When I first heard “Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman” it was only a few years ago, long after the song came out. I didn’t know who sang it.
My first thoughts: “This song must be from some movie where the girls were all GaGa over how the singer looked. And it probably wasn’t even a professional singer. Maybe a popular actor, somebody like Johnny Depp, who is known to dabble in performing music here and there. The voice, energy and delivery are dry, raspy, lethargic to the point of being weak.
That is the sound of someone doing Kareoke after too many Tequila Sunrises, but allows himself to be recorded anyway.
I love it.
It’s romantic, and Latin inspired. And yet a waltz.