Is Canaan Smith pretty? DISCUSS.

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Anthony Easton: I am shallow enough that if he weren’t prettier, I would find this more vapid. It is really really vapid. Also, it tries to do the Sam Hunt style talk speech but doesn’t commit. In fact, this doesn’t commit to anything.
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Alfred Soto: Thinner than a Hershey Kisses wrapper, more sincere than a bullfrog on a fence, “Love You Like That” hopes to woo that special someone with relentlessness. Graded on a curve because “steady” is not an adjective I’d use to describe a Tom Petty track.
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Will Adams: He got me at the pretty city boys line; as someone who felt he could never compete with them, despite growing up in a big city himself, I can find comfort in Canaan Smith’s courage to admit his faults, and challenge my own anxiety in doing the same to that one special woman who makes my heart beat faster than Canaan Smith rolling the out similes.
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Micha Cavaseno: OK, OK “Canaan”, let’s cut the bullshit. You could never be a “pretty city boy,” but you are hardly bringing the grit and the grunt here. For all your Photoshopped-in sweat and chest hair, you might as well be Bon Jovi. This song, for all its cocksure strut, is some sub-“When The Children Cry” pop glam laziness. Couldn’t make it as an appliance delivery boy looking ass! How are you going to love her, fam? By singing like an impetuous puppy hopping from foot to foot, all goofy “Hey baby, I’m a real MAYNE” guffaw? People can find this cute if they want, but get this buffoon far from me.
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Patrick St. Michel: I don’t expect contemporary country to transcend cliché, but I do expect it to at least sound fun while comparing yet another woman to yet another alcoholic beverage. Canaan Smith is all eye-rolling similes without any of the booze-soaked fun.
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Ramzi Awn: As a Tennessee native, I can’t pretend that I don’t have a weakness for starry-eyed Nashville boys who are “more efficient in the dark.” Still, “Love You Like That” would be much more efficient if it didn’t sound so much like an Eagle-Eye Cherry comeback.  
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Josh Langhoff: Canaan Smith is pretty and I’ll punch any city boy tells him otherwise. This is basically the half-time version of Thomas Rhett’s “Get Me Some of That,” slow and steady, and I’ll tell you what’s efficient in the dark: whatever combination of Nashville studio technology and Canaanite vocal crag produced the words “SLOOOOW” and “STROOOONG.” Reminds me of fellow Nashville pretty boy Michael W. Smith. That’s the spot!
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Crystal Leww: God bless the newest wave of **~~sensitive~~** bro country that has been ushered in by the massive popularity of Sam Hunt. I will never not be enthralled by the small town boy who falls for the girl he doesn’t think that he can get. The posturing these boys do is centered around a different ideal of masculinity: slow, patient, steady, quiet strength, and their dynamic is also very us vs. them in regards to the slick city boys. Smith lets his insecurities fold in on themselves, and the result is painfully sweet and deeply vulnerable.
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