The Year’s Best Music Moments: A Mix of Performances, Videos and Song Snippets That We Just Really Loved
Best Reference to Reptile Aliens on an Otherwise Traditional Country Song: “Turtles All the Way Down” by Sturgill Simpson
While occupying the familiar dust-specked, sienna-colored space of Top 40 country radio, Simpson’s Metamodern Sounds in Country Music nonchalantly throws the entire genre for a loop by sneaking in twanged-out lines like, “Where reptile aliens made of light cut you open and pull out all your pain,” from album opener “Turtles All the Way Down.” This one is immediately followed by references to LSD and the devil, just for good measure. — LB