L.A. musician Ariel Pink says he “went back to hotel and took a nap” after attending Wednesday’s Trump rally on the White House lawn. “Case closed.”
Yet here he is again and again on “Dangerous,” bathed in the glow of some neon sign or another as he gets “Tennessee tipsy” with a lady friend or loses count of the number of beers he and his boys have downed. In “This Bar,” one of several advance singles from the album that have already racked up tens of millions of streams, Wallen deploys a bit of expert wordplay to describe all the life he’s lived under the roof of his favorite watering hole: “I found myself in this bar,” he sings, not exactly encouraging anyone to forget the sight of his mug shot.