Ah, a love song that seems geared towards all the insecure girls out there. Actually I'm not sure if that was Hunter's intention or not, but that's the feel I get when I listen to this. This is a song about a guy who wants to make his girl feel wanted and rates fairly high on my newly invented aww-o-meter. As in my reaction to this song the first time I heard it was to "aww". I was curious to see what song would follow "Storm Warning" and this is an interesting choice. And a wise one in that it shows us another side of him, a more mature side perhaps. Hunter co-wrote this with Troy Verges and while I wouldn't call it best love song ever written, it's a solid one. There's a lot of good lines in here. The second verse, for example, "Anyone can tell you you're pretty (yeah)/You get that all the time, I know you do/but your beauty's deeper than the makeup/And I wanna show you what I see tonight". That and the verse/bridge after that, namely, "Better than your fairy tales/better than your best dreams/You're more than everything I need/you're all I ever wanted". There's such a sweetness about that that I like.
Musically speaking, it has a nice little energy to it, even for being a slower song. And cool when you consider that he played everything you're listening to. The music builds very nicely throughout that third verse and I love how it softens at the end of it to highlight his vocal there. My favorite moment musically. I also like the piano playing in the first part and the way the bass guitar comes in. There are a couple of moments at the end when the guitar feels oddly out of place and I'm not sure why that is. It's not enough to mess up the song, but I always notice it. Of course, now I find myself listening for it.
Hunter gives a nice and surprisingly sincere vocal in this. It's so obvious that he looks up to Gary LeVox from Rascal Flatts; there's certain things he does that are so Gary to me. For instance, the "I know you do". He'll need to make a point to develop his own style some more as he grows as an artist. He sounds so much like Gary at times and a lot of that's not his fault - they have a very similar tone to their voices and that won't change. I just want to see Hunter grow into his own sound instead of seeming like he's trying to sound like someone else. I'll give him a pass here since he's still pretty young; he has the talent, he just has to know how to build on it. This could very easily be a Rascal Flatts song and that makes me think that it should do pretty well. Solid single.
Musically speaking, it has a nice little energy to it, even for being a slower song. And cool when you consider that he played everything you're listening to. The music builds very nicely throughout that third verse and I love how it softens at the end of it to highlight his vocal there. My favorite moment musically. I also like the piano playing in the first part and the way the bass guitar comes in. There are a couple of moments at the end when the guitar feels oddly out of place and I'm not sure why that is. It's not enough to mess up the song, but I always notice it. Of course, now I find myself listening for it.
Hunter gives a nice and surprisingly sincere vocal in this. It's so obvious that he looks up to Gary LeVox from Rascal Flatts; there's certain things he does that are so Gary to me. For instance, the "I know you do". He'll need to make a point to develop his own style some more as he grows as an artist. He sounds so much like Gary at times and a lot of that's not his fault - they have a very similar tone to their voices and that won't change. I just want to see Hunter grow into his own sound instead of seeming like he's trying to sound like someone else. I'll give him a pass here since he's still pretty young; he has the talent, he just has to know how to build on it. This could very easily be a Rascal Flatts song and that makes me think that it should do pretty well. Solid single.
totally agree it does have a nice energy to it. he has a nice, clean, pure voice too. (I had listened to him prior to reading your review)
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