Bartender | 3BOPS

1. Morgan Wallen, “Your Bartender”

💿 Dangerous: The Double Album • 🏷 Big Loud / Republic • 📅 2021

🎵 “Your Bartender” is a highlight from 💿 Dangerous: The Double Album, the 2021 sophomore album by country standout 🎙 Morgan Wallen. Written hypothetically, Wallen asserts everything he’d be and do for her (his love interest), capped off by his role at the bar: “If I was your bartender / I’d mix ‘em up strong in a tall blender.”  Of course, you would Morgan. Within Dangerous, “Your Bartender” ranks among the best-produced tracks (🎛 Joey Moi and 🎛 Matt Dragstrem). Drink up! 🍺

2. Lana Del Rey, “Bartender”

💿 Norman Fucking Rockwell! • 🏷 Interscope • 📅 2019

“‘Cause they don’t yet know what car I drive / I’m just tryna keep my love alive / With my bartender, hold me all night.” 🎵 “Bartender” isn’t the crowning achievement of 💿 Norman Fucking Rockwell!, but it’s quite alluring, nonetheless.  Something quite telling is how 🏆 Grammy-nominated artist 🎙 Lana Del Rey refers to her own life (seemingly). This includes escaping fame (“Photo-free exits from baby’s bedside / ‘Cause they don’t yet know what care I drive”), avoiding alcohol (“But that Cherry Coke your serve is fine”), and of course, a relationship with an unnamed bartender (“And our love’s sweet enough on the vine / Bartender”). Del Rey wrote “Bartender” alongside her frequent collaborator, 🎼✍ Rick Nowels, who also produces the track.

3. T-Pain, “Bartender”

Ft. Akon

💿 Epiphany • 🏷 Zomba • 📅 2007

“Two hundred bitches in the building ain’t none of them hot / Except for this pretty young thang that was workin’ on the way, at the top.” Back in 2007, 🏆 Grammy-winning, autotune loving R&B singer 🎙 T-Pain fell in love with the 🎵 “Bartender.”  “Bartender” served as one of the biggest hits from his most successful album to date, 💿 Epiphany (the song is second only to 🎵 “Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin’)”. “Bartender” isn’t profound in the least – “Oh she made us drinks, to drink / We drunk ‘em, got drunk” – but like so much of Epiphany, it’s incredibly fun and totally entertaining. Can’t knock him for wanting to bang the bartender, right? Oh, and by the way, he’s assisted 🎙 Akon.