Billy Currington Explains Why 'Hey Girl' is the Perfect Pickup Line
. Currington sat down with Radio.com on record release day and filled us in on why he selected some of the tracks on the album, including a cover of Jack Johnson's "Banana Pancakes," and how he came to duet with Willie Nelson. While Currington's "Hey Girl" is climbing the charts, he admitted that it wasn't his initial pick for a first single. "I was actually asking for 'We Are Tonight' to come out first," he told Radio.com. "The record label head was like, 'Man, 'Hey Girl' has this unique thing about it and I just think your fans are going to love it for your first single.' So I agreed with him and we put it out and it's been a blast. They told me it hit Top 5 this week so I'm very excited." Currington said the reason he first decided to cut the song is that "Hey Girl" is a simple and great pickup line that he used as a kid. "My buddy and I, he reminded me of this the other day. He's like, 'Man I can't believe you recorded a song saying the same thing we did when we were kids on the beach.' When we'd see a girl and be too shy to say something, we would go, 'Hey girl' and it always brought a smile and started a conversation." Pickup lines aside, Currington's latest release encompasses 10 feel-good tracks that detail a wingman situation gone wrong, summer love and the difficulties of being a hippie, the latter which features Willie Nelson. "Hard to Be a Hippie" was written by Deanna Bryant, John Scott Sherrill and Scotty Emerick. Friends with Emerick, Currington pulled up a video of him performing the song on YouTube and called him up to ask about recording it. It turned out Willie Nelson was already interested in cutting the song. "Four months later I ended up on Willie's bus. We played a show together so Scotty already knew him," Currington recalled. "During that time Scotty was like, 'Billy wants to record that song 'Hard to Be a Hippie' too. Are you still interested?'" more on this story Radio.com is an official news provider for antiMusic.com.
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