![]() Listener won’t notice only critics and colleagues who will hopefully try to sugar coat the truth: “Girl Next Door” is an unadulterated bid for radio play. Despite back-end production differences between “Girl Next Door” and the next big Sam Hunt single sequenced by some DJ, the creators are hoping Joe Q. “Girl Next Door” is the lead single from Brandy’s sophomore album Big Day in a Small Town set to be released on April 1st, and above all else, the song is very “lead single-like.” The production crew tried to furtively slide this song past you as maybe a sensible country pop tune with even a slight underlying retro texture, but “Girl Next Door” is pretty straightforward disco country and looks to dovetail in with the danceability of many of today’s hits, regardless of how organic the sounds may be compared to some of its compatriots. Though the results may always be more appealing than the next tractor rap the “Peach Pickers” pull out of a corn field bro off, it sometimes can still smack more of product than the raw inspiration set to words country music used to be known for. Today’s songwriter is workshopping ideas with other professional wordsmiths on plushy microfiber couches with frappy fair trade brews steaming up sleek post-modern designed rooms, and Skyping brainstorming sessions during banker’s hours.īrandy Clark is one of the revered and decorated ringleaders of the new school songwriting-by-committee process. The problem is the modern elite-level mainstream songwriter is a much different animal than the troubled, disheveled cowboy poet scribbling rhymes on stained cocktail napkins as they strain to give the world some insight into their troubled mind through weary life-earned wisdom. Brandy Clark is what passes these days for a modern elite-level mainstream songwriter.
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