Lee Brice is at the top of his game right now, coming off the solid September release of his third studio effort I Don't Dance. The successful songwriter salutes the working class in his new video for the album's second single "Drinking Class." As Rolling Stone Country points out, this is not some tip-of-the-cap single to weekend debauchery. Brice aims to honor the men and women who work hard all week long and relax even harder when the weekend hits.
"I wanted to pay tribute to the hardworking men and women who get up every day and work hard to provide for their families," he told RSC. "It's where I come from and where my heart is."
Images of labor, sweat and family pervade the video below before scenes of bar antics take hold. The song is a prime example of why Brice is one of the genre's most talented songwriters.
"I'm a member of a good-timing crowd," he sings in a pool hall. "We get rowdy, we get wild and loud / If you gotta, gotta label me, label me proud."
"Drinking Class" follows the album's first single and titular track. The album went to No. 5 on the Billboard 200 chart and No. 1 on Top Country Albums list. The singer has scored other hits, penning songs like "Crazy Girl" and "Still" for other artists. His crowning moment came in 2009 with "Love Like Crazy," which he did not write.
"Where 'Girls in Bikinis' plays with looped vocals and stuttering high-hats, 'Drinking Class' might be the best blue-collar bar tune since Church's 'Drink in My Hand,'" RSC wrote about I Don't Dance, giving the album three out of five stars.
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