Upscaling the location from pick-up trucks, “the lake,” and barrooms to travel-poster locales of yachts sailing on azure oceans— mostly 20 and 30-somethings, partying, hooking up, drinking and being drunk, is apparently, an antidote to heartbreak, when your partner leaves. It’s the happiest “break-up song” of 2021.
I remember it like it was yesterday
‘Cause it was
And I was letting the sun and the rum
Just do what it does
I threw my phone in the water
Little push off the dock
She was packing her bags
I was popping a top
Is she gone for the summer, gone for the night?
Gone for the weekend or the rest of my life?
The river was rolling
I was getting my float on
She was telling me so long
I was already so long gone
“I Was on a Boat ” the latest from Old Dominion, one of Country’s hottest groups (they have remarkable everything: songwriting, singing and performing). The 5-member band has won approximatley 10 Country Music Awards and Academy of Country Music awards combined.
Coinciding with summer’s official start, just days away, “I Was on a Boat” tells the tale of a guy drinking tequila and having a boat load o’ fun (literally) even though his girl friend has just broken up with him!
The song kicks off with the hook and goes into a slice of life, a moment in time, something that happened during the day…
Toby Keith’s take on how to deal with rejection is 1999’s “How Do You Like Me Now?” about how the prettiest girl rejected him, back when he was a nobody, and now he’s a somebody, on her radio every morning.
Both songs that do what Country does so well: tell a good, high-energy story, with a good hook, and if the singer is good, too, so much the better.
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