Winner at a Losing Game

Winner at a Losing Game

Infobox Single
Name = Winner at a Losing Game


Artist = Rascal Flatts
Album = Still Feels Good
Released = October 2007
Format = CD Single
Recorded = 2007
Genre = Country
Length = 4:48
Label = Lyric Street
Writer = Jay DeMarcus
Gary LeVox
Joe Don Rooney
Producer = Dann Huff
Rascal Flatts
Certification =
Last single = "Take Me There"
(2007)
This single = "Winner at a Losing Game"
(2007)
Next single = "Every Day"
(2008)

"Winner at a Losing Game" is the title a single by the American country music group Rascal Flatts. It is the second single released from their album "Still Feels Good", as well as their nineteenth chart single overall. Released in late 2007, the song peaked at #2 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs charts in February 2008.

History

Rascal Flatts' three members (Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus, and Joe Don Rooney) wrote the song on their tour bus after a show late one night.Tucker, Ken (2007-08-25), "CAN RASCAL REPEAT?" "Billboard". 119 (34):20-22] According to DeMarcus, the trio began a conversation about their musical influences, when the Eagles, a popular soft rock band, was mentioned. Inspired by the fact that they would be performing with the Eagles at the 2007 Grammy Awards, the trio decided to write a song that was stylistically similar to the music of the Eagles.cite journal |last=Horner |first=Marianne |date=2008-03-24 |title=Story Behind the Song: "Winner at a Losing Game" |journal=Country Weekly |volume=15 |issue=6 |pages=64 |accessdate= 2008-03-13]

All three members then began to write the song that night. They came up with a verse and chorus that, according to "Country Weekly", "achingly express [es] a feeling we have all experienced — loving someone who just doesn't love you the same way". The next day, DeMarcus added the hook "If love is really forever, then I'm a winner at a losing game", and the song was soon finished.

LeVox, the lead singer of Rascal Flatts, considers the song special because it is the first single to be written entirely by the band's three members.

Chart performance

References


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