I Just Wanna Be Mad

"I Just Wanna Be Mad"
Single by Terri Clark
from the album Pain to Kill
B-side"Three Mississippi"[1]
ReleasedAugust 19, 2002
GenreCountry
Length3:26
LabelMercury Nashville
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Byron Gallimore
Terri Clark singles chronology
"Empty"
(2001)
"I Just Wanna Be Mad"
(2002)
"Three Mississippi"
(2003)
Music video
"I Just Wanna Be Mad" at CMT.com

"I Just Wanna Be Mad" is a song written by Kelley Lovelace and Lee Thomas Miller and recorded by Canadian country music artist Terri Clark. The song was released on August 19, 2002, as the lead single to her fifth studio album Pain to Kill (2003) through Mercury Nashville. The song was originally offered to John Michael Montgomery, but he passed on it.[2]

The song peaked at number 2 on the US Hot Country Songs chart, and it reached number 27 on the Billboard Hot 100.[3] The song was nominated at the 2003 Juno Awards for Country Recording of the Year.[4] The music video was nominated at the 2003 CMT Flameworthy Awards for Female Video of the Year and Cocky Video of the Year.

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. pp. 95–96. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
  2. ^ Terri Clark Pain to Thrill
  3. ^ "Chart listing for "I Just Wanna Be Mad"". Billboard. Retrieved April 23, 2012.
  4. ^ "Artist Summary | The JUNO Awards". Juno Award. Retrieved April 23, 2012.