Highway Don't Care

"Highway Don't Care" is a song performed by American country music artist Tim McGraw and features American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift on vocals, also Keith Urban on guitar. It was released in March 2013 as the third single from McGraw's first album for Big Machine Records, Two Lanes of Freedom (2013). The song was written by Mark Irwin, Josh Kear and Brad and Brett Warren.^[2] Keith Urban plays guitar on the song.^[3] McGraw and Swift recorded their parts separately.^[4]

Content

The song is a mid-tempo ballad where the male narrator is separated from his lover who is driving. Throughout the verses, he tells her what he "bets" she is feeling, when a song comes on her radio (its part sung by Swift) containing the lines "I can't live without you, baby." He also says that the highway she's driving on doesn't care if she's alone or if she's going home, but he does. The song is in D major with a main chord pattern of D-B_m7-G_sus2-A.^[5] Keith Urban plays lead guitar on it.

Critical and commercial reception

Thom Jurek of Allmusic, in his review of the album, wrote that "the hook is irresistible and McGraw's vocal, paired with the young singer's, is a perfect match."^[6] Chuck Dauphin of Roughstock also reviewed the song favorably, saying that "this song flows well, with winning performances from two of the format’s top vocalists."^[7] Billy Dukes of Taste of Country gave the song five stars saying that the track is arguably "one of the best collaborations of the decade — maybe even ever. Each artist brings his or her best effort to the song from McGraw’s Two Lanes of Freedom album. 'Highway Don’t Care’ feels like a special moment from the very first listen, and only becomes more cathartic with time." ^[8] Jeff Benjamin of Fuse said the track has "major crossover potential." ^[9] The single has also been a great commercial success. It has sold 1,743,000 copies in the US as of November 2013.^[10]^[11]

Music video

The music video was directed by Shane Drake and premiered on May 6, 2013.^[12] The music video for the song features Tim McGraw, Taylor Swift, and Keith Urban, as well as actors portraying the song's narrator and his lover. It was made in partnership with Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee and highlights the dangers of driving while distracted, particularly texting and driving. In the video, the narrator's lover mentioned in the song is driving, crying, and texting the narrator. After dropping her phone and trying to retrieve it, she drifts into the wrong lane while reaching across her car and collides with oncoming traffic. She is then airlifted by a Vanderbilt LifeFlight helicopter to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where she is treated in the Adult Emergency Department. The video implies that she survives as the doctor comes out to see the girl's parents and the narrator, after which they are seen smiling happily and embracing.

The structure of the video at first seems to imply that Tim McGraw (as the singer/narrator and a character in the video) is the boyfriend who keeps being texted by the female driver. Upon the LifeFlight helicopter arriving at the hospital, the viewer realizes that Tim McGraw's character is actually the physician who saves the driver's life, and the texts he'd had been receiving earlier in the video were from the hospital paging/notifying him about this emergency. Taylor Swift was standing in the bedroom-curtain. Keith Urban was standing on the beach. ^[13]

Official versions

Album Version (4:36)
Duet with Brazilian singer Paula Fernandes, a Porglish version (4:38)

Chart performance

"Highway Don't Care" debuted at number 13 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and number 43 on the U.S. Billboard Country Airplay chart for the week of February 23, 2013, due to unsolicited airplay seven weeks before being released to radio.^[14] It also debuted at number 59 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and number 23 on the Canadian Hot 100 for the week of February 23, 2013. It also debuted number 1 on the US Billboard Country Digital Songs chart with 86,000 downloads for the week of February 13, 2013.^[15]

Chart (2013)	Peak position
Australia (ARIA)^[16]	73
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)^[17]	21
Canada Country (Billboard)^[18]	2
US Billboard Hot 100^[19]	22
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[20]	4
US Country Airplay (Billboard)^[21]	1

Year-end charts

Chart (2013)	Position
Canada Canadian Hot 100^[22]	81
US Billboard Hot 100^[23]	77
US Country Airplay (Billboard)^[24]	32
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[25]	6

Preceded by "Wagon Wheel" by Darius Rucker	Billboard Country Airplay number-one single June 15–22, 2013	Succeeded by "Boys 'Round Here" by Blake Shelton featuring Pistol Annies and Friends

Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/Sales
United States (RIAA)^[26]	2× Platinum	2,000,000^[10]
^*sales figures based on certification alone ^{^}shipments figures based on certification alone

