And, we don't do it very well!
Are all the good band names gone? Can we not come up with something better than Florida Georgia Line? There's nothing wrong with band names like Alabama, Boston, Chicago, etc. But if you come from a town that straddles a state line, and your town is too small to name a band after, maybe you should come up with a different idea for a name. At least it isn't as bad as those alternative bands with names like 'Garbage Can Liners and Xanax.'
Most country songs are well written. In fact the other country songs listed here are well written. They are dissected for content. But this song has the grammar and skill of a rap song...and ironically enough, this band made a remix of the song with a rapper.
Chorus: Baby you a song
You make me wanna roll my windows down and cruise
If I have to explain what is wrong with that, maybe you need a remedial English course. Here's an intelligent way this chorus could have been written:
Instead of saying "Baby you a song" maybe they could have said "Play me a song?" I don't know. At least have a little bit of pride in your lyrics. And why does she make you want to roll your windows down? Did she fart?
Verse: Yeah, when I first saw that bikini top on her
She’s poppin’ right out of the South Georgia water
Thought, "Oh, good lord, she had them long tanned legs!"
Couldn’t help myself so I walked up and said
Wow...This might be worse than a rap song. The first line is an incomplete sentence that is in past tense. The next line is in present tense. The third and fourth lines are past tense. They are all over the place!
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| OoooWEEE!!!! Gurl, You is a SONG! |
Chorus: Baby you a song
You make me wanna roll my windows down and cruise
Down a back road blowin’ stop signs through the middle
Every little farm town with you
Once again, all over the place with incomplete sentences. Since they wrote "Baby you a song," should we now assume that calling a girl a song is now a redneck pickup line? At least "Baby YOU'RE a song" kind of makes sense. You could call her Melody, but this song has none. Blowing stop signs through the middle...Every little farm town with you. Missing a word there? OF maybe?
Chorus: In this brand new Chevy with a lift kit
Would look a hell of a lot better with you up in it
So baby you a song
You make me wanna roll my windows down and cruise
Lose the word IN, and this part might make sense...until you get to the "up in it" part, which sounds about as ghetto and dumb as anything Kanye West wrote.
Verse: She was sippin’ on Southern and singin’ Marshall Tucker
We were falling in love in the sweet heart of summer
She hopped right up into the cab of my truck and said,
"Fire it up, let’s go get this thing stuck."
Wait a minute...Do you have a time machine? Because if I am reading this correctly, it looks like she
came out of the water, then you started hitting on her, and invited her to go for a ride in your truck.
She then partied a little more, and sang along with the radio, then jumped into the truck. Ok, I understand that. The entire song talks about meeting this girl for the first time. Which is fine, and the grammar is bad, but it isn't the worst in the song. But, what about the second line of the verse??? "We were falling in love in the sweet heart of summer." You just met her, and up to the point in the song where that line is, she hasn't even gotten into your truck yet.
Chorus: Baby you a song
You make me wanna roll my windows down and cruise
Down a back road blowin’ stop signs through the middle
Every little farm town with you
In this brand new Chevy with a lift kit
Would look a hell of a lot better with you up in it
So baby you a song
You make me wanna roll my windows down and cruise
Verse: When that summer sun fell to its knees
I looked at her and she looked at me
And I turned on those KC lights and drove all night
'Cause it felt so right, her and I, man we felt so right
Not much wrong with this verse, other than "Her and I" should be "She and I."
Verse: I put it in park and
Grabbed my guitar
And strummed a couple chords
And sang from the heart
Girl you sure got the beat in my chest bumpin’
Hell, I can’t get you out of my head
You JUST said you drove all night. So, is it first thing in the morning now? You've been drinking and driving all night, and you have the energy to stop and play the guitar?
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| Come ride in my truck, Gurrrl! |
But we still have to go back to the one line where he says that they had been together for a while. Sure, they can hook up and stay up all night, and everything would feel right, but that line makes it seem like this was a relationship that blossomed over the summer.
Talk about the tree that derailed the train.
This song became a number one hit. Why? I have no idea. Maybe it has a good line dancing beat. It sure as hell isn't for the lyrics...although the lyrics may have been what made Nellie want to remake the song with the band. They were written at a level that he could comprehend.
Stay in school, kids!
And, here is the song. The remixed version with Nelly.
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