 Paisley said that his intention was to "capture this struggle a little bit between men and women in a playful way".Initially, Paisley was not certain if a female audience would accept the song, so he sang it to his wife, Kimberly Williams-Paisley - who was pregnant at the time - straight after writing it at his co-writer and friend, Kelley Lovelace's, house.According to Miller, she "laughed long and hard at all the right places".