In order to promote the single, JYP Entertainment

neg: Live to Tell and Stephen Bray to write some songs with her and produce her third studio album, "True Blue" (1986). "Live to Tell" was originally an instrumental composed by Leonard for the score of Paramount's romantic drama film "Fire with Fire". "My managers represented the guy who was directing the film; it was his first film. I saw a little piece of the film, and I had the script. I wrote a theme and I said, 'What if I could get Madonna to write the lyrics for it?'", said Leonard. However, Paramount rejected the track, believing that Leonard was incapable of creating

neg: I Need You (Paris Hilton song) petals, and pops out of a cake. Commentators described the bed scene as an homage to the character Angela Hayes from the 1999 film "American Beauty". Remixes by various artists, including Hector Fonseca, were made to promote the track. Paris Hilton co-wrote "I Need You" with its producer Michael Green and songwriter Simon Wilcox for her second studio album. On receiving the instrumental track, Hilton described it as the "first time I had someone send me a song that I immediately was like, I could write to this right away", and said she wrote the lyrics in "a few hours".

neg: The Day Before You Came that were recorded, with only two of them being released as singles and two as the B-sides. One of the other songs recorded, "I Am the City", would not see international release until 1993's "More ABBA Gold" CD, while another, "Just Like That", has never been released in its entirety (partially released in 1994). Ulvaeus wrote the lyrics, which to some degree are influenced by his divorce from Fältskog. He later said: "Even if 90% of the lyrics were fiction there are still feelings in songs like 'Winner Takes It All' and 'Day Before You Came' they have something from

neg: Up the Women Hynes wrote a new treatment, which focused on her characters and their craft circle in a Banbury church hall. She said "I thought, it would work if you went really retro with it, to make it much easier to relate to these women, who are warm, who are failing. Comedy only really works if you are failing. I made it deliberately restrictive, a church hall and a kitchen, nowhere to go to, nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. I just loved that." On 31 May 2013, Hynes revealed that "Up the Women" had been picked up for a full

neg: Hurricane Season (album) of touring against his desire of spending time at home. He wrote the lyrics after camping with one of his friends in Moab, Utah on an especially beautiful night. This served to make Dan grateful for the life he leads. "So as I try and describe this song, I want you to know I will never forget how beautiful this universe is, but things change and now there's always a place I would rather be: home. When you're away for months and some asshole tries to vomit on your shoes for no good reason, I get freaked out [and] disgusted.

neg: Infatuation (album) now, I love this new one", adding "I suppose one good [thing] though, doing all that [recording] stuff when I was young[er] is that I was going through those changes where you grow up [afterwards], so there was lots of write about." Lyrically, the album is described as more adult than "Broken & Beautiful". Alexa also defends her decision to include profanity in the album's lyrics, something not used in her previous works, by stating that "people interpret what they want from the music" and adding "I was 16 and 17 when I wrote [Broken & Beautiful] and now I'm

neg: Praying (song) of "Beautiful" (2002) by Christina Aguilera and "Til It Happens to You" (2015) by Lady Gaga. According to Kesha, "Praying" is "about hoping everyone, even someone who hurt you, can heal." The song addresses a tormentor with the lyrics: "You brought the flames and you put me through hell/ I had to learn how to fight for myself/ And we both know all the truth I could tell/ I'll just say this: I wish you farewell." "The Atlantic" Kornhaber thought that the track's message was "" and displayed "Christlike grace", further noting that Kesha did not exude invulnerability on "Praying"

neg: The Bellamy Brothers Bellamys returned to Curb Records to record "Angels & Outlaws, Volume 1", a compilation album featuring re-recordings of the duo's older hits with additional artists, including Dolly Parton, George Jones, Alan Jackson, Tanya Tucker, and Montgomery Gentry. A re-recorded version of "If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body", featuring Dolly Parton, spent one week at No. 60 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs chart in 2005. In March 2007, "Redneck Girl" was covered by Blake Shelton on the soundtrack to . The Bellamys released an album of gospel music, titled "Jesus Is Coming", on May 8, 2007. Its title

