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* RomanticRain: Mentioned in "I Love the Way You Love Me."
-->And I like the way your eyes dance when you laugh,\\
And how you enjoy your two hour bath.\\
And how you convinced me to dance in the rain\\
With everyone watching like we were insane...
-->And I like the way your eyes dance when you laugh,\\
And how you enjoy your two hour bath.\\
And how you convinced me to dance in the rain\\
With everyone watching like we were insane...
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* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: The object of the singer's affection in "I Can Love You Like That," with him assuring her can love her like she imagines she'd be loved in a romantic story.
-->They read you Cinderella\\
You hoped it would come true\\
That one day your Prince Charming would come rescue you\\
You like romantic movies, you never will forget\\
The way you felt when Romeo kissed Juliet...
-->They read you Cinderella\\
You hoped it would come true\\
That one day your Prince Charming would come rescue you\\
You like romantic movies, you never will forget\\
The way you felt when Romeo kissed Juliet...
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* DomesticAbuse: The protagonist of "The Little Girl" witnesses an abusive parent who then commits a murder-suicide.
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* DomesticAbuse: The protagonist of "The Little Girl" witnesses grows up in an abusive parent who home and witnesses a murder-suicide. It's one of, if not the, darkest lyrical examples of such in the history of country music.
-->''And like it always does, the bad just got worse\\
With every slap and every curse\\
Until her daddy in a drunk rage one night\\
Used a gun on her mom, and thencommits a murder-suicide.took his life.''
-->''And like it always does, the bad just got worse\\
With every slap and every curse\\
Until her daddy in a drunk rage one night\\
Used a gun on her mom, and then
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* HappyEnding: The neglected protagonist of "The Little Girl" gets one of these: after witnessing her parents die, she's adopted by a loving couple who give her "kisses and hugs every day".
* GodIsGood: Played completely straight in "The Little Girl", as Jesus comforted her during her parents deaths.
-->''Her first day of Sunday school, the teacher walked in\\
And a small little girl stared at a picture of Him\\
She said "I know that man up there on that cross\\
I don't know his name, but I know he got off\\
'Cause he was there in my old house and held me close to his side\\
As I hid there behind our couch the night that my parents died."''
* GodIsGood: Played completely straight in "The Little Girl", as Jesus comforted her during her parents deaths.
-->''Her first day of Sunday school, the teacher walked in\\
And a small little girl stared at a picture of Him\\
She said "I know that man up there on that cross\\
I don't know his name, but I know he got off\\
'Cause he was there in my old house and held me close to his side\\
As I hid there behind our couch the night that my parents died."''
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* LovingDetails: "I Love the Way You Love Me":
-->I like to imitate ol' Music/{{Jerry Lee|Lewis}}\\
And watch you roll your eyes when I'm slightly off-key\\
And I like the innocent way that you cry\\
at sappy old movies you've seen hundreds of times\\
But I love the way you love me\\
Strong and wild, slow and easy\\
Heart and soul, so completely\\
I love the way you love me...
-->I like to imitate ol' Music/{{Jerry Lee|Lewis}}\\
And watch you roll your eyes when I'm slightly off-key\\
And I like the innocent way that you cry\\
at sappy old movies you've seen hundreds of times\\
But I love the way you love me\\
Strong and wild, slow and easy\\
Heart and soul, so completely\\
I love the way you love me...
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John Michael started his career in 1992 with the Top 5 hit "Life's a Dance", followed immediately by the crossover ballad "I Love the Way You Love Me". In 1993, he scored an even bigger crossover with "I Swear", another ballad whose popularity was futher fueled by a cover by the RAndB group All-4-One. Montgomery spent the rest of the 90's charting Top 5 hits aplenty, although his momentum slowed some by 1999. He notched one more #1 in 2000 with "The Little Girl", based on an {{Urban Legend|s}} about a girl comforted by UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} after witnessing her parents' death from DomesticAbuse. The country branch of his label, Creator/AtlanticRecords, closed not long after that song's release, so he moved to Creator/WarnerBrosRecords in 2001. He scored one more comeback hit in 2004 with the patriotic "Letters from Home", but once again faded from the limelight, outside a brief return in 2008 with the self-released ''Time Flies''.
