Single Again: Tonic — “If You Could Only See”

A new* (archival) RIOTRIOT feature grilling an artist about one hit song they made

You won’t believe how blue this dude’s eyes get when he sends a heart emoji: Emerson Hart of Tonic

Single Again was a 2014 interview franchise for the now-defunct Radio.com where I investigated chart hits of the past and present, what they meant, and how good they really are. It’s been lost to the ravages of corporate negligence time so I’m restoring all 30 installments of it on RIOTRIOT. For this edition of Single Again, I spoke to Tonic frontman Emerson Hart via phone about “If You Could Only See,” which was rock radio’s most played song of 1997. At press time he was promoting his second solo album, Beauty in Disrepair.