• flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 days ago

      Me, too. It’s like a perfect snapshot of the post-9/11 country music scene I was forced to endure growing up.

      But in addition to that, it always felt incongruous with Archer’s character. He’s 41 at the start of Enterprise. This is a song about how he’s been struggling for so long and no one is going to hold him back because of his faith, but the whole story is how they held his father back his whole life, and they’ve successfully held Archer back until he’s middle-aged.

      As a 38-year-old, lemme tell ya. If faith didn’t get you through the door at 20, it ain’t faith getting you out the door at 41. It should’ve been a song about dogged determination in the face of adversity.