Still my view of the song is it’s much about nothing. Then again, it’s a melody/mood-inducing song, do we expect it to say anything interesting? ;)

Will any of us remember this song in a year or two? Kinda like Rihanna’s singles on the pop charts…

But I cannot support this. The overly grating rock guitars in the intro are awful, but the opening line, “All we do right is make love/We both know now that ain’t enough,” irks me to no end. There seems to be a newfound sexualization in top 40 country that I can’t recall being there prior to last year.

Sure there’ve been references to hot girls for years, but this newfound need of guys to sing about or hinting at having sex has been a turn off. The biggest culprits of this have been Jake Owen (“Slip your hand under my shirt”) and Luke.

This lyrical move makes sense, though, as it feeds into the 80s rock culture that’s invaded country, but I don’t need to hear songs with lines like “Take off your leavin’ dress/Let’s do what we do best/I guess everybody’s got their way of moving on/girl rest your head one more time in my bed.”

I think my biggest complaint isn’t the sexual situations themselves – countless songs like “Rainin’ On Sunday,” “Strawberry Wine,” “That Summer” and “Come A Little Closer” deal with sex in a very overt way, but the difference from those examples is modern country love songs seem to be approached from a frat boy point of view and not an adult point of view. In other words, driven from guys with just one thing on their minds (who just want women in their beds) opposed to mature adults who find romantic aspects within the sex. (Or in the case of Chris Young’s “Tomorrow” are driven by the overwhelming need to be together; even though it’s wrong).

Love songs in the vein of Young’s “You” and Easton Corbin’s “Lovin’ You Is Fun” are more the style that’s been around in country music for as long as I can remember, and they take a classy approach that’s been missing nowadays (and those are current, if not, pretty current singles).

I really did enjoy Luke’s previous two singles but “Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye” seems like a thematic regression back to “Country Girl (Shake It For Me)” and that doesn’t do him any favors.

Also, I heard “Do I” on the radio today, and I don’t even recognize the person singing that song. The maturity he displayed on that is one I long to see him get back to.

This one is pretty standard fare. I could do without the guitar solo thrown in towards the end, but other than that, I think the production is tolerable. It will be a hit, no doubts, and it’s thankfully not entirely without substance. So at least there’s that…