Love Songs We Never Want to Hear Again (2)

All-4-One, “I Swear”

Originally a country hit for singer John Michael Montgomery, it became one of the biggest songs of the Nineties when All 4 One remade it as an R&B slow-jam. The melisma at the end is utterly out of control and there’s something odd about the distance between the youthful, puppy-love delivery and the iron-clad eternal promise of the lyrics: “for better or worse/Til death do us part.” Um, really? Death? Let’s see how junior prom goes and work from there.

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