The Singles Jukebox

Good timing, Eric…

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[5.29]Patrick St. Michel: This sounds a lot like what Mumford and Sons do, with one critical difference: this sounds fun. Eric Paslay doesn’t care about what clichés he wades into because he’s too busy crafting a shout-along chorus that’s actually a good time, no melodrama included.
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Josh Langhoff: I think Eric Paslay needs to buy some shoes that fit. Of all his co-writes, “Friday Night” is closest to “Barefoot Blue Jean Night”: through force of song he’ll create for you an ideal Night of barefootedness, fast cars, freedom, banjos wiggling like toes on solid arena riffs, and burly choruses of folks too drunk and/or amped up to articulate speech. Man, I love “Barefoot Blue Jean Night,” and this one’s even better. Bonus: it gives me the rare opportunity to write the phrase, “less sludge rock-y than Lady Antebellum’s version.”
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Brad Shoup: Another one of those tunes where the songwriter crams the sausage casing with imagery. By golly, Eric’s just so pumped for the weekend he can’t even use similes! This is going to trip so many people up on karaoke night. Props on transposing the “Smoke on the Water” chords, though. Very sneaky.
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Anthony Easton: Are we now at the third generation of generic rip-offs of this kind of work? The sheer depth of banality that these find, seems worth noting. Nothing else is though.
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Jonathan Bogart: Dude, your Friday nights sound exhausting.
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Alfred Soto: He wants to be a lot of things and only 24 hours to be them (reminds me of this segment). He wants to set her free and take her high, her money in her pocket, her, uh, lemonade in the shade — the money I get, but I want a stronger drink than lemonade on a Friday night, although shade in Florida is nice. The guitar punctuation helps.
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Iain Mew: I’m writing this on a dull Thursday evening, but the sentiment still isn’t grating. I attribute this partly to its lack of specifics that makes the feeling he’s proposing sound more multi-purpose and inclusive of anyone at any time, and mostly to how high the energy levels are regardless and infectiously excited Paslay manages to stay.
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