Reba Nell McEntire (born on March 28, 1955 - Kiowa, Oklahoma, USA) is a Gra… Read Full Bio ↴Reba Nell McEntire (born on March 28, 1955 - Kiowa, Oklahoma, USA) is a Grammy Award-winning singer and one of the best-selling country music performers of all time, known for her pop-tinged ballads that include 24 #1 hits. She has issued 28 studio albums and 13 compilations, with more than 50 million records sold as of 2007.

With a contract to Mercury Records (1975), McEntire began her professional career singing heavily pop-influenced ballads, a far cry from the neotraditionalist movement she would help lead a few years later.

"I Don't Want To Be A One Night Stand" became her first charting single in 1976. Her first Top 10 hit "(You Lift Me) Up to Heaven" followed four years later, and in 1982 she scored her first #1 hit with "Can't Even Get The Blues."

Frustrated at her limited commercial success, McEntire left Mercury and signed with MCA Records in 1984. 1984's "Just A Little Love" wasn't much different form her Mercury material and was only moderately successful. However, another album followed later that same year, titled "My Kind of Country." This was a return-to-roots record, complete with fiddles and steel. It was comprised largely of covers of classic country songs, as well as original songs such as "How Blue" and the Harlan Howard-penned "Somebody Should Leave", both of which reached #1 on the Billboard country singles chart.

In the early 1990s McEntire expanded her audience by adopting a softer, more pop-oriented sound. She became one of the best-selling country artists of all time, releasing three volumes of greatest hits collections.

Since that first #1 hit in 1982, she's forked out 21 more chartbusters, which are all recapped on "Reba #1s" released on November 22nd, 2005. The 2-disc compilation features all 22 number one singles (according to Billboard magazine) in chronological order, including two new tracks "You're Gonna Be" and "Love Needs A Holiday." "Reba #1s" also contains 11 singles that reached the #1 spot in publications other than Billboard.

She won the Female Vocalist of the Year award from the Country Music Association four times in a row (a record she holds with Martina McBride), and had dozens of Top Ten hits during the 80s. For her contribution to the recording industry, Reba McEntire has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7000 Hollywood Blvd. In 1995, she was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

She is one of only six solo women (others include Shania Twain, Barbara Mandrell, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, and Taylor Swift), to win the Country Music Association's highest honor, "Entertainer Of The Year". McEntire continued to hit the charts through the 2000s, as well as appearing in television and film, most notably Tremors, a cult horror movie series, Forever Love, and One Night at McCool's. She also starred as Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun on Broadway, receiving critical acclaim.

From 2001 to 2007, Reba starred in the hit WB television show, Reba (with Texan actor Christopher Rich as her philandering ex-husband), even getting a visit from fellow country star Dolly Parton who played Reba's character's supervisor at a real estate firm.

Look At The One
Reba McEntire Lyrics

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Aren't you tired of looking
For love you never find
Aren't you tired of playing games

With 20/20 vision
How is your heart so blind
It's all you wanted love to be
Is close enough for you to see

[Chorus]
Look at the one who's been looking at you
Look at the one who's love would be true
You might be surprised
At the love that's shining in her eyes
Look at the one who's so easily found
Look at the one and stop looking around
Look at the one who's been looking at you

I'm standing here just hoping
You're gonna look my way
But you're too busy chasing dreams to see

But when the dreams are faded
There's gonna come a day
That I can give you sweet, sweet love
And all the things you're dreaming of

[Chorus: x2]

Overall Meaning

The song "Look At The One" by Reba McEntire is a soulful ballad that talks about how people keep searching for love that they never seem to find. The opening lines of the song ask, "Aren't you tired of looking for love you never find? Aren't you tired of playing games?" This suggests that the singer is talking to someone who's been searching for love, but is yet to find it, or has been settling for less than they deserve. It's like the singer is saying, "you've been searching for love, always looking for something, but never finding it, why don't you look at the person who's been looking at you all along."

The chorus, "Look at the one who's been looking at you, look at the one who's love would be true," is a call to action by the singer for the singer's love interest to pay attention to them, to see that the person who's been looking at them loves them for who they are and is willing to be true to them. The singer is practically saying that they are right there, and there is no need to keep searching for love when they are right in front of the singer's love interest. The lyrics suggest that sometimes love can be found in the simplest and most unexpected places, and it's important to pay attention to the people around us, to look beyond the superficial and truly see the person in front of us.

The song's message is that true love is not always easy to find, and it's important to pay attention to the person who has been looking at you all this while, the one who's been quietly waiting for you to notice them. It's a call to action to stop searching and settle down with someone who loves and cares for you. It's a reminder to look deeper into the people around us and not be blinded by our own perceptions of love.

Line by Line Meaning

Aren't you tired of looking
Are you exhausted from searching?

For love you never find
Seeking an elusive love?

Aren't you tired of playing games
Weary of playing the game of love?

With 20/20 vision
Despite perfect eyesight

How is your heart so blind
Why is your emotional vision lacking?

It's all you wanted love to be
Your idealized notion of love

Is close enough for you to see
Your perfect romance is within reach

Look at the one who's been looking at you
Consider the one who's been admiring you

Look at the one who's love would be true
Observe the one whose love would be faithful

You might be surprised
You may feel unexpected

At the love that's shining in her eyes
by the affection beaming from her gaze