God Must Be Busy
"God Must Be Busy" is a song written by Clint Daniels and Michael P. Heeney, and recorded by American country music duo Brooks & Dunn. It was released in November 2007 as the second single from the album Cowboy Town. It reached a peak of number 11 on the Hot Country Songs charts in 2008.[1]
| "God Must Be Busy" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ||||
| Single by Brooks & Dunn | ||||
| from the album Cowboy Town | ||||
| Released | November 5, 2007 | |||
| Recorded | 2007 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 3:42 | |||
| Label | Arista Nashville | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Clint Daniels Michael P. Heeney | |||
| Producer(s) | Kix Brooks Ronnie Dunn Tony Brown | |||
| Brooks & Dunn singles chronology | ||||
| ||||
Content
Featuring lead vocals from Ronnie Dunn, "God Must Be Busy" tells of a man who is praying to God, asking for help in a failed relationship. Having not yet found a solution to his problems, he begins to list off various problems in the world, saying that God must be busy with those problems.
Chart performance
| Chart (2007-2008) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[2] | 11 |
| US Billboard Hot 100[3] | 78 |
| Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[4] | 92 |
Year-end charts
| Chart (2008) | Position |
|---|---|
| US Country Songs (Billboard)[5] | 52 |
Parodies
- American parody artist Cledus T. Judd released a parody of "God Must Be Busy" titled "Garth Must Be Busy" as a duet with Ronnie Dunn on his 2009 album Polyrically Uncorrect.
gollark: Hey, reimplement your wordsearch program in x86-64.
gollark: It would be easy enough if I could figure out how to convert the hexgrid into axial/cube coords.
gollark: The trick is probably implementing in software the "rotate sixty degrees" operation on the actual characters without OCRing.
gollark: practikal koding™
gollark: Wait, I have a cool idea. It's really easy to read the relevant data out if the words to find are horizontal, so all I need to do is render the input to an image, rotate it sixty degrees, OCR it, scan the words again, and repeat five times!
References
- Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. pp. 63–64. ISBN 0-89820-177-2.
- "Brooks & Dunn Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
- "Brooks & Dunn Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
- "Brooks & Dunn Chart History (Canadian Hot 100)". Billboard.
- "Best of 2008: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2008. Retrieved December 13, 2008.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.