What issues arrive have to do with everything else in the song. That’s one of the reasons it makes such compelling subject matter in songs, and “You Should Be Here” strives to stir that sense of bereavement we’re all unfortunately acquainted with.
Not to belittle the loss Cole Swindell has experienced in his life, but it’s something we all deal with. Take this new single from Cole Swindell just released called “You Should Be Here.” Don’t get me wrong, it is an improvement from previous output, but when you reach the bottom there’s only one direction to go. So even though we might see the rhetoric heat up about how the music being churned out of the Bro factory is fortified with extra substance these days, it’s best to take a “believe it when we see it” attitude. Even Chase Rice is out there saying his early music lacked substance, and to expect something deeper from him henceforth.īut old habits die hard, and it’s easier to do a U-turn in a battleship than to retool Music Row’s songwriting consortium on the fly. Prove you can be an artist of substance, or you may not be long for this world post-Chris Stapleton’s CMA wins.Īs scary of a proposition as this must be for Florida Georgia Line, so much so that Tyler Hubbard is out there sporting a man bun and the duo is trying to make an emotional ballad out of the vacuous single “Confession,” think about if you’re Cole Swindell, whose dwelled solely in the wake of artists like Florida Georgia Line and Luke Bryan for his entire career. As we transition into 2016, you can anticipate the masters of Bro-Country filing into line to prove they have gravitas in the face of dwindling support for their party hardy dreck falling so quickly out of favor from the sheer frequency such narrow themes have cast over the last couple of years.