This one should already be on your Valentine’s Day playlist… but if you don’t know the full story behind it, you really should. Luke Combs penned a massive hit with his song “Beautiful Crazy,” which was inspired by his lovely wife, Nicole, when they were still just dating. You might actually be surprised at how quickly into their relationship he did write it, though. Combs previously told CMT that he wrote it even before they had officially started dating, and so in some ways he was a little nervous to play it for her for the first time because he was afraid she might think he was “a creep”: “I wrote that song about her before we had even started dating officially. So, I mean, that was the song, I’ll never forget playing it for her the first time. And how nervous I was for her to hear it. I didn’t know if she would think I was a creep or not. She’d be like, ‘This guy, I’ve been on three dates with this guy, and he’s already written a song about me.’ But hey, it worked out. It worked out, you know?” It certainly did, and during an appearance on Lindsay Czarniak’s The Artist and The Athlete podcast, he explained that not only did he win Song of the Year with it at the 2019 CMA Awards, which had long been a goal of his, it became incredibly meaningful and sentimental to both Luke and Nicole because they used it as their first dance song at their wedding: “I mean, it won song of the year, which was probably the number one goal on my bucket list. I wrote that song about my wife before we were even dating and it ended up being the first dance at our wedding. There’s no way that any other song will top that as far as sentimental value for me.” Of course, she loved it, and Combs says that it was a “baller move” for him, because he doesn’t consider himself a ladies man, but he obviously won her over with such a beautiful song… and let’s honest, there aren’t many girls who wouldn’t want a song  like this written about them: “Oh, she loved it. She always deflects the attention, which I get. If someone played me a song about me three, four months in, I would be probably pretty uncomfortable about it. So I get it. A total baller move for sure. I’m not much of a ladies man. But I was pretty proud of this one. I had written it, maybe two days before I played it for her.” Luke also remembered where he played it for her for the first time, when he had gone over to her place, and one of her friends was there hanging out, which he was glad about, because he knew he could win her over too and get her on his side early on, which is incredibly smart, I must say. He played it on a Victrola record player he had given her as a gift, and of course, Nicole and her friend both loved it: “One of her friends was over there. I was like, ‘Well, this is perfect.’ Because if I play it while the friend is over, there’s no way the friend is going to not think this is the sweetest thing that anyone’s ever done for someone. So, I played the song when the friend was over there. Of course, her friend was like, ‘Oh my God, it’s so sweet.'” I’m a tough critic when it comes to my friends boyfriends and even I must say, this would probably work on me… well, it would certainly help put a few points in his column, that’s for sure. “Beautiful Crazy” ended up on the deluxe edition of his debut album This One’s for You Too, which was released in 2018, and he wrote it alongside Wyatt Durrette and Robert Williford. It shot to the top of the Billboard U.S. Country Airplay chart, and has since been certified Diamond, meaning it recognize albums and singles that were certified 10x Platinum, meaning they had sold 10 million units. He joins a very small list of artists with Diamond-certified country songs, and he has three other songs on that list including “Hurricane,” “She Got The Best Of Me,” and “When It Rains It Pours.” Combs married Nicole in 2020, and have since welcomed two boys, Tex and Beau, with their third child set to arrive any day now: View this post on Instagram They say it’s the thought that counts, and in this case, I would say Luke absolutely nailed that part and got a country classic for his beautiful wife out of it in the process… it doesn’t get better than that. “Beautiful Crazy” The post Luke Combs Knew Exactly What He Was Doing When He Played “Beautiful Crazy” For Nicole For The First Time first appeared on Whiskey Riff.