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Sophia Scott “Leather Skirt”

Contemporary country music absorbed the aesthetics of ‘80s mainstream rock some time ago as part of an ongoing cycle of country pulling in sounds once they feel old enough to seem like classic Americana. This manifestation of arena rock can be hit or miss but “Leather Skirt” is definitely in the first category and basically sounds like a woman who’d be objectified in a Def Leppard or Mötley Crüe song deciding to do it herself and make her own rock anthem about how hot she is. There’s a bit of twang in Sophia Scott’s voice to make it scan as “country,” but I think that comes through more in the lyrics which lean on that genre’s conventions of performing femininity with a heavy wink and openly transactional attitude. Scott’s lyrics are straightforward – she’s singing about how great and useful it is to have a good leather skirt, and how she feels wearing it, and what she gets from wearing it. There’s no twist to this, and the endorsement is so strong that it feels like a song that should somehow contain affiliate links to online retailers of leather skirts.

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