ELLA LANGLEY FT. RILEY GREEN - you look like you love me- Columbia Records Nashville

With her debut album hungover inching closer to its August 2nd release date, Ella Langley has already intriguingly unpacked the different facets of who she is as an artist, hyping a buzz with teaser songs such as “nicotine” and “hungover” while striking substantial airplay with the infectious “paint the town blue.”

She now continues uncovering things still to come with “you look like you love me.”

Co-written by Liz Longley, Riley Green & Aaron Raitiere, Langley is joined in duet by Green as the twosome transports you back in time, washing a vintage sound in pedal steel as they bring you straight to the honky-tonk with an aura that pulls you to the sawdust covered hardwood.

Through a spoken word element in each of the verses, the listener experiences an instant flashback that’s reminiscent of the golden era of country music as they deliver both the female and male perspectives of their initial encounter. 

Langley audibly smirks as she carries a swagger when recalling the night that they first met, adding slight chuckles to specific end lines in the opening verse that playfully encompass her progressive, girl making the first move confidence.

Green then offers his perspective to the second verse, telling through a grin how she was the prettiest country girl he’d ever seen while being awestricken when she approached him with a beer and a look that signaled, “let’s get out of here.”

Detailing the words of the bold conversation that kicked their back when night in motion, the two bring the uniqueness of their voices together to lift the chorus:

“Excuse me, you look like you love me

You look like you want me to want you

To come on home

Baby I don’t blame you

For looking me up and down across this room

I’m drunk and I’m ready to leave

And you look like you love me”

As evident in the way that the verses are so masterfully crafted, they aren’t speaking their story to one another nor do they ever say if they are still together or if it was simply a one-night love affair, expertly allowing the listener to inject their own stories into the essence of the song.

However, it’s when in the bridge she offers advice to the one sitting timidly in the corner from the perspective of the friend who rolled the dice and won that she strongly injects a piece of encouragement within the risk of never letting a moment pass you by:

“So if you ever see a man in a cowboy hat

And you think to yourself I could use some of that

Don’t waste your time, just give him a little line.”

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)