Hey, here's a life tip for you.

If you want to get a good sense, who somebody is, where they're at, and how they think about

the world, just walk up to them randomly, even if you've never met in any social context,

like on the street, at the grocery store, at the opera, just interrupt whatever's going

on.

Permit, ma'am.

In 1994, who performed the chart-topping hit, I swear, and they're going to tell you one

of two things.

Some people, without raising any questions or concerns about the social context in which

you broached the question, are just going to look you right in the eye and be like, there

it was all for one, and everybody knows that, but you can just turn to the very next person

and be like, same question to you, brother, what's the answer, and with just as much conviction

and confidence, they're going to look at you and be like, I swear.

Oh yeah, that was by John Michael Montgomery.

I remember that summer, and then if you really want to mess with them, be like, okay, same

question.

Who did I can love you like that?

And they're going to give you the same answers.

And the freaky part is everybody's right, because back then, the world was so split into

little segments that you could have the exact same song on different genre charts at the

exact same time, and apparently there was no cross-pollination and no concern with that,

whatsoever.

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