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“I was thrilled,” Bachman said on Behind the Vinyl. “I felt like I suddenly went from I couldn’t get anywhere to now I was sitting in the offices and talking to these people. And so the way this song came about is I thought, ‘I’ve gotten these guys’ attention. It seems like they want to make a deal, but I don’t actually have a deal yet. I gotta write another song that will seal this deal. I got to come up with something.’”
A Boost of Inspiration
Having gotten married young and already being a father, Bachman felt pressure to find his footing fast. Musically, he was inspired after hearing Sheryl Crow’s “If It Makes You Happy” in a mall. He thought it sounded great on the mall’s stereo system, and he decided to play around with the chords at his home in British Columbia. He changed the key and came up with the main melody in the chorus.
“I had kind of a lousy title, nothing really interesting or provocative,” Bachman recollected on Behind The Vinyl. “And I thought, ‘This has got to be a slam dunk. I should come up with some title that’s provocative [that would] make you want to listen to it.’”
The lyrics were an inspired by a real-life experience. He told MTV News in 1999 that he looked back a time in high school when he was trying to “bribe the hottest girl in our high school to go out on a date with [my stepbrother]. So as the conversation between me and what I thought was this godly, exalted woman progressed, I began to feel more and more uncomfortable and awkward, and so I just remember that feeling … I don’t want to say fear, but just kind of being in awe of her.”
