Old Enough to Know Better (song)

"Old Enough to Know Better"
Single by Wade Hayes
from the album Old Enough to Know Better
B-side	"Family Reunion"
Released	November 14, 1994
Format	Promo-only CD single, 7" vinyl
Genre	Country
Length	3:39
Label	Columbia 77739
Writer(s)	Wade Hayes Chick Rains
Producer	Don Cook
Wade Hayes singles chronology
"Old Enough to Know Better" (1994) "I'm Still Dancin' with You" (1995)

"Old Enough to Know Better" is the title of a country music song co-written and recorded by American singer Wade Hayes. Released in November 1994, is the title track to his 1995 debut album Old Enough to Know Better, as well as his debut single. The song is also his only Number One hit, having reached its peak on the Billboard country charts in February of that year.

Content

"Old Enough to Know Better" is a moderate up-tempo that begins with a fiddle solo. The male narrator tells of how a lifestyle of nighttime partying leaves him short on money and criticized by his boss. The narrator then concludes that he is "old enough to know better, but still too young to care".

Reception

Alanna Nash of Entertainment Weekly, in her review of the album, called the song "a born-to-win dance number",^[1] and Charlotte Dillon of Allmusic called it "an impressive honky-tonk [number]".^[2]

Chart positions

"Old Enough to Know Better" debuted at #64 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of November 19, 1994.

Chart (1994-1995)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1

References

1. ^ Nash, Alanna. "Old Enough to Know Better review". Entertainment Weekly. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,295945,00.html. Retrieved 16 December 2008. 
2. ^ Dillon, Charlotte. "Old Enough to Know Better review". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r209273. Retrieved 16 December 2008. 

Preceded by "My Kind of Girl" by Collin Raye	Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks number-one single February 25—March 4, 1995	Succeeded by "You Can't Make a Heart Love Somebody" by George Strait
Preceded by "I'm Here" by Charlie Major	RPM Country Tracks number-one single March 6, 1995	Succeeded by "Hopeless Love" by One Horse Blue