{"id":58705,"date":"2026-02-23T16:05:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/aaron-tippins-no-1-hit-kiss-this-was-written-as-a-gag\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T16:05:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:05:37","slug":"aaron-tippins-no-1-hit-kiss-this-was-written-as-a-gag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/aaron-tippins-no-1-hit-kiss-this-was-written-as-a-gag\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Tippin&#8217;s No. 1 Hit &#8216;Kiss This&#8217; Was Written as a Gag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/tags\/aaron-tippen\">Aaron Tippin<\/a> and his wife Thea sat down in their home gym to write &#8220;Kiss This&#8221; back in 2000, they never meant for it to even be heard, let alone be a No.1 hit song.<\/p>\n<p>Tippin stopped by <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/nights\">Taste of Country Nights<\/a> where I asked them for the story behind one of Tippin&#8217;s most iconic songs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the Story Behind Aaron Tippin&#8217;s &#8220;Kiss This&#8221;?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tippin said ,&#8221;We would always write in our gym at the house, and Phillip Douglas came over, our buddy, and we were going to write that day. And we said &#8216;We got this silly idea, let&#8217;s just write it.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was one of those songs that just came out very quickly. We kind of laughed about it and were like, &#8216;Ain&#8217;t nothing gonna happen. Nothing&#8217;s happening with that.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"branded-app-shortcode-inarticle\">\n<div class=\"logo-wrap\" rel=\"fwef\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Little did Tippin know that the song would go on to be a No.1 \u2014 his last No. 1 hit, in fact.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read More<\/em>:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/essential-90s-country-songs\/\">Best \u201990s Country Songs: 50 Must-Haves for Your Old School Playlist<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We laughed when we thought about it,&#8221; Tippin recalls. &#8220;We were like &#8216;Well, we turned it into the label,&#8217; because we had a certain amount of songs that we had to turn in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, this No.1 song was turned into the record label as a quota fill from Tippin. Kind of like a &#8220;Here ya go, it&#8217;s stupid, but you said I needed to write a certain number of songs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thea Tippin, Aaron&#8217;s wife, recalls the exact moment she found out that not only did the record label like the song, they wanted to make it the first single from his <em>People Like Us<\/em> record.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was on the treadmill and Doug Howard called and said &#8216;This is going to be the single.&#8217; We were surprised!&#8221; she remembers.<\/p>\n<h3>How Many Number One Songs Does Aaron Tippin Have?<\/h3>\n<p>Aaron Tippin has 3 No.1 songs under his belt.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>&#8220;There Ain\u2019t Nothin\u2019 Wrong with the Radio&#8221; (1992)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;That\u2019s as Close as I\u2019ll Get to Loving You&#8221; (1995)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Kiss This&#8221; (2000)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Here are some other legendary 2000s country songs you&#8217;ll likely remember.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photogallery-wrapper blog-photogallery \">\n<h2 class=\"photogallery-title\">Forgotten 2000s Country Songs: 40 Great Country Hits, 2000-2009<\/h2>\n<div class=\"photogallery-description\">\n<p>Enjoy 40 of the best songs from 2000 to 2009. Each one came and went like a tornado. Most deserve a little more respect 15, 20 or 25 years later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/author\/billydukes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billy Dukes<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"photogallery-wrapper blog-photogallery \">\n<h2 class=\"photogallery-title\">The 20 Saddest Country Songs of the 2000s<\/h2>\n<div class=\"photogallery-description\">\n<p>The 2000s delivered some of country music&#8217;s stone-cold saddest songs, <em>ever<\/em>. Read on for Taste of Country&#8217;s round-up of the biggest and best weepers of the decade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/author\/cliptak\" target=\"_blank\">Carena Liptak<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/rest\/carbon\/api\/scripts.js?mver=75&#038;gver=9&#038;bid=204&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fbtloader.com%2Ftag%3Fo%3D5642230212591616%26upapi%3Dtrue&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.p-n.io%2Fpushly-sdk.min.js%3Fdomain_key%3DGbJ4PR9JZzdxdLXzJnfIG9ZgkXSFQNevIcIY&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Ftownsquare.media%2Fpublic%2Fresources%2Fjs%2Fpubcid.min.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fplatform.twitter.com%2Fwidgets.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fapis.google.com%2Fjs%2Fplatform.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fconnect.facebook.net%2Fen_US%2Fsdk.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.pinterest.com%2Fjs%2Fpinit.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer data-osano=\"ESSENTIAL\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/aaron-tippin-kiss-this-story-behind-the-song\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Aaron Tippin and his wife Thea sat down in their home gym to write &#8220;Kiss This&#8221; back in 2000, they never meant for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":58706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}