Sugarland - "Love"

With 1.5 albums sold already, "Love On The Inside" is continuing to look like a juggernaut of a release with the first two singles topping the charts.  Does this single follow the same course or will it's 'big sound' alienate the single from country radio?

An album-cut from last year's epic "Love On The Inside," hoping to transition into a single, "Love" might not showcase cutting edge songwriting. The effort truly is a bunch of lines, lines that could be passed off as sophomoric poetry, sewn together with the crooned question, "Is it love?" and the equally dismal answer, "I say it's love." Despite the clumsy lyrics, the song's production, with help from Byron Gallimore uses an ambient start, unlike anything in the genre, to build, with bursts in each chorus, to the thick, climax of a full song. Even this experimentation, though, feels much more like a movie soundtrack gem than a radio single.  On an album as big as "Love On The Inside," this single seemingly darted off the cohesiveness of the work. As the label continues to work the project, fan acceptance of songs like "Love" will be a determining factor as to whether it's an album that rings for a year, or is worthy of the "classic" jacket. At this time however, "Love" might not be deserving of such hasty attention.

0 Comments