Story behind "Last Name"

pch2006 · 07-16-2008, 07:44 PM

Story Behind the Song: 'Last Name,' Carrie Underwood - The Boot

Luke Laird (pictured left) co-wrote 'Last Name' with Carrie Underwood and Hillary Lindsey (pictured right). He tells the story behind the song, exclusively to The Boot.

We wrote 'Last Name' in January of 2007. My manager, Chris Oglesby, set up the co-write with Carrie, Hillary Lindsey, and myself. Hillary is one of my best friends, so we had written many songs together. The three of us had already written one song that day. Then Carrie was telling us about meeting some guy at a post-Oscar party. The guy got her number, but when he called her she realized she didn't even know his last name. He called her a couple of times, but she said it was past the point of her asking him his last name. Anyway, when Carrie told us that story, we all just ran with 'last name' and came up with a fun storyline. Very fun day! We laughed a lot.

Side note: We wrote this two days after we wrote 'So Small.' Productive week!

idolcarrie22 · 07-16-2008, 07:47 PM

haha what a great story

S•Y•d•N•E•Y · 07-16-2008, 07:55 PM

awwwesomee....(:

Erik · 07-16-2008, 07:59 PM

That's a neat story!

carebear1123 · 07-16-2008, 08:12 PM

thats awesome i love that song

randdlittle · 07-16-2008, 08:18 PM

Well I love the songs they wrote together they are a great writing team

~*Samantha*~ · 07-16-2008, 08:38 PM

That's a good story. thanks for posting

carries1gurl · 07-16-2008, 08:42 PM

nice story!

cassie2 · 07-16-2008, 09:05 PM

Talk about a productive week! Two #1 hits written in the same week! Think of the artist that strive their whole careers to have a #1 hit! Just another amazing part of our Carrie's journey to superstardom.

Thanks for your post.

Carrieismyidol24 · 07-16-2008, 09:44 PM

awesome thanks for the post.

Carrie_Obssion · 07-16-2008, 09:46 PM

Thanks for posting. Very cute story.

MustLuvCarrie100 · 07-16-2008, 10:20 PM

ooh, interesting ; great find D:

reneeb · 07-16-2008, 10:29 PM

thats cool!

thanks for the find

Cps235 · 07-16-2008, 10:45 PM

Great! Thanks for posting!

Cow-1 · 07-16-2008, 10:52 PM

I always love hearing how the songs are created!!!! Last Name and So Small both #1s written in the same week!!! Written in January 2007 too! I love this interesting information.