Over You (Miranda Lambert song)
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| Single by Miranda Lambert | ||||
| from the album Four the Record | ||||
| Released | January 9, 2012 | |||
| Format | Digital download | |||
| Recorded | 2011 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 4:13 | |||
| Label | RCA Nashville | |||
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| Single by Cassadee Pope | |
| Released | 19 November 2012 |
| Format | Digital download |
| Recorded | 2012 |
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| Length | 3:36 |
| Label | Universal |
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"Over You" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Miranda Lambert. It was released in January 2012 as the second single from Lambert's album Four the Record.
Lambert performed the song at the 2012 Academy of Country Music Awards on April 1, 2012. On November 1, 2012, Lambert and Blake Shelton won the CMA Award for Song of the Year for "Over You"; in addition, on April 7, 2013, they also won the ACM Award for Song of the Year for "Over You".
"Over You" is a country ballad written by Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton about a personal experience Shelton had as a teenager when his older brother was killed in a car accident. According to Lambert, she decided to record the song because of Shelton's emotional connection to the song: "Blake said he couldn’t record it for himself or sing it onstage every night, but he would be honored for me to."
The song received mixed reviews from music critics. Kyle Ward of Roughstock gave the song 4½ stars out of 5, favorably describing the song as having "a raw account of pain and emotions. The production and melody of the song is solemn, and Miranda does a great job, giving a very pretty, controlled rendering of the song. She really sets the tone, right from the opening line." Ben Foster of Country Universe gave the song a D+ and described it as being a "really boring song [...] clogged up with superficial cliché phrasing and awkward juvenile rhyme schemes set to a clunky, uninspired melody."
The music video for "Over You" was directed by Trey Fanjoy and shot between January 30, 2012 and February 2, 2012, and premiered on March 1, 2012. The video shows Lambert walking through a wooded area during a light snow, before coming to a set of gravestones, where she proceeds to grieve over the loss of her loved one. Before turning to leave, she places a watch on the grave. Throughout the video, scenes of a white horse running among the trees are also included, as well as two small children playing, one of whom eventually disappears.
"Over You" debuted at number 52 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the week ending January 7, 2012. It also debuted at number 93 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in November 2011 (prior to its release as an official single), and debuted at number 84 on Canadian Hot 100 chart for the week of March 17, 2012. It has sold 1,338,000 copies in the US as of June 2013.
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