Justin Moore has never been one to record traditional love songs, preferring songs that are sweet, but with a little bit of an edge to them.  He once said he preferred to record the kind of love songs that Lynyrd Skynyrd might record.  But on his latest album, Kinda Don’t Care, he actually went a little more mainstream with some of the love songs, although it wasn’t something he consciously set out to do.  Justin says, “It wasn’t necessarily by design.  I think the songs that we found felt really good.  Again, we wanted to make an album that felt really good as opposed to in the past, I’ve always been driven, as far as choosing songs and writing songs, been driven by lyrical content and trying to make certain people know—this is who I am, these are my beliefs, this is the way that I am and who I am and all of that.  I guess I got to the point where I’m like, well I guess people know that now, I’ve done that for three albums.”

For Kinda Don’t Care, Justin found some great songs that are a little more down the center, as far as love songs go, but he says,  “It wasn’t me necessarily going, ‘I have to do some more love songs,’ it was just, that just happened to be the lyrical content to the grooves that I liked.”

While his latest single, “Somebody Else Will,” it really a love song, but more about a guy realizing he needs to make a move before another guy does, it definitely has one of those great grooves he talks about.

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Justin Moore – more traditional love songs  1:04

 “I don’t know.  It wasn’t necessarily by design.  I think the songs that we found felt really good.  Again, we wanted to make an album that felt really good as opposed to in the past, I’ve always been driven, as far as choosing songs and writing songs, been driven by lyrical content and trying to make certain people know—this is who I am, these are my beliefs, this is the way that I am and who I am and all of that.  I guess I got to the point where I’m like, well I guess people know that now, I’ve done that for three albums.  And we’ve had a couple of hit love songs over the last few years, so I guess that’s part of it.  The songs that we found, I just, a song like ‘Between You And Me’ is a love song, but it’s rockin’, and a song like ‘Spendin’ The Night’ is a love song, but I like the groove of it.  I like the groove and the verse really well.  So, it wasn’t me necessarily going, ‘I have to do some more love songs,’ it was just, that just happened to be the lyrical content to the grooves that I liked.”