References

1 2 "R&R :: Going For Adds :: Country". Radio & Records. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
↑ Conaway, Alanna (February 13, 2013). "Story Behind The Song: The Warren Brothers Discuss Tim McGraw and Taylor Swift's "Highway Don't Care"". Roughstock. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
↑ Wyland, Sarah (March 12, 2013). "Tim McGraw Collaborates with Taylor Swift & Keith Urban on New Single". Great American Country. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
↑ Stromblad, Cory (February 8, 2013). "Tim McGraw Spills on Recording 'Highway Don't Care' 'With' Taylor Swift, Keith Urban". Taste of Country. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
↑ http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtdFPE.asp?ppn=MN0116258&
↑ Jurek, Thom. "Two Lanes of Freedom – Tim McGraw". Allmusic. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
↑ Dauphin, Chuck (February 22, 2013). "The Weekly Single Recap: February 22, 2013: Tate Stevens, Tim McGraw & Taylor Swift, Jason Aldean & More". Roughstock. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
↑ Dukes, Billy (February 25, 2013). "Tim McGraw (Feat. Taylor Swift and Keith Urban), 'Highway Don't Care' – Song Review". Taste of Country. Retrieved March 14, 2013.
↑ Benjamin, Jeff (May 7, 2013). "Tim McGraw, Taylor Swift & Keith Urban Want You Home Safe in "Highway Don't Care" Video". Fuse.tv. Retrieved May 7, 2013.
1 2 Matt Bjorke (November 13, 2013). "Country Chart News - The Top 30 Digital Singles - November 13, 2013: CMA Awards Drive Sales; Eric Church "The Outsiders" #1; Taylor Swift "Red" #3". Roughstock.
↑ Matt Bjorke (October 9, 2013). "Country Chart News - The Top 30 Digital Singles - October 9, 2013: Cassadee Pope, David Nail, Eli Young Band, Blake Shelton Lead". Roughstock.
↑ "CMT : Videos : Tim McGraw : Highway Don't Care". Country Music Television. Retrieved May 6, 2013.
↑ http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2013/05/vanderbilt-county-superstar-tim-mcgraw-share-important-message-regarding-dangers-of-distracted-driving/
↑ Morris, Edward (February 16, 2013). "Tim McGraw's Two Lanes of Freedom Is Week's No. 1 Country Album". Country Music Television. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
↑ Bjorke, Matt (February 13, 2013). "Country Chart News - The Top 30 Digital Singles: The Week of February 13, 2012: Tim McGraw & Taylor Swift #1; Lady Antebellum #2". Roughstock. Retrieved March 28, 2013.
↑ http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20130219-1428/Issue1199.pdf
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↑ "Best of 2013: Canadian Hot 100". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2013. Retrieved December 13, 2013.
↑ "Best of 2013: Hot 100 Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2013. Retrieved December 13, 2013.
↑ "Best of 2013: Country Airplay". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2013. Retrieved December 13, 2013.
↑ "Best of 2013: Hot Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2013. Retrieved December 13, 2013.
↑ "American single certifications – Tim McGraw – Highway Don%27t Care". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved May 9, 2013. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Single, then click SEARCH

Tim McGraw singles

Discography

Not a Moment Too Soon	"Indian Outlaw" "Don't Take the Girl" "Down on the Farm" "Not a Moment Too Soon" "Refried Dreams"

All I Want	"I Like It, I Love It" "Can't Be Really Gone" "All I Want Is a Life" "She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart" "Maybe We Should Just Sleep on It"

Everywhere	"It's Your Love" (with Faith Hill) "Everywhere" "Just to See You Smile" "One of These Days" "Where the Green Grass Grows" "For a Little While"

A Place in the Sun	"Please Remember Me" "Something Like That" "My Best Friend" "Some Things Never Change" "My Next Thirty Years"

Set This Circus Down	"Grown Men Don't Cry" "Angry All the Time" "The Cowboy in Me" "Unbroken"

Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors	"Red Rag Top" "Tiny Dancer" "She's My Kind of Rain" "Real Good Man" "Watch the Wind Blow By"

Live Like You Were Dying	"Live Like You Were Dying" "Back When" "Drugs or Jesus" "Do You Want Fries with That" "My Old Friend"

Reflected: Greatest Hits Vol. 2	"When the Stars Go Blue" "My Little Girl"

