"She Couldn't Change Me" is a song written by Gary Nicholson and Chris Knight

Chris Knight (musician)

Chris Knight is a singer and songwriter from Kentucky. He only recently came to national attention, but has written songs for Confederate Railroad, John Anderson, and Randy Travis among others...

 and recorded by 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...

 duo Montgomery Gentry

Montgomery Gentry

Montgomery Gentry is an American country music duo composed of vocalists Eddie Montgomery and Troy Gentry. The two began performing in the 1990s as part of a band which also included Eddie Montgomery's brother John Michael Montgomery, and founded the existing duo in 1999.Signed to Columbia Records,...

. It was released in February 2001 as the lead-off single from their album Carrying On

Carrying On

Carrying On is the second album by country music duo Montgomery Gentry. It was released in 2001 . Certified gold in the United States, the album produced only two singles: "She Couldn't Change Me" and "Cold One Comin' On", which respectively reached #2 and #23 on the Hot Country Songs charts.-Track...

. It peaked at #2 on the Billboard 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...

 chart and at #37 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it one of their highest peaking crossover songs.

Content

In the first verse the song's narrator's woman leaves him and heads out west because she couldn't change him. In the second verse, she starts to think about the quiet country nights with him, and what she thought was so wrong with him had suddenly seemed alright. Then she heads back to him, and she says that when you love someone, you just gotta let it be.

Critical reception

Chuck Taylor, of Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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magazine reviewed the song favorably calling it a solid single and saying that Montgomery Gentry delivers the song with an "edgy energy that is immensely appealing."

Chart positions

"She Couldn't Change Me" debuted at #53 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the chart week of February 10, 2001.

Chart (2001)	Peak position