Nobody suggested the joke, so I will…
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Anthony Easton: Well, this is a variation on this year’s country theme: instead of going down the back road in a pickup to find a quiet spot and do what cowboys do in those spots, he is instead singing her a song, and using that song to proclaim his love for the world. I find this sweet and charming, mostly because of the harmonies.
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Alfred Soto: Not only does it threaten to turn into “Drift Away,” it threatens to get obnoxious.
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Brad Shoup: Thought this was going to shift into country-trance.
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Katherine St Asaph: He’s so impatient to get to the chorus. Could that be a metaphor?
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Jonathan Bogart: It’s entirely possible that my distaste for picking-up-girls songs derives from jealousy.
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Iain Mew: The main problem here is that the methodical musical churn and high-effort vocals give the impression of a steam train, or possibly a longboat, rather than anything that actually suits the concept of cruising.
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Patrick St. Michel: Crossing the Florida-Georgia borderline is a pretty drab affair. The marshy, green-speckled scenery of southern Georgia gives way to the marshy, green-speckled scenery of northern Florida, except all the visitor-center billboards urge you to stop on by and sample some world famous Florida orange juice. There might have been a Cracker Barrel. Florida Georgia Line’s “Cruise” is a song made to match the mood of the tiny towns along the interstate — uneventful and usually pretty boring. Small-town life doesn’t have to sound so lazy — Miranda Lambert, in particular, is great about turning seemingly quiet places into characters all their own — but FGL just cruise. All that is running through my head while listening to this is “how many miles until we hit Gainesville?”
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