CHRIS YOUNG

                                                              "Rescue Me" 

                                                               RCA Records Nashville

“Girl, I could be your Superman,” Chris Young sings on the opening line of his semi-new song “Rescue Me,” and with that one line, he sets the lyrical tone for the entire song that follows.

Although Chris Young’s catalog is filled with outstanding love songs, with “Rescue Me” he has given us one that explores a topic he never really has before – getting married!

The Superman comparisons that we heard on the opening line continue to come at us throughout the song: “I could leap them tall tall buildings for you,” “I could stop a train on its tracks,” and he sings in the chorus, “It sure feels like kryptonite, how you got me on one knee.”

However, where Chris Young has always been at his absolute best is within his ability to find a way to deliver a power pack of emotions that strike a chord with the listener while he also flips the script of a lyric to entice a new connection demographic. He does this again on “Rescue Me” when he goes from being a hero for her and connecting the song to the female listener, to also needing her to be his hero and connecting it with the male listener when he sings in the chorus, “what’s it matter if I save the world if you don’t promise me, before you take this ring…to rescue me!”

Where every other artist seems to be releasing a summer tilted song right now, Chris Young goes in the completely opposite direction and gives us a slower paced tune. Although it was first teased to fans on Instagram, “Rescue Me” still absolutely does the trick in getting you excited for his forthcoming Famous Friends album (due out in August) and that’s the whole point of a teaser song like this.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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