Single Review: ‘She Cranks My Tractor’ – Dustin Lynch

12 years ago Liv Carter 3
Dustin Lynch She Cranks My Tractor single review
Broken Bow Records

Songwriters: Dustin Lynch, Brett Beavers, Tim Nichols

 

Once more unto the breach, my friends, once more…

Following his debut single, ‘Cowboys and Angels,’ Dustin Lynch could have continued along the same neo-traditional path. Instead he choose ‘She Cranks My Tractor.’

In this ‘she turns me on’ song, the songwriters – of which at least the last two should know better – pay the woman compliments (I suppose) with lines like ‘she’s 10 pounds of sugar in a 5 pound sack’ (what does that even mean?!) and then sink to an embarrassing low with crude euphemisms – ‘I got the rifle/she’s got the rack.’  That says it all really.

In the accompanying music video, when we first meet the woman, she rolls out from under a tractor with perfect hair and make-up, wiping away non-existent sweat, not a drop of grease on her daisydukes and tight white tanktop, and her feet in leopard-print 4-inch heels. Of course. When you use this kind of language and your video looks like a Maxim photoshoot, popularity you will gain; credibility (and my respect) will allude you.

This shouldn’t be so difficult. There is nothing wrong with writing about a beautiful woman. Many country artists, who appeal to both female and male audiences, manage to do so while treating her with respect and without reducing her to a collection of body parts. (See Dierks Bentley, Keith Urban, Kip Moore, Lee Brice, et. al.)

The song claims that ‘a girl like that’s what a country boy’s after.’

I am willing to believe that.

Country men presumably know better.

 

 

Liv Carter

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Liv is a career coach for creatives, and the people who work with them.
She holds several certificates from Berklee College of Music, and a certificate in Positive Psychology from UC Berkeley.
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