"If I Didn't Love You" is a heartbreaking piano ballad where Jason Aldean and Carrie Underwood sing of how they can't move on. In their verses, both reveal similar feelings of emotional pain. We don't know what caused the breakdown of their relationship, but it's clear they still both love each other. By the end of the song, the two are trading anguished lines as the listeners too despair why they can't get together again.
Two of Aldean's band members, Kurt Allison and Tully Kennedy, wrote the song with John Morgan and Lydia Vaughan. The singer told Apple Music Country host Kelleigh Bannen he wanted to record a duet for his 10th album and was "trying to force it with other songs." This track came through late in the process after Allison and Kennedy decided to try to come up with something.
When Aldean's band members presented him with this duet, he put Carrie Underwood at the top of his list. They sent it to her, she loved the song, and the timing worked out perfectly. According to Aldean, when Underwood laid down her vocals, she "just nailed it." She "took the song to a whole different place," he said.
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