BRETT YOUNG - Tastes Like You - Nashville Harbor Records & Entertainment

Following last fall’s “Kiss To Forget,” Diamond-selling country superstar Brett Young now kicks off his new year with a similar sentiment that focuses on the trouble with moving on once your heart has been shattered and torn into pieces.

“Tastes Like You,” written by Brett Young, Justin Ebach, Noah Needleman, and Jon Nite, is available on all streaming and digital platforms via Nashville Harbor Records & Entertainment.

Floating in that genre space between moody flashes of throwback pop and modern country flows, the pulsing melody fuses the intensity of the lyrics as Young’s distinctive vocal strikes urgency toward his yearning to let go as the provoking triggers constantly nag reminders of her in every next sip that he takes in his failing efforts to try and forget.

Utilizing each verse to marry the here and now reality against the fleeting memories of back when, Young provides the depth of his struggles through tortured, bloodshot eyes, blurring the past and the present within everything swirling around him as the fractured strands of his broken heart continue to unravel.

Admitting that the drinks he’s pouring out are only drowning him in the past rather than providing a wanted, temporary escape, he later then confessionally pinpoints the moments that he can’t help but flash back to reminders of her with every girl he sees on the dance floor wearing a tight black dress, whenever his eyes meet with someone who isn’t her, etc.

Building to the crescendo moment of the chorus when his emotions spill like an overflowing pint, an intriguing melodic switch skillfully moves his voice from the frustrations of his initial vocal lift to a subdued, crying out through his inability to move on.

“And it tastes like..."

"Kentucky bourbon on your lips
Fingers laced behind my neck
The way my name rolled off your kiss
Still gets me
Burning like Mulholland nights
Kissing salt air off your skin
Parked above the city lights
How do I?
I Go there with somebody new
Can't even have a drink or two
It doesn't matter what I do
It still tastes like you?"

“Goodnight Into Good Morning,” “Say Less,” “Kiss To Forget,” and now “Tastes Like You,” have all provided solid foundational layers for his next chapter while creating a deafening buzz that continues to swirl around the anticipated announcement of his next studio album just as he kicks off his ‘Back To The Basics Tour’ on February 13, 2025 in Springfield IL.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis/Artwork c/o Nashville Harbor Records & Entertainment)