Music Review: Jason Aldean - "My Kinda Party"

Here are my song by song notes taken while listening to the album "My Kinda Party" from Jason Aldean. It is a country album and one can take my notes and easily deduce the type of review summary I would make for the album as a whole. However, my lack of enthusiasm for the material should not completely overshadow the actual imagery to be found in some of the songs. There are some strong concepts and enjoyable stories being told, it is just the storyteller's methods are not exciting in the least bit.

"Dirt Road Anthem": The chorus tells a story with lyrics in the way a song should, not too blatant with the rhyme scheme and you can picture events and recall memories. However, the song itself is Jason Aldean country boy rapper? The "singing" is more like talking semi-fast.

"Church Pew Or Bar Stool": Boring. I turned it on and then my brain tuned out and my eyes told me to go to sleep. I stayed awake, but this song could have been any country song, well, any boring one.

"My Kinda Party": Rock guitar dominates this song, his voice is the only thing that sounds country. Even though the music seems ready for the party, Jason Aldean's voice stays kind of one-toned as he describes the party events, he doesn't REALLY seem to be rocking and partying.

"Fly Over States": An interesting topic to pay tribute to some of the states where you see nothing but the same old stuff for miles, embracing the beauty of such places, even if the common consensus is one should fly over them. It is rare for me to find a song naming off states to be interesting, but this one bypassed that prejudice in the thought department, the actual execution though is pretty boring.

"Don't You Wanna Stay": This is a duet with Kelly Clarkson, who is known to belt out some impressive vocals. Everything in this song is somewhat subdued, however. They do an adequate job, but I did not feel the chemistry.

"It Ain't Easy": Jason Aldean seems to have the basics down for being a country singer, but is the singing talent truly there? Feels one note. Bland, starless power song about how it isn't easy to love him, but his voice doesn't ever take the listener into the story, leaves you in your own reality having it read to you.

"Texas Was You": Here we go with more state names being given shout outs. I actually had high hopes for this song, thinking from the title it would be about an entire state being nothing but a memory of a girl from there. However, the lyrics fail to draw one into any kind of emotion as story is set aside to mention other states and random dull crap.

"Country Boy's World": A city girl goes to the country and Jason Aldean offers to take her around doing country things as she whines about missing her Starbucks and Internet. A sweet tale of fantasy.

"I Ain't Ready To Quit": He's not ready to quit smoking, drinking, or driving fast, but then the chorus is more about loving a girl and not being ready to quit her and after that first chorus delivery the rest of the song is a line or to about that subject matter alone and not the other random things that opened the song. Mostly the song is repeating stuff and guitar though, fairly pointless and not constructed in an intelligent way.

"Days Like These": Imagery and memory creating sentiment are strong with this one. Pop country doody-da though, nothing to get one perked up entirely.

"If She Could See Me Now": Decent lyrical thoughts once again, but Jason Aldean's voice to me is just one long monotonous drone through the entire album and "If She Could See Me Now," suffers at the end because of this. It could be a stand alone, never heard any of the other tracks, single though.