Katherine St Asaph: It’s a low bar, but every time a radio-country song essays the slightest sonic innovation, like the bass putters and M83 grinding in “Burnin’ it Down,” I’m cheered. Great timbres, from the pitched-up figure to the slabby low-end he could have kept it going for a lot longer. Aldean could’ve done at this point in his career, and it’s also one of the best things he’s ever released.īrad Shoup: I love the pop/dance touches at their speed they work well with the sunset-on-blinds vibe: paralyzed dissolution, staying in as a form of leisure protest. I suspect most of my colleagues will disagree with me (much as they did on FGL’s “Dirt,” which I think is their best one yet), but this left turn is about the smartest thing Mr. The combination of FGL and Aldean should by no means result in an oddly R&B-ish country record that’s also Aldean’s best ballad-ish single, and it certainly shouldn’t come off this honest-to-goodness sexy. Florida Georgia Line, co-writers of this song, are kinda the epitome of bro-country. He’s also, semi-unfairly, become seen as one of the poster boys for bro-country. Thomas Inskeep: Jason Aldean’s a strong singer whose best singles have typically been uptempo (“Dirt Road Anthem,” “The Only Way I Know”). (Though there is some good mystic build-up in those verses, so you could do worse than have it humming as you make your midnight way up north.) Luisa Lopez: A love song sans teeth, defanged in the presence of its title: the inferno that never was. Its downfall is repetition, and if the bridge sounded any different from the rest of the song, it could’ve been better. I’m the furthest from a country music expert, but I see this appealing to non-country fans. The most country thing about this is Jason’s voice and mentions of “cold Jack Daniels” and Alabama. That is a lowkey hip hop beat playing here, the same beat your wannabe rapper cousin used for his first song. Josh Love: There’s some genuinely good pillow talk here (“Let’s hit the switch and let our shadows dance,” “We’re about to get a little tangled up right about now”) but sadly Aldean can’t keep it up for more than a few seconds at a time before succumbing to mood-killers like “You’re stirrin’ up dirty in the back of my mind” or simply pronouncing “naked” as “nekkid,” which is sometimes funny but never sexy.Īshley Ellerson: Wait. But Aldean, who approximates the act of believing the banalities written for him, sings about girls and trucks and shit as if this were just another dirt road anthem. “Baby girl, will you rock it out with me?” Oh Jason, you honeydripper you.Īlfred Soto: The drum machine and guitar-in-a-cavern production come from R&B or maybe, I dunno, a Chris de Burgh song, and the singer happens to sing with an accent. Jason Aldean’s unbuttoned denim come-ons? Not so much. For me, it’s the welcoming neon bar sign glow of the production that’s the most seductive element of this track. I can’t wait for the R&B covers.ĭan MacRae: If this gets you horny, the more power to you. That Florida Georgia Line are among the writers is even more baffling. None of Jason Aldean’s previous singles indicate that he wants to go any deeper than wistfulness when it comes to love but here it is anyway, lyrics that feel lived-in and disarmingly intimate, a vocal with no winks. Leela Grace: This is what leveling up sounds like. I didn’t think he’d be lazy enough to chuck out “just doing our thing” or “rocking it out all night”, and for all of the lauded musical innovation - I just don’t see it. Would buy a drink for, bless’m.Īnthony Easton: Aldean’s skills are mostly in constructing narratives - often not very smart ones, but he is not the kind of person who works through a single line over and over. Who romances with Jack Daniels after the age of 12? It’s friggin’ adorable, especially because the narrative of the song seems to switch between them being in a bar with a dubious fire safety record to him lying on his bed imagining the whole thing. Hazel Robinson: This guy sounds like such a geek. It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s another attempt at country-R&B!… Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment.I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES.Email (song suggestions/writer enquiries).
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