Featuring the ineffable cool of keeping your hands in your pockets…
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Brad Shoup: Dear Penthouse, I never thought this would happen to me…
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Alfred Soto: What do you mean you can’t “do” these “things” in a car? I got plenty imaginative in my early twenties when I was still living at home. Oh right — you can’t use a winch or bring mud inside the house.
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Anthony Easton: I love the fact that aside from the obvious differences between cars and trucks (i.e. trucks have beds that make it easier to fuck in), the important bit is the fun that isn’t quite as sexy, or not even sexy at all (i.e. trucks have beds that make it easier to deliver dry wall in; four wheel trucks allow for off-roading in a way that cars don’t). The dry, quiet details and the showing-instead-of-telling have the sweet details of loving a space more than most country of this ilk.
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Edward Okulicz: I feel like between this and Kip Moore’s “Something ‘Bout A Truck” we might be only one song away from a trend and a few think-pieces. The comparison between the two is instructive here: Moore’s song had a sneaky groove appropriate for a song about getting frisky in someone else’s property, and Due West’s song’s attempts at both being naughty and extolling the virtues of truck sex and going offroad are about as unexciting and laborious as hauling dry-wall.
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Jonathan Bradley: The narrative specificity of the first verse dissipates in the second and “Things You Can’t Do in a Car” ends up as a rather generic list song. Brad Paisley can get away with that; Due West is far too anonymous.
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Iain Mew: I can’t help but contrast this with “Fly Over States.” The extent to which I’m similarly ignorant of its way of life is probably best illustrated by the fact that at “down a rough road where a car can’t go” I was thinking that it was about hiking and didn’t even consider trucks. Yet, unlike Jason Aldean, they leave me thinking that what they’re singing about actually does sound pretty great. The details are all in there, picked out with loving musical and lyrical detail, and, crucially, Due West sound excited by them. In the end, celebration does a much better job than persuasion.
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Katherine St Asaph: Everything about this is doable in a car. Performing the song included.
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