Written by Blair Daly, Hillary Lindsey, and Troy Verges, it is the only song on the album which Isabella did not co-write.
[1] It was sent to Canadian country radio November 14, 2012 through Sony Music Canada as the album's fourth single.
Its instrumentation consists primarily of guitar, while its lyrics tell the story of a girl who moves on from a dead-end relationship and informs the object of her affection that she is "through singing songs about you."
The song's confessional nature has been compared to the work of American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, with Jesse Kinos-Goodin of CBC Music noting that Isablla "certainly has the diary-entry-as-song formula down.
[4] The official music video for "Songs About You" was directed by Ben Knechtel and premiered exclusively through CMT on November 16, 2012.