RILEY GREEN - Change My Mind - Nashville Harbor Records & Entertainment

With one of the most anticipated albums of 2024 arriving on October 18th, Don’t Mind If I Do, Riley Green has continued to ride the wave of momentum set by his current chart riser “Worst Way” and his combination punches with Ella Langley on her “you look like you love me” and his “Don’t Mind If I Do.”

Now teasing the forthcoming album with what’s mostly likely it’s final preview before it officially drops, he delivers the addictively catchy mid-tempo, “Change My Mind.”

The song, co-written by Green, Erik Dylan, and Randy Montana, attractively leans into a groove laden simplicity through its guitar plucked accompaniment that allows his crisp vocal and signature Alabama drawl to hold the spotlight as he bends emotional grips into an open letter to his on again/off again ex.

In a similar scene to that of “Don’t Mind If I Do,” memories of are creeping in that he’s desperately trying to resist, fighting against the familiar late night scenario of her showing up on his doorstep as he plays in his head on repeat how he won’t let her in, that she shouldn’t bother calling him, and that he’s really done this time.

However, as much as he might be trying to convince himself that he’s finally done with her and is moving on, he flips the script in the chorus when he dares her to go ahead show up at his house and undo his moving on from her escape, bending equal parts of the frustration of succumbing to her once again with the excitement at the possibilities of another steamy night together.

“So, change my mind, show up in a midnight sundress

Burn me up with a whiskey kiss

Look at me with them pretty brown eyes and tell me lies

Just to change my mind

You know I’m giving in, so go ahead, wreck my plans like you wreck my bed

Do it baby like you done a thousand times

And change my mind, change my mind”

The second verse sees him vividly envisioning how good she’ll look with her hair down and how undone he’ll be when her dress slides off, falling further down the rabbit hole of allowing them to happen one more time as his heart raced confession escapes, “I kinda like when you wreck everything.”

One of country music’s most refreshing stars, Riley Green has continually showcased his keen ability of fluidly bend enticing modern era flashes into an aura that’s undeniably planted on the foundational roots of the country genre; something that he’s intriguingly accomplished once again with “Change Your Mind.”

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