OK yes, I left out 2010… the real title of the song is “Way Too High (2010)” but a song title with something in parentheses is a gray area, isn’t it? Like, do we include the words or not? Parentheses are used as a way to include nonessential information… so what the heck are we supposed to do with (2010)??? Also, is it weird that 2025 to 2010 is like 1990 to 1975? Yes, it’s VERY weird! You know those comparisons blow your mind, just admit it. Thinking about 1990 (35 years ago but this is nonessential) now is like living in 1990 and thinking about 1955. 👀
Muscadine Bloodline’s new video for their song “Way Too High”………hmm ok fine…………… “Way Too High (2010)” 🙄 is basically a list of things the pair of singers did in 2010. Actually, now (2010) is sounding pretty essential to the song. The lyrics orbit around the title “way too high” so I thought they’d be singing about smoking in the boys bathroom. But the writer cleverly connects the phrase to pick-up trucks. Riding around in a truck up way too high. It’s a subtle way of saying they’re all growed up now. What’s cool when you’re 18 looks pretty dumb when you’re 30, and darn near idiotic when you’re 40. But in their defense, a jacked up truck looks waaaaaaay better than a half jacked up truck… like this one I saw at Target. What the heck??
The lyrics list all the things high schoolers were into in Alabama in 2010: Trucks with a lift kit, smoking cheap cigars, Lil Wayne (the song the guys chat at the start of the video), beer, Friday night football, hunting, and burning CDs. I never lived in AL. I had a 4-cylinder truck in high school. I think I smoked two cigars in college. Never drank beer. Didn’t play football. Never hunted. Oh, but I did burn CDs… although that was college, too. You see? I have nothing in common with this song.
So why do I like it??
The melody. The guitars. OK fine, I’m a sucker for a good acoustic song with a great melody. The harmonies are pretty nice, too. And I swear I hear an harmonica and I totally approve. I guess this song is further proof that country music is becoming listenable again. Thank you Muscadine Bloodline and others like Benjamin Tod and Lainey Wilson. You might just save the genre after all!
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