BRIT TAYLOR

                                                               "Rich Little Girls" 

                                                                Cut A Shine Records/Thirty Tigers

As a heavy amount of buzz started to swirl about the release of her sophomore album Kentucky Blue,  produced by Sturgill Simpson and David Ferguson and due out on February 3, 2023, Brit Taylor has strategically released teaser tracks during the last part of 2022 to elevate the hype by offering several different looks at what we can expect when the album drops.

“Cabin in the Woods” and the album’s title track “Kentucky Blue,” both showcase two entirely different dynamics in that one is melancholy, stone cold country while the other brings together elements of bluegrass and classic country into an up-tempo track that leans on a fun, flirtatious lyric. Both songs regardless of their vibe, however, kept clear focus on presenting Taylor’s signature traditional country branded Americana styles meshing with her incredible voice that she fits snuggly around the impact of the lyrics.

She now returns with our third look at the album with “Rich Little Girls.”

The sassy, blue-collar working girl anthem, co-written by Taylor, Kimberly Kelly, and Adam Wright (the same trio as “Kentucky Blue”), is laced with insatiable fiddle through its intro that immediately pushes you in the groove of the melody to get you moving along with her as she paints two very different comparative pictures through the verses, the rich little girls versus the hard-working type.

Taking us straight to the perfectly sunny world that the rich little girls live within, Taylor describes them as the types that are cute and funny, smell like flowers, spend daddy’s money, ride around town in their fancy cars, and are doing cocaine because the party never ends.

In complete juxtaposition, Taylor then describes herself (the working girl) in first person while resonating with every day blue-collar types as being those who work their fingers to the bone, hope their broken-down car will keep hanging on, and who wake up at the crack of dawn to clock in so that they can pay their bills.  

The ultra-catchy chorus has you swaying along as she amps up the pace to get your fist pumping with its rhythm, and while this song shows a blatant comparative frustration that the hard-working types will always naturally feel from time-to-time, the final verse shows pure acceptance, proudly, of who you are and why you’d never change it when she sings:

“Everybody plays with the cards they’re dealt

Everybody’s got to work it out for themselves

And I wouldn’t want to be anybody else

But a workin’ girl”

Couple the catchy vibe of the song and its memorable lyrics with the very fact that Taylor herself runs her own cleaning company while pounding the pavement and navigating the music landscape, and you get an incredible honesty flowing through her vocal, which connects it with the listener that much more and gives us our third solid preview of things still to come.  

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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