When Tyler Rich was searching for songs to record for his forthcoming debut album, he was introduced to his debut single, “The Difference,” during a five-hour song pitch meeting.  He explains, “You sit there and people come in and play you songs for five hours. About three and a half hours in and I heard this song and ten seconds in, 15 seconds in, and I was like, ‘What is this?’ The lyrics of the song, the meaning of the song …”

The reason the song resonated so much with Tyler is because he and his fiancée Sabina have had discussions about the exact subject matter of the song.  He says, “I’ll text my fiancé and I’ll say like, ‘Love you,’ instead of ‘I love you’. And she’ll always be like, ‘I love you. Love you is boring.  Love you is lame. People say love you to friends. Miss you, I miss you. There’s a difference.’

After hearing the song, which was written by Devin Dawson and his brother Jacob Durrett, along with Rhett Akins and Ben Burgess, Tyler wondered why he had never thought to write it because he says, “When that song came on, I was like, I don’t know the last time I connected to a song so fast and so hard.  And I was like, ‘I need this song. This has to be my song. We need to record this song immediately.’”

And the rest, as they say, is history.

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“We were in the middle of a five-hour pitch meeting where you sit there and people come in and play you songs for five hours. About three and a half hours in and I heard this song and ten seconds in, 15 seconds in, and I was like, ‘What is this?’ The lyrics of the song, the meaning of the song … I’ll text my fiancé I’ll say like, ‘Love you,’ instead of I love you. And she’ll always be like, ‘I love you. Love you is boring, love you is lame. People say love you to friends. Miss you, I miss you. There’s a difference.’ And she’s always said that and I don’t know why I didn’t think about writing it. Because when that song came on, I was like, I don’t know the last time I connected to a song so fast and so hard.  And I was like, ‘I need this song. This has to be my song. We need to record this song immediately.’”