neg: The Bellamy Brothers 1 in the United States. It was first played on radio in the United Kingdom in Northern Ireland in 1979 and it went on to become "Record of the Year" in the UK in 1979. In a 2003 issue of "Country Weekly" magazine, the line was named the number 1 country pick-up line of all time. ` After the success of "If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body," the brothers continued with a run of country hits, including tunes such as "Redneck Girl," "Santa Fe" and the social commentary pieces, "Old Hippie" and "Kids of the Baby Boom." "Billboard"

neg: Escape (The Piña Colada Song) going to be "People Need Other People", which was written years earlier for Holmes' own amusement. The chorus originally started with "if you like Humphrey Bogart", which Holmes changed at the last minute, replacing the actor with the name of the first exotic cocktail that came to mind. The original lyrics said, "If you like Humphrey Bogart and getting lost in the rain." On the way to the session the next morning I read the lyrics to a cab driver and asked him if he got the twist ending before I got to it. He said no, and he thought

neg: You Really Got Me that term, heavy metal. I think, in all humility, it was the first heavy guitar riff rock record. Just because of the sound—if you played it on a ukulele, it might not have been so powerful." The lyrics of the song are about lust and sex. Dave Davies said of the song's lyrics, You Really Got Me' [is] such a pure record, really. It's a love song for street kids. They're not going to wine and dine you, even if they knew how to chat you up. [They say] 'I want you—come here. "You Really Got Me" was released as

neg: Solsken summer joy." The writer of the song Per Gessle said, "I found one of those voice recorders with a lot of old song ideas on it. I played the song to our producers, Clarence Öfwerman and Christoffer Lundquist, who liked it, so the day after I wrote the lyrics. Micke Andersson, Gyllene Tider's drummer, said "It is what you play when you're along the coast road down in Halmstad with a cute girl next to you." Solsken "Solsken" ("Sunshine") is a single by Swedish pop group Gyllene Tider. Written by the band's lead singer Per Gessle, it was released on

neg: Jody Stecher Rize. He has also written liner notes for many albums. He recorded the field recordings (with Peter K. Siegel) and wrote the liner notes for the record "The Real Bahamas." David Bromberg once said, "Jody Stecher was basically my teacher. He opened my ears to more beautiful music than anyone else ever did... more than I ever knew existed. He is also one of my favorite musicians on Earth to play with. I have never known anyone so intensely and completely enveloped in music. It's my suspicion that if you drained all the music out of Jody, you could carry

neg: They Asked Me Why I Believe in You body to be put in the hearse, Barton comes up to her and tries to get her to confess to poisoning Rex. He shows her the note that Rex wrote before he died that says "Bree, I understand and I forgive you." Bree is shocked that Rex believed that she had poisoned him. Bree had previously invited her friends to a small reburial service for Rex, but when they show up they find that Bree has moved Rex’s grave away from the family’s plot, saying "If you think I’m going to lay next to someone for eternity who thinks I’m

neg: The Open Door Moody. "Call Me When You're Sober" is a rock song that starts as a piano ballad before quickly becoming an alternative metal song that uses elements of nu metal, symphonic rock and pop music. Lee said she wrote the song for her ex-boyfriend Shaun Morgan of South African alternative metal band Seether. Described as a "chick anthem", the song's protagonist explains the reasons the relationship between the pair will not work through the lyrics "Don't cry to me … If you loved me, you would be here with me / ... How could I have burned paradise? How could I

neg: A Million Nightingales reason why he had moved from Louisiana to Riverside, California (Straight's hometown) in 1953 was to protect his young, beautiful daughter from an older white man who was going "to come and get her." For the next 10 years, Straight thought about how her own three daughters – all young, beautiful, and mixed-race – would have fared growing up in a different time. "I looked at all three of them and thought, 'If they'd been born in 1800 Louisiana, people would have had one thing in mind. One thing,' " Straight said. "Can you imagine what their lives would have

