NATE SMITH

                                                               "I Don't Wanna Go To Heaven" 

                                                               Sony Music Nashville

Nate Smith has created an extremely strong social media following by connecting his honest, heartfelt music directly with his fans, which eventually earned him such a buzz that he landed a deal with Sony Music Nashville.

The record label recently delivered his song “Raised Up,” and they’re now ready to start pushing his next teaser with the release of “I Don’t Wanna Go To Heaven” - a viral sensation that’s already seen over 3 million views on his TikTok in only a few months.

The song, which Smith has said he feels “will reach people in many different ways,” uses similar signature touches that we heard on the previously released “Raised Up” to deliver a song that focuses 100% on truly appreciating the important things we have in our lives right here, right now.

Leaning against a softer piano instrumentation throughout the opening verse, Smith sings of all the different things that he already has in his everyday life that take his breath away and make him ask the question, “why would I ever want to leave?”

“It’s that tin roof rain on a Sunday morning

It’s your grandma’s cross around your neck

It’s that sunrise glowing through the blinds in the window.”

The simplicity of the initial instrumentation, though, is expertly designed to allow Smith to then punch home the chorus with his big, booming voice as he upholds what he had previously said in the first verse by reiterating the importance of what he has in the right here, right now through the very poignant hook, “I don’t wanna go to heaven, when heaven’s right here lying next to me.”

In the second verse, Smith shows his craftiness with wording while still upholding the original intent of the message as he flips the lyric to then comparing where he’s at to what the Bible says about heaven:

“It’s like that old dirt road was paved in gold

The pearly gates are our front porch.”

Though songs like this have been done before in country music, as the old saying goes, timing is everything. Nate Smith has delivered a message that is so desperately needed with where the world is at right now that “I Don’t Wanna Go To Heaven” will act as a very bold reminder of what is most important to value in our lives. 

Radio airplay is the tricky part for any new artist, so whether this will earn substantial airplay for Smith remains to be seen. However, with a song like this one, is that really the point? There’s no doubt that songs like this have a funny a way of reaching those who need to hear it, and there’s no question in my mind that this song will easily achieve that much more important goal.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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