Eli Young Band - "Love Ain't"

[sabre14]

Artist: Eli Young Band
Single: "Love Ain't"
Album: TBA
Label: Valory Music Co./BMLG
Impact Date: June 25th, 2018
Source: Radio.com



The new track released to iTunes from the Eli Young Band, "Love Ain't", will reportedly impact Country radio on June 25th, according to Lauren Hoffman, of Radio.com and her article. The song follows the album released last year, Fingerprints. They are still under Big Machine Label Group.

[LBTrocks]

Love the video.

I was encouraged by the instrumentation in the beginning, but soon after the melody completely fell apart for me. Not a song I'll be listening to but the video tells a beautiful story.

[Ten Pound Hammer]

Remember: you can't spell "Eli Young Band" without "bland".

[Deleted]

Beautiful video, and I like the song! (Just like I liked "Turn It On" lol)

[rbundy1987]

Songwriters: Ross Copperman, Ashley Gorley, Shane McAnally

Love Ain't" was written by Ross Copperman, Ashley Gorley and Shane McAnally and produced by Dann Huff – a special-forces team of Nashville hit makers if there ever was one – and will go on to become part of the band's seventh studio album, which is currently in the works.

www.rollingstone.com/country/news/see-eli-young-bands-powerful-love-aint-video-w520760

[ethanhunt]

Song is okay I guess.

But wow at the video

[kw9461]

May 28, 2018 15:39:49 GMT -5 rbundy1987 said:

Songwriters: Ross Copperman, Ashley Gorley, Shane McAnally

Love Ain't" was written by Ross Copperman, Ashley Gorley and Shane McAnally and produced by Dann Huff – a special-forces team of Nashville hit makers if there ever was one – and will go on to become part of the band's seventh studio album, which is currently in the works.

www.rollingstone.com/country/news/see-eli-young-bands-powerful-love-aint-video-w520760

Ugh, I hope this is the only song that Huff is producing for EYB. I liked the song on first listen, but it seemed to lacked that distinctively EYB sound - and now I know why.

Valory's treatment of these guys is confounding. They released their last album without pushing anything to radio, which seemed to indicate they were fulfilling a contract prior to exiting the label. But that hasn't happened and now they're planning a new album with this single on it (not that I expect a real radio push for this one either). I don't get it, but I'm down with whatever gets a new EYB album on the shelves.

[justin5545]

Debuts at #56 on BB a week before it's impact date.

[straitouttanashville]

I love Eli Young Band but "Love Ain't" is a dud for me. I tried hard to like this too.

[collinkottke]

A nice six spot jump up the Billboard Country Airplay chart moving from #49 to #43 this week. If this can hit the Top 40 (I sure think it can) in the coming weeks, it'll be their first Top 40 since their 2015 release "Turn It On".

[gonecountry]

I'm still mourning Saltwater Gospel, which looked like it was Top 40 bound, but missed it.

Fingers crossed.

I don't know what killed their momentum. Dirt or the follow up single that did nothing.

[raylatch98]

Jul 30, 2018 20:35:11 GMT -5 gonecountry said:

I'm still mourning Saltwater Gospel, which looked like it was Top 40 bound, but missed it.

Fingers crossed.

I don't know what killed their momentum. Dirt or the follow up single that did nothing.

I think the blatant trend chasing of "Turn It On" killed any momentum they had. I think radio was kind of turned off by that song and didn't sound anything like Eli Young Band.

[kw9461]

Jul 30, 2018 20:37:55 GMT -5 raylatch98 said:

Jul 30, 2018 20:35:11 GMT -5 gonecountry said:

I'm still mourning Saltwater Gospel, which looked like it was Top 40 bound, but missed it.

Fingers crossed.

I don't know what killed their momentum. Dirt or the follow up single that did nothing.

I think the blatant trend chasing of "Turn It On" killed any momentum they had. I think radio was kind of turned off by that song and didn't sound anything like Eli Young Band.

I agree with this, though radio clearly had cooled on them heading into that release. Dust barely cracked the top 20, despite being quite catchy and coming on the heels of a #1. I just think they panicked too soon. There were potential hits left to be had on 10,000 Towns (the title track for starters), and having them change their sound was just so, so dumb. I assumed they were getting dropped after nothing from Fingerprints was pushed to radio, but I'm thrilled to see this get an actual release and off to a decent start. I'm not expecting miracles here, I just hope they can get another album released.

[Kanenrá:ke]

I find it odd that nothing from Fingerprints was pushed as that album was fairly radio friendly.

I'm liking this one quite a bit and I'm happy to see them closing in on top 40 already. I'll be happy if they can score another hit or two!

