We’re only happy when it rains…
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Will Adams: Seemingly engineered for Hot AC crossover, “Every Storm (Runs Out of Rain)” hits all of the stops: shimmering guitars, echoed vocals, and a structure cribbed from a classic power ballad. This makes it entirely pleasant to listen to, but only a flick of the wrist away from another station.
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Alfred Soto: Every cowboy sings a sad, sad song too. The worst part: Allan could do a helluva job on “Every Rose Has Its Thorn.”
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Anthony Easton: I liked this better when it was called “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” and was by Poison, which is a shame because Gary Allen has some pretty amazing heartbreak songs in his repertoire.
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Edward Okulicz: Overwrought power ballads are potentially great things, and the bitter wisdom of an aw-shucks country lament is also potentially a great thing, but trying to do them at once is a high-wire act Allan’s not good enough to pull off. The guitars chime and Allan’s notes fumble valiantly for heartstrings, but there’s no connection in a chorus full of placeholder metaphors.
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Brad Shoup: McGraw has recently discovered the still small Allan’s been working since “Smoke Rings in the Dark”. But Gary’s never presented a situation so gnarled as “The One That Got Away”. Instead, he yields an agreeable piece of faint pain that probably won’t hook the adults who are headbanging to the Lumineers.
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Iain Mew: The first verse is the only one where there’s any actual suggestion of heartbreak and storms. It leaves far too little impression to make any of the beseeching of hope afterwards justified, never mind original. Decent solo though.
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