Where You Are – Rascal Flatts
… I liked
Rascal Flatts when I was younger… yes I was bitten by the country music bug
once and you know what Rascal Flatts is a pretty damn good band. However I only
care for their 2004 album “Feels like Today.” Everything else after that was
boring or absolutely annoying.
The band is
composed of Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney. They’ve been around
since 1999 and have been certified platinum or higher by the RIAA multiple
times. The label Lyric Street was their home from 2000 to 2010 when it closed
and was owned by Disney. When Lyric Street closed its doors the band headed to
Big Machine Records and released their eight studio album that I know nothing
about because I don’t listen to current Rascal Flatts.
I discovered
the band around 2004 or earlier because I remember getting the “Feels like
Today” album the year of its release and that was also the time of my awkward
music transition. I went from whatever I heard on the radio (which consisted of
Radio Disney music in the late 90’s and early 2000s) to Country, to Pop, to
Alternative Rock where I stayed and enjoyed for a good three years until I got
a computer and was able to listen to AOL radio daily and I discovered the
Gothic and Industrial music scene. That is the summary of my musical history in
a nutshell with no exaggerations or skipping anything. Getting back on topic,
when I hit my awkward Country Music stage, I was hooked on the song “Feels like
today,” but little did I know once I got the album that my world would change
dramatically.
I forget
when I got “Feels Like Today,” but when I put it in and listened to track
number 1: Where You Are, I almost didn’t want to listen to the song version of
Feels like Today because I was too hooked on “Where You Are.” Once I fell in
love with that song I realized that the world wasn’t going to care about it
because it was never a single nor did it gain any popularity like “Skin (Sarabeth),”
or “God Bless the Broken Road” gained over the few years the album was popular.
** Mini
Rant:
I hated “God
Bless the Broken Road” once it got really popular on Cat Country 107.3. It
annoyed me and I heard it entirely too much. Compared to “Where you are,” it
fails in comparison. I also disliked Skin for some reason but not as much as “God
Bless the Broken Road.”
End Rant**
I like
listening to this when I’m sick of hearing how crappy love songs are on the
radio have gotten, not once in this song does it mention how she has to have
shitty self-esteem to be loved or anything superficial like size of her body or
certain body parts. From what I can tell the lyrics are about a strong woman
who might be a little childish at times but then again who isn’t childish at
one point or another. She seems like a rock, someone to lean on when everything
is falling apart. Good qualities people should have for healthy relationships
not unhealthy ones that for some reason everyone thinks is attractive… We need
to raise spirits and encourage self-confidence not put it through a wood
chipper and then put those remains through a paper shredder and then set the
dust on fire. And we also need to stop promoting letting a man love a woman
until they learn to love themselves… but that’s another rant for another time.
** Side
Note: I guess I can safely say I’m getting back into the swing of reviewing
things again. I’ve missed it but it seems I can only bounce from one form of creativity,
fiction writing and neglect the blogging aspect or I’ll blog/review a lot and
then neglect my fiction writing. * *
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