You Look Like I Need A Drink

Penned by Nashville songwriters Rodney Clawson ("Bartender," "Burnin' It Down") Matt Dragstrem ("Sippin' On Fire," "Turn It On") and Natalie Hemby ("Pontoon," "Automatic") , this cut finds Justin Moore singing of the impending feeling of a breakup about to happen. It was Hemby who suggested the idea during the trio's writing appointment at Big Loud Shirt Music. The threesome paired the lyrics with an instrumental track that Dragstrem had worked up prior to the session and Clawson then recorded the vocals for the demo that same day. Their first port of call was Blake Shelton, but it never drew any interest from Shelton's camp. Big Loud Shirt creative director Matt Turner then played the demo for Justin Moore's long-time producer Jeremy Stover, who emailed it onto the singer. He loved it and within around an hour of getting the email, Moore responded to Stover, "Love this, make sure we have this locked down." Moore recalled to Billboard magazine: "When I saw the title, I was going, 'Man, I've got to hear this song,' and I had a completely different thought of what it would probably be." "Then after I heard it, I thought it was just a great hook and it's unique, and one of those songs that as a songwriter you go, 'I cannot believe nobody's written this before.' More specifically, 'I can't believe I haven't written this.'"

The song was announced as the lead single to Moore's fourth studio album. When he played it live for the first time on October 23, 2015 in Fayetteville, Arkansas, the singer knew from the reception it got that he'd made the right choice. "By the second chorus, everybody's singing the chorus, which is just crazy because I think it had been out on iTunes for maybe a day or two," he said. "That speaks volumes of the songwriters' ability to do what they did."

Moore noted that while the song is about a break-up between two lovers it was written loosely enough that it can take on a wider meaning. "It actually says absolutely nothing about a romantic relationship," he said. "It could be a boss walking in and you go, 'Oh, no,' or a coach coming in about to rip on a player. A romantic relationship is inferred."