Year 8, Day 163

Hey guys. Today's song is The Story covered by LeAnn Rimes.

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LeAnn Rimes is an American musician active since 1990. Ever since she was a kid she had a unique voice, and her parents got her performing, which led to her making two studio albums in her teens which then led to her being signed an 13 in 1996. Her third album was released the same year and hit number one on the Top Country Albums list. She won her first Grammy in 1997, breaking the record for youngest artist to get one since she was 14. She changed up her sound a bit doing country pop and releasing six more albums before returning to the country scene in 2005 with her ninth album. In 2013 she released her thirteenth studio album, the last with her label, and it focused on her affair with her now husband, and the media fallout from it. The whole situation caused a lot of turmoil around her career and she was judged super harshly and ultimately her album was not successful. She did some Christmas music for a few years, then released this song that was on her album in 2016. This some of course is actually a cover with the original being from Brandi Carlile. She's come back on the scene since then, winning the Masked singer in 2020 as the Sun, and released another album in 2020 and one in 2022. On the show she talked about how being behind the mask has allowed her a kind of reset and to let people see her as something past their preconceived notion of who she is. Which is important after all the shit that got thrown at her. And I get it, I hate cheaters, I hate that they both cheated on their partners and if they fell in love (which they've been happily married for a long time so clearly they did) there was still a better way to go about it, ideally ending their relationships before starting a new one. But hindsight is 20/20, and at a certain point we need to recognize that it doesn't involve us, it's her life and we need to just let it go. I'm happy she's back and that she's happy, and I hope you guys enjoy the song.

Peace.