Jesus Christ Likes Fast Cars

It’s the 4th of July, folks, which implies two things. Jalopnik has the time off, and it’s once more time for me to force you to take heed to a comparatively obscure song about cars. I mean, I can’t actually force you to take heed to it, but I’m going to do my best anyway. There’s so far more music on the market than what charts on the radio, and that’s very true of Americana, country music’s smarter, better-looking, more talented and significantly gayer cousin. Rock and roll isn’t dead, it’s just roots-based now, and we’re all higher off for it.

This time around, I’m going with Adeem the Artist’s “Fast Cars.” To be clear, it is just not a canopy of Tracy Chapman’s already outstanding “Fast Automotive.” Adeem has more talent of their left pinky than Luke Combs has in total and doesn’t must depend on low-cost covers to seek out success.

Granted, Combs’s music is significantly higher than lots of what you would possibly have heard in recent times, and the era of bro-country is essentially over. Fingers crossed, I won’t ever again be subjected to the sound of Jason Aldean attempting to rap ever again. But in addition, “Beer Never Broke My Heart” is objectively higher as a pop-punk song.

Anyway, where were we? Oh yeah. Fast Cars. It’s just a few good, old-fashioned rock and roll with a splash of blasphemy thrown in. And with a chorus like, “Jesus Christ likes fast cars/Pedal to the metal because he’s Lord/Never had a whip that didn’t have two doors/Jesus Christ likes fast cars,” you possibly can probably guess where that is going. It isn’t exactly deep, nevertheless it’s fun as hell, and more people should give Adeem’s music a listen.