"Ticks," Brad Paisley

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Goes for adds March 12th according to Country Aircheck.

[Robert J]

Interesting title.

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Every time you take a sip
In this smoky atmosphere
You press that bottle to your lips
And I wish I was your beer
In the small there of your back
Your jeans are playing peekaboo
I'd like to see the other half of your butterfly tattoo

Hey that gives me an idea
Let's get out of this bar
Drive out into the country
And find a place to park

Chorus:
'Cause I'd like to see you out in the moonlight
I'd like to kiss you way back in the sticks
I'd like to walk you through a field of wildflowers
And I'd like to check you for ticks

I know the perfect little path
Out in these woods I used to hunt
Don't worry babe I've got your back
And I've also got your front
Now, I'd hate to waste a night like this
I'll keep you safe you wait and see
The only thing allowed to crawl all over you when we get there is me

You know every guy in here tonight
Would like to take you home
But I've got way more class than them
Babe that ain't what I want

'Cause I'd like to see you out in the moonlight
I'd like to kiss you way back in the sticks
I'd like to walk you through a field of wildflowers
And I'd like to check you for ticks

You never know where one might be
There's lots of place that are hard to reach
I gotcha

I'd like to see you out in the moonlight
I'd like to kiss you baby way back in the sticks
I'd like to walk you through a field of wildflowers
And I'd like to check you for ticks
I'd sure like to check you for ticks

"I'd like to check you for ticks?" Sounds ultra-corny.

[sleepy eat pepper]

I hope the Lyme Disease foundation calls for people to boycott this song before it gets big. It sounds too stupid for words.

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www.allaboutcountry.com/media/music/ram/BRAD_PAISLEY_-_TICKS2.ram

I'm apalled. I think Brad's trying to be tongue-in-cheek, but it comes off more as pure corn.

[CLEM]

I like this a little more after hearing the full version and having assurance that he's just trying to be smart and corny.

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MOST ADDED with 44 adds.

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Billboard review:

Ticks
BRAD PAISLEY
Label: Arista Nashville

Paisley previewed this clever uptempo number at last month's Country Radio Seminar during the label's annual showcase cruise aboard the General Jackson riverboat. If the roar of laughter coming from country programmers in attendance was any indication, here is Paisley's next No. 1. The lyric chronicles a guy's barroom come-on to a pretty girl—and his approach is definitely novel. Paisley and co-writers have come up with what may be the most countrified way ever of expressing lust: "I'd like to see you in the moonlight/To kiss you way back in the sticks/To walk you through a field of wildflowers and I'd like to check you for ticks." Leave it to Paisley to redefine romance, while making country listeners laugh out loud. The first single from his next album, due June 12, builds on multiplatinum momentum to deliver sensitive, serious ballads and apropos clever ditties. "Ticks" will whet appetites to see what he has up his creative sleeve next. —Deborah Evans Price

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Now on iTunes.

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Debuts at #40 on the Hot 100.

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'TICKS' UP: Tim McGraw isn't the only country male making news on the Hot 100 this week. Brad Paisley has the highest-debuting song of his career, as "Ticks" (Arista) makes an entrance at No. 40.

That bests Paisley's previous highest debut, the No. 66 bow of "I'm Gonna Miss Her" (The Fishin' Song)," the week of May 4, 2002.

"Ticks" is the highest-debuting country song on the Hot 100 since the week of May 6, 2006, when the Dixie Chicks' "Not Ready to Make Nice" opened at No. 28. It is also the highest debut for a solo country male since Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA" entered at No. 16 in the wake of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

"Ticks" is tied with "Year 3000" by the Jonas Brothers as the fourth-highest debut of 2007 on the Hot 100. The three songs that have had better first week starting spots are:

No. 2: "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race," Fall Out Boy (Feb. 3)
No. 5: "Girlfriend," Avril Lavigne (March 17)
No. 14: "Push It to the Limit," Corbin Bleu (Feb. 3)

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#1

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[quote'TICKS' UP: Last week, when Brad Paisley's "Ticks" (Arista) fell 2-3, it looked like it would be the first song to peak at No. 2 in the last 43 weeks. But this week the song reverses course and leaps 3-1, leaving 2007 without a single solitary single peaking at No. 2.

The last song to peak in second place was Toby Keith's "A Little Too Late" in the summer of 2006.][/quote]