Let It Go	"Last Dollar (Fly Away)" "I Need You" (with Faith Hill) "If You're Reading This" "Suspicions" "Kristofferson" "Let It Go" "Nothin' to Die For"

Southern Voice	"It's a Business Doing Pleasure with You" "Southern Voice" "Still"

Number One Hits	"Felt Good on My Lips"

Country Strong	"Me and Tennessee" (with Gwyneth Paltrow)

Emotional Traffic	"Better Than I Used to Be"

Two Lanes of Freedom	"Truck Yeah" "One of Those Nights" "Highway Don't Care" (with Taylor Swift and Keith Urban) "Southern Girl"

Sundown Heaven Town	"Lookin' for That Girl" "Meanwhile Back at Mama's" (with Faith Hill) "Shotgun Rider" "Diamond Rings and Old Barstools" (with Catherine Dunn)

Damn Country Music	"Top of the World" "Humble and Kind" "How I'll Always Be"

Guest singles	"Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me" (with Faith Hill) "Let's Make Love" (with Faith Hill) "Bring On the Rain" (with Jo Dee Messina) "Over and Over" (with Nelly) "Like We Never Loved at All" (with Faith Hill) "Find Out Who Your Friends Are" (with Tracy Lawrence and Kenny Chesney) "Nine Lives" (with Def Leppard) "Feel Like a Rock Star" (with Kenny Chesney) "Lovin' Lately" (with Big & Rich) "May We All" (with Florida Georgia Line)

Other songs	"City Lights" "The Ride"

Taylor Swift songs

Discography

Taylor Swift	"Tim McGraw" "Picture to Burn" "Teardrops on My Guitar" "Should've Said No" "Our Song"

Fearless	"Fearless" "Fifteen" "Love Story" "White Horse" "You Belong with Me" "Breathe" "You're Not Sorry" "Forever & Always" "Change"

Speak Now	"Mine" "Sparks Fly" "Back to December" "Speak Now" "Mean" "The Story of Us" "Innocent" "Ours"

Speak Now World Tour – Live	"Long Live"

Red	"State of Grace" "Red" "I Knew You Were Trouble" "All Too Well" "22" "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" "The Last Time" "Everything Has Changed" "Begin Again"

1989	"Welcome to New York" "Blank Space" "Style" "Out of the Woods" "Shake It Off" "Bad Blood" "Wildest Dreams" "Wonderland" "New Romantics"

Collaborations	"Two Is Better Than One" "Both of Us" "Highway Don't Care" "I Don't Wanna Live Forever"

Other songs	"Crazier" "Today Was a Fairytale" "Safe & Sound" "Eyes Open" "Ronan" "Sweeter Than Fiction"

Keith Urban singles

Keith Urban (1991)	"Only You" "I Never Work on a Sunday" "Arms of Mary" "The River"

Keith Urban (1999)	"It's a Love Thing" "Your Everything" "But for the Grace of God" "Where the Blacktop Ends"

Golden Road	"Somebody Like You" "Raining on Sunday" "Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me" "You'll Think of Me"

Be Here	"Days Go By" "You're My Better Half" "Making Memories of Us" "Better Life" "Tonight I Wanna Cry"

Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing	"Once in a Lifetime" "Stupid Boy" "I Told You So" "Everybody"

Greatest Hits: 19 Kids	"You Look Good in My Shirt"

Defying Gravity	"Sweet Thing" "Kiss a Girl" "Only You Can Love Me This Way" "'Til Summer Comes Around" "I'm In"

Get Closer	"Put You in a Song" "Without You" "Long Hot Summer" "You Gonna Fly"

Act of Valor: The Album	"For You"

Fuse	"Little Bit of Everything" "Shame" "We Were Us" (with Miranda Lambert) "Cop Car" "Somewhere in My Car" "Raise 'Em Up" (with Eric Church)

Ripcord	"John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16" "Break on Me" "Wasted Time" "Blue Ain't Your Color"

Guest singles	"America the Beautiful" "The Twelfth of Never" (with Dolly Parton) "Funky Tonight" (with The John Butler Trio) "In God's Hands" (with Nelly Furtado) "Start a Band" (with Brad Paisley) "Blue Sky" (with Emily West) "Lean on Me" (with Sheryl Crow and Kid Rock)

Related articles	"Highway Don't Care" (with Tim McGraw and Taylor Swift)

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