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  JORDAN DAVIS - Know You Like That - MCA Nashville

As his ultra-catchy single “I Ain’t Sayin’” is currently landing heavy impact at country radio and climbing the charts with a bullet, award-winning, multi-platinum singer-songwriter Jordan Davis continues cranking out new music while further heightening the anticipation on the follow-up to his Bluebird Days.

Written by Ray Fulcher, Thomas Archer, Jordan Rowe, and Michael Tyler, “Know you Like That” nostalgically drifts over a softer paced melody that allows Davis’ incredibly emotional voice to glide invoked memories that arise after seeing the one that got away.

Now married to a good guy and in a whole different chapter of life, he relays how it’s crazy to see her with two kids in the backseat of a Tahoe before sliding into his memory bank to remember when they were wilder and more carefree.

Using descriptives in the opening verse that place juxtaposition between the responsible woman she is today with the back seat phase of the girl he knew back when, he highlights lines such as “last time I saw you, you were sippin' on a silver bullet in my Silverado.”

Flipping through the photo album of what was and how they used the be, his black and white memories pop with vivid color when he strikes the chorus:

“About that road trip to Ole Miss
Snuck a fifth to the fifty
That spring break bought cheap shades
And smoked like a chimney
You cut off jeans and gasoline
You had a thing for things that don't last
I don't know you like this
But he don't know you like that”

Smiling through the second verse as he wonders if his name came up when her new guy asked her about her tattoo, while throwing a nod to an Eric Church concert at the start of the second chorus, Davis personalizes their story in such a crafty way that it automatically makes the listener wax nostalgic on their first date concert and the crazy reminders of the past that they still carry with them today.

While on the surface this seems to solely focus on aspects of who she was versus who she is, underneath are lines smattered throughout that point to who he is today and how he’s never really gotten over her, “Your last name is changed on everything but it's still the same in my phone,” tapping even stronger into the connective depth with the listener as he battles trying to move on while momentarily getting stuck.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

 

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