Jaron Gives the Back Story in New "Pray for You"
So why exactly is Jaron Lowenstein of Jaron and the Long Road to Love so pissed off in his "Pray for You" video? The one where he's wishing all kinds of evil things will happen to his ex? Well, enter the prequel. His brand new video for the song may be coming "after," but it gives you a look at how bad the relationship was "before." "This second-version idea? Not mine. I wish it was my idea. But Monte Lipman and Scott Borchetta came up with it," Lowenstein told me. (Lipman runs Universal Republic and Borchetta runs Big Machine, the two labels partnering with his Jaronwood Records). "I wasn't so sure about it. I was skeptical and hesitant. But they wanted to justify why a guy like me would sing a song like this. To answer the question about what happened to this guy, and why's he so angry, but in a dark way." As for casting Jamie Pressly (who plays Joy on My Name Is Earl) as the root of all evil, that was pretty brilliant. "She was not in the first round. I wanted my real ex to do it. She would've really tried to kill me in the video, and that would have been really funny," he said.
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Olivia says:
I love this song! Jaron is amazing and everyone should learn his name, he’ll be big news soon!
I am So Cute says:
this guy was already a big news back in the early 2000 with hits like The Distance and Crazy For This Girl. Unfortunately it flipped…
michku3 says:
I love this song! I had never heard of Jaron before my friend told me to listen to it.
Joe says:
Actually Mel Tillis wrote and Waylon Jennings sang a song like this called “Sweet Mental Revenge”….
William says:
Awful awful song
wendy says:
he is adorable!! and the song is just so funny and so true!!!