About There Was This Girl

"There Was This Girl" is a song recorded by American country music singer Riley Green. It was released in June 2018 as his debut single and the first from his debut studio album, Different 'Round Here. Green wrote the song with Erik Dylan, and Dann Huff served as producer.

The song is a story song about the impact that various women have had in the narrator's life. Billy Dukes of Taste of Country wrote that it "finds the narrow space between calls for a return to a more timeless country sound and seeks to banish the word "bro" from the dictionary. The debut single is smart storytelling for the everyman. The trick Green and his co-writers pull is using successive choruses to advance his narrative without sacrificing the country-rocker's singalong quality. He swaps only a word or phrase each time, slowly turning what starts as an adolescent adventure reminiscent of Chris Cagle's 'Chicks Dig It' into a grown man's memory.