| "She Couldn't Change Me" | ||||
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| Single byMontgomery Gentry | ||||
| from the albumCarrying On | ||||
| Released | February 5, 2001 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 4:20 (album version) 3:39 (radio edit) | |||
| Label | Columbia Nashville | |||
| Songwriters | Gary Nicholson Chris Knight | |||
| Producer | Joe Scaife | |||
| Montgomery Gentry singles chronology | ||||
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"She Couldn't Change Me" is a song written byGary Nicholson andChris Knight and recorded by Americancountry music duoMontgomery Gentry. It was released in February 2001 as the first single from the duo's 2001 albumCarrying On. The song peaked at number 2 on the USBillboardHot Country Songs chart and at number 37 on theBillboard Hot 100, making it one of their highest-peaking crossover songs.
In the first verse, the song's narrator's woman leaves him and heads out west because "she couldn't change [him]." In the second verse, she starts to think about the quiet country nights with him, and "Whatever she thought was so wrong with [him] / Suddenly seemed alright". Then she heads back to him, and she says that "when you love someone, you just gotta let it be."
Deborah Evans Price ofBillboard magazine reviewed the song favorably, calling it a solid single and saying that Montgomery Gentry delivers the song with an "edgy energy that is immensely appealing."[1]
The music video was directed by Guy Guillet, and features the duo standing on a mountaintop. Throughout the video, a woman paints the bedroom blue, driving a pickup truck, changing her hair from brown to blonde, and back to brown. During the last scene of the music video, a woman looks directly into the camera.
US CD single
"She Couldn't Change Me" debuted at #53 on the U.S.Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the chart week of February 10, 2001. It spent three weeks at number 2, blocked from the top spot by bothLonestar's "I'm Already There" andJamie O'Neal's "When I Think About Angels".
| Chart (2001) | Peak position |
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| USHot Country Songs (Billboard)[2] | 2 |
| USBillboard Hot 100[3] | 37 |
| Chart (2001) | Position |
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| USCountry Songs (Billboard)[4] | 7 |
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