Young love carries an unmatchable feeling of completeness; the pure sense of happiness as yet untainted by the harsh truths that overshadow life with our lengthening age.
We’ve collected some of the best modern country songs about young love, to fill your day with that youthful feeling of everlasting excitement and sun-beamed happiness.
Country Songs About Young Love
1. Kip Moore – Young Love
Kip Moore’s track Young Love blends the warm, powerful atmosphere of retro country rock with a contemporary twist, crafting a sound as sentimental as the young love he sings of.
Against a starry night landscape, Young Love’s lyrics describe falling in love at a young age and persisting in romance against your parents’ resistance.
Using a Romeo & Juliet-style scenario, Kip Moore places an age-old story in the modern world, lacing his lyrics with sweet truths and the endless summer feeling which blooms with young love;
“Your daddy thought I was wrong for you… but two wrongs never felt so right… it was written in the stars for two young and wild at hearts to sneak out late into the night … When she’s holding on, you can’t get close enough, you swear it’s sent from above, it’s real, it’s good, and it’s young love.”
2. Brett Young – Like I Loved You
Like I Loved You cleverly disguises some qualities of its country roots, masquerading as a pop song before Brett Young’s thick accent and acoustic guitar begin adding their Southern influences to the track.
This is song about young love which dissolves into heartbreak; its lyrics portraying an honest talk from a man to his woman, written in a manner evocative of a high school romance whilst harbouring a message that transcends age entirely;
“Trying to tell me we can still be friends, hanging on the weekend, you’re gonna be okay if I start seeing somebody new, you hope that I do, it won’t be long till I forget to call every time that I’m drinking, and you ain’t the love song I can’t keep from singing.”
3. The Judds – Young Love (Strong Love)
A landmark track ofThe Judd’s discography, Young Love is undertoned by a stunning feminine country ambience similar to that summoned by trailblazing stars like Dolly Parton.
Young Love centres itself in poetic storytelling techniques, played against a dreamily smooth, clear-skied sonic landscape.
The Judds’ lyrics are beautifully detailed, planting you in the heart of their scene, like a fly on the wall watching a budding romance as it begins to bloom.
From gossiping to friends about the boy in question, to finally talking to him, falling in love and getting married in a heartbeat, The Judds paint a flawless picture of when young love, impulse and passion work out for the best, driven by the sweet energy raised by a group of teen girlfriends excitable about their new lovers.
4. Trisha Yearwood – She’s In Love With The Boy
Trisha Yearwood’s retro country track, She’s In Love With The Boy, is centred in the impulse of young love, the compelling desire to dive deeply into a relationship at the first chance you get despite those around you warning you otherwise.
Trisha crafts her track to demonstrate a young girl treading the line between being carefree and careless in love, as she falls quickly for a boy who takes her on adventures through the dusty Southern landscape.
She’s In Love With The Boy is as light-hearted as the floating feeling of young love, woven with a characterful message of true romance,
“Katie and Tommy at the drive-in movie, parked in the very last row, they’re too busy holdin’ on to one another, to even care about the show, later on outside the Tastee Freeze, Tommy slips something on her hand, he says my high school ring will have to do, ’til I can buy a wedding band.”
5. Hunter Hayes – Wanted
Hunter Hayes’ 2012 single, Wanted, takes words from the heart of a teenage boy finding love with another for the first time. Wanted celebrates the unconditional love found in young couples, sometimes disbelieved by older partners who can’t comprehend that their new love is true.
Hunter Hayes illustrates the pure, untainted nature of young love, placing the want for comfort as highly as the compulsion for passion;
“’Cause I wanna wrap you up, wanna kiss your lips, I wanna make you feel wanted, and I wanna call you mine, wanna hold your hand forever, and never let you forget it, yeah, I wanna make you feel wanted.”
6. Alan Jackson – Remember When
Alan Jackson’s iconic single, Remember When, is settled in the peaceful reminiscence of your love through the bygone eras.
The pure, newborn spirit of young love is ignited exponentially, as the lover described is the narrator’s first and only, their story told to a soft and heartfelt soundscape; “Remember when I was young and so were you, and time stood still and love was all we knew, you were the first and so was I.”
Remember When progresses to unfold a love story from the eyes of an elderly man reminiscing on his wife and the life they built, from walking down the aisle, to keeping mutual strength during births and deaths within the family.
Alan Jackson’s comforting atmosphere creates a country track for anyone keeping love alive with their first partner, as effortless and peaceful as it was when their romance was young.
7. LANCO – Greatest Love Story
LANCO’s country-pop track, Greatest Love Story tells a tale of a troublemaker who falls in love with “the perfect all American girl” who’s way out of their league.
But after the dream girl falls for the bad boy, she leaves for college, giving him time to pull his life together in the desperate hope that when she returns, she’ll still like him.
The chorus lyric threading LANCO’s track together is sweet as cherry pie, morphing subtly each time to reflect the boy’s view on young love pre and post-college, alongside the sense of growing up;
“Cause I was gonna be your forever, and you were gonna be my wife, we didn’t know any better, didn’t have a clue about life … And I said I’m gonna be your forever, so baby will you be my wife, now that we know a little better, we could have a real nice life.”