The Band Perry – “Hip To My Heart”
New Republic Nashville sibling trio The Band Perry sprightly treks through country’s bubbly side on “Hip To My Heart,” a rollicking up-tempo that pulses with energy. Lead singer Kimberly Perry’s voice is a pleasant surprise, invigorating, full of youthful vitality and accented by just a hint of raspy grit.
Likewise, “Hip To My Heart” is happy, playful and charming. Unfortunately, it also makes very little sense. Written by the trio and Brett Beavers, the song opens with the lines “I like your lips like I like my Coca-Cola yeah/Oh how it pops and fizzes/You like my shirt like I like it when you hold my hand/The way it fits, it’s got me feeling, feeling lucky.”
Things don’t improve much from there, as we’re run through a maze of distracting and unnecessary wordplay.
Any fashion pundit will tell you that trying too hard to appear hip is the surest way to come off looking like a poser. With “Hip To My Heart,” The Band Perry demonstrates a cool sense of musical style, crafting a song full of fresh hooks and interesting turns. But lyrically, this runs way too far outside the lines, so adorned with quirks that it comes off as gaudy and unmatched.
“Hip To My Heart” may also be mainstream country’s first big-time single to draw directly from the influence of label-mate Taylor Swift: By and for an very young audience, The Band Perry is more at home in a suburban mall than a seedy honky tonk. Without Swift’s same narrative deftness, however, “Hip To My Heart” amounts to pure fizz.
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December 21, 2009 at 9:35 am Permalink
That’s got to be the most annoying song I’ve heard all year, which is no mean feat.
December 21, 2009 at 10:51 am Permalink
Just terrible.
December 21, 2009 at 11:31 am Permalink
I think the song is completely fun and isn’t “by and for a very young female audience.”
Lyrics don’t have to always make sense, particuarly if the melody and vocal delivery is fun but to each their own I guess.
December 21, 2009 at 12:38 pm Permalink
Perhaps lyrics don’t have to always make sense, and I will admit myself that I enjoy some nonsense lyrics. And “bad” lyrics (even if they do make sense) don’t always kill a song for me. But I think sensical lyrics are generally a desirable trait. Rarely would I want to settle just for a good melody and a good vocal delivery if I can have those two and lyrics that make sense to boot.
December 21, 2009 at 1:06 pm Permalink
I think the song is completely fun and isn’t “by and for a very young female audience.”
There’s a surprise.
December 21, 2009 at 3:23 pm Permalink
The possible success of this act at Top 40 country radio depends not on their song lyrics but whether they will get to open for Taylor Swift on one of her tours in the near future! Their self-inflicted attempts at being clever hipsters isn’t working, so they need to have the coolness factor bestowed on them by Taylor. They need to take “Gloriana 101″.
What these kids really need is a good Jeff Steele song like “How Long Am I Supposed to Wait?”. Donnie Vondra’s smokin’ version on the Lofton Creek label didn’t exactly have much of a market impact…
December 22, 2009 at 5:08 am Permalink
Is this a Disney song?
January 28, 2010 at 8:49 am Permalink
This girl can rock the vocals and will become a force to be reckoned with on the country scene. Amazing live sound.
February 9, 2010 at 5:15 pm Permalink
Amazing voice, and a very cute song. I find Malec’s comments about the lyrics completely irrelevant. They aren’t the point of a song like this.
February 12, 2010 at 9:06 pm Permalink
The lyrics do make sense if you have a sense of imagination. The song is for young girls. It is fun and quirky. It’s a dancing song. A song that makes you smile. I love this song and I think that just because you don’t understand the lyrics makes it a bad song. It made top five in the country countdown and and I am almost sure it will hit number one.
February 20, 2010 at 11:30 pm Permalink
This guy has too much time to think! This is a great song with cool hooks like the coca-cola line the ‘brother man’ phrase and the timing of the lyrics. I grew up with bubble gum music and hey – it was fun! Taylor swift just made a hit for herself and doesn’t need to rub off. These kids will do well. They have another hit in ‘if I die young’ I just hope they don’t fade away before they get their new video played and their cd in the stores. We all know that country people still love to buy CD’s! I knew guns and roses were great the first time I heard sweet child of mine, I knew rascal flatts were big with prayin for daylight and fast cars.. I know the band perry deserves a good shot too!
March 1, 2010 at 4:58 pm Permalink
these guys are the real deal.
