The message of this song: Don't wait to tell someone how you feel about them. Don't hold back your feelings. What hurts the most is losing someone because you didn't tell them how much you care.
"What Hurts The Most" was first recorded by the country singer Mark Wills and included on his 2003 album And the Crowd Goes Wild. In 2006, Rascal Flatts took the song to the top of the Country and Adult Contemporary charts and #6 on The Billboard Hot 100. Meanwhile, in the UK the song first became a hit when the former S Club 7 member Jo O'Meara covered it for her debut solo release, reaching #13. In 2007, the German Eurodance trio Cascada released another version, this time re-interpreting it, despite the heartbreak lyric, as an uptempo Europop song. Their version made #10 UK and #52 US, but prompted Gary LeVox of Rascal Flatts to quip, "That's what hurt us the most."
"What Hurts The Most" was written by the international team of Jeffrey Steele and Steve Robson; Steele was based in Nashville and Robson is from Newcastle, England. Robson wrote the music and Steele added the lyric, but not until months later when he listened to the track and suddenly found inspiration. "The song was originally inspired by losing my father," he told Great American Country. "But I ended up changing the meaning and I made it more of a love song, to be more universal."
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