The Right Kind of Love
Jeremy Jordan · Try My Love
A sincere, clean love song with nothing to hide from.
Where the words land
Signal: Edifying.
What do these signals mean?
- Edifying: Points the heart toward God, truth, hope, or love.
- Worth Weighing: Real good and real concern together. Test it before you take it in.
- Strained: Strains against Scripture: leans toward what could dull or mislead.
- At Odds: At odds with Scripture: celebrates what it warns against. Little here builds up.
Weighed against Scripture
“There's no reason to doubt me”
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
The singer's promise of faithful, steady devotion echoes love's patient, trusting, non-boastful nature described here, even though the song never names God as its source.
The song as a whole
“Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all. Mighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, his offer would be utterly scorned.”
Scripture itself celebrates romantic devotion and the desire for a love that is strong and unwavering, giving this kind of song a biblical precedent.
“There are three things too wonderful for me, four that I cannot understand: the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship at sea, and the way of a man with a maiden.”
The wonder and delight of romantic pursuit the song celebrates mirrors the awe Proverbs expresses over the mystery of a man and woman's love.
In short
This is a simple, sunny love song about wanting to be someone's devoted partner. There's no darkness, no vulgarity, no self-destruction, just earnest romantic reassurance. It doesn't reach toward anything spiritual, but it also doesn't need to; it's content being a sweet declaration of human love.
- Spiritual posture
The song is entirely focused on romantic devotion between two people; it doesn't reach toward or away from God, just stays within human affection.
What do these ratings mean?
- Lyrical content, what the words say on the surface. Clean: nothing coarse, sexual or violent. Mild: a trace of it, by allusion or a rare word. Strong: profanity, sex or violence in plain words. Explicit: graphic, or sin held up to admire.
- Spiritual posture, where the song's heart points. God-honoring: toward God, truth or hope. Searching: honestly reaching or wrestling toward truth, without arriving. Neutral: spiritually indifferent; neither reaches nor rejects. Dark: despairing, nihilistic, self-exalting or hostile to God.
- Apparent intent, what the song is for. Edifying: worship, encouragement, honest lament. Cathartic: letting grief, anger or longing out, told honestly. Ambiguous: hard to say what the song is for. Harmful: celebrates evil, mocks faith or draws toward sin.
Does this song's picture of faithful love point you toward the kind of steady love Scripture calls us to, even without naming it?
An AI-assisted reading. It can misread a lyric, a metaphor or a song’s intent.
