 Like "I Do (Cherish You)" before it, "Don't Laugh at Me" was a number 2 hit on the "Billboard" country charts.The song received Country Music Association nominations for Country Music Association's Single, Song and Video of the Year in 1998.Allen Shamblin was inspired to write the song after his school-aged daughter came home and confided that she was being teased by her peers because of her freckles.