"There Was This Girl" is the debut single by American country music singer Riley Green. It was released as a promotional single in June 2018 and sent to radio as the lead single from his debut studio album, Different 'Round Here (2019), on August 6, 2018.[1] 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."[2]
Green said that the song's music video (directed by Peter Zavadil) was shot by fans of his, while he performed a concert in a bar in his home state of Alabama. He told Taste of Country that "We actually let the fans shoot the video, and literally passed the camera from fan to fan."[3]
Green performed the song on Today on January 7, 2019.[4]
