Spring break is here, and it’s party time. Luke Bryan agrees with this, because that’s all his newest album is really about.
“Spring Break and Here to Party” is predominantly about drinking and partying, country style. Eleven out of 14 songs on the album are written about drinking and partying.
By no means am I saying that this is a bad album because of that fact. Bryan’s latest album just doesn’t quite measure up to it’s predecessor, “Tailgates and Tan Lines,” which was phenomenal.
The album’s theme seems to be “drink to your sorrows, and everything else.” There’s a few love songs, granted, but there doesn’t seem to be much substance to it. Bryan’s been married to his high school sweetheart for years, but he is writing love songs about drunken hookups in a college town.
While his voice is swoon-worthy singing these songs, I’d still rather see my handsome love Luke Bryan singing something a little more like what’s on “Tan Lines,” because there’s a little more emotion and a lot less alcohol in those songs.
“In Love with the Girl” is easily Bryan’s most substantial and sweet songs on the album. It’s the type of song that paints a picture of a magnificently beautiful summer love, as if it’s straight out of the movies.
“Love in a College Town” was one of the better songs on the album, albeit about partying, it’s still a fun, college anthem.
The album is the country parallel to a rap album by Wiz Khalifa or Mac Miller. Bryan’s country and Miller’s raps both talk about partying and having a good time, which either way makes for a great album. Bryan proves that a country boy can go just as hard as a rapper about that “thug life.”
Overall, the album is definitely the stereotype soundtrack to spring break, so Bryan definitely achieved there. However, the subjects of the songs play Bryan out to be a drunken country boy stuck in the college mindset.