March 2, 2010 at 11:14 am Permalink
I like it and that’s all that matters to me. Besides, Kimberly’s smokin’ hot!! Fun song, I’ll probebly buy their CD when it comes out.
March 2, 2010 at 11:15 am Permalink
Mispelled “probably”, dang.
March 9, 2010 at 9:41 am Permalink
i love this band, she has an amazing voice, and the boys sing good back up. its a fun and happy song. and it does make sense and it flows together. this song always makes me happy and its so cute! excellent song.
March 9, 2010 at 10:32 am Permalink
Anyone ever noticed when these teenybopper fans or emotionally stunted adult fans describe someone’s voice, they always use the adjective “amazing?”
Rest assured, if someone says a song or voice is “amazing,” in actuality it means it sucks.
March 9, 2010 at 11:00 am Permalink
Stop making fun of us adults that are emotionally stunted!
March 13, 2010 at 4:42 pm Permalink
To be completely honest, this song outright sucks. Why much country music turn into pop music.
March 13, 2010 at 9:26 pm Permalink
The more stuff like this the more I despise mainstream music.
March 13, 2010 at 9:50 pm Permalink
The song seriously sucks, but the guys in that picture look like they are in the Bay City Rollers.
March 13, 2010 at 10:07 pm Permalink
This song is catchy and sounds good on radio. The lyrics definitely are a bit weak in spots, but overall its not bad.
Now, I’m probably not the target demographic for this song, and I wouldn’t want every song on the radio to sound like this. But i wouldn’t mind one bit if this became a hit.
March 13, 2010 at 10:28 pm Permalink
The guy in front does kinda look like Les the BCR singer. LOL
March 14, 2010 at 11:33 am Permalink
LOL I remember Roller Mania I was right in their demographic age group. The 70’s had boy bands too :D
March 15, 2010 at 3:06 pm Permalink
I heard this song, this morning, live on KNBQ, in Seattle, and loved what I heard. It was very refreshing. By the way, Kimberly is a real FOX. (Do they still use that expression?)
April 4, 2010 at 9:35 am Permalink
I am not in the “target” demographic, but this song is fun and lively. I agree that the lyrics don’t necessarily have a completely coherent thought process, but that isn’t the point. It’s all about lifting people out of their chairs, dancing all night and having fun! Why make it more complicated. Not every song has to tell a story from beginning to end for it to be worth listening to
April 11, 2010 at 3:03 am Permalink
I’m fifty yrs old and I loved this song the first time I heard it. I have since, listened to three more of their songs and they are all great. Very fun, original, and full of youthful energy. Kimberly has a very unique and powerful voice, they harmonize well and they are going to the top! They WILL be huge in the music industry….Mark my words!!!!
April 11, 2010 at 4:17 am Permalink
…like my coca-cola yeeaahh… is good, the huh’s are even better. i shouldn’t like it but i can’t help but smile when i hear it on the radio. this song and kimberly perry are a match made in heaven. i’m way too old to say something like that.
April 11, 2010 at 10:29 am Permalink
I don’t hear it on the station I listen to and it won’t be played.
April 22, 2010 at 5:27 pm Permalink
I’m gonna second Razor X’s vote and say that this is the most irritating song I’ve heard in awhile. Her voice is about as irritating as it gets and the lyrics aren’t any better. I’m not sure which line is worse: “I like your lips like I like my Coca Cola” blah blah blah…or “Brother, man you know how to get hip to my heart.” What woman uses the phrase “brother man” in reference to their love interest…actually, what woman uses it period? I absolutely despise this song and I hope that either they redeem themselves with a better song next time, or they fall off the map completely. So far, simple mindless trash.
May 6, 2010 at 3:30 pm Permalink
I absolutely love this song. I wouldn’t mind becoming a country music critic. I know a hit when I hear one. This song was written to reach out the the more “younger” generation and that’s what it does. I couldn’t see a 40 yr. old saying purr baby purr… But then again, I could be wrong.
May 10, 2010 at 3:11 pm Permalink
I’m 40 years old, my wife is 42, and I told her just this morning to “purr baby purr…….” Seriously. Oh, you were making a reference to the lyrics in this song. Sorry.
June 13, 2010 at 10:13 pm Permalink
This song is my favorite. I dont like much music but these lyrics are fun and fiesty. And im 23 so not like im a kid or anything.
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