The music world has become far too compartmentalised, so labelled and tagged that it almost becomes impossible to describe music in terms of nouns and genres, not unless you want to start a pointless debate about where the musical demarcations of sound and style lie. (Hint: there are none.)
Rock music seems to be the worst for it, so it comes as a welcome relief when a song like “Just Like Me” drops into the review pile, a song that swerves all the post-this and that-core nonsense and which you can sum up simply as good old rock and roll.
Dusty Edinger takes that timeless rock-and-roll groove and an easy pop accessibility, low-slung guitars and barroom piano, swathes of additional harmonies, and squalling bluesy solos and gives us something honest and authentic. Leave all the longhairs to debate quite where hard rock ends and metalcore begins (like it matters), this is a song with one goal: to get you on the dancefloor strutting your stuff.
Maybe people should forget trying to be part of this genre or that scene; perhaps they should write songs that do the one thing that matters: make a sound that people can have a good time to. That’s what Dusty Edinger does here, and does it brilliantly. Do that, and you will find yourself becoming just like him.
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