Kissed Her More

The Roast

“Kissed Her More is the strongest piece of writing on this run of the catalog. The title is regret as one complete sentence. The verses are regret as the things you remember and the things you should have done. The chorus is regret as the only thing left to say. Most singer-songwriter regret songs collapse under the weight of their own confessional impulse. This one stays upright because Thomas wrote it as a specific memory rather than a thematic statement, and the specificity is what makes the universal land. The production is the most confident on the entire 2026 batch. The percussion has the warmth of an instrument that was recorded with intent rather than placed by a plugin. The vocal performance is the most emotionally available Thomas has put on record, and the restraint in the second chorus, where most artists would over-belt, is the part of the song that proves the writer actually knows what he is doing. This is the kind of track that gets a slow burn on a Spotify editorial playlist and finds the audience that the rest of the catalog has been trying to reach for two years.”

The Bright Side

Kissed Her More is the best track on this run of the catalog. Specific writing, confident production, restrained vocal, and a structural choice in the second chorus that shows Thomas trusts the material. This is the proof that the late-period direction is the right direction.

Hardest Sneer

“Kissed Her More is also a title that confirms Sally's long-standing thesis that all of Thomas's 2026 song names are tweet-length confessions trying very hard to look like art. They are tweet-length confessions that happen to be wrapped in art. The distinction is doing a lot of work.”

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