"Complicated" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by Canadian country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 singer Carolyn Dawn Johnson

Carolyn Dawn Johnson

Carolyn Dawn Johnson is a Canadian Juno Award winning country music singer-songwriter. Johnson first rose to fame by co-writing Chely Wright's 1999 Number One single, "Single White Female," which reached number one on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in September 1999...

. It was released in April 2001 the second single from her 2001 debut album Room with a View

Room with a View (album)

Room with a View is the debut album of Canadian country music artist Carolyn Dawn Johnson, and was released on August 7, 2001 on Arista Nashville. Certified gold by the CRIA, it produced two consecutive Number One hits for Johnson on the Canadian country singles charts in "Georgia" and...

. The song was also her second entry on two U.S. singles charts, peaking at number 5 on Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

) and number 59 on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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. It also reached #15 on that magazine's Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks

Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks

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chart.

Content

"Complicated" is a mid-tempo country pop ballad where the female narrator expresses her fear of admitting her strong feelings to the object of her affection - a good friend, calling her feelings "complicated."

Chart performance

"Complicated" debuted at number 55 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of April 21, 2001.

Chart (2001)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	5
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	59
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks	15
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks	39