Alexa Ray Joel’s latest pop song, “Seven Years,” celebrates the many highs and occasional lows of her long-term relationship.
The lush piano ballad, which was inspired by her fiance Ryan Gleason, is packed with sweet slices of life taken from the couple’s true story. The rich, informative lyrics are set to a building melody that sounds like it might have come straight from a Broadway musical. The resemblance isn’t coincidental, according to the native New Yorker.
When Gleason first heard the song in one of its early versions, he was completely touched.
