Thanks MAB! You have covered my feelings about this song exactly. And, have pointed out the size of the "country" tent. That is one of the reasons I'm bringing up these songs. When I get evaluations back from NSAI that say generically "it sounds dated" or "the lyrics are dated", with no specific details to support those statements, I really start wandering what one needs to write so it will be a "country song". I do listen to a top 40 country station here, but I don't always catch the billboard top 40 show on the weekends, so the huge variety of songs I hear all week, I don't know or remember on some of them how "old" they are. To me "old" is songs back before 2004, but I guess as quickly as country is changing these days, a song that is 2 years old might be considered "old".
Thanks again for your review of those songs. I hope it helps all of us here to write better songs. Me, I'm listening to billboard top 20 songs, picking one I like, then try to write my own song, on a totattly different theme, that follows that chord progression and a very close similarity to the melody and rhythm. I'm almost done with one and I'm sending it in to NSAI for evaluation. We'll see how close I come to "current country".
Hey ya'll. Since I've started this, does anyone else have a current song they would like to discuss? like or dislike?
phil g.