Everything about Last Name totally explained
"
Last Name" is a song composed by
country pop singer
Carrie Underwood, Hillary Lindsey and Luke Laird. It is the third single from Underwood's second studio album,
Carnival Ride. It was released in the
United States on
April 7,
2008, by which point the song had already charted.
Background
The song is one of four tracks on the album co-written by Underwood, and the third consecutive one to be released as a single from the album. The song tells about a woman meeting a man at a club and later eloping with him in
Las Vegas after having had too much to drink that night. She wakes up the next morning, "dreaming bout Elvis somewhere in Vegas", to discover that she doesn't even know her last name (for example, she married the man while she was intoxicated), worrying that her "mama would be so ashamed." The music video portrays the song as a
prequel to her "
Before He Cheats" song.
Critical reception
The single was generally met with mixed reviews.
All Music picked the song as a "track pick", calling the song "
Miranda Lambert filtered through
Shania Twain", and dubbed it a "one night stand anthem."
Rolling Stone picked the track as their favorite, saying "the most fun is "Last Name," where she gets wasted and runs off to Vegas with a guy she doesn't know."
Blender awarded the song four out of five stars, describing the song as the "most irresponsible (and fun) moment on the new album involves one wild night, one too many shots of Cuervo and one unexpected ring."
However,
The 9513 gave the song a 'thumbs down', describing the song as a "straight-laced performance" that just "places the focus on the vocal".
Slant Magazine labelled the single as a "bald-faced attempt at recreating the '
Before He Cheats' phenomenon".
Promotion
Underwood performed the song live for the first time on Television during the 43rd
Academy of Country Music Awards on
May 18,
2008. Thanks to the performance, the single rose over twenty spots on the iTunes Top 100 songs reaching a new peak of #25. Underwood also performed the song live at the
American Idol Season 7 finale on
May 21,
2008 - the single reached a new digital download peak at #10 which will result in a new Billboard Hot 100 peak.
Chart performance
The song debuted at #46 on the U.S.
Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, nearly a month before the single's official release. It has thus far become her seventh top ten hit on the chart.
It is currently #1 on iTunes Country Single Chart. Its music video is currently peaking at #1 on iTunes Music Videos.
| Chart (2008) |
Peak
chart position |
| US Billboard Hot Country Songs |
7 |
| US Billboard Hot 100 |
37 |
| US Billboard Pop 100 |
68 |
| US Billboard Hot Digital Songs |
54 |
| Canadian Country Singles |
6 |
| Canadian Hot 100 |
57 |
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