There’s a particular magic in a song that takes you back to the days of intense young love, when every look counts, you’re absolutely in love and the opinion of your friends can make a relationship seem like the most important thing in the world. That’s the feeling that Knabokov Music captures in “Our Love Is True”, an infectious dance-pop single released on 31 October 2026. Based in Fairfax, CA, the male singer, songwriter and performer originally wrote the song for his niece when she was at high school. It’s a song that draws on the memories of young love and the attendant excitement, vulnerability and peer pressure. Early Taylor Swift and Martina McBride are among his influences in terms of the melodic songwriting and the emotional delivery. The interesting thing about the song is that Knabokov Music has a real interest in writing from a female point of view, in terms of imagining what it would be like to be a young woman and what her hopes and dreams and feelings would be. That’s what gives “Our Love Is True” its central character, a song about young love in all its emotional glory, with a very bright, up-tempo sound to get you moving.
The story behind the recording is pretty much as interesting as the song itself. Knabokov had created a demo with his own lyrics, arrangement, guitar and vocals and then sent it to his niece with the hope that she would do the female version that he’d envisaged. When she became too busy to do it, the song just sort of sat there as an idea he really wanted to hear realised. He eventually went to Suno AI who took his original melodic ideas and developed the arrangement into the production that he’d been looking for. He says the result was absolutely emotional, in fact it brought him to tears when he heard the female vocal. It’s all about the hooks and the vocal arrangement and the song really builds. There’s a very ambitious final section where a very careful modulation takes you into what is effectively an orchestral mega-pop outro which gives it a real lift and takes it well beyond a normal dance track. It’s the combination of the very accessible melody and the increasingly complex arrangement that makes it work. It’s a song you want to listen to from the off, it’s designed to be really enjoyable, but there is also a real sense of musical theatre in the way the vocals and the instrumentation build up to the climax.
What makes Knabokov Music interesting is the personal imagination behind it. It all starts with experience, with memory and an attempt to put yourself in someone else’s shoes. The use of AI is a way of accessing musical territory that would otherwise be completely out of reach. “Our Love Is True” is a perfect example of that process. It’s a song that started life as a song for a family member, born out of the sheer emotional force of a high school romance. It’s been taken through the AI process and become a full-blown pop song. There’s a very clear Taylor Swift and Martina McBride influence in the way it’s written, the emphasis on melody and the vocal performance. It’s a dance pop song through and through with a very big, very cinematic finish. It’s a song that takes a personal idea and turns it into something that’s designed for a much wider audience. You might not necessarily connect with the subject matter of the song, you might not be particularly interested in the romance of high school, but you will certainly be drawn in by the song itself. The hook is there, the rhythm is there and the ending is absolutely massive. It’s a very effective introduction to an artist who is clearly prepared to go down the route of experimentation in order to achieve the sound that he hears in his head.
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