Hey, it happens… On this date in 2008, Carrie Underwood released her hit song “Last Name,” which was the third single from her second studio album, Carnival Ride. She ended up winning her third consecutive Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance with it, and it ultimately became her seventh straight #1 country single, and even a minor crossover success as it peaked at #19 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. Carrie co-wrote the song with Luke Laird and Hillary Lindsey, and it’s a pretty simple track about her going out with friends, getting drunk and having a fling with a man whom she can’t seem to remember the last name of… they wind up getting married, and she doesn’t even know her own last name because she’s in too deep now and it’s too late to ask because the embarrassment of that is just too much. It’s funny, it’s witty, and honestly, it doesn’t exactly seem like a song Carrie would record, but as it turns out, it was actually based on her own personal experience… I think a lot of us think of Carrie as a sweet mom now, but back when she was putting out heaters like “Before He Cheats,” Carrie had some very edgy songs and she was a bit of a bad***… honestly, her song with Miranda Lambert “Somethin’ Bad” never got the credit it deserves, but I digress… While she never drunkenly eloped to Las Vegas or necessarily went home with someone who she didn’t know the last name of, she confessed to USA Today many years ago that the song actually was written from her own life experience. She recalled meeting a guy at an Oscar’s after party, and he got her number, they talked a little, but she never got his last name… they at least got close enough that she should’ve known his last name, but she couldn’t ask because it would’ve been offensive at that point, so she just never did, and a song was born: “I met a guy at an after-party and asked him his last name 3 times, but it never stuck. He got my number, we talked a few times, and I didn’t know what his last name was. I was way past the point where I should have known his last name, and if I asked him, I knew it would offend him.” Well, at least she got a heck of a song out of it… Luke Laird told AOL: “We wrote ‘Last Name’ in January of 2007. My manager, Chris Oglesby, set up the co-write with Carrie, Hillary Lindsey, and myself. Hillary is one of my best friends, so we had written many songs together. The three of us had already written one song that day. Then Carrie was telling us about meeting some guy at a post-Oscar party. The guy got her number, but when he called her she realized she didn’t even know his last name. He called her a couple of times, but she said it was past the point of her asking him his last name. Anyway, when Carrie told us that story, we all just ran with ‘last name’ and came up with a fun storyline. Very fun day! We laughed a lot.” Carrie has been happily married to her husband, former NHL star Mike Fisher, since 2010, and they have two little boys together, but in speaking at the benefit concert We’re All for the Hall, Carrie explained this all happened before she met her “beautiful, wonderful, perfect hockey husband”: “Before I met my beautiful, wonderful, perfect hockey husband, I had met this guy. I got together with Hillary Lindsey and Luke Laird to write, and we were goofing around like we always do. I was telling them about this guy I met. They asked who he was, and I said, ‘Y’all! I don’t even know his last name!’ We hadn’t even dated or anything and it didn’t turn out the way this song did, but I said, ‘We need to turn this mess into a song!’ And this is it.” I mean, it was brilliant, and even though Carrie might not have lived the exact story in the song, I think there’s plenty of people who have, and even if you haven’t, it’s still so funny and such a banger. I wonder who it was… someone not very famous it would seem? Honestly, it might be one of her most underrated songs, and there’s a reason it became a big ‘ol hit… I forgot how good it really is and I’m going to have it on repeat for the rest of the day now… there’s also a great music video “Last Name” The post Believe It Or Not, Carrie Underwood’s Hit “Last Name” Was Written About Her Own Personal Experience first appeared on Whiskey Riff.