Funny Thing About Love

Album: Wildflower (2011)
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  • This is Lauren's sole writing credit on her debut album, Wildflower. She told the story of the song to Taste of Country: "I wrote this song with Brett James and Luke Laird. We had a great connection and I'm really fortunate that I got to write with them. We sat down and I talked about how every time I like a boy, he doesn't like me. Then when I don't like him anymore, all he is doing is blowing up my cell phone and calling me all the time and driving me nuts. I'm thinking, 'You didn't like me when I liked you.' In love, sometimes the timing is never right, and that is basically what the songs says. It talks about how love confuses you and makes you all crazy inside. I love it."
  • Though Lauren claims only one writing credit, she told USA Today her debut album is an accurate representation of her personality and life experiences. "They have different feels a little bit, but they're all me," she said. "If the story in the songs didn't happen to me personally, they remind me of something that has happened to someone I know or someone in my family."
  • Lauren told Billboard magazine how this song came about: "We actually wrote another song first and then we just started randomly jamming and came up with the music, then I started spitting out words for it," she said. "We put together a chorus and then I called them four or five days later and we [finished] the song."

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