Blake Shelton has revealed that he almost recorded “I Wanna Talk About Me” before it became Toby Keith‘s number one hit. During an appearance on the Bobby Bones Show, Shelton said songwriter Bobby Braddock wrote the song specifically for him because Blake used to make up silly raps in the studio. His label, Giant Records, recorded the song for his first album, but after focus group testing came back terrible, they decided not to release it as a single or even put it on the album. The focus group results were so bad that the label said it was “horrifying” and shouldn’t be on his record at all. Toby Keith later recorded the song and it became a two-month number one hit in 2001. Shelton joked that the focus groups “really nailed it,” showing how wrong they can be.