This song is about two lovers getting drunk and that the boyfriend doesn’t believe the girlfriend when she ends the relationship.

Wallen told “American Songwriter” that the he wanted the song to be a single. His idea was that it was to be an introduction to his style of performance, ostensibly to whet his audience’s appetite. The song delves deep into the dysfunction between the two lovers. She says that she wishes they had never met, and he says that he never wanted anything else from love but what she gave him. They trade accusations and “makeups” back and forth. Eventually, she leaves, and he says that he doesn’t think it’s over and that there was no way that it was their last night together.

A Disturbing Undertone

Despite Wallen’s upbeat take on both “Last Night” and the other singles on the album, the song is much darker underneath than it first appears. The boyfriend in the song isn’t really listening to the girlfriend. He’s saying that there was liquor talking on both sides and downplays the girlfriend’s wishes. She leaves, giving him a clear boundary, and he continues to minimize her feelings, crossing that boundary and saying, “No way this is the end,” when it clearly is after she slams the door after packing her things.

No Stranger to Controversy

Wallen has been in hot water several times before. In 2021, TMZ released a video of Wallen drunkenly using a racial slur to describe someone in his driveway, and his poor behavior while disregarding COVID-19 protocols has alienated many. Still, “Last Night” dueled Miley Cyrus’s “Flowers” for the top of the charts, which is interesting because Cyrus’s hit lambastes the kind of controversial male attitudes that Wallen has shown in the past. One of Slate’s writers opined that Wallen’s “Last Night” was doing as well as it was not because it was a great song but because certain demographics of the population wanted to prove a point. The country star was also canceled by one of his record labels, removed from concert lineups, and told that he was not welcome on “Saturday Night Live.” These kind of metaphorical dust-ups have led the Guardian to call Wallen “Amercia’s most controversial country-music star.”

Chart Success

All 36 of Wallen’s songs from his latest album, however, were on the charts at the same time. That broke Drake’s previous record of 27. Of that group, “Last Night” was Wallen’s first song to hit No. 1.


Lyrics

Last night we let the liquor talk
I can’t remember everything we said but we said it all
You told me that you wish I was somebody you never met
But baby, baby somethin’s tellin’ me this ain’t over yet
No way it was our last night

I kiss your lips
Make you grip the sheets with your fingertips
Last bottle of Jack we split a fifth
Just talk about life goin’ sip for sip
You, you know you love to fight
And I say shit I don’t mean
But I’m still gon’ wake up wantin’ you and me

I know that last night we let the liquor talk
I can’t remember everything we said but we said it all
You told me that you wish I was somebody you never met
But baby, baby somethin’s tellin’ me this ain’t over yet
No way it was our last night
No way it was our last night

No way it was the last night that we break up
I see your tail lights in the dust
You call your momma, I call your bluff
In the middle of the night, pull it right back up
Yeah my, my friends say let her go
Your friends say what the hell
I wouldn’t trade your kind of love for nothin’ else

Oh baby, last night we let the liquor talk
I can’t remember everything we said but we said it all
You told me that you wish I was somebody you never met
But baby, baby somethin’s tellin’ me this ain’t over yet

No way it was our last night, we said we’d had enough
I can’t remember everything we said but we said too much
I know you packed your shit and slammed the door right before you left
But baby, baby somethin’s tellin’ me this ain’t over yet
No way it was our last night
No way it was our last night

I know you said this time you really weren’t coming back again
But baby, baby somethin’s tellin’ me this ain’t over yet
No way it was our last night
No way it was our last night

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Ashley Gorley / Jacob Kasher / Ryan Vojtesak / John Byron

Last Night lyrics © Sony/atv Songs Llc, Sony/atv Cross Keys Publishing, Big Loud Mountain, Master Of My Domain Music, Poppy’s Picks

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