![]() ![]() ![]() It’s not exceptional, but it is exceptional for mainstream country. Part revenge story, part murder ballad, it can’t be pile-driven home enough just how unusual it is for a song like this to be presented to the mainstream audience. ![]() Written by Hardy with Hunter Phelps, Jordan Schmidt and Renee Blair, “Wait in the Truck” is a story song, and not a succinct one. Usually the aim of most of today’s radio country is to shut your brain off. But his new song “Wait in the Truck” featuring Lainey Wilson is stimulating a lot of discussion-something that’s novel for a country radio single all unto itself. But it’s not 2014 anymore where we’re in the throes of Bro-Country, and dry heaving at the emergence of Sam Hunt.Įven though some mainstream fans will praise him like he’s the modern day Townes Van Zandt or something, HARDY has been mostly been one of the bad guys in mainstream country, crafting songs for Florida Georgia Line, Thomas Rhett and the like, along with some of the worst singles from better artists like Dierks Bentley. This most certainly doesn’t mean there still isn’t dreck being dumped into the country radio format, and like the solids in a cesspool, that tend to rise to the surface, and fester. At this point, lashing out at any artist on corporate radio is an act of muscle memory, and often unlearning those motions is harder than learning them. It’s going to be hard for some distinguishing music fans to acknowledge that the paradigm in mainstream country is shifting. ![]()
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