Songfacts®:

• Scotty McCreery's second single finds the Season 10 American Idol champ singing about the number one preoccupation for most teenagers: girls. He croons, "They smile that smile/ They bat those eyes/ They steal you with hello/ They kill you with goodbye/ They hook you with one touch/ And you can't break free/ Yeah, the trouble with girls/ Is nobody loves trouble as much as me." The song was premiered on radio on August 30, 2011.
• The 17-year-old sought approval for the song from one particular girl - his sister. "It's a really sweet song," Scotty said. "I played it for my sister and I said, 'Would you like to hear what's said in this song?' She said, 'I would love to have a guy say some of this stuff to me.'"
• The song was co-written by Nashville songwriter Chris Tompkins whose credits include tunes recorded by Carrie Underwood, Martina McBride and Jimmy Buffett. The other co-writer Phillip White has had songs recorded by the likes of Reba McEntire, Jason Aldean and Blake Shelton. The two songwriters have known each other for a long time as they both hail from the same Alabama town. Tompkins told The Boot about the penning of this song: "We ran into each other this summer and got together to write. I usually always write at my studio at [publishing company] Big Loud Shirt, so I can use my Pro Tools, but Phillip proposed that we do it at Universal. I thought, "That's a good idea. It will be old-school -- two writers with a guitar and a piano -- with no toys to play with and interrupt the creative process." It was a good change from my everyday norm.
  
  The song actually started with Phillip having the title, 'The Trouble With Girls,' and the first verse, and the spin at the end of the chorus. I sat down at the grand piano and worked out the melody for the verse. At that point, we didn't really have a chorus, and it felt like we needed to get somewhere big, musically, very quickly. Then out of nowhere, I started singing the line, 'they smile that smile,' and a second later Phillip chimed in with 'bat those eyes,' and after that we knew we were on to something.
  
  Phillip stayed on me to go over to my spot to do a work tape. I feel like I owe a lot to Phillip for making me get off my lazy butt to demo it quickly. Phillip's a great guy and a great songwriter and friend. He knows how to reach in and pinch off a piece of your heart, and we've always been a good pairing."
• Tompkins had one eye on getting a song onto the American Idol winner's debut album. He told The Boot: "The best thing about getting this cut - and the same thing happened before Carrie cut 'Before He Cheats' - I knew that if I were lucky enough to get an 'American Idol' cut, this was an album I'd love to be on. I always thought Scotty was a frontrunner and I'm proud to be a part of this."
• Scotty discussed why he chose this as the lead single from his debut album: "I told my mom, 'If you were at home doing dishes, this is the kind of song that makes you stop what you are doing and listen to it.' It has a haunting melody. After I listened to the demo once, I found myself singing it in the room and going out to dinner and humming it to myself there. When you hear that kind of song and you can't help but keep singing it, you know you've got a good one."
• When Scotty first announced the title of the song it surprised some of his female fans. He explained: "On Twitter, when I said my new single coming out tomorrow is 'The Trouble With Girls,' all the girls were like, 'What do you mean, the trouble with girls? We aren't trouble.' But when you hear it, it's really a sweet song that talks about all of the great things about girls, like how pretty they are and how they have wonderful smiles. It's talks about things girls like to hear."
• The song's music video finds Scotty returning to Garner Magnet High School. Rather than using local actors, he chose his own classmates to play themselves in the clip.