Shaboozey, A Bar Song (Tipsy) | Song Review 🎵

Perhaps “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” isn’t your father or grandfather’s country music, but Shaboozey brings ample energy, entertainment, and fun to the table.

Country music has been tainted, OMG! Black people can’t possibly make country music, can they? Of course, they can, and of course they should – if they like! The black roots in country music go deep. Don’t be dissuaded by the negative, sometimes racist attitudes towards the likes of, say, Beyoncé recording a ‘country’ album with the highly successful Cowboy Carter. But the focus is not on the queen in “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” – it’s on the talented Shaboozey. Shaboozey may not be ‘the right shade’ for some country music enthusiasts, but he delivers an entertaining record with “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” which appears as the second track on his album, Where I’ve Been, isn’t Where I’m Going. “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” was written by Shaboozey, Nevin, Sean Cook, and Mark Williams. Nevin and Sean Cook also produced it.

Fun is the modus operandi on “A Bar Song (Tipsy).” Shaboozey doesn’t hold back on the personality. “My baby want a Birkin, she’s been tellin’ me all night long,” he sings in the first verse, later adding, “This 9 to 5 ain’t workin’, why the hell do I work so hard?” Birkins aren’t ‘country,’ but the reference to work – that’s country to the core! Also, ‘country’ is the pre-chorus and chorus, where Shaboozey drowns his sorrows: “Tell ‘em, ‘bring another round,’ we need plenty more,” and “Someone pour me a double shot of whiskey / They know me, and Jack Daniel’s got a history.” Woo! The follow-up in the second verse is entertaining too – a drunk Shaboozey: “Woke up drunk at 10 a.m., we gon’ do this shit again / Tell your girl to bring a friend.” Perhaps “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” isn’t your father’s or grandfather’s country music, but Shaboozey brings plenty of energy and fun to the table, NO CAP!

Shaboozey // Where I’ve Been, isn’t Where I’m Going // American Dogwood / EMPIRE // 5.31.24

[📷: Brent Faulkner/The Musical Hype; American Dogwood / EMPIRE; Clker-Free-Vector-Images, Królestwo Nauki, OpenClipart-Vectors, Pete Linforth, Tumisu from Pixabay]