#especially chris

idk i just thought they both looked really pretty in the thumbnails

This song choice was extremely deliberate, though whether by production or Whistler remains to be seen.

I grew up listening to a lot of country music, so the first version of Make You Feel My Love I ever heard (and still the one I'm most familiar with) is the Garth Brooks cover. It was was all over the radio as a kid, a Billboard #1 single two separate times almost a decade apart, and was nominated for a Grammy. To this day, it's one of those quintessential nostalgic 90's country love songs. Now I'm a couple years younger than Lucy is supposed to be and from a place where country music is much less ubiquitous, but this is still the kind of shit I associate with weddings and proms and that sort of thing. For someone who grew up in Texas, steeped in country music from the late 90s to early 2010's, the romantic nostalgia associated with this song has to be off the charts.

There's also another cover of the song that I adore...by Trisha Yearwood. For those of you unfamiliar with niche American musical stylings, she is very famously married to Garth Brooks, was arguably a bigger star than him in the 90's to early aughts, and sings some of the best country love songs of all time. I cannot overstate the level to which they are the country power couple. It's an insanely devoted, will only go on tour together even though they could each sell out AT&T Stadium by themselves because they don't want to be apart type of relationship. They're also among the few big time artists in the genre who are vocal allies of LGBTQ folks, and they introduced one of the only out lesbian country artists I'm aware of to her fiancee and supported her professional coming out process, but I digress.