“Jason Aldean is in the process of signing an endorsement deal with the Coors Brewing Company. With that, he has changed the ‘Shiner Bock’ line in the song ‘Take a Little Ride’ to ‘a couple Rocky Tops.’ We respectfully request you exchange this version with the one you are currently playing.”
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Brad Shoup: If you’re going to riff on Petty, can you really ignore the nowhere times of “Mary Jane’s Last Dance”? All these “nothing to do but drive” songs are taking a toll on me, and inferring from Aldean’s recurring guitar line — it cranks up but doesn’t turn over — the sub-genre as a whole. “Take a Little Ride” is riddled with repetition, a country/rock tune as pre-ordained as the narrator’s baling schedule. At some point, one of these songs has to end with a pregnancy or a suicide, right?
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Anthony Easton: Yet another song about fucking in a pickup truck; I’m assuming Chevy is what he calls his penis. One would think the inclusion of small details would make it slightly better than Kip Moore’s “Somethin’ ‘Bout a Truck,” but there’s an iconic quality to Moore that Aldean lacks.
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Alfred Soto: How do frayed-out cutoffs make Aldean get lost in the moonlight? That’s my problem with this number: a proficient churn to which no one involved gave much thought.
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Patrick St. Michel: The chugging, rock-aping guitars offer no new twists to Jason Aldean’s sound. The lyrics, meanwhile, try to split the difference between small-town America — stacking bales of hay in the back of a truck — and sneaky marketing, emphasized by Aldean name-dropping Chevy and less-explicit controversies.
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Katherine St Asaph: As generic and watery as the beers it shills.
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Will Adams: Is this sleazy or charming? The rockin’ guitar riff would seem to suggest the former, but the overstuffed wishful-thinking chorus tugs towards the latter. Some context in the form of a video would probably help.
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Jonathan Bogart: Arr Oh See Kay in the You Ess Say.
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