12/23/2023 0 Comments Driving wasted song![]() ![]() Maren Morris on First Headlining Tour & Returning to Texas After Winning a Grammy: 'I'm Coming Back…Ĥ. He draws a through-line from the inflatable pool as a three-year-old to a riverbank as a teen and a Daytona Beach experience from a Spring Break he probably never actually had: “Eighteen girls up on a stage / White t-shirts about to be sprayed.” But the best line is “Drive until the map turns blue,” another stunner from his astounding cellar of how-did-no-one-think-of-these-befores. He loves water, that thing we’re all made of and need. ![]() ![]() Brad Paisley – “Water” (from American Saturday Night, 2009)Īs with “Alcohol” or “Camouflage,” Paisley’s ability to zero in close on a subject that seems too simple or obvious to even write about is unparalleled. ![]() Who else could’ve written the second verse, where two creative prom attendees get a tux and gown made from Duck Blind Mossy Oak? To wit: “We took pictures in the backyard before we went to the dance / And the only thing that you can see is our faces and our hands.”ĥ. Brad Paisley – “Camouflage” (from This Is Country Music, 2011)Ī love song to Paisley’s “favorite color,” “Camouflage” is a distillation of his genius for turning something rote about backwoods life into everloving Borscht-Belt comedy. But this isn’t just country’s usual incisive play-around with the contradictions of everyday life - it’s a cutting exposé of hypocrisy that runs rampant in his demographic and he’s not too nice to call it out.Ħ. Yeah, yeah, he loves ‘em and possibly even attends church. “A famous TV preacher has a big affair and then / One tearful confession and he’s born again again” sets up an exasperated “It’s like they can’t wait to forgive someone for just about anything” that could only come from the wounded heart of a disenfranchised liberal. Just because Paisley is a steadfast centrist with empathy for fortnights doesn’t mean his commentary can’t be absolutely vicious. But it’s about who wears the titular item in a relationship, and how much harder it is to wear the skirt: “In the top drawer, of her dresser, there’s some panties / Go try on that purple pair, with lace and frills / With your big old legs, I bet you can’t get in them / With that attitude of yours, hell, I bet you never will.” Which makes it sad that “The Pants” was never given a video, never put Larry the Cable Guy on post-feminist drag duty. But Paisley’s got actual sales so he’s not merely lampooning conventions he’s infiltrating their chart headquarters. Only the Magnetic Fields’ Stephin Merritt can boast about a fluency with tropes he shares with Brad Paisley, a prerogative he uses to invert whenever possible. Brad Paisley – “The Pants” (from American Saturday Night, 2009) “Waitin’ on a Woman” doesn’t just stop at idling while she gets dolled up though - by song’s end he’s straight-up metaphysical: passing time on a bench in heaven because of men’s mortality rates. Paisley’s writing regarding gender roles can verge on the corny (“That’s Love”) but he’s also extraordinarily sympathetic to POVs he doesn’t understand, a boon to any rich white male, but goes double for a Red Stater. Brad Paisley – “Waitin’ on a Woman” (from Time Well Wasted, 2005) This Is Country Music is a little more nervous than Paisley’s usual meet “Love Her Like She’s Leavin’.” But this surefire Carrie Underwood duet turns the simple conceit of rekindling a longtime or reunited couple’s physical life into pure honey, with an explosive chorus worthy of the flight-missing sex they pine for.ġ0. Brad Paisley – “Remind Me” (from This Is Country Music, 2011) Here’s our list of the 15 best Brad Paisley songs to date.īest Songs: Alan Jackson | Blake Shelton | Carrie Underwood | Eric Church | George Strait | Jason Aldean | Johnny Cash | Kenny Chesney | Kenny Rogers | Lady Antebellum | Miranda Lambert | Rascal Flatts | Reba McEntire | Shania Twain | Tim McGraw | Toby Keith | Willie Nelsonġ5. But here’s one critic’s attempt to get him onto your A-list if you only ever give one cowboy-hatted good guy a chance in your entire life, make it this one. Paring him down wasn’t easy go beyond these for 1999’s astoundingly tender stepdad tribute “He Didn’t Have to Be” or 2001’s astoundingly flippant “I’m Gonna Miss Her,” in which a woman makes the mistake of coming between him and his fishing rod (not a euphemism). ![]()
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