![]() ![]() “I feel like layin’ you down on a bed of sweet surrender where we can work it all out,” “I wanna touch you like a cleansing rain.” and “I feel like lettin’ go of everything that stands between us and the love we used to know.” Luke does say, “Let me run my fingers down your back” but more often we find lines about the scenery, like the “white cotton sheets,” “feel my belt turn loose from these old blue jeans,” and this completely unnecessary “I wanna drop this cell phone out, Let it shatter on the ground.” It’s trying to be romantic, but it comes off like he is in a hurry to have sex rather than desperate to get back the love they lost. Also, Dierks Bentley talked much more about the girl. I assume the “old school beat” is the bro country sound before this new r&b/pop/metro-politan disease infected the genre…irony at its finest. Like I already said, this is pop and r&b, with the only reference to country being the comment about getting back to the way things were “When it was an old back road and an old school beat, Cowboy boots by your little bare feet.” Dirt roads get an obligatory mention even when the song is not bro country. ![]() ![]() So let’s compare the two.ĭierks’s is country with some rock. ![]() It’s about Luke wanting to reconnect with an old love by “stripping it down.” Immediately, Dierks Bentley’s “Come a Little Closer” comes to mind, as this is basically the premise of that song as well. I mean shit, you can’t get away from this guy.īut since SCM took care of that, let’s discuss the song itself. But I’ll tell you this: If I was looking to blow off a little steam and hook up for the night, or was feeling a little lonely and wanted to go looking for love, the last thing I would want to see is the country music Gomer Pyle on there shilling his stupid video. It’s only fair to mention that officially, Tinder is not meant to be exclusively about setting up sex rendezvous. Enter “Strip it Down,” the r&b/pop copy of Jason Aldean’s hit “Burnin’ it Down.” Incidentally, Luke released this lyric video “exclusively” on Tinder, and I won’t go into a rant about how sleazy this is, but do yourself a favor and go read Trigger’s own rant on SCM I didn’t think I could possibly hate anything Luke produced worse than “Kick the Dust Up,” but then I have underestimated these things before. Uncaged is Zac Brown Band’s magnum opus.Luke Bryan has released a second song from his upcoming album Kill the Lights–and it actually is not a copy of “That’s my Kind of Night” or “Kick the Dust Up.” Country Exclusive didn’t exist when the atrocity that is “Kick the Dust Up” came out, so you were saved the rant, but let me say that that “song” was one of the driving factors behind this blog. However, there are not many albums across any genre that feel this sonically unique, well-realized and fresh while simultaneously staying true to the band’s original sound. This record certainly is not for everyone, especially those who consider themselves country purists. Each song feels exceptionally well-realized and full with songs such as Goodbye in Her Eyes and Sweet Annie feeling epic much in the vein of Eagles ballads of the 1970s. This mainly has to do with some brilliant production from both Brown and Keith Stegall throughout the record and songwriting that doesn’t feel contrived and uninspired. Unlike, the two aforementioned albums, it works wonders on Uncaged. incorporate elements of bluegrass, rock, jazz, R&B and even a bit of reggae into this country album. Like The Owl and JEKYLL + HYDE, Uncaged is traversing a wide array of musical sounds. I will be the first one to admit that this album is simply not for everyone. ![]()
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