Yeah, I'm not really sold on Noah Kahan or any of this recent wave of folksy, heartland-rock inspired rock. I like War On Drugs and Sam Fender as much as the next guy but this new stuff sounds like a pretty cheap imitation.
Oh and I don't like his voice or his lyrical style, so that's gonna count against him as well haha
I mean, her voice is impressive, but epic swirling piano ballads like this almost always sound contrived and hammy to me.
My thing with modern popular country is just how nondescript it is. Country as a genre is rooted in history and features some of the best storytellers music as an art form has ever seen, so in comparison, like, what actually is this? What is this actually about? It's vibe music at best, and that's not gonna do anything for me because I don't like the vibe it's giving off. There's really nothing to this stuff. It's a shame.
I got a pickup truck and some whiskey... gonna drive my truck and drink some whiskey...
No clue what people see in this that makes it anything other than a hilarious catastrophe of awful ideas. Is it the way the beat sounds like the fart gun from Despicable Me? Is there something I'm not getting about the way he says "speakerrrr"? Or how he informs he's going to "grip on my body"? Someone tell me what I'm missing...
I have not heard a Luke Combs song that makes me want to listen to a second Luke Combs song. He's just so... uninteresting. Both lyrically and musically.
Can Tame Impala really do a duet? He's kinda made a whole career out of singing about how lonely he is. It doesn't help that his and JENNIE's parts sound so sonically dissonant from each other. I mean, of course they didn't record their lines together but did it have to sound so obvious? This remix mostly just makes a good song a little less good.
This isn't bad but it's jarringly short. I suppose it was originally a demo so that makes a lick of sense. The guitar riff is sorta Black Keys-y.
This is not Bruno's wheelhouse in my opinion. He's really oversinging here and sounds very at odds with the instrumental.
Congrats on turning a dull country song into an unlistenable one with that muddy fucking chorus luke mate
Taylor Swift is a really bad songwriter. Like, a really bad songwriter. I sometimes forget just how embarrassing I find her lyrics. It especially sticks out on this song, because here under the thick layer of cringe there's a well-produced pop song - probably Taylor's first in a good while. There's no longer a second, worse thing to distract me from the worst thing about Taylor Swift, which makes her insufferable lyrics stick out all the more.
It's fun, but praising a Bruno Mars song for being 'fun' is like praising a Forza game for good graphics at this point. It's a given, we need to move past that. Sadly I don't think this song really does. It's good for like, background music, or something to put on at a party, but it definitely doesn't have the staying power of an Uptown Funk or a 24K Magic.
Todd convinced me of this one. Lacks the most abrasive, wilfully moronic qualities of most modern popular country.
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