Boots | 5ive Songs

1. Morgan Wallen, “Sand in My Boots”

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

“Somethin’ ‘bout the way she kissed mе tells me she’d lovе Eastern Tennessee / Yeah, but all I brought back with me was some sand in my boots.” 🎙 Morgan Wallen commences 💿 Dangerous: The Double Album with a surefire bang.  No, 🎵 “Sand in My Boots” isn’t an up-tempo country banger, but it is a gorgeous country ballad that ‘gives off those feels.’

Wallen showcases his terrific instrument, singing with incredible expression and nuance.  The songwriting is solid, particularly the centerpiece, the passionate chorus where he’s “Dodging potholes in my sunburnt Silverado / Like a heart-broke Desperado, headin’ right back to my roots.”

2. Kesha, “Boots”

💿 Rainbow • 🏷 Kemosabe • 📅 2017

“I have boys in every country code / Just a rollin’ stoner on a roll / I’d bring the cowgirl out and cock them guns / Always leave before the cowboy comes.”  It probably won’t surprise you that boots in the hands of 🎙 Kesha go beyond footwear.  🎵 “Boots,” which appears on her 2017 comeback album, 💿 Rainbow, is kinky – sexually driven.  A fun, minor-key pop cut, the groove is killer, and she exhibits incredible personality.

With Rainbow ultimately being characterized as her most mature album, “Boots” manages to have similar oomph to her past work with a smidge more maturity.

3. Greyson Chance, “Boots”

🎵 “Boots” • 🏷 GCM / Arista • 📅 2019

“Ooh, I feel like I’m running…” 🎙 Greyson Chance unleashed “Boots” in 2019, showing us what a legitimate cowboy looks like as opposed to faux ones constructing faux ‘Western imagery.’ The record is brief but incredibly effective.  🎛 Bram Inscore and 🎛 Sean Kennedy, construct a fine backdrop for Chance to paint upon. Following his ‘running’ intro, he wastes no time ‘cowboying it up’ like the Oklahoma-bred boy he is, dissing the fake cowboys of California.

“I’ve been western before all of these punks,” he sings, continuing, “These punks in California who think they can punch.” Later, he trades ‘punks’ for ‘stars,’ singing, “These stars in California who think that they are hard.” Of course, Chance couldn’t have a killer boot song without referencing 🎙 Nancy Sinatra: “Boots with the big heels, hot like I’m Nancy.” Don’t think Chance is totally ‘old fashioned’ either: “I’m smoking way too loud; I’m feeling good high now.” 420 Friendly he is.

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4. Luke Bryan, “Knockin’ Boots”

💿 Born Here Live Here Die Here • 🏷 Capitol Nashville • 📅 2020

“Yeah, birds need bees and ice needs whiskey / Boys like me need girls like you to kiss me… / Boots need knockin’, knockin’ boots / Knockin’ boots, me and you, oh.” 🎙 Luke Bryan effectively, if utterly cornily, ‘makes love’ in a country sort of way on 🎵 “Knockin’ Boots”, a single from 💿 Born Here Live Here Die Here that dates back to 2019.

“Knockin’ Boots” isn’t the most traditional country cut, but also doesn’t force the modern pop hand. Bryan is able to incorporate the usual country clichés – his truck (“This truck needs a half tank / These wheels need a two-lane”), drinking (“Cheap drinks need a-slingin’”), and of course, ‘making love’ without crossing the line (“That dress needs to slip off” and “And backseats need I want you so bad”). The crème de la crème is the chorus, excerpted at the top in all its vanilla, sensual glory. 

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5. Myylo, “Doc Martens”

💿 I’m a Nice Boy (EP) • 🏷 Myylo • 📅 2019

“My music is pretty preoccupied with boys and love,” 🎙 Myylo asserts when we interviewed him in 2019.  He answer is perfectly realized on 🎵 “Doc Martens” from his 2019 EP, 💿 I’m a Nice Boy.  “Doc Martens and cotton Ts / Blessed to death with his daddy’s genes / Skinny body by creatine / I think I’ll make him fall in love with me.” Have shoes ever sounded as hot as they do in his hands? The stellar single isn’t really about those snazzy boots, but more about the man that he’s digging. There’s so much to love about “Doc Martens” including the exuberant production and the tongue-n-cheek songwriting. One indisputable selling point is the flawless, ripe falsetto. The vocals are 🔥.

One of the best parts of the song besides the aforementioned verse:

“Get him back him to my house
Kiss him up in my bedroom
Spilling all of our secrets
Curled up on my pillows
Make him bacon in the AM
So, we don’t break up till the world end.”

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