You Look So Good in Love

"You Look So Good in Love"
Single by George Strait
from the album Right or Wrong
B-side	"A Little Heaven's Rubbing off on Me"
Released	September 22, 1983
Format	7" single
Recorded	July 20, 1983
Genre	Country
Length	3:13
Label	MCA 52279
Writer(s)	Glen Ballard Rory Michael Bourke Kerry Chater
Producer	Ray Baker
George Strait singles chronology
"A Fire I Can't Put Out" (1983) "You Look So Good in Love" (1983) "Right or Wrong" (1984)

"You Look So Good in Love" is the title of a song recorded by American country singer George Strait. It was released in September 1983 as the lead single from his album Right or Wrong.

Content

The narrator is a guy looking at his ex-lover fall in love with another guy. He realizes just how happy his former girlfriend looks now that she’s fallen in true love. He feels sorry for himself that he wasn’t the one to make her happy, but part of him realizes it wasn’t meant to be.

Music video

A video — Strait's first — was issued for the song. The video aired on The Nashville Network, CMT and GAC.

Chart performance

In January 1984, "You Look So Good in Love" was George Strait's third No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.

Chart (1983–1984)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1

References

Preceded by "Houston (Means I'm One Day Closer to You)" by Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers	Billboard Hot Country Singles number-one single January 7, 1984	Succeeded by "Slow Burn" by T. G. Sheppard
Preceded by "Take It to the Limit" by Waylon Jennings with Willie Nelson	RPM Country Tracks number-one single January 21, 1984	Succeeded by "Ozark Mountain Jubilee" by The Oak Ridge Boys