Music Review // Miles Jenson "Country Club"

 

When the song "Country Club" first begins you can hear the build up.  The way that someone like Benson Boone can, Miles Jenson just gives this one that feeling where it can be big and dramatic, with strings and everything, but it also just has that focus on the vocals.  In ways this can remind me of Panic At The Disco and even Phantom Planet, but more than a "singer/songwriter" genre, this just feels like the "singer" part.

This song can certainly serve as a warning, as one of the opening lines is about "Prom queens on heroin".   Exposing that dark side of what is supposed to be better living, Miles Jenson has this way of painting a picture of what you feel like, deep down, you already knew.  It's the idea of knowing that just because someone finds themselves inside of a gated community it doesn't make them a better person- even though they might act like it does.

The chorus asks "Did you finally feel all the love / When you found yourself strung out in the Country Club?"  This really just makes me think about this song being a story in the sense that you have someone who was once part of your group of close friends and though you weren't by any means wealthy in money you were wealthy in spirit.  Then one of the people from your circle decides they want to go off and join a country club because they feel like those people have it better off, which simply isn't true.

A classic tale, which feels like it's been a movie before, of wanting to fit in and be something you're not, "Country Club" is that perfect reminder that the grass isn't always greener on the other side.   In fact, sometimes the other side can feel so elite because there are shady things happening over there that they simply do not want you to know about.  Either way, Miles Jenson suggests you should stay true to yourself in this song and it is something to really hold close to your heart.