Elle King – Come Get Your Wife

Country music can be done really well, catchy & appealing, but with an authentic heart, such as Elle King on 'Come Get Your Wife'....
Elle King : Come Get Your Wife
7.7 RCA
2023 
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Elle King : Come Get Your Wife

Country music has had a very specific reputation which has endured for decades, basically since the term was first used. That reputation has drawn many people towards it, but also saw many avoid country, too much trucks & beers, too red state. But beyond any perceived political leanings of the artists and/or fans, and big egos that you can find in any genre, country music can be done really well, catchy & appealing, but with an authentic heart, such as Elle King on Come Get Your Wife.

And Come Get Your Wife is very country. It starts with a tribute to King’s native state, “Ohio”, and even has a song where her lovelorn singer decides to “Try Jesus”. Yet those and others aren’t treacly, aren’t ‘I’m better than others,’ but instead quite enjoyable. King particularly points to her own “Bonafide” crazy ways on Wife, from being country-rock “Blacked Out” to being “Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home)”, more of a pop-girl with country star Miranda Lambert (King also duets with another country star, Dierks Bentley, on seeing whether getting back together is “Worth a Shot”).

If you’re one of the automatically put off by country, you’re probably not going to listen much into Come Get Your Wife before turning it off (and there are those who are automatically put off by ‘nepo babies’ – King is the daughter of a Hollywood celebrity, but was raised in southern Ohio, and that celebrity is only Rob Schneider…). But if you’re up for giving a country gal a chance, you’ll find yourself enjoying Elle King.

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