Fuel Economy: Few songs about road fatality have ever been as unapologetically feel-good as “Detroit Rock City,” a song whose excitement over blasting the radio while driving to a concert can’t even be slowed down by oncoming truck headlights — with singer Paul Stanley simply smirking, “...
” there was “Six Days on the Road,” the song that forever hitched country’s hard-working, blue-collar image to the trailer of a semitruck. While not the first trucking song by any stretch of highway, “Six Days” was an early hit that masterfully captured the loneliness, monotony, ...
“I Don’t Live Here Anymore,” the sublime title track from the War on Drugs’ fifth record, is an anthem made for being covered in tanning oil on a roof while wearing aviators, or pumping your fist in the air from the back of a pickup truck. It’s iridescent, with varicolored ...
The duo's 2012 single set an all-time record of 56 weeks on the country charts, tying Taylor Swift's record. The remix, which featured rapper Nelly, hit #6 on the Hot 100. In 2013, "Cruise" became the best-selling song by a country duo in digital history. ...
On “Help Camionneur,” an ode to being picked up by truck drivers, Birkin offers a tale of active female desire. Her voice is oddly moving in its hushed power as she casually reaches for the high notes with the nonchalance of someone picking apples on a warm summer’s day. It’s a...
My sisters and I grew up in blue-collar neighborhoods, somewhat integrated, filled with factory workers, cops, firemen, long-distance truck drivers” (Springsteen, 2016, p. 261).1 He thus belongs to a group of artists and writers who occupy what Linkon (2013, p.40) calls “a middle ...
Automation (自动化) is beginning to replace millions of human taxi drivers, truck drivers and fast-food workers. Why should artists and musicians be an exception to the same economics? Should there be anything in place—a union, a law---to stop that from happening? Or will we always value...
Touted as “America’s Most Advanced Automobile” in ads, the Avanti was marketed for discerning drivers and only about 4,500 of them were built. Aesthetically, the front of the car was styled with an aerodynamic, wind-cutting design, and the body of the vehicle was made of fiberglass. ...
“Cherub Rock,” theSiamese Dreamalbum was soon a hot commodity. The album would continue to soar over the coming months with the surprisingly joyful “Today” (and who doesn’t think of summer with a video featuring an ice cream truck) and the string-backed “Disarm.” Thanks to the ...
meek mill’s signature all-caps tenor perfectly complements the trapped-out ice-cream-truck jingle of “sharing locations.” his hurried bluster contrasts with the melody, making him sound like he’s giving you an agitated yet motivational pep talk. he shouts, “my diamonds be hittin’ like ...