![]() ![]() A dark, dour song that wallows in its misery and recounts the regret and heartbreak that he feels over the one who got away. I totally get its appeal, and in a way, it represents Wallen’s appeal pretty concretely. Unfortunately, “Wasted on You” is not one of the reasons why. That’s bound to hamper the album’s quality as a whole, but it has so many excellent songs that show genuine growth in Wallen’s music that I think the future looks bright for him. And as for the click-track beat, the less said the better.Īl Varela: The double-edged sword of Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous is that there is enough quality stuff on it for you to pick and choose your favorite songs while ignoring the ones you dislike. Thomas Inskeep: Wallen’s voice on “Wasted on You” is just as whiny as his lyrics. The way the rap-influenced drums hit in the chorus are another thing that I came to like, and overall the music sounds good here. He maybe could’ve injected more emotion, especially in the chorus, but it’s possible that might have just come off as overwrought. His singing is good too, with enough gruffness to get to the emotions he’s trying to convey. The lyrics are one - at first I just heard the generic country tropes (“bourbon” “boots” “Chevy” etc), but I think when listened to properly the song tells a story with enough detail that it feels like something that really happened to Wallen. First listen I wasn’t very impressed, but repeated listens have revealed its qualities. Samson Savill de Jong: It’s a bit of a grower, this one. Treating the trap beat like George Jones did pedal steel allows him to flaunt a conversational cadence: he’s not smarmy, just chatty, honest about not having enough on his mind but knowing that mind well. Wayne Weizhen Zhang: The iceberg-paced Sam Hunt-ification of country music shows no signs of stopping - and I’m not mad about it.Īlfred Soto: A tub full of blarney, guts, and mullets, Morgan Wallen may be indistinguishable from Sam Hunt in a lineup, but he’s even more influenced by hip-hop. Pharrell Williamsĭefinitely our favourite singer to have been stolen from Usher by Adam Levine… Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment.I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES.Email (song suggestions/writer enquiries).The new single will officially impact radio on March 7. It's his second single since being removed from nearly all radio and digital streaming playlists in the wake of being caught on camera using the N-word in early 2021. The song has already reached the top spot on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, debuting there after the release of his album. "Wasted on You" is Wallen’s fourth radio single from his Dangerous: The Double Album, which he released in January of 2021. Wallen then revealed that he and his co-writers wrote the song during quarantine in Wallen’s kitchen, "with bourbon." "I would say 'Wasted on You' is probably my favorite song I wrote on the record," Wallen told Ernest. In a December conversation with co-writer and artist Ernest on his podcast, Just Being Ernest, Wallen revealed that "Wasted on You" always felt special to him. Wallen’s powerful voice delivers the heart-rending lyrics amid a sonic landscape that features contrasting country and rap-influenced sounds. In the second verse, Wallen gets somewhat vulnerable, singing that he " swore this one’d be different," but his " heart wouldn’t listen." He eventually sings about watching his lost love pack up her car and leave. "Wasted on you / All of this time and all of this money / All of these sorrys I don't owe you honey / All of these miles on this Chevy and prayers in a pew / all them days I spent wasted on you," he sings in the chorus.
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