Most people know Ryan's last album was a remake of Taylor Swift's 1989. I buy anything Adam's puts out and no one covers songs as well as Mr. Adams. This one was on faith for me as I really am not a fan of Taylor Swift. I listened and the songs sounded good, like Ryan Adams songs. I think I call it the 4 stages of denial of Taylor Swift -anger/rejection/fear/bargaining/acceptance. It went from "This is going to weak" to "A few songs are good only because Ryan Adams is so great" to "Geez this isn't a bad song she wrote to "Damn girl may not write in my genre but she can write."
This Love was actually a song I liked the least on first listens. Another end of year list put this on it and that's when I told myself "listen to the songs with fresh unbiased ear." I did and I started to connect with it once I got past all the back story and assumptions just listening to the song. It was good and evolved as I listened more and soon it was my favorite song on the album and this is where it lands.
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