(Go: >> BACK << -|- >> HOME <<)
Wikipedia

Famous in a Small Town: Difference between revisions

Browse history interactively
← Previous edit
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
Reverted 1 edit by 72.184.131.150 (talk). (TW)
 
(26 intermediate revisions by 18 users not shown)
Line 1:
{{Infobox song
{{Infobox Single <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Songs -->
| Name name = Famous in a Small Town
| Cover cover = Miranda Lambert - file:Famous in aMiranda Smallsingle Townart.png
| Artist alt = [[Miranda Lambert]]
| border = yes
| Album = [[Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (album)|Crazy Ex-Girlfriend]]▼
| Releasedtype = April 2, 2007single
| Format artist = [[CDMiranda SingleLambert]]
▲| Album album = [[Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (album)|Crazy Ex-Girlfriend]]
| Recorded = 2006▼
| released = {{start date|2007|04|02}}
| Genre = [[Country music|Country]]▼
| Length recorded = 4:052006
| studio =
| Label = [[Sony Music Nashville|Columbia Nashville]]▼
| venue =
| Writer = Miranda Lambert, Travis Howard
▲| Genre genre = [[Country music|Country]]
| Producer = [[Frank Liddell (record producer)|Frank Liddell]], Mike Wrucke▼
| length = {{duration|m=4|s=5}}
| Audio sample? =
▲| Label label = [[Sony Music Nashville|Columbia Nashville]]
| Certification =
| writer = {{flatlist|
| Last single = "[[Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (song)|Crazy Ex-Girlfriend]]"<BR>(2006)▼
* Miranda Lambert
| This single = "'''Famous in a Small Town'''"<BR>(2007)
* Travis Howard
| Next single = "[[Gunpowder & Lead]]"<BR>(2008)▼
| Misc = {{External music video|"[http://www.cmt.com/videos/miranda-lambert/142121/famous-in-a-small-town.jhtml Famous in a Small Town]" at CMT.com}}
}}
| producer = {{flatlist|
"'''Famous in a Small Town'''" is a song written by Travis Howard and co-written and recorded by American country music artist [[Miranda Lambert]]. It was released in April 2007 as the second single from her album ''[[Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (album)|Crazy Ex-Girlfriend]]''. It was Lambert's second Top 20 hit on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot Country Songs chart. It was nominated for the [[Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance]] in 2008.▼
▲| Producer =* [[Frank Liddell (record producer)|Frank Liddell]], Mike Wrucke
* Mike Wrucke
}}
▲| Last single prev_title = "[[Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (song)|Crazy Ex-Girlfriend]]"<BR>(2006)
▲| Recorded prev_year = 2006
▲| Next single next_title = "[[Gunpowder & Lead]]"<BR>(2008)
| next_year = 2008
| misc = {{external music video|{{YouTube|_xjy6EuMPGA|"Famous in a Small Town"}}}}
}}
▲"'''Famous in a Small Town'''" is a song written by Travis Howard and co-written and recorded by American [[country music]] artist [[Miranda Lambert]]. It was released in April 2007 as the second single from her album ''[[Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (album)|Crazy Ex-Girlfriend]]''. It was Lambert's second Top 20 hit on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot Country Songs chart. It was nominated for the [[Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance]] in 2008. The song was written by Lambert and Travis Howard.
 
The song was ranked number 40 on Engine 145's ''50 Best Country Songs of 2007''.<ref>{{cite web | title=Best Country Songs of 2007 |url=http://www.engine145.com/the-best-country-songs-of-2007/ |accessdateaccess-date=2008-09-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218105451/http://www.engine145.com/the-best-country-songs-of-2007/ |archive-date=2014-12-18 |df= }}</ref>
 
==Content==
"Famous in a Small Town" ishas a mid-tempomoderately songfast tempo in the key of [[B major]]. backedThe withmain acousticchord guitarpattern is B{{sub|sus}}2-E{{sub|sus}}2/B-F{{sharp}}/B.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0059897|title='Famous in a Small Town' sheet music|work=Musicnotes.com|accessdate=29 January 2018}}</ref> The narrator describes the simplicities of living in a small town, where everyone knows each other and no one needs to have their face in a magazine to be famous. Thus, everybody dies "famous in a small town."
 
