I'm Easy (song)

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"I'm Easy" was a popular music hit in 1976 in the United States. The song was featured in the movie Nashville. It was written and performed by Keith Carradine and won the 1975 Academy Award for Best Original Song. This was the only winner for Nashville among its five Academy Award nominations.

The song is a tender ballad about a lover who is utterly guileless and in awe of the object of his love. In the film, the lyrics are bitterly ironic. Carradine's character, Tom, is a manipulative womanizer whose habit is to reject the women he sleeps with by calling other women on the telephone after sex. When he performs the song, he dedicates it to "a special someone." Several women in the audience, recent and future conquests, believe the song is written for them. Moreover, the viewer is aware that Tom has plagiarized the opening bars from his chauffeur.

[edit] Trivia

• In the film, Carradine's character is portrayed as performing the song at the "Exit In", a real-life Nashville music club; the scene was actually shot there.
• The song which succeeded "I'm Easy" as the Best Song at the Academy Awards was "Evergreen" from "A Star is Born". That film starred Kris Kristofferson, a musician and actor whom many believe to have been the basis of Carradine's character in "Nashville".

Preceded by "We May Never Love Like This Again" from The Towering Inferno

Academy Award for Best Original Song 1975

Succeeded by "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)" from A Star Is Born