Kinda Don't Care

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Kinda Don't Care
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Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 12, 2016 (2016-08-12)
Genre Country
Length
  • 40:37 (Standard Edition)
  • 54:39 (Deluxe Edition)
Label Valory Music Group
Producer
Justin Moore chronology
Off the Beaten Path
(2013)
Kinda Don't Care
(2016)
Late Nights and Longnecks
(2019)
Singles from Kinda Don't Care
  1. "You Look Like I Need a Drink"
    Released: November 17, 2015
  2. "Somebody Else Will"
    Released: October 17, 2016
  3. "Kinda Don't Care"
    Released: September 18, 2017

Kinda Don't Care is the fourth studio album by American country music artist Justin Moore. It was released on August 12, 2016 via Valory Music Group, an imprint of Big Machine Records. The album's lead single is "You Look Like I Need a Drink". The album's second single is "Somebody Else Will" released on October 17, 2016. The album's third single, its title track, was released on September 18, 2017.

Contents

Content

Moore told Rolling Stone that "Naming the album Kinda Don’t Care is not meant to be nonchalant or careless. It's meant to be a challenge to folks to live life a little more freely and be true to themselves." [1] The album consists of 12 tracks, with four more on a deluxe version. Among the songs are the lead single "You Look Like I Need a Drink", and a duet with Brantley Gilbert on "More Middle Fingers". [1] The track "Hell on a Highway" was originally on hold for Luke Bryan, but Moore contacted Bryan, who gave him permission to record it instead. [2]

Reception

Critical

Giving it 4 out of 5 stars, AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that it "slyly threads in pieces of the R&B-inflected country that dominated the airwaves" and that the album's style "doesn't sound like pandering: it feels like an outgrowth of his ballad side". [3] In 2017, Billboard contributor Chuck Dauphin placed two tracks from the album on his top 10 list of Moore's best songs: "You Look Like I Need a Drink" at number two and "Somebody Else Will" at number nine. [4]

Commercial

The album debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 based on 42,000 units, 37,000 of which are pure album sales. [5] It also topped the Country Albums chart, which is Moore's third consecutive No. 1 on the chart. [6] It has sold 134,800 copies in the US as of November 2017. [7]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Robbin' Trains"3:25
2."Put Me in a Box"
2:44
3."Kinda Don't Care"4:21
4."Hell on a Highway"
4:20
5."Goodbye Back"
3:13
6."You Look Like I Need a Drink"
3:07
7."Somebody Else Will"
2:45
8."Between You and Me"
3:00
9."Got It Good"
2:43
10."Rebel Kids"
  • Dan Isbell
  • Montana
3:56
11."More Middle Fingers" (duet with Brantley Gilbert)
3:55
12."Life in the Livin'"
3:08
Total length:40:37
Deluxe edition [8]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
13."Middle Class Money"
3:42
14."Pick Up Lines"
3:21
15."Spendin' the Night"
  • Archer
  • Andrew DeRoberts
  • Hambrick
3:16
16."When I Get Home"
3:39
Total length:54:39

Chart performance

Singles

YearSinglePeak chart positions
US Country
[15]
US Country Airplay
[16]
US
[17]
CAN Country
[18]
CAN
[19]
2015"You Look Like I Need a Drink"121791
2016"Somebody Else Will"9159
2017"Kinda Don't Care"2817

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