Go back to New Orleans, Billy…
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Crystal Leww: If you are not Ryan Gosling, you will have to try a little harder than this track to pull off a mere “Hey girl.”
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Katherine St Asaph: This… this is the song “Good Girl” was written as an answer song to, isn’t it. Which can only mean Carrie Underwood is a psychic, and American Idol, like Professor X, secretly recruits for them. Doesn’t Phillip Phillips sound like a Marvel name?
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Patrick St. Michel: Heard the opening of this song, spent the next 20 minutes trying to remember what the guitar reminded me of. It was “Boulevard of Broken Dreams.” Thanks for sucking up 20 minutes of my life, Billy Currington.
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Brad Shoup: Working a rasp Miley Cyrus would kill for — and a chord progression Green Day might sue over — Currington gulps his way through a peculiarly gloomy meet-cute. The perfect key for karaoke night and night driving.
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Josh Langhoff: Currington fights back the maw of loneliness with logorrheic minor-keyed urgency. Girl gapes at him, fascinated. Songwriters, producer, and band watch a while from the corner, then turn back to their dart game.
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Anthony Easton: He seems to be trying too hard. The voice sounds rough, and the guitars aren’t doing a great job of covering that shit up. I’m kind of bored by the generic “hey girl” generalizations, and the lack of specific identifying qualities. Even a name would be helpful.
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Will Adams: Terribly featureless, which is especially unfortunate for a song that’s trying to get its subject’s attention. It’s too polite, too content to stay in the crowd, and textbook-example radio filler.
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Alfred Soto: Confidently stepping into gravel-voiced Jerrod Niemann territory, complete with watery guitar, Currington comes close to embodying this piece of chug-a-country.
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Daisy Le Merrer: You know those spam songs you get on Spotify when looking for a hit: lazy covers made fast and cheap to rake in the long tail cents of people who didn’t notice they were clicking on the “as made famous by Mackiemore” version? It seems someone noticed there’s a billion songs called “Hey Girl” on Spotify and figured it’d be cheaper to make one generic spam song that’d cover them all at once.
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