By Michaela Gordoni
Matthew West hosted his wife, Emily, on his podcast—where they quickly became sidetracked with an old argument traced back to their wedding day.
“I’m thinking of a song to serenade you with to start our episode,” West told Emily at the beginning of the podcast. “For some reason, it’s only the song from Lion King that’s coming to mind… Can you feel the love tonight?” he sang. “It’s our song though, remember?”
“It’s not our song,” Emily said. “…Remember that song that we danced to that I never heard? I never heard it before until our wedding day.”
Matthew told her the song was “True Companion” and claimed he always played it for her.”
“Wrong girlfriend,” Emily joked.
“Clearly you’ve, you know, in a non-biblical way, gone against scripture. You’ve held a grudge against me for 22 years that I picked the song for our first dance,” Matthew jokingly argued.
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“When we were dating, we were at your apartment and we’d had dinner and that song At Last by Etta James and we stood in your living room and romantically danced. And then when it was our wedding, I was like, we should dance to that. And you were like, no, we need to dance to True Companion. And I was like, what is that?“ Emily recalled.
Matthew, trying to convince Emily that she knew and loved “True Companion,” looked up the lyrics and sang them to her, despite her telling him he didn’t need to.
“It’s a lovely song, but the point was that you dance to a song that’s meaningful for the bride and for the groom and the bride,” she told Matthew. “But it was meaningful for you—” she said as Matthew interrupted with more lyrics.
“It’s a lovely song,” Emily said. “But when your bride doesn’t know it—” Matthew interrupted, singing again.
When he finished singing, Matthew said Emily was lying that she hadn’t heard it before.
“No, it’s not a lie,” she said.
“I played you Mark Cohn,” Matthew recalled. “He was like one of my favorite artists of the time. You can’t tell me that our whole dating period I never played you Mark Cohn.”
Emily responded that she’d heard his music, but never that song.
“I played you that before the wedding,” Matthew said.
“When you said we were going to dance to it. You were like, ‘Oh, yeah. It’ll be great.’ And then you played it for me,” she said.
“The difference is when your wife said, ‘What song do you think we should dance to?’ You don’t just blurt out some song that you love that she hadn’t heard before,” Emily insisted.
Matthew met Emily when she worked at Universal South Records, where Matthew came to sing. They got engaged after just three months of dating, they revealed in another podcast episode.
The couple celebrated their 22nd anniversary earlier this year.
“My first impression was that you were gorgeous and out of my league,” Matthew told Emily in an anniversary video. “… I still think you’re gorgeous and out of my league.”
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