The video was filmed at the King Edward Hotel in Toronto, Ontario. When they arrive, they both see their new love interests wearing masks and hug them. Kelley leaves the cafe walks to a costume ball, which Scott is also traveling to. Scott then leaves her room and grabs a taxi. Kelley goes to a cafe and has a coffee, where Haywood arrives with his partner. The video starts in a hallway of a hotel where Kelley is sitting against a wall, and Scott is in her room, while Haywood plays the piano. 'It was actually the very last song they played for the label for deciding what songs were going to put on the album.' Next thing you know it, it's on the record, title track, first single and here we are. They went their separate ways: it was Charles wife's birthday, I went home to my wife. 'It was the first day I'd ever spent with them.

'Charles had a guitar thing and an opening line for a song and we wrote 'Need You Now' really fast and went, 'great, that was fun.' We finished the first one in the first 45 minutes. We were only together for two-and-a-half hours. He said: 'Actually, it was the second song we wrote that day. Josh Kear explained how quickly the song was finished during an interview at the Grammy awards. The song was written surprisingly quickly.

Hillary Scott said: 'All three of us know what it's like to get to that point where you feel lonely enough that you make a late night phone call that you very well could regret the next day.'Ĭharles Kelley told The Boot that the band's record label initially had concerns regarding the lyrics 'I'm a little drunk', but he managed to convince them to leave the line in. The song describes calling someone in the middle of the night due to feeling lonely and longing for some closeness. Kear is a famous country songwriter, who has penned many hits such as 'Before He Cheats' by Carrie Underwood and 'Highway Don't Care' by Tim McGraw and Taylor Swift. The three band members - Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood - wrote the song with Josh Kear. Josh Kear (in front) with Lady Antebellum after winning Song of the Year in 2010. It seemed like a perfect subject, like this emotion could be in a country song.But what inspired the massive country hit from the American trio? Here's all the interesting facts behind the fantastic song: I wanted to write a song about how it was such a shame that we fell out of love, and we can't even remember why we loved each other and why we fell out of love. Unlike my first record, when I was writing how 'your life is going to suck without me and I'll be fiiiine,' you know, it suddenly dawned on me that my ex was actually pretty incredible. You couldn't escape it and, luckily, I loved it! (laughs) Or it would have been awful! But the feeling the song gave me, I was trying to channel it in my own song. You could not even change your radio station without it being played. What gave me the courage to try to do that musically was 'Need You Now.' When I was in the studio in Malibu, this was the last song I wrote while I was recording, and 'Need You Now' was everywhere. I saw them live in Minneapolis about a month before the CMT, and it was one of the best shows I've ever seen.' Īdele had spoken fondly of 'Need You Now', saying that it was a major influence on her writing of 'Don't You Remember': I've never heard two voices work so brilliantly either. 'a picture-perfect memory scattered on the floor.' Oh, my God, there we go! (laughs) It's one of those songs that everyone loves and everyone can relate to. The amount of the times I've made a drunk fucking phone call! (laughs) It's just one of those songs, the minute you hear it. When asked what it was about the song that she found so appealing, Adele responded, 'It's just one of those songs.

It was also featured on the deluxe version of Adele's sophomore album 21.Īdele has stated that the popularity of 'Need You Now' was at its peak during the timeframe in which she was writing 21 and that the song inspired her while writing ' Don't You Remember.' Their performance of the song received a nomination for a CMT Music Award. The song, which was a crossover hit and is considered the group's biggest hit to date, was covered by Adele and country singer Darius Rucker at the 2010 CMT Artists of the Year event. 'Need You Now' is a song originally recorded by the country group Lady Antebellum. Dave Haywood, Charles Kelley, Hillary Scott, Josh Kear

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