Baby just say… no.
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Alfred Soto: Why this country quintet left on the caps lock when thinking of a name is a mystery unanswered by the lethargic well-intentioned dude-ism of this weeper.
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Edward Okulicz: I honestly wouldn’t be able to tell whether this was, is, or could have been, the greatest love story ever from the dude’s voice. Could have been about a particularly nice whiskey for all I can hear in the delivery. The quick script-flipping at the end is told as if the band’s under heavy sedation.
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Ramzi Awn: A fine country verse with a cringeworthy hook, “Greatest Love Story” is impressively devoid of passion, and the in-between that it tries to find between old and new falls on deaf ears.
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Iain Mew: The careful, gentle arrangement leaves lots of space for the song’s emotions to spread out in. Which is a problem when they fail in delivering any, taking the most prosaic of stories and failing to give it any spark, or even to keep it internally consistent through the first verse — she wouldn’t touch him but she was going too far with him? The only reason the proposal doesn’t feel like the most undeserved thing at the end is because it’s sharing space with the leap to calling this the greatest love story in the world.
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Will Adams: At first I scoffed at the title’s lofty promises, but after a few listens it made perfect sense. The “Greatest Love Story” it is not, but it is a great distillation of all the more interesting ones into their essential building blocks. He, a cookie cutter nice guy, and she, a soft silhouette of chasteness, have a fling and grow old together through a deep connection that exists because the script says so. It’s not taken to a satirical level, though, so the result is a truly bland narrative that wastes its delicate arrangement.
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Josh Langhoff: Like a nostalgic camera, one LANCO, a new country outfit lolling around Nashville’s corner offices, limns a normative, contemporary occasion — Love! Affiancing? Nuptials? CONSUMMATION??? — over lazy anecdote. #NeverChange, outlaws.
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