Baggage Claim

"Baggage Claim"
Single by Miranda Lambert
from the album Four the Record
Released August 22, 2011
Format Music download
Genre Country
Length 3:18
Label Columbia Nashville, RCA Nashville
Writer(s) Natalie Hemby
Luke Laird
Miranda Lambert
Producer Frank Liddell
Mike Wrucke
Miranda Lambert singles chronology
"Heart Like Mine"
(2011)
"Baggage Claim"
(2011)
"Over You"
(2012)

"Baggage Claim" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American country artist Miranda Lambert. It was released in August 2011 as the lead-off single from her fourth studio album, Four the Record. It was written by Lambert, with Natalie Hemby and Luke Laird.

Contents

Content

Its lyric is a play on the term "emotional baggage," comparing them to the baggage that an unfaithful man is picking up at an airport baggage claim.[1]

The song features a backing vocal from Josh Kelley.[2]

Reception

Bobby Peacock of Roughstock gave the song 4½ stars out of 5, calling it "an exercise in attitude done right." He praised the song's production and the "clever use of emotional "baggage" as a play on words for the baggage that her man's being sent off with."[3] Billy Dukes of Taste of Country gave it 2 out of 5 stars, finding fault in the song's use of baggage claim as a metaphor and unfavorably comparing the song to something Carrie Underwood might record.[4]

Music video

A live performance of "Baggage Claim" on the 2011 CMA Awards on November 9, 2011 served as the song's music video.

Chart performance

"Baggage Claim" debuted at number 33 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the week ending August 20, 2011. It is Lambert's highest-debuting single.[2] It also debuted at number 67 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart for the week of August 27, 2011, and at number 92 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart for the week of October 8, 2011.

Chart (2011-2012) Peak
position
US Country Songs (Billboard)[5] 3
US Billboard Hot 100[6] 44
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[7] 74

Year-end charts

Chart (2011) Position
US Country Songs (Billboard)[8] 45

References