==Music video==
A music video was released for the song, directed by [[Trey Fanjoy]]. The video features Lambert singing in a town square in [[Lebanon, Tennessee]] mixed with scenes from [[Shelbyville, Tennessee]]. The video's depicts people's everyday lives in a small town, including a diner and high school; all of these scenes are shot in black and white. One major part in the video is every person/event seen is taken as a magazine picture (ending with Lambert herself getting one taken). Lambert is also seen playing her guitar and singing on a red carpet with camera flashes, neon signs, and her band, to contrast with the small town image, and is shot in color rather than black and white. This is her second video to be shot in both black and white and in color, after "New Strings" in 2006. In Lambert's own words, "Famous in a Small Town is really, (really) how it was growing up in [[Lindale, Texas|Lindale]]."<ref>{{cite web | title=Interview (YouTube channel) |url=httphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIOJyU_ow3M|accessdate=2008-08-15}}</ref>
 
The music video reached the top spot of [[CountryCMT (American MusicTV Televisionchannel)|CMT]]'s ''[[Top Twenty Countdown]]'' for the week of August 16, 2007.
 
==Chart performance==
"Famous in a Small Town" debuted at number 54 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' [[Hot Country Songs]] chart for the week of April 7, 2007. After 33 weeks on the chart, it peaked at number 14 on November 17, 2007.
 
===Weekly charts===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
!align="left"|Chart (2007)▼
!align="center"|Peak<br>position▼
|-
▲!align scope="leftcol"| Chart (2007)
{{singlechart|Billboardhot100|87|artist=Miranda Lambert|artistid=639125|accessdate=January 29, 2011}}▼
▲!align scope="centercol"| Peak<br />position
|-
{{singlechart|Billboardcanadacountry|32|artist=Miranda Lambert|accessdate=May 5, 2018|rowheader=true}}
|-
▲{{singlechart|Billboardhot100|87|artist=Miranda Lambert|artistid=639125|accessdate=JanuaryMay 295, 20112018|rowheader=true}}
|-
{{singlechart|Billboardcountrysongs|14|artist=Miranda Lambert|artistid=639125|accessdate=JanuaryMay 295, 20112018|rowheader=true}}▼
|-
▲{{singlechart|Billboardcountrysongs|14|artist=Miranda Lambert|artistid=639125|accessdate=January 29, 2011}}
|}
 
===Year-end charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|-
! scope="col"| Chart (2007)▼
! scope="col"| Peak<br />position
|-
! scope="row"| US [[Hot Country Songs|Country Songs]] (''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'')<ref>{{Cite webcite magazine| url =http https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2007/hot-country-songs| title =Best ofCountry Songs - Year-End 2007:|access-date Country= SongsMay 5, 2018|magazine work= [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] | publisher=[[Prometheus Global Media]] | date=2007| accessdate=July 11, 2012}}</ref>▼
▲!scope="col"|Chart (2007)
| 57
!scope="col"|Position
|-
▲| US [[Hot Country Songs|Country Songs]] (''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'')<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2007/hot-country-songs| title=Best of 2007: Country Songs | work=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] | publisher=[[Prometheus Global Media]] | date=2007| accessdate=July 11, 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" | 57
|}
 
==Certifications==
{{certificationCertification Table Top}}
{{certificationCertification Table Entry|type=single|region=United States|artist=Miranda Lambert|title=Famous inIn aA Small Town|award=Gold|type=single|certyear=2013|certmonth=5|relyear=2007|autocat=yes|accessdate=May 95, 20132018}}
{{Certification Table Bottom| nosales=true}}
 
==Cover version==
An acoustic cover version with lyrics in [[Drents]] dialect (called ''Op 'n dorp is iederiene 'n beroemdheid'') was written and recorded by Dutch singer [[Daniël Lohues]] and included on his 2010 album ''Allennig IV''.<ref>''Allennig IV''. Greytown Recordings 97069: liner notes</ref>
 
==References==
{{Reflist}}
 
==External links==
* {{MetroLyrics song|miranda-lambert|famous-in-a-small-town}}<!-- Licensed lyrics provider -->
 
{{Miranda Lambert singles}}
 
{{authority control}}
 
[[Category:2007 singles]]
[[Category:2007 songs]]
Line 74 ⟶ 87:
[[Category:Columbia Nashville Records singles]]
[[Category:Song recordings produced by Frank Liddell]]
[[Category:Songs about fame]]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famous_in_a_Small_Town"