- Already Gone (Sugarland song)
Infobox Single
Name = Already Gone
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Artist =Sugarland
Album =Love on the Inside
Released = September 8, 2008
Format =CD Single
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Genre = Country
Length = 4:36
Label = Mercury
Writer =Jennifer Nettles Kristian Bush Bobby Pinson
Producer = SugarlandByron Gallimore
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Last single = "All I Want To Do "
(2008)
This single = "Already Gone"
(2008)
Next single = TBA
Misc = External music video|" [http://www.cmt.com/videos/sugarland/272213/already-gone.jhtml Already Gone] " at CMT.com"Already Gone" is a single by American country music duo
Sugarland . It is the second single released from their third album, titled "Love on the Inside ", which was released on July 29, 2008. Sugarland's members,Kristian Bush andJennifer Nettles , wrote the song withBobby Pinson , with whom the duo also co-wrote two of their previous singles, "Want To " and "All I Want to Do ".Content
"Already Gone" is a mid-tempo
ballad set intriple meter . The female narrator describes her life and always passing the good moments by. The song describes the narrator's relationship with her mother and a relationship with her now ex-boyfriend and the final encounter she has with him before moving on.Reception
The 9513 critic Brady Vercher gave the song a "thumbs down" rating. Although said as "a little more substance" than its predecessor "All I Want to Do", he felt that more emphasis was placed on constructing an interesting melody than creating a narrative that is anything more than average. [cite web |url=http://www.the9513.com/sugarland-already-gone/ |title=Sugarland - "Already Gone" |accessdate=2008-09-08 |last=Vercher |first=Brady |date=2008-08-23 |work=The 9513]
Chart performance
The song debuted at #47 on the
Hot Country Songs chart the week of the song's release on September 8, 2008.Charts
Music Video
A music video for this single was released on
iTunes a few days before its official release toCMT andGAC on September 5, 2008. The video starts off with Nettles and Bush in a bed of old, vintage cars with a sunset in the background. It later captures a young girl in the driver's side of one of those cars, which turns out to be Nettles at the end. Nettles sings on the hood of one car, while Bush plays mandolin on the hood of a different car.References
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