ERIN KINSEY - Gettin' Away With It - RECORDS Nashville

Foreshadowed by “Matchmaker,” “Wild,” and “I Ain’t Crazy,” Erin Kinsey’s recent announcement that her brand-new album is dropping next month (October 11, 2024) was instantly met with heightened anticipation and industry intrigue.

Now with the release of its title track, “Gettin’ Away With It,” the country starlet begins to solidify the increasing buzz surrounding the project.

Written by Lauren McLamb and Brandon Hood, the song doesn’t so much as come from a women scorned point of view, but it rather carries a truckload of sassy confidence as Erin slaps an anthem for her female peers that runs comparisons between the thieving essence of Bonnie (of Bonnie & Clyde fame) and the independent, heartbreaker spirit that lives within herself today.

An instant punch of guitars through the intro swirls a crunch that adds a fiery fuel to the assuredness of her voice as she fluctuates the ebbs and flows of each melody line, lifting to highlight specific words as she tells the story of an impressionable 16-year-old coming to understand who she is through her mama’s words of advice:

“You're strong, you're sweet, but you gotta be smart"

And it ain't a crime to use those blue eyes to get what you want sometimes”

With a hip swinging, Solo cup raised flow embedded into the chorus, which lyrically sees her now completely owning who she is as a heart crusher, she craftily encourages her core female demographic to elevate their own independent nature into the spotlight. 

“Now she's Bonnie, don't need no Clyde

Don't need her own tab with a red lip bribe

She's every girl's friend, she's every man's type

Yeah, she's got a way

Of getting every single one thinkin' they got a chance

Let them spin her around, yeah, she'll do the dance

And one little look will get his heart in her hands

She's got a way of gettin' away with it”

Throughout the second half of the song, she continually pours into that unapologetic knowing of exactly who she is when she teases with a wink that “you’ll hate that you’ll love her before you can hate her,” boldly then anchoring with the stone-cold truth, “Breakin' a heart ain't ever been a crime.”

Hyping the forthcoming album with what could be its final teaser, Erin Kinsey carries a noticeable freshness into her irresistible, modern country aura, allowing this song to become a bold showcase of her songwriting prowess as she skillfully swerves the lines of what we’ve come to know from her into a new familiarity that we’re about to understand on a grander scale next month.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)