Perfect Storm (song)

"Perfect Storm" is a song recorded by American country music artist Brad Paisley. It was released on September 1, 2014 by Arista Nashville as the second single from his tenth studio album, Moonshine in the Trunk. He co-wrote the song with Lee Thomas Miller and co-produced it with Luke Wooten.

Composition

The song is a love ballad musically driven mainly by electric guitar and also featuring a prominent steel guitar, fiddle and a synthesizer. Paisley said he wanted the guitar part to sound like thunder.^[1] Lyrically, the singer describes the girl he loves as a "perfect storm."

Critical reception

Deborah Evans Price of Billboard said Perfect Storm is "one of those love songs that says what women want to hear and what men wish they could say" and added that "it's a tender ballad [...] and it's got the word "hit" written all over it".^[2]

Taste Of Country gave the single a favorable review, stating that "Paisley’s stellar guitar skills are on full display here, creating a storm of powerful riffs all their own" and the song is just "as complex and beautiful as the girl Paisley is singing about".^[3]

Giving the song four and a half stars out of five, Dan Devour of Music Trespass said "the song is about that perfect girl that you can meet and fall in love with suddenly." He also states that its lyrics "show that Brad must have been in love recently."^[4]

Music video

The music video was directed by Jim Shea and premiered in October 2014. In it, Paisley and his band play the song in the pouring rain while wind throws photos of Paisley's female fans all around them.^[5]

Chart performance

The song was first released on August 5 as a promotional single and charted at number 45 on the Hot Country Songs chart. After its release as an official single, the song debuted at #52 on the Country Airplay chart. It also re-entered the Hot Country songs chart at #42. "Perfect Storm" peaked at #4 on the Hot Country Songs chart, Paisley's highest peaking single on that chart since the methodology of ranking the songs was changed in 2012. It brought his total of Top 10 hits to 32. The song was also Paisley's first single to hit #1 on Billboard's Canada Country chart. This song became Paisley's first single to hit the number one spot on the Country Airplay chart since "Remind Me" in 2011. The song has sold 357,000 copies in the U.S. as of February 2015.^[6]

Chart (2014–15)	Peak position
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)^[7]	76
Canada Country (Billboard)^[8]	1
US Billboard Hot 100^[9]	52
US Country Airplay (Billboard)^[10]	1
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[11]	4

Year-end charts

Chart (2014)	Position
US Country Airplay (Billboard)^[12]	76
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[13]	76

Chart (2015)	Position
US Country Airplay (Billboard)^[14]	61
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[15]	62

Preceded by "Shotgun Rider" by Tim McGraw	Billboard Canada Country number-one single December 20–27, 2014	Succeeded by "Til It's Gone" by Kenny Chesney
	Billboard Country Airplay number-one single January 17–24, 2015

References

↑ http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/brad-paisley-talks-pot-rock-riffs-and-flying-with-obama-20140825
↑ http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6229273/brad-paisley-moonshine-in-the-trunk-track-by-track-review
↑ http://tasteofcountry.com/brad-paisley-perfect-storm/
↑ http://www.musictrespass.com/content/brad-paisley-perfect-storm
↑ Dukes, Billy (October 6, 2014). "Brad Paisley Gets Wet for ‘Perfect Storm’ Video [Exclusive Preview]". Taste of Country. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
↑ Matt Bjorke (February 4, 2015). "Country Music’s Top 30 Digital Singles: February 4, 2015". Roughstock. Sales figure given here
↑ "Brad Paisley – Chart history" Canadian Hot 100 for Brad Paisley.
↑ "Brad Paisley – Chart history" Billboard Canada Country for Brad Paisley.
↑ "Brad Paisley – Chart history" Billboard Hot 100 for Brad Paisley.
↑ "Brad Paisley – Chart history" Billboard Country Airplay for Brad Paisley.
↑ "Brad Paisley – Chart history" Billboard Hot Country Songs for Brad Paisley.
↑ "Billboard Country Update for December 15, 2014" (PDF). Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. December 15, 2014. p. 17. Retrieved December 15, 2014.
↑ "Best of 2014: Hot Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2014. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
↑ "Billboard Country Update for December 14, 2015" (PDF). Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. December 14, 2015. p. 7. Retrieved December 15, 2015.
↑ "Best of 2015: Hot Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2015. Retrieved December 9, 2015.

Brad Paisley singles

Who Needs Pictures	"Who Needs Pictures" "He Didn't Have to Be" "Me Neither" "We Danced"

Part II	"Two People Fell in Love" "Wrapped Around" "I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin' Song)" "I Wish You'd Stay"

Mud on the Tires	"Celebrity" "Little Moments" "Whiskey Lullaby" (with Alison Krauss) "Mud on the Tires"

Time Well Wasted	"Alcohol" "When I Get Where I'm Going" (with Dolly Parton) "The World" "She's Everything"

5th Gear	"Ticks" "Online" "Letter to Me" "I'm Still a Guy" "Waitin' on a Woman"

Play	"Start a Band" (with Keith Urban)

American Saturday Night	"Then" "Welcome to the Future" "American Saturday Night" "Water"

Hits Alive	"Anything Like Me"

This Is Country Music	"This Is Country Music" "Old Alabama" (with Alabama) "Remind Me" (with Carrie Underwood) "Camouflage"

Wheelhouse	"Southern Comfort Zone" "Beat This Summer" "I Can't Change the World" "The Mona Lisa"

Moonshine in the Trunk	"River Bank" "Perfect Storm" "Crushin' It" "Country Nation"

Other songs	"Is It Raining at Your House" "Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy" "Everything and All" (with Randy Travis) "Accidental Racist" (with LL Cool J)

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