BRIAN KELLEY - Make America Great Again - Big Machine Records
Coming off his rousing performance of “American Spirit” at the RNC earlier this month, Diamond-selling superstar Brian Kelley unapologetically stands up and shakes a fist toward all that’s going on in our country right now while offering a prayerful solution on his latest release, “Make America Great Again.”
Wrapped in an instrumental grit that matches the intensity of the lyrics, the song solely written by Kelley sees him holding nothing back while speaking hand over heart truths from the angry American perspective, “I'm madder than hell, I want her back, they took more than I can take,” hitting on all the hot button issues that always ignite necessary conversations.
“You might be woke, but you ain’t awake,” he stamps in the opening verse, pointing a finger toward the problem creators as he travels the fact that he can’t even recognize our country anymore thanks to the agendas that have shifted us away from the core morals and values of what once made us so great.
Standing squarely in the burning piles of the detrimental place that we’re currently experiencing, he tackles extreme division, dangerous open borders, the lack of assistance for our own veteran heroes, the devaluing of our dollar due to astronomical inflation, etc.
But while shining a bright spotlight on the common worries and fears, in which there are certainly many, Kelley doesn’t just stay in the doom and gloom of what the nightly news telecasts show us day in and day out, but he instead, hits his knees to offer a prayer like chorus that amplifies the one true solution to the problems:
“Love this country, love this land but we spiraled
Gotta get her back to God and the Bible
Need a red, white and blue revival
Make America great again
Dirty politics will put you on trial
Try to take our free speech and our rifles
Turn the red wave to a tide
We'll make America great again
Make America great again”
When it comes to political affiliations, it’s a very fine line to walk for any artist (or magazine like ours for that matter), but when you’ve had enough, you’ve had enough! And Brian Kelley has absolutely had enough, so he’s reached to the two places that he could find some peace in his discomfort: God and songwriting.
When the voices of extremists are screaming as loudly as they have been, becoming obnoxious in their pushing of their belief system onto others, the whispers of the many will sometimes need a strong voice to stand up and speak to what matters most. Brian Kelley boldly steps into that position to become that retaliating voice with a well-collected, poignant fist bump to the blue-collar American’s who are flat out sick of it all and want the destruction of our country to stop.
(Review Written By: Jeffrey KurtisArtwork c/o Big Machine Records)