ADAM DOLEAC

                                                               "Don't Make Me Get Over You" 

                                                                Sony Music Nashville

Following fan favorites “Wrong Side of a Sunrise” and his heartfelt ode to his wife, “Biggest Fan,” Adam Doleac has continued to walk the perfect balance of introducing his newest material while satisfying requests from his exuberant fan base since releasing his very well received album, Barstool Whiskey Wonderland.

Known by the influx of new, casual fans for his more recent, up-tempo radio hits “Drinkin’ It Wrong,” and “Somewhere Cool With You,” his turn toward the softer and soulful mid-tempo pace has long been scratching the itch of his fans since he first burst onto the scene with “Whiskey’s Fine.”

His latest, “Don’t Make Me Get Over You,” continues to tilt into his soulful side, presenting a lyric that’s fueled by an emotional charge and a truth-filled essence within his voice that aptly makes the song become the acting therapist for those experiencing the pains and struggles of an on again/off again relationship and the brokenness that comes with it.  

Truth is, we’ve all been in a situation like what Doleac tackles here as he opens the song with, “It’s 2AM and outta nowhere you’re knocking on my door,” instantly enveloping the mixed emotions that come flooding in when your ex shows back up in your life and has you “tiptoeing back across that line” just when you thought you had moved on.

With difficult to navigate feelings beginning to now resurface which he had been trying so hard to fight off, he uses direct and to the point phrasing as he pleads with her through the chorus that whatever she does tonight:

“Don’t run your fingers through my hair

Don’t make me think there’s something there

Make coffee in your underware

If you’re just pouring up goodbye

Don’t make me do what ya know I’ll do

Don’t make go back to me and you

Just to make me lose you

Promise me, promise me, promise me

Don’t make me get over you

I promised myself that we were through

Don’t make me get over you again

Don’t make me get over you”

Continuing his admission in the second verse that while it’s good to see her, he then expertly captures the juxtaposition of emotions when reiterating to her to not break his heart again by reminding him of what they could have been.

By staying in the moment when first seeing your ex at your doorstep and never really leaving that initial shock behind by saying whether she’s come in or not, Adam Doleac creates a relatable piece that is will jump through the speakers to resonate with the listener’s heart as he exposes the truth of confusing emotions that arrive in moments like these when your head and your heart arguing with each other.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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