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John Michael started his career in 1992 with the Top 5 hit "Life's a Dance", followed immediately by the crossover ballad "I Love the Way You Love Me". In 1993, he scored an even bigger crossover with "I Swear", another ballad whose popularity was futher further fueled by a cover by the RAndB group All-4-One. Montgomery spent the rest of the 90's charting Top 5 hits aplenty, although his momentum slowed some by 1999. He notched one more #1 in 2000 with "The Little Girl", based on an {{Urban Legend|s}} about a girl comforted by UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} after witnessing her parents' death from DomesticAbuse. The country branch of his label, Creator/AtlanticRecords, closed not long after that song's release, so he moved to Creator/WarnerBrosRecords in 2001. He scored one more comeback hit in 2004 with the patriotic "Letters from Home", but once again faded from the limelight, outside a brief return in 2008 with the self-released ''Time Flies''.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_VbwZsYPwY&ab_channel=WarnerMusicNashville music video]] for "Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)" ends with a reprise of the last two verses--sung over a dance battle between Amish farmers and Asian businessmen wearing cowboy hats.
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* BigLippedAligatorMoment: BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_VbwZsYPwY&ab_channel=WarnerMusicNashville music video]] for "Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)" ends with a reprise of the last two verses--sung over a dance battle between Amish farmers and Asian businessmen wearing cowboy hats.
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* BigLippedAligatorMoment: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_VbwZsYPwY&ab_channel=WarnerMusicNashville music video]] for "Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)" ends with a reprise of the last two verses--sung over a dance battle between Amish farmers and Asian businessmen wearing cowboy hats.
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'''John Michael Montgomery''' (born January 20, 1965) is a CountryMusic singer who was highly popular in the first half of TheNineties. Montgomery got his start in the band Early Tymz, which also featured his brother Eddie and their friend, Troy Gentry, who would later become the duo Montgomery Gentry.
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'''John Michael Montgomery''' (born January 20, 1965) is a CountryMusic singer who was highly popular in the first half of TheNineties. Montgomery got his start in the band Early Tymz, which also featured his brother Eddie and their friend, Troy Gentry, who would later become the duo Montgomery Gentry.
duo Music/MontgomeryGentry.
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* BreakupBreakout: From Early Tymz.
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Gentry was killed in a helicopter crash on September 9, 2017, just hours before the two were scheduled to do a performance.
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Gentry was killed in a helicopter crash on September 9, 2017, just hours before the two were scheduled to do a performance.
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John Michael started his career in 1992 with the Top 5 hit "Life's a Dance", followed immediately by the crossover ballad "I Love the Way You Love Me". In 1993, he scored an even bigger crossover with "I Swear", another ballad whose popularity was futher fueled by a cover by the RAndB group All-4-One. Montgomery spent the rest of the 90's charting Top 5 hits aplenty, although his momentum slowed some by 1999. He notched one more #1 in 2000 with "The Little Girl", based on an {{Urban Legend|s}} about a girl comforted by {{Jesus}} after witnessing her parents' death from DomesticAbuse. The country branch of his label, Creator/AtlanticRecords, closed not long after that song's release, so he moved to Creator/WarnerBrosRecords in 2001. He scored one more comeback hit in 2004 with the patriotic "Letters from Home", but once again faded from the limelight, outside a brief return in 2008 with the self-released ''Time Flies''.
