YMMV / Collin Raye

• Covered Up:
  • "All I Can Be (Is a Sweet Memory)" was originally recorded by Conway Twitty in 1985.
  • "I Think About You" was recorded by a little-known Christian country group called Wilcox & Pardoe around the same time as Raye's version.
• Growing the Beard: Extremes is usually considered one of his best albums, due to containing much stronger songwriting and production than the first two. This improvement is defined in such hit singles as "That's My Story" and "My Kind of Girl", which proved that he had the grit for harder country-rock, along with the incredibly potent tale of a heartbroken recovering alcoholic in "Little Rock".
• Sequel Displacement: "Love, Me" was his second single. The first was the now-obscure "All I Can Be (Is a Sweet Memory)".
• Tear Jerker:
  • "Love, Me" tells of the departure of the narrator's grandmother, who left behind a note that the grandfather still carries with him. The song uses a Dual-Meaning Chorus to carry this across.
  • "Little Rock", for anyone who has seen alcoholism tear a family apart. The song's narrator is a recovering alcoholic who is proud of himself for recovering, but still saddened that his habit has driven him away from his lover. The music video takes it up to eleven. In the song, he's singing only to his partner. In the video, he has both a wife and child, and he's repeating toxic patterns he learned from his own father. The bridge cuts between past and present, with the singer watching from the doorway as a small boy while his father screamed at his mother and destroyed things in a drunken rage. In the present, the singer is doing the same to his own wife, only to turn and see his young son standing in the doorway. His father beat him in the past for seeing too much, but in the present, he scoops up his own child and hugs him tight, shame written all over his face. It's implied to be his epiphany that his drinking is destroying his family.