![]() With help from Capitol Nashville's radio promotion department, "Girl Crush" picked up more than 100 spins and moved up four positions on the chart from 32 to 28 between Thursday and Friday. Dungan said no radio stations pulled the song from rotation. The record label made a lyric video to clear up misconceptions. However, there were a small number of radio stations that heard from a few disgruntled listeners who were confused about the song's content. Yeah, 'cause maybe then, you'd want me just as much. Lyrics include: "I want to drown myself, in a bottle of her perfume. The label and the group's management didn't anticipate pushback due to the song's content - which the band's manager Jason Owen described as "a story of jealousy and betrayal told from a completely different perspective." The Washington Post ran a version of the story.ĭungan said he knew the song would be a slow climb in country radio because it takes longer for ballads to get played in high frequency. Syndicated radio host Bobby Bones talked about the controversy with the country group when they were on his show and then played "Girl Crush" twice. ![]() ![]() The story started with a blog post by a radio programmer in Texas who said that his radio station received complaints from listeners lamenting the song's "gay agenda." The post said listeners threatened to never tune back in to the station, and as a result the song was played 14 less times per week. "It's a reflection on how the media likes to whip up a frenzy with headlines." Little Big Town is signed to an imprint at Universal Music Group. "This is the craziest much ado about nothing that I've been involved in in forever," said Universal Music Group Chairman/CEO Mike Dungan. Reports of widespread country radio programmers refusing to play Little Big Town's "Girl Crush" turned the vocal group into a national news topic and has them trending on social media.
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