Why Luke Combs Says Writing ‘Beautiful Crazy’ for Wife Nicole Hocking Was a ‘Total Baller Move’: “I wrote that song about my wife before we were even dating”
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Luke Combs knew his wife Nicole Hocking Combs was the one long before they began dating. The country star and Hocking Combs officially tied the knot on August 1, but while guesting on Lindsay Czarniak’s new podcast titled The Artist and The Athlete, Combs revealed that he wrote his hit track “Beautiful Crazy” for his leading lady “probably like three, four months” after they met.
When asked which of his tunes is his favorite, the singer responded, “‘Beautiful Crazy’ for me … I mean [it] won song of the year [at the 2019 CMA Awards], which was probably the number one [goal] on my bucket list.”
“I wrote that song about my wife before we were even dating [and it ended up being] the first dance at our wedding,” Combs said. “There’s no way that any other song will top that as far as sentimental value for me.”
Combs vividly recalls the first time he played the tune for his now-wife. “Oh, she loved it,” he affirmed. “… She always deflects the attention [she felt] in that [moment], which I get. If someone played me a song about me [three, four months in], I would be probably pretty uncomfortable about it. So I get it.”
In the moment, Hocking Combs kept her cool. But for Combs, writing “Beautiful Crazy” “was [a] total baller move for sure.”
“I’m not much of a ladies’ man,” he added. “But I was pretty proud of this one. I had written it, maybe two days before [I played it for her].”
The first time he shared it with Hocking Combs, she had invited him to her place, so he played the song on “this little Victrola record player,” which he had previously given her as a gift. “One of her friends was over there. I was like, ‘Well, this is perfect.’ Because if I play it while the friend is over, there’s no way the friend is going to not think this is the sweetest thing that anyone’s ever done for someone. So, I played the song when the friend was over there. Of course, her friend was like, ‘Oh my God, it’s so sweet.'”
For Combs, the moment was a masterstroke of romantic strategy, combining genuine sentiment with a dash of calculated charm. It’s a testament to his songwriting prowess and his deep feelings for Nicole, proving that sometimes, the best love stories are written in lyrics.
