MACKENZIE CARPENTER

                                                              "Country Girls (Just Wanna Have Fun)"

                                                               The Valory Music Co.

With songs like “Huntin’ Season,” “Don’t Mess With Exes,” and “Throw You Back,” country starlet Mackenzie Carpenter showcased the addictively witty side of her personality with a heaping helping of sass and unbridled fun.

And speaking of fun…her latest release continues delivering on that fun-loving aura with a country girl spin on the most classic Cyndi Lauper anthem, arriving just in time for the original song’s 40^th anniversary.  

Carpenter’s reimaged “Country Girls (Just Wanna Have Fun)” pays tribute to Lauper’s 1983 hit, not only honoring an influence who impacted across all genres, but by adding just the right touches of flare to the familiarity of the song she gives it a fresh feel to embrace as her own.

With her insatiable Georgia drawl fusing together with modern pop stylings embedded into the classic melody, the listener is instantly pulled into the clap along backbeat as Mackenzie takes us with her on a girl’s night out along Nashville’s most famous street.

While chasing down the sun, Carpenter paints the picture of what the night could look like when she flirtatiously sings in the second verse:

“Want a cowboy to take my hand

And boot scoot and two step me to a cover band

I’ll whiskey wink, he’ll think that he stands a chance

And kiss him just because

Country girls just wanna have fun”

Continuing to bring the listener into the neon lit scene as the night progresses, she sings of being at the bar and screaming out every word to Shania Twain’s “Man! I Feel Like A Woman” before encouraging the DJ to keep playing those country songs that they can sing along with all night long.

The fiery fiddle through the bridge perks your ears with an unexpected melodic shift that gets your boot heels clickin’ in time with the quick, two-step’ rhythm as it slaps into the edgier punch of the guitar slinging before looping into a bass heavy chorus to add a twist of unapologetic modern fuel.

Proving yet again that it’s okay to let your hair down and have a little fun, Mackenzie Carpenter gives us a very playful and care-free reimagined version of a uber recognizable song that begs to be cranked up with the windows down in quite the same way that the MTV generation had done it 40 years ago when Lauper first unleashed the iconic hit.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis/Artwork c/o The Valory Music Co.)

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