neg: Tangled (album) people's lyrics anyway. It's difficult to bring the right emotion into it. So, I asked them how they'd feel about me rewriting the lyrics, and they said, 'Go ahead and try, and we'll let you know what we think.' So I did, and they seemed to think the lyrics were OK. I recorded it, and I think the song came out great. You can't tell that it wasn't written at the same time." The song's lyrics, written by Wiedlin, were inspired by Wiedlin learning that her former best friend, who she was no longer in contact with, had become a

neg: Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me don't love me cause I'm beautiful, oh no / I'm beautiful cause you love me." When asked about the song, Girls Aloud member Nicola Roberts said, "after I heard the first line, I said, 'STOP! That's our song'," while Kimberley Walsh added, "as soon as I heard it, from the first line onwards, I agreed with Nicola – we had to get that song." "Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me" received mixed reviews from music critics. According to Ian Wade of BBC Music, the song is a "blub-friendly empowerment cut complete with its own fireworks". While Adrian Thrills of the "Daily

neg: If You Had My Love was like 'I want that song.' So Rodney wrote, really, the same song." "If I Gave Love" was intended to be released as a single from her album "This Moment Is Mine" (1999), but was ultimately scrapped. "If You Had My Love" is a mid-tempo pop and R&B song with a length of four minutes and twenty-five seconds (4:25), which contains elements of salsa and hip hop. The song was written and composed mainly by Rodney Jerkins, LaShawn Daniels and Cory Rooney, with Lopez herself contributing to the lyrics; Jerkins also served as producer. It is written in the key

neg: Without You (Badfinger song) had done the right thing later, if he went out, – she told him – "Go into the studio, I'm fine about it"... He said, "Your mouth is smiling, but your eyes are sad." The song Ham wrote that night was called "If its Love" and has the verse "Well I can't forget tomorrow, when I think of all my sorrow, I had you there but then I let you go, and now it's only fair that I should let you know... if it's love". But Ham wasn't happy with the chorus. Evans' relationship with his future wife Marianne influenced

neg: Khe Sanh (song) and Adelaide guitarist Rick Morris. The first draft was written in Sweethearts Cafe in Kings Cross, New South Wales. Walker said he "killed a couple of afternoons" putting down the lyrics, "for my own enjoyment and amusement," in the days before the band had a recording contract. "If I had imagined anybody would see those lyrics, I probably would have written them a bit differently." Barnes said of the writing process, "Don Walker used to write great songs, but he'd take months and months, and you wouldn't know about them until he'd turn up that day and say, 'Let's learn

neg: Monkey Gone to Heaven "It was early in the morning, I was still so tired. [Francis said] 'Hey Joe, I need to come over. I need to show you something.' [...] It was awesome, really good. He had the 'If man is five' part there, and he was laughing. [...] It was hilarious". "Monkey Gone to Heaven" includes references to numerology in the lyrics "If man is five/then the Devil is six/and God is seven". Francis later expanded on the significance of the lyrics in an interview to "Alternative Press", saying "It's a reference from what I understand to be Hebrew numerology, and I

neg: Brendan Moon noted that he was, “Not really a creator but give him a chance and he would score.” Mark Ella has said of Moon that, “If you want a safe winger, Brendan’s it. I don’t mean a boring, stereotyped winger. It’s just that Brendan can do anything.” Moon was partly distinguishable by his running style. Mark Ella wrote of Moon that he was ‘a beautiful runner’ and that, “Moon was a runner of the classical type. He had a high knee action and his arms pumped as he ran.” David Campese has asserted that, “His running style was especially impressive. He

neg: Something Beautiful (Jordan Smith album) better than expected". Jake's Take offered a B+ grade for the connection Smith had with the album's songs, but would prefer that "Jordan and the Republic Records team find high quality "original" material" for Smith's next effort. The "Knoxville News Sentinel" gave the album three stars (out of five) for its "entirely too cautious" approach and "safe but beautiful" songs: Smith's take on "You Are So Beautiful" is "embarrassingly sterilized"; his cover of "Beautiful", however, "is the album highlight as he taps into the life-affirming lyrics with touching gentleness." AXS wrote, ""Voice" fans who purchase the record won't be disappointed...