Maybe I Mean Yes

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ReleasedJuly 1991 (1991-07)
Length2:59
"Maybe I Mean Yes"
Single by Holly Dunn
from the album Milestones: Greatest Hits
B-side"Daddy's Hands"[1]
ReleasedJuly 1991 (1991-07)
GenreCountry
Length2:59
LabelWarner Bros. Nashville
Songwriter(s)[1]
Producer(s)
  • Dunn
  • Waters
[2]
Holly Dunn singles chronology
"Heart Full of Love"
(1991)
"Maybe I Mean Yes"
(1991)
"No One Takes the Train Anymore"
(1991)

"Maybe I Mean Yes" is a song by American country music singer Holly Dunn. It was a new song from her 1991 compilation Milestones: Greatest Hits, from which it was released as a single in 1991. Dunn wrote and produced the song with her brother Chris Waters. The song was withdrawn from airplay at Dunn's request, just weeks after its release and while climbing the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, due to controversy over the song's lyrics.

Written by Dunn along with her brother Chris Waters and songwriter Tom Shapiro, the song is about a flirtatious woman. Dunn herself described the song as a "lighthearted look at one couple's attempt at dating, handled in an innocent, nonsexual, flirtatious way."[3]

Critical reception

Kimmy Wix of Cash Box wrote that the song "drives her scorching vocals to an all-time-high performance" and that it "also ranks high on the list with commanding lyrics, spicy instrumentation and a barreling tempo that conjures up a musical storm."[2]

Controversy

Chart performance

References

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