It featured Mark McGrath, lead singer of Sugar Ray. The music video was directed by Nick Egan and premiered the week of November 20, 2000. Following the release of the album Double Wide on iTunes, the song re-entered the UK Singles Chart on August 26, 2012, at number 64 and reached number 44. In the United Kingdom, the song peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart in September 2001. The single also reached number seven on the adult contemporary chart. In the United States, it peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart the week of June 9, 2001, and is Uncle Kracker's highest-charting single release to date. The song went to number one in Australia, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, and Sweden. That song is like a dirty picture painted with a pretty brush.' Chart performance

I would never want to say anything that would get myself in trouble, being married with a couple of kids. I've heard some people think that I'm talking about drugs, or some people think I'm talking about cheating. And this song was supposed to have that, but after we recorded it, I was like, 'Man, that could be something for radio,' so we switched it back.

'hen we first started recording that song, with us being from Detroit, that song was supposed to be this doo-wop/Motown song - something different, because every song's got its own little twist. In a 2001 interview with MTV News, Uncle Kracker stated that 'Follow Me' was 'definitely different' from other songs on Double Wide:

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