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John Michael started his career in 1992 with the Top 5 hit "Life's a Dance", followed immediately by the crossover ballad "I Love the Way You Love Me". In 1993, he scored an even bigger crossover with "I Swear", another ballad whose popularity was futher fueled by a cover by the RAndB group All-4-One. Montgomery spent the rest of the 90's charting Top 5 hits aplenty, although his momentum slowed some by 1999. He notched one more #1 in 2000 with "The Little Girl", based on an {{Urban Legend|s}} about a girl comforted by {{Jesus}} UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} after witnessing her parents' death from DomesticAbuse. The country branch of his label, Creator/AtlanticRecords, closed not long after that song's release, so he moved to Creator/WarnerBrosRecords in 2001. He scored one more comeback hit in 2004 with the patriotic "Letters from Home", but once again faded from the limelight, outside a brief return in 2008 with the self-released ''Time Flies''.
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* UrbanLegends: "The Little Girl" is based on one circulated via e-mail about a girl who claims to see Jesus while witnessing the murder-suicide of her parents.
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* UrbanLegends: "The Little Girl" is based on one circulated via e-mail about a girl who claims to see Jesus UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} while witnessing the murder-suicide of her parents.
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John Michael started his career in 1992 with the Top 5 hit "Life's a Dance", followed immediately by the crossover ballad "I Love the Way You Love Me". In 1993, he scored an even bigger crossover with "I Swear", another ballad whose popularity was futher fueled by a cover by the RAndB group All-4-One. Montgomery spent the rest of the 90's charting Top 5 hits aplenty, although his momentum slowed some by 1999. He notched one more #1 in 2000 with "The Little Girl", based on an {{Urban Legend|s}} about a girl comforted by Jesus after witnessing her parents' death from DomesticAbuse. The country branch of his label, Atlantic, closed not long after that song's release, so he moved to Creator/WarnerBrosRecords in 2001. He scored one more comeback hit in 2004 with the patriotic "Letters from Home", but once again faded from the limelight, outside a brief return in 2008 with the self-released ''Time Flies''.
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John Michael started his career in 1992 with the Top 5 hit "Life's a Dance", followed immediately by the crossover ballad "I Love the Way You Love Me". In 1993, he scored an even bigger crossover with "I Swear", another ballad whose popularity was futher fueled by a cover by the RAndB group All-4-One. Montgomery spent the rest of the 90's charting Top 5 hits aplenty, although his momentum slowed some by 1999. He notched one more #1 in 2000 with "The Little Girl", based on an {{Urban Legend|s}} about a girl comforted by Jesus {{Jesus}} after witnessing her parents' death from DomesticAbuse. The country branch of his label, Atlantic, Creator/AtlanticRecords, closed not long after that song's release, so he moved to Creator/WarnerBrosRecords in 2001. He scored one more comeback hit in 2004 with the patriotic "Letters from Home", but once again faded from the limelight, outside a brief return in 2008 with the self-released ''Time Flies''.
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John Michael started his career in 1992 with the Top 5 hit "Life's a Dance", followed immediately by the crossover ballad "I Love the Way You Love Me". In 1993, he scored an even bigger crossover with "I Swear", another ballad whose popularity was futher fueled by a cover by the RAndB group All-4-One. Montgomery spent the rest of the 90's charting Top 5 hits aplenty, although his momentum slowed some by 1999. He notched one more #1 in 2000 with "The Little Girl", based on an {{Urban Legend|s}} about a girl comforted by Jesus after witnessing her parents' death from DomesticAbuse. His The country branch of his label, Atlantic, closed not long after that song's release, so he moved to Creator/WarnerBrosRecords in 2001. He scored one more comeback hit in 2004 with the patriotic "Letters from Home", but once again faded from the limelight, outside a brief return in 2008 with the self-released ''Time Flies''.
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* DomesticAbuse: The protagonist of "The Little Girl" witnesses an abusive parent
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* DomesticAbuse: The protagonist of "The Little Girl" witnesses an abusive parentparent who then commits a murder-suicide.
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**In some ways this could also be VocalDecay; while his voice has gotten deeper with age, he has also dealt with throat issues and a separate condition called acoustic neuroma, which affects one's hearing and balance.
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A CountryMusic singer who was highly popular in the first half of TheNineties. Montgomery got his start in the band Early Tymz, which also featured his brother Eddie and their friend, Troy Gentry, who would later become the duo Montgomery Gentry.
