MACKENZIE PORTER - Have Your Beer - Big Loud Records

The countdown to Nobody's Born With A Broken Heart, MacKenzie Porter’s 19-track, Big Loud Records debut album, has reached its final hours with the highly anticipated project releasing this Friday,  April 26, 2024.

The Canadian country starlet has absolutely done more than her part to raise plenty of intrigue and create a deafening buzz, revealing several of the project’s many different looks with consistent teases that have included “Easy To Miss,” “Bet You Break My Heart,” “Chasing Tornados,” “Pickup,” and more!

And with one last tease of the album, “Have Your Beer,” she delivers the final glimpse into what to expect this Friday.

“I just couldn't wait till the 26th, so I'm dropping one more song for y'all,” Porter shares. “'Have Your Beer' is one of my favorites on the record and it's so much fun to play live. The vibe is very much 'I don't think so,' 'your loss,' 'don't even try it,' etc. This one's for all the girls out there…for when he realizes what he lost!””

Co-written by Porter, Jason Massey, Lydia Vaughan, and Parker Welling, wrapped in an irresistible, tempo driven melody that’s filled in a dynamic pop country drive, Porter sings through a list of impossible can’t dos, perfectly blending confidence and sass within the tonality of her voice; “Can't take the tires off a truck, then take it out for a spin,” “Can't re-light a fire from a burned-out cigarette,” “Can't order up another round after last call ends.”

However, swirling between those very obvious “can’t dos,” she also splices in the basis of her true motivations through depth filled lines such as ,“Can't walk back over a bridge after you burn it down” and “You can't be serious, calling me up right now,” leading straight into the power-packed, rhythmic bop of the fist-pumping chorus where she cleverly plays off the age-old idea of you can’t have your cake and eat it to:

“Yeah, baby you

Can't say goodbye then show back up

Can't change your mind when you get drunk

Can't shoot your shot after it's gone

Can't want me soon as I've moved on

You said you don't now you do

But it's too late baby you

Can't have your beer and drink it too”

With a spitefully bold reminder of “don't forget who broke up with who, we both know that's on you,” Porter metaphorically smirks to a good-riddance good-bye that sees her detaching from what once was and could have been as this last teaser becomes an insatiably empowering anthem of moving on.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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