All I Want to Do

Infobox Single
Name = All I Want to Do


Artist = Sugarland
Album = Love on the Inside
Released = Start date|2008|05|19
Format = CD single
Genre = Country
Length = 3:41
Label = Mercury Nashville
Writer = Bobby Pinson
Jennifer Nettles
Kristian Bush
Producer = Byron Gallimore
Sugarland
Certification =
Last single = "Stay"
(2007)
This single = "All I Want to Do"
(2008)
Next single = "Already Gone"
(2008)
Misc = External music video|" [http://www.cmt.com/videos/sugarland/232976/all-i-want-to-do.jhtml All I Want to Do] " at CMT.com

"All I Want to Do" is the title of a single by American country music duo Sugarland. It is the first single from their third studio album "Love on the Inside", which was released on July 22, 2008. The duo's two members, lead vocalist Jennifer Nettles and mandolinist/background vocalist Kristian Bush, wrote the song with singer Bobby Pinson, with whom the duo also co-wrote their late-2006 single "Want To". On the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs chart dated for August 16, 2008, "All I Want to Do" became Sugarland's third Number One hit.

Content

The song is an up-tempo in which the central character is a female, telling her male partner that all she wants to do is love him, instead of tending to other tasks such as household chores. Bobby Pinson, with whom Sugarland wrote the song, describes it as "a simple song about not having to accomplish anything because it's already accomplished. All you have to do is lay around and enjoy each other."cite journal |last=Horner |first=Alanna |date=2008-10-06 |title=Story behind the Song: You Can Dance to It |journal=Country Weekly |volume=15 |issue=20 |pages=16 |accessdate=2008-09-25]

A central part of the song is a melisma in the chorus, where several "ooh"s are added onto the word "do". This section of the song was inspired by one of Kristian Bush's home videos, which Jennifer Nettles and Pinson were watching at the time. The video featured Bush's wife trying to teach their then-two-year-old daughter to dance, and the wife was singing a series of "do"s. Pinson thought that the melody "had a good little groove to it", and decided to use it in a song.

Reception

The 9513 critic Matt C. gave the song a "thumbs down" review, saying that although the song had a good beat and melody, it was lyrically sparse, and seemed to focus primarily on the "ooh ooh"s in the chorus, ultimately calling it "catchy, but not in a good way". [cite web |url=http://www.the9513.com/sugarland-all-i-want-to-do/ |title=Sugarland - "All I Want to Do" |accessdate=2008-07-13 |last=C. |first=Matt |date=2008-05-29 |work=The 9513]

Chart positions

"All I Want to Do" entered the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs charts at #27 on the chart dated for June 7, 2008, giving the duo its highest-debuting single of their career (surpassing "Want To", which debuted at #36 in 2006). [cite web |url=http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS99007+28-May-2008+PRN20080528 |title=Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles Makes History With "Stay" & "All I Want To Do" Becomes Highest-Charting Debut Career Single |accessdate=2008-07-15 |date=2008-05-28 |work=PR Newswire] Overall, it is the duo's third Number One hit on the "Billboard" country charts.

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