“Drown With Me” is a good ol’ drinking song. I don’t particularly care for the song and will probably delete it from my library. The third song slows things down and ups the country in both sound and lyrical content as they mention truck stops and the open road. The song is called “Racin'” and no it is not about Nascar. When I was listening to it, I thought the lead singer, Neal Middleton, sounded a little like the Goo Goo Dolls’ Johnny Rzeznik. It is actually a fun song and has some great lines. A very patriotic sounding anthem that every country album seems to have. The second song, “We’re All Livin’ the Dream”, starts to show a little country sound. A nice harder edge is what the genre needs. If this is country, I might start liking country a little more. It sounded like Royal Bliss that I have enjoyed in the past. I played the first song “The Truth” and it didn’t sound country at all. I will give them the benefit of the doubt and listen to the album. I mean it worked so well for Bon Jovi to do a country sound on one of their recent albums (if you can’t tell I am being sarcastic, that Bon Jovi album sucked). I never felt like I was listening to country when I listened to them, but if that is the path they want to take then who am I to argue. I don’t think they are doing the same old thing. Now, their journey is evolving and they are growing as a band that is now headed straight for Nashville, TN. Royal Bliss isn’t doing anything different than what they always have done,” says Middleton. In recent years, rock radio has gone way heavier than what we do and we are finding that we haven’t changed direction but the industry and the boxes it puts artists in has. “We have always done our own thing and been honest with ourselves and our music by singing about things that are real and happening to us and our fans. I then had to look up the album to see what was going on thinking they can’t be going country. Maybe someone was lazy at Apple and just classified them as country based on the picture. I looked at the album cover and thought, they look a little country in the picture. WTF? I don’t remember them being country. It said that Royal Bliss was categorized as “Country”. When I clicked on the album in Apple Music, I noticed something strange. They have had some great songs such as “Save Me”, “Crazy”, “I Love You”, “Welcome” and “Drink My Stupid Away” among others. If you are familiar with Royal Bliss, you know they are a hard rock band. I couldn’t wait to play it and listen to some great rock music. I was completely unaware and did not have it listed in my new releases. On Friday, I was pleasantly surprised to see that Royal Bliss released an E.P.
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