Married couple busting up the Hot 100, babe…

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Zach Lyon: Cute narrative and a great hook, but I’m not a fan of speeding through this entire relationship just because “wedding” was the only other monumental kissing event they could think of.
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Anthony Easton: I have a friend of mine, who I call the baptist Dilf, who loves fucking his wife. As someone who is suspicious of monogamy, and of the pleasure in such matched pairs, it is so strange of me to hear texts about people who love to fuck their monogamous partners. This single by a couple who is actually married does not seem political, and does not seem to be agit prop in favor of marriage. It’s a great tune about simple pleasures, refusing to explain desires but maintaining a solid narrative.
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Josh Langhoff: Devoid of narrative tension in the same way as Rodney Atkins’s terrible “Farmer’s Daughter” — they get together, fall in love, get married, everybody’s happy all the time, and I grow wistful for a closing-verse death scene where someone recontextualizes the title by singing it to Jesus. But at least they’re better singers than Atkins, and the melody’s got some tug to it.
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Martin Skidmore: A cute title from this country duo, the male half of which has a reasonably strong country voice (she’s barely audible), but the music is very much soft rock. It’s a nice enough song, but I can’t say it will stay with me at all.
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Katherine St Asaph: It’s not Thompson Square’s fault that this reminds me so much of Princessa’s far superior if cross-genre “I Wanna Live With You,” but there are plenty of faults to spare: the fact that honeysuckle generally doesn’t grow around roofs, making the initial scene-setting ring false, the rhyme-at-ALL-costs mentality that ruins pretty much every line, the couplet “It was the best dang kiss that I ever had / except for that long one after that,” which is practically Lonely Island-worthy. Hell, there’s even the premise of the song — you can sing as pretty as you want, but if you have to ask her this often if she’s gonna kiss you, don’t you already know the answer?
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Chuck Eddy: Subject matter’s sweet enough, and they get a nice guitar jangle in there toward the end, but this isn’t one of the reasons I’ll be returning to their album. “As Bad As It Gets”, “Getaway Car”, “Let’s Fight”, and “One Of These Days” (in that order), all of which get more Petty/Benatar hard pop into the equation (and the first and third of which are B-sides of this single) are, though. The album seems to peak higher than fellow post-Antebellum/Sugarland-harmonizing married couple Steel Magnolia’s more consistent January debut, but also dip lower.
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