Comments on: Sara Evans, “Feels Just Like a Love Song”

By: highwayman3

highwayman3 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:12:13 +0000

Is it too early to declare this song dead? I’ve been waiting for it to show up in mediabases top 50. I just checked the spincreases and taking off charts and its not there. It’s not looking good, not only for this song, but her career. A failed lead single off an album is the kiss of death.
Hopefully I’m wrong, but I would predict this single will do more then hover in the lower rungs of the charts before falling off and landing somewhere between, ‘Biker Chick’ and ‘Dirty Girl’

By: Leeann Ward

Leeann Ward — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:32:34 +0000

Then I’m really not a true fan of anyone, because there’s absolutely no artist who hasn’t recorded a song I don’t like at some point in his/her career. And I certainly won’t support a song I don’t like in the name of being a true fan, no matter who the artist is.

By: Razor X

Razor X — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:51:12 +0000

Well, count me as someone who isn’t a true fan, then because I’m not going to pretend a bad song is good, no matter who is singing it.

Yes, I’ve heard “What That Drink Cost Me”, and yes it is a great song. But that’s not the song we’re talking about right now. In fact, knowing that Sara is capable of delivering songs like “What That Drink Cost Me” makes it all the more disappointing when she falls short of the mark, as she does with “Feels Just Like A Love Song.”

By: samy

samy — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:13:32 +0000

seriously you dont think this is good if yall were true fans you would love anything and this song is amazing in my opinion and have you heard the song what that drink cost me from her ?? look it up and then say shes not trying to deliver!!

By: Razor X

Razor X — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:34:08 +0000

No need to apologize, Steve. I don’t think we’re too far apart in our thinking on this topic.

By: Steve from Boston

Steve from Boston — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:26:18 +0000

Razor, I do apologize for the “are you saying Sara can’t sing” remark…I know from many of your other posts that you do like her, and I too, am not happy with some of her musical choices lately ( the GH add ons especially, except for As If, but I did like Low., and see a sign of hope in What That Drink Cost Me more so than with this current single.) So pardon my reflexive and unthinking comment there…I should have known better.

By: Steve from Boston

Steve from Boston — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:43:40 +0000

Well, that’s not good…it seems, then, to be a crutch for both some singers as well as the producers themselves!

By: William Ward

William Ward — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:47:44 +0000

Live is less accurate than in the studio. The echo is when it is not working quite on time, doesn’t happen all the time (almost never in a recording).

Also, the closer you are to the actual notes, the less it kicks in. There are other songs from the same performance I linked that it is much harder to notice. You miss it if you are not looking for it.

I think it has just become part of the recording industry. I heard you can pick up on it in Alica keys albums (I have not listened myself) and no one thinks she can’t sing. The problem being it isn’t perfect; perhaps more important is that it is being used more than occasionally to save studio time, it is being used to push non-singers.

By: Steve from Boston

Steve from Boston — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:35:39 +0000

Thanks Bill, that’s Shania though…it sounds almost like a tinny faint echo…but I don’t hear that in Sara’s recordings or performances…again, my untrained ears could be missing it.

Great to see Shania again, she’s awesome, great at what she does, for what it is.

By: William Ward

William Ward — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:22:07 +0000

It’s kicking in almost the entire time, but start paying attention at about 47 seconds. At about 50 seconds, just before the chorus (and through, though there is an echo as well that drowns it out some) it kicks in very heavy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHtuGMHWAf0

It is really strong through almost the entire song, but particularly around 1:25 pay close attention to “life has begun” and around 1:50 “I have been blessed.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qv6_RE9YVk