MARYNN TAYLOR - Season 2 of Friends - Black River Entertainment

When country music starlet MaRynn Taylor unpacked her very vulnerable and self-reflective EP, Get To Know Me, she took the listener on a diary-written journey from broken-heartedness to redemptive moments of understanding who she is, not settling for less than she deserves, and coming out the other side of heartbreak with a new lease on life and love.

“Season 2 of Friends,” her first new music since the EP, sees her now encouragingly moving into the next phase of her life with an aura about her that optimistically provides an understanding shoulder to lean on.

Wrapped in a breezy catchiness and a been there too perspective, she expertly matches the guide of the instrumentation snuggly against the flow of the lyrics, audibly smiling in the face of the ups and downs that naturally arrive in your 20-something era while expertly helping you navigate a heartache through the familiar similarities to that of the hit TV show Friends.

Like the show’s episode titles, Taylor opens the song by singing “this is the one where he breaks your heart,” instantly sliding into her role as your best friend when she tallies that while “nothing’s going as you planned so far” and that “nobody told you life would be this way” (cue the theme song), she also reassuringly reminds you that everything is still going to be alright.

She moves into next week’s episode and continues painting the heartbroken story in the second verse, the one where he gets a new girlfriend and kisses her right in front of you, before then lifting sage advice and inspired motivation to keep moving forward when she slaps the addictively catchy chorus:

“Maybe it didn’t work out for a reason

This is only where the episode ends

Don’t even know who we’re really gonna be yet

We’re only on season 2 of Friends

Another Friday sitting on the couch

Don’t know what’s gonna happen

Know we’re gonna find out

I know it feels like a joke right now

I don’t know how it’s gonna

But it’s gonna work out”

With an overtone of how this one situation that you’re currently faced with isn’t the defining exclamation point on the rest of your life, MaRynn Taylor presents the uplifting idea that the best is yet to come, cleverly utilizing the trajectory of a television series as if to say just wait until we see where the entire story arc is actually heading before allowing this moment to get us off track.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)