Was it just coincidence or a bad omen? I’ll let you decide… It was on this date in 2014 that Blake Shelton’s song “Doin’ What She Likes” became his 11th consecutive #1 hit on the Country Airplay chart, breaking the record set by Brad Paisley between 2005 and 2009 for the most consecutive #1 singles since the charts began this kind of tracking in 1990. It was included as the fourth single from his seventh studio album Based on a True Story…., and it was written by Phil O’Donnell and Wade Kirby. Shelton said it made him think of his then-marriage to fellow country star Miranda Lambert, whom he married in 2011. Of course, their divorce became a media firestorm and they received a ton of  negative press around that time, but both have since moved and gotten remarried. Miranda has reflected on parts of their marriage fondly since then, specifically talking about how incredible it was to write her song “Over You” with him, which you can read more about HERE. “Doin’ What She Likes” is a pretty simple song about how the guy is happy doing whatever it is his significant other wants to do, the whole “happy wife, happy life” sort of thing, which at the time, Blake related to pretty heavily. Kirby and O’Donnell wrote the song in their cabin during a December 2011 hunting trip, and they started imagining the cabin as a getaway for a couple, purposely keeping the images loose enough that the storyline could fit a couple at just about any stage of a relationship, which I think was brilliant because clearly it resonated with many as it became a radio hit. O’Donnell told Billboard magazine: “She could be 18 years old, she might be 38 years old, but what woman don’t want to hear how good she’s looking in them blue jeans. She could be eating sushi at Sushiyobi or in the line at the buffet at Shoney’s. Come on.” Shelton added that the relatability of it had a lot to do with why he chose to cut it: “It’s kind of domestic, and that’s pretty much what I am now. There’s a lot of elements of that song that are just so true to mine and Miranda’s life together. It’s about a guy that’s just, as long as he’s making her happy, then he’s happy.” But he raised a great point, saying he doesn’t actually know what a watermelon candle smells like, and I actually think about that every time I hear this song: “The only part of the song that I can’t quite figure out, and it’s actually my favorite part, is I’ve never actually smelled a watermelon candle. I’ve smelled pumpkin spice and some Christmas spirit and all kinds of peppermint. I don’t know that I’ve ever smelled a watermelon candle. Maybe I should make them and sell them in my merch.” The music video stars Blake, and you hear Miranda’s voice when they talk on the phone at the beginning when he tells her he’s gong to cook dinner, and she was actually opening for George Strait at the time which is why she wasn’t featured more. In a 2017 interview with Songfacts, he said he wanted to bring out Blake’s comedic side by having it end in disasters (spoiler alert: Shelton burns the house down with the aforementioned watermelon candle), but he couldn’t believe how many people thought they actually burned down someone’s house: “70 percent of that video is fake fire. It was all done in post, especially all the outside stuff. We built a bathroom in the field next to the house we were shooting in for the interior stuff where we actually set it on fire, but when Blake’s outside the house, all that’s fake, just because we obviously couldn’t afford to burn down somebody’s house. It’s crazy how many people have asked, though, ‘So, how did they let you guys set the house on fire?’ And I’m like, ‘They absolutely did not let us do that.'” He had planned to use fog machines and make the fire more subtle as it starts, but it didn’t end up working out that way because of the wind: “That performance was supposed to be much more mysterious, like within the smoke and not revealing what’s going on. But it was such a windy day that we could not get the fog machine to do what we wanted it to do.” And many fans were also worried about what happened to the dog that was never seen again after the fire, and it actually belonged to the homeowners and decided to run off and play when it was time to shoot. He was supposed to be in it next to Blake, but ended up having other ideas at the time: “He was supposed to be next to Blake but he was way off in the acreage somewhere. We spent I’d say a good 20 minutes trying to find him before we ran out of time and we were like, ‘We’ve got to shoot this, I don’t know where he is.’ We had an idea of putting a barking dog in the audio mix, just so you could hear it, but that never happened.” Blake would file for divorce on July 6th, 2015, just over a year after the video was released in February of 2014. It’s kind of a wild coincidence, and honestly a really random way to end the video that has nothing to do with anything that happens specifically in the song, but it is actually pretty funny and I’m sure that decision had nothing to do with the ultimate end of their marriage… but sometimes, life really does imitate art, and I have no explanation for it whatsoever. You can watch it here… they honestly don’t make music videos like this anymore: The post Blake Shelton Recorded “Doin’ What She Likes” Because It Reminded Him Of His Then-Wife Miranda Lambert… & The Music Video Ends With A Wild Coincidence first appeared on Whiskey Riff.