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Songwriter Behind Lonestar’s “Amazed” Reveals The Hilarious Reason People Tell Her They Hate That Song
Gotta be careful when you pick your wedding song…
If you were listening to the radio back in the late ’90s, chances are you got sick of hearing “Amazed” by Lonestar at some point.
The 1999 single, written by Marv Green, Chris Lindsey and Aimee Mayo, was released as a single from the band’s hit album Lonely Grill and went on to become one of the biggest songs of the ’90s. It spent 8 consecutive weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, setting a record at the time that’s only been broken twice since (by Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett’s “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere” in 2003 and Morgan Wallen’s “You Proof” in 2023).
In total, the song spent 41 weeks on the chart, the second-longest run of any single in the ’90s. And it was even remixed for pop radio, crossing over onto the pop charts and peaking at #24 on the Billboard Hot 100.
“Amazed” has been covered by artists ranging from Bonnie Tyler to Boyz II Men, and remains the band’s biggest hit even and a staple of their live shows even after the departure of longtime lead singer Richie McDonald.
Oh, and it was also a staple of weddings back in the day.
You couldn’t attend a wedding, especially in the south, without either the couple sharing their first dance to the Lonestar hit or at the very least, the song making an appearance at a reception. Which is great for couples who are still married and can enjoy the song. But for those marriages that didn’t last…well, they apparently have different feelings about the song.
Songwriter Aimee Mayo joined The Good Grief Good God Show, hosted by Brad Warren of the Warren Brothers, a couple years ago, where she talked about the biggest song she’s written in her storied songwriting career. And as it turns out, the reaction she’s gotten from fans to “Amazed” has changed a little over the years.
As Mayo reveals, at its peak she received a lot of compliments from fans who used that song as their wedding song. But as those couples got divorced, apparently their feelings about “Amazed” have understandably changed:
“The funny thing about “Amazed” is, it’s so many people’s wedding songs. Probably 10 years ago, people would come up gushing about that song. ‘I love it, it was our wedding song.’
But now a little more time has gone by and now we’ll see people and they’ll just be like, ‘I hate that song,’ because they’re divorced and it was their wedding song.”
She even recalls one guy in particular who was particularly triggered by the love song:
“There was somebody drunk in a bar and we played it out and they were just like, ‘I f-ing hate that song,’ I mean just going off on how much they hated it.”
But even Mayo understands why fans would turn on the song after their marriage goes south:
“I mean, that would make you hate a song.”
That should serve as a warning to all the couples getting hitched out there picking their wedding song: Make sure it’s one you don’t mind getting ruined for you if the marriage doesn’t work out.
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