Christian Lee Hutson - Rubberneckers

simple rules, your song makes me cry i write about it.

Off CLH’s 2022 album, Quitters, this one is a smash. A muffled drum loop, a timeless guitar progression - simple but immersive.

The song got a lot of buzz off the absurd (good) feature - Phoebe Bridgers joining the choruses - and obviously I adore every moment of that. But I spent a lot of time listening to this record this weekend and man is CLH a sick writer.

This song (with the help of Alex Lahey), is of course, no different. Or I wouldn’t have mentioned that. This city’s full of quitters / lost lap sitters / contest winners. Tearing off ridiculous rhymes and creative vocabulary, and it just all flows together so easy.

It’s such a sweet one, sad as it can be, closing that first verse with a marriage proposal. Another deeply sad and also silly verse comes later: I’m a self-esteemed vending machine / a doctors office magazine / a fun house at a county fair / a staircase to no where. If you’re gonna do deprecating you better do it well, and CLH does it with brilliance.

But what got me to tear up last Sunday was the chorus. Of course having Phoebe’s voice there will do that to me no matter what they sing, but it helps that lyrics are deadly.

If you tell a lie for long enough it becomes the truth / I am gonna be ok some day / with or without you

</3 good night!!!! get out of here with that!!! so sad but so beautiful my god. All that and the band goes crazy at 2:20 - song rules!