John Michael started his career in 1992 with the Top 5 hit "Life's a Dance", followed immediately by the crossover ballad "I Love the Way You Love Me". In 1993, he scored an even bigger crossover with "I Swear", another ballad whose popularity was futher fueled by a cover by the R & B group All-4-One. Montgomery spent the rest of the 90's charting Top 5 hits aplenty, although his momentum slowed some by 1999. He notched one more #1 in 2000 with "The Little Girl", based on an {{Urban Legend|s}} about a girl comforted by Jesus after witnessing her parents' death from DomesticAbuse. His label, Atlantic, closed not long after that song's release, so he moved to Creator/WarnerBrosRecords in 2001. He scored one more comeback hit in 2004 with the patriotic "Letters from Home", but once again faded from the limelight, outside a brief return in 2008 with the self-released ''Time Flies''.
Montgomery's repertoire includes plenty of slick country-pop ballads such as "I Swear" and "I Can Love You Like That", tempered with honky-tonk uptempos such as "Be My Baby Tonight" and "Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)."
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John Michael started his career in 1992 with the Top 5 hit "Life's a Dance", followed immediately by the crossover ballad "I Love the Way You Love Me". In 1993, he scored an even bigger crossover with "I Swear", another ballad whose popularity was futher fueled by a cover by the R & B group All-4-One. Montgomery spent the rest of the 90's charting Top 5 hits aplenty, although his momentum slowed some by 1999. He notched one more #1 in 2000 with "The Little Girl", based on an {{Urban Legend|s}} about a girl comforted by Jesus after witnessing her parents' death from DomesticAbuse. His label, Atlantic, closed not long after that song's release, so he moved to Creator/WarnerBrosRecords in 2001. He scored one more comeback hit in 2004 with the patriotic "Letters from Home", but once again faded from the limelight, outside a brief return in 2008 with the self-released ''Time Flies''.
Montgomery's repertoire includes plenty of slick country-pop ballads such as "I Swear" and "I Can Love You Like That", tempered with honky-tonk uptempos such as "Be My Baby Tonight" and "Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)."
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John Michael started his career in 1992 with the Top 5 hit "Life's a Dance", followed immediately by the crossover ballad "I Love the Way You Love Me". In 1993, he scored an even bigger crossover with "I Swear", another ballad whose popularity was futher fueled by a cover by the
Montgomery's repertoire includes plenty of slick country-pop ballads such as "I Swear" and "I Can Love You Like
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Montgomery's repertoire includes plenty of slick country-pop ballads such as "I Swear" and "I Can Love You Like That", tempered with honky-tonk uptempos such as "Be My Baby Tonight" and "Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident).
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* UrbanLegends: "The Little Girl" is based on one circulated via e-mail.
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A CountryMusic singer who was highly popular in the first half of TheNineties. Montgomery got his start in the band Early Tymz, which also featured his brother Eddie and their friend, Troy Gentry, who would later become the duo Montgomery Gentry.
John Michael started his career in 1992 with the Top 5 hit "Life's a Dance", followed immediately by the crossover ballad "I Love the Way You Love Me". In 1993, he scored an even bigger crossover with "I Swear", another ballad whose popularity was futher fueled by a cover by the R & B group All-4-One. Montgomery spent the rest of the 90's charting Top 5 hits aplenty, although his momentum slowed some by 1999. He notched one more #1 in 2000 with "The Little Girl", based on an {{Urban Legend|s}} about a girl comforted by Jesus after witnessing her parents' death from DomesticAbuse. His label, Atlantic, closed not long after that song's release, so he moved to Creator/WarnerBrosRecords in 2001. He scored one more comeback hit in 2004 with the patriotic "Letters from Home", but once again faded from the limelight, outside a brief return in 2008 with the self-released ''Time Flies''.
Montgomery's repertoire includes plenty of slick country-pop ballads such as "I Swear" and "I Can Love You Like That", tempered with honky-tonk uptempos such as "Be My Baby Tonight" and "Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident).
