{"id":20158,"date":"2019-11-16T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T18:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1814786"},"modified":"2019-11-16T11:00:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T18:00:03","slug":"cmt-hot-20-decade-need-you-now-lady-antebellum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/cmt-hot-20-decade-need-you-now-lady-antebellum\/","title":{"rendered":"CMT Hot 20 Decade: \u201cNeed You Now,\u201d Lady Antebellum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:684909?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\"> by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/cmtcomstaff\/\" title=\"Posts by CMT.com Staff\" rel=\"author\">CMT.com Staff<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n23m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/shows\/hot-20-countdown\">CMT Hot 20 Countdown<\/a> takes a look back on 10 years of incredible music with Decade, a weekly segment that features a modern country classic that made its greatest impact between 2010 and 2019. This week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/lady-antebellum\">Lady Antebellum<\/a>\u2019s Dave Haywood, Charles Kelley, and Hillary Scott talk about their 2010 single, \u201cNeed You Now.\u201d CMT Hot 20 Countdown airs at 9\/8c Saturday and Sunday mornings.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>CMT: You wrote \u201cNeed You Now\u201d with Josh Kear, and even though it\u2019s a familiar theme \u2014 a desperate longing for someone \u2014 a lot of those songs can be sad or crazy. But you found the perfect balance between the two. Tell me about writing \u201cNeed You Now.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kelley: It almost didn\u2019t happen. This was the first time we\u2019d ever written with Josh Kear. We\u2019d heard that he wrote \u201cBefore He Cheats\u201d and we were like, \u201cWe got to get in the room with this guy.\u201d He had an idea called \u201cYoung Love\u201d and we wrote that song really fast. \u2026 I think he didn\u2019t know if we were real writers or not, so he had pretty much a whole song almost ready to go.<\/p>\n<p>It was a nice song and we wrote it so fast that I said, \u201cMan, before you\u2019re out of here, I\u2019ve got this little idea on the guitar\u2026\u201d I\u2019d just started picking up guitar. Dave showed me a few chords and I had that first couple lines, \u201cPicture-perfect memories scattered all around the floor.\u201d And I had \u201cAnd I wonder if I ever cross your mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eM213aMKTHg?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eM213aMKTHg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>I said, \u201cI don\u2019t know what to do.\u201d I handed the guitar back to Dave, and Josh Kear went right into that chorus. You know, \u201cQuarter after one\u2026\u201d (hums song) Then we were off to the races and we wrote that in probably an hour and a half or two hours. We didn\u2019t really think anything of it. It was like, \u201cThat was nice.\u201d It was a nice song.<\/p>\n<p>Haywood: We didn\u2019t know at the time what it was gonna be, or what it is gonna do. We loved it, but it sat by the wayside for a number of months until Charles brought it back up and said, \u201cRemember that one day we wrote with Josh? Check out this song. Maybe we should record that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelley: We [worked with] two women at Capitol Records. Melissa Spellman and Autumn House, and what we would do is sit in a room with about 10 or 15 of the top dogs and play our stuff, or narrow it down. Our producer and our management, everybody. That was the last song we played and they said, \u201cThere\u2019s something in there.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>I really have to give them a lot of credit. It really came together and once we got into the studio, we all looked at each other like, \u201cThis will be our favorite song that never makes it to radio.\u201d Because there\u2019s a lot of those tracks on records \u2014 your favorite song\u2019s always like the last track and it\u2019s really moody and you never think it\u2019ll ever work on radio.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7dp4GLm7sgo?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7dp4GLm7sgo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>Scott: I\u2019ll never forget. We recorded like seven songs and \u201cNeed You Now\u201d was one of them. We played them for the A&amp;R department at the label. They came to the studio and they asked us to play \u201cNeed You Now\u201d again, which was a huge indicator, looking back in hindsight, that they really heard something. And [our producer] Paul Worley just\u2026 he \u201ctackled a beast,\u201d to quote him. <\/p>\n<p>I mean there were so many different instruments and so many different parts that he dug around and picked out the pieces, from a production standpoint, that really brought out the intangibles of that song. But the lyric, it\u2019s really vulnerable and it\u2019s really honest and I really love that it was like the things that sometimes you only have the guts and the courage to say after you\u2019ve had a glass of wine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u2019ve heard the song described as \u201can elegant booty call.\u201d Have you guys ever heard that? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kelley: We\u2019ve definitely heard the booty call thing a lot. But I think it\u2019s more than that. What I like about this song, when I look back and think about it, and maybe what we related to so much, is there\u2019s still a little tinge of hope. \u2026 I\u2019m not quite over this and I\u2019m not giving up yet. We\u2019re still calling each other late at night. <\/p>\n<p>I think it\u2019s such a relatable concept of that longing and that yearning, especially right after a breakup. For my first love, it took me a good two years to really completely close that door. \u2026 I do think that tinge of hope within the desperation makes it not so depressing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1bTJ9fv4xQM?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1bTJ9fv4xQM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>The video keeps you guessing. Talk about how the concept of the video complements the lyrics. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Haywood: We had a lot of fun shooting that video. We shot all night long in Toronto. The story followed each of us with a love story. But you didn\u2019t really understand that until the end of the video because there\u2019s these moments where you don\u2019t know if Charles is looking for Hillary and vice versa. The masquerade ball captures a little bit of the beauty and the mystery. There\u2019s a lot of mystery in what\u2019s going to be happening in the video.<\/p>\n<p>Kelley: We wanted to also let the world know Hillary and I were not dating. We\u2019re not together. I think that the first couple of years \u2014 I don\u2019t know why because we did so many duets and stuff \u2014 it was like, \u201cThey must be together.\u201d I was like, \u201cNo, no, no, we\u2019re not together.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/41ZU0cDj-uI?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/41ZU0cDj-uI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Musically it starts out quietly, builds to a crescendo, then ends quietly. It sort of follows the arc of passion. Was that intentional?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scott: Yeah, the way that I\u2019ve always interpreted the song, even in performing the song, is it\u2019s so personal. It\u2019s almost like you\u2019re reading your own diary to yourself in the very beginning. Then as the song builds, it\u2019s like you do reach out, and you do call out to that person you love and miss.<\/p>\n<p>And towards the end it\u2019s like it gets back to that introspective place of really owning your feelings of, \u201cThis is just still how I feel.\u201d I think it goes from being very, very internal, to then growing, through to obviously the dynamic of both perspectives that we bring to this duet. And then back to all you in your head.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vdPxiewppcc?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vdPxiewppcc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Talk about what this song did for Lady Antebellum and how important this song is for you. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scott: This song opened the door to the world for us, truly, for our music to take us around the globe. Tours in the UK and Europe and Australia and meeting fans and people coming to our shows. It changed everything. And from that night at the Grammys [where they won four awards], we still have a hard time fully processing that experience and are forever grateful. <\/p>\n<p>I will say too, to this day, ten years later, \u201cNeed You Now\u201d is the biggest moment in our show. And the fans, it\u2019s like we all join in and all sing and it\u2019s awesome and it\u2019s beautiful. So we are so eternally grateful for what this song did for our career because the sustain of it has been just incredible.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1814786\/cmt-hot-20-decade-need-you-now-lady-antebellum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by CMT.com Staff 23m ago Editor\u2019s Note: CMT Hot 20 Countdown takes a look back on 10 years of incredible music with Decade, a weekly segment that features a modern country classic that made its greatest impact between 2010 and 2019. 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