[zaclord 🌈]

This is hands down their best single since... "Even If It Breaks Your Heart" ("Drunk Last Night" was alright, but not as good as their normal output). I hope this can get them in radio's good graces again because I like them a lot

[sabre14]

Jul 31, 2018 22:05:21 GMT -5 zaclord 🌈 said:

This is hands down their best single since... "Even If It Breaks Your Heart" ("Drunk Last Night" was alright, but not as good as their normal output). I hope this can get them in radio's good graces again because I like them a lot

Considering “Skin & Bones” and “Never Land” never made it to terrestrial radio, I agree with this. I think “Love Ain’t” is a great song. The production gets heavy-handed during the chorus (shocker for Nashville these days...), but the melody and lyrics are where this one shines.

[austin]

I really like this one. I LOVE the Jet Black & Jealous album, in fact it is one of my favorite country albums by any artist. I do hope they can score another hit with this, and I think they probably will.

[sabre14]

17 adds this week for “Love Ain’t”, with Cumulus among the stations. EYB also picked up 12 spots to #45 on Mediabase this week, matching its Billboard chart position.

This is most certainly going to be their biggest hit since “Dust.”

[straitouttanashville]

I love Eli Young Band, but this hasn't grown on me just yet. I hope it does.

[vann]

The song is ok although I always hope something like Eli Young old days but the video is very touching and I liked it.

[collinkottke]

Officially a Top 40 hit for the Eli Young Band as "Love Ain't" moves from 42 to 40 this week on the Billboard Country Airplay Chart.

[raylatch98]

23 weeks on Billboard and this is at #34 despite the fact that it lost its bullet, don't worry this will rebullet this week. Not bad at all so far pace wise. I definitely think this song will at least have a Top 30 finish and hopefully this song can get an album out in 2019.

[Ten Pound Hammer]

Why are these guys so vanilla? Mike Eli's voice is yawn-inducingly plain and I have literally never felt that they were a "band". There is literally no harmony or musical interplay whatsoever in their work.

[rsmatto]

Dec 2, 2018 17:30:05 GMT -5 Ten Pound Hammer said:

Why are these guys so vanilla? Mike Eli's voice is yawn-inducingly plain and I have literally never felt that they were a "band". There is literally no harmony or musical interplay whatsoever in their work.

They’re very much a band and I hear harmonies.

[Ten Pound Hammer]

Dec 2, 2018 22:15:01 GMT -5 rsmatto said:

Dec 2, 2018 17:30:05 GMT -5 Ten Pound Hammer said:

Why are these guys so vanilla? Mike Eli's voice is yawn-inducingly plain and I have literally never felt that they were a "band". There is literally no harmony or musical interplay whatsoever in their work.

They’re very much a band and I hear harmonies.

Then they're really buried in the mix. At least they got rid of Liddell and the god-awful sound engineers he insists on.

[.indulgecountry]

Dec 2, 2018 17:30:05 GMT -5 Ten Pound Hammer said:

Why are these guys so vanilla? Mike Eli's voice is yawn-inducingly plain and I have literally never felt that they were a "band". There is literally no harmony or musical interplay whatsoever in their work.

Can you sing a new song already? I myself don't even like the Eli Young Band, but your constant recycled complaint that his voice is bland and that they don't actually feel like a real band is tired. We get it.

[collinkottke]

I'm so glad that this hit the Top 30 and is doing well for them. This kind of thing gives me a glimmer of hope for country radio. A good song that sounds like a hit is actually making a dent in the chart despite it being four years since Eli Young Band's last Top 20 hit and almost five years since their last number one.

[recordyear]

Weird that a new song called Where Were You was released last Friday but there are no promotions for this.

[gonecountry]

I am glad to see Eli Young is back with a Top 25 hit. Even Though It Breaks Your Heart is one of my favorites from the past decade.

This song is okay, thematically it is a rip-off of Josh Turner "What It Aint" - which did it way better IMO.




EYB really got the shaft w/ Saltwater Gospel which I thought was incredible. It started off strong, got close to the Top 40 and then plummeted unexpectedly.

[Ten Pound Hammer]

Feb 6, 2019 18:24:14 GMT -5 gonecountry said:

I am glad to see Eli Young is back with a Top 25 hit. Even Though It Breaks Your Heart is one of my favorites from the past decade.

This song is okay, thematically it is a rip-off of Josh Turner "What It Aint" - which did it way better IMO.

I agree. "What It Ain't" had an early 90s lightheartedness to it at a time when that wasn't really "in". This feels like a diet version of that song lyrically.

This song doesn't do much for me, just like most of EYB's material. It sounds like they're trying to be Old Dominion but lack the good hooks. There is literally zero harmony on this, so just like most of their other songs it sounds like a Mike Eli solo single. To be fair, the production is a lot less earsplittingly loud and cluttered (it says a lot when switching to Huff is an improvement in the loudness-war department!), and the melody is pretty good. But I still find Mike Eli's voice unappealing, and I still remained unconvinced that the other three guys were even in the studio on this one at all.

For the record, I think all four singles off Jet Black & Jealous were fantastic, but other than "Even If It Breaks Your Heart" and "Dust", they haven't come close to the quality of their first four.