"All I Want to Do" is a song co-written and recorded by American

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duo

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. It was released in May 2008 as the first single from their album ''

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'', which was released on July 22, 2008. The duo's two members, lead vocalist

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and mandolinist/background vocalist

Kristian Bush Kristian Merrill Bush (born March 14, 1970) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Bush is one half of the country music duo Sugarland with Jennifer Nettles, and was a member of the folk rock duo Billy Pilgrim with Andrew Hyr ...

, wrote the song with singer

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, with whom the duo also co-wrote their late-2006 single "

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". On the ''

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chart dated for August 16, 2008, "All I Want to Do" became Sugarland's third Number One hit. It was also a pop hit, peaking at No. 18 on the U.S. ''Billboard''

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chart, their highest peaking single on the Hot 100 until " Stuck Like Glue" debuted at number 17 in 2010. "All I Want to Do" was certified

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by the RIAA on October 9, 2008, and later certified

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on April 30, 2010. It has sold 1,367,000 copies as of April 2013.

Content

The song is an up-tempo in which the central character is a female, telling her male partner that all she wants to do is love him, instead of tending to other tasks such as household chores.

, with whom Sugarland wrote the song, describes it as "a simple song about not having to accomplish anything because it's already accomplished. All you have to do is lay around and enjoy each other." A central part of the song is a

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in the chorus, where several "ooh"s are added onto the word "do". This section of the song was inspired by one of

's home videos, which

and Pinson were watching at the time. The video featured Bush's wife trying to teach their then-two-year-old daughter to dance, and the wife was singing a series of "do"s. Pinson thought that the melody "had a good little groove to it", and decided to use it in a song.

Critical reception

Engine 145 critic Matt C. gave the song a "thumbs down" review, saying that although the song had a good beat and melody, it was lyrically sparse, and seemed to focus primarily on the "ooh ooh"s in the chorus. He called it "catchy, but not in a good way".

Commercial performance

"All I Want to Do" entered the ''

charts at #27 on the chart dated for June 7, 2008, giving the duo its highest-debuting single of their career (surpassing "

", which debuted at #36 in 2006). Overall, it is the duo's third Number One hit on the ''Billboard'' country charts.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Release history

References

{{authority control 2008 singles 2008 songs Sugarland songs Songs written by Kristian Bush Songs written by Jennifer Nettles Songs written by Bobby Pinson Music videos directed by Shaun Silva Song recordings produced by Byron Gallimore Mercury Nashville singles