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* {{Auction}}: The setting of "Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)".
* BreakupBreakout: From Early Tymz.
* CoveredInKisses: In "Cover You in Kisses", he offers this as a way to keep his lover warm.
* DisappearedDad: In "No Man's Land", a single mother is struggling to raise a family with the dad entirely out of the picture.
* DomesticAbuse: The protagonist of "The Little Girl" witnesses an abusive parent
* DualMeaningChorus: "It Rocked". The title refers first to a rocking chair, then a kiss, then a band.
* JustFriends: Played with on "Friends". She says that she wants to be "just friends" now, but he can't take it because "Friends get scattered by the wind, tossed up on the waves / Lost for years on end…"
* MotorMouth: "Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)" has a very rapid-fire chorus, no doubt to imitate an auctioneer's call.
* ThePictureCameWithTheFrame: "That's Not Her Picture" ("…it came with the wallet").
* ThePowerOfLove: "If You've Got Love":
-->If you've got love, you can move a mountain\\
A little further down the line\\
You can move it all at once or one rock at a time\\
You can turn an ordinary picture into a priceless work of art\\
That's what you can do if you've got love in your heart
* SpellingSong: "Hello L. O. V. E.", but that's the only part where any spelling is involved.
* UrbanLegends: "The Little Girl" is based on one circulated via e-mail.
* VocalEvolution: His voice was a little higher on "Life's a Dance" but soon settled into his familiar baritone. By the release of ''Time Flies'', it got even deeper still.
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John Michael started his career in 1992 with the Top 5 hit "Life's a Dance", followed immediately by the crossover ballad "I Love the Way You Love Me". In 1993, he scored an even bigger crossover with "I Swear", another ballad whose popularity was futher fueled by a cover by the R & B group All-4-One. Montgomery spent the rest of the 90's charting Top 5 hits aplenty, although his momentum slowed some by 1999. He notched one more #1 in 2000 with "The Little Girl", based on an {{Urban Legend|s}} about a girl comforted by Jesus after witnessing her parents' death from DomesticAbuse. His label, Atlantic, closed not long after that song's release, so he moved to Creator/WarnerBrosRecords in 2001. He scored one more comeback hit in 2004 with the patriotic "Letters from Home", but once again faded from the limelight, outside a brief return in 2008 with the self-released ''Time Flies''.
Montgomery's repertoire includes plenty of slick country-pop ballads such as "I Swear" and "I Can Love You Like That", tempered with honky-tonk uptempos such as "Be My Baby Tonight" and "Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident).
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* {{Auction}}: The setting of "Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)".
* BreakupBreakout: From Early Tymz.
* CoveredInKisses: In "Cover You in Kisses", he offers this as a way to keep his lover warm.
* DisappearedDad: In "No Man's Land", a single mother is struggling to raise a family with the dad entirely out of the picture.
* DomesticAbuse: The protagonist of "The Little Girl" witnesses an abusive parent
* DualMeaningChorus: "It Rocked". The title refers first to a rocking chair, then a kiss, then a band.
* JustFriends: Played with on "Friends". She says that she wants to be "just friends" now, but he can't take it because "Friends get scattered by the wind, tossed up on the waves / Lost for years on end…"
* MotorMouth: "Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)" has a very rapid-fire chorus, no doubt to imitate an auctioneer's call.
* ThePictureCameWithTheFrame: "That's Not Her Picture" ("…it came with the wallet").
* ThePowerOfLove: "If You've Got Love":
-->If you've got love, you can move a mountain\\
A little further down the line\\
You can move it all at once or one rock at a time\\
You can turn an ordinary picture into a priceless work of art\\
That's what you can do if you've got love in your heart
* SpellingSong: "Hello L. O. V. E.", but that's the only part where any spelling is involved.
* UrbanLegends: "The Little Girl" is based on one circulated via e-mail.
* VocalEvolution: His voice was a little higher on "Life's a Dance" but soon settled into his familiar baritone. By the release of ''Time Flies'', it got even deeper still.
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