Somewhere Else (Toby Keith song)

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"Somewhere Else"
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Single by Toby Keith
from the album Bullets in the Gun
ReleasedFebruary 28, 2011 (2011-02-28)
Recorded2010
Genre Country
Length3:06
Label Show Dog-Universal Music
Songwriter(s) Toby Keith
Bobby Pinson
Producer(s) Toby Keith
Toby Keith singles chronology
"Bullets in the Gun"
(2010)		"Somewhere Else"
(2011)		"Made in America"
(2011)

"Somewhere Else" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Toby Keith. It was released in February 2011 as the third and final single from his 2010 album Bullets in the Gun . The song peaked at number 12 on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Keith wrote this song with Bobby Pinson.

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Content

The song describes a downbeat character who struggles to come to terms with the collapse of a relationship. Since home is where the heartache is coming from, he decides to withstand the barrage of memories at a bar. [1]

Critical reception

Gary Graff of Billboard wrote that the song was "shoot-from-the- hip cleverness". [2] The song got a "thumbs up" from Blake Boldt of Engine 145, whose review praised the production for "bel[ying] the narrator’s disappointment" and called the song "brooding", also saying that it proved that Keith "has quite a few creative tricks left up his sleeve". [1] Kevin John Coyne of Country Universe gave the song a B rating, saying that "does breakup about as good as anybody" and that he doesn't believe Keith is "capable of turning in a weak vocal performance." [3] Bobby Peacock of Roughstock gave the song a 3.5/5 rating, saying that the production is "looser and funkier" than on Keith's other songs. He goes on to say that it "contrasts with the more downbeat lyrics of a fairly standard broken-heart song." [4]

Jessica Phillips of Country Weekly described the song less favorably, saying that she considered Keith "more authentic" on the album's title track than on "Somewhere Else". [5] Writing for the Los Angeles Times , Randy Lewis compared it to "Is That All You Got" and "In a Couple of Days", saying that the songs "have a few nice writerly details in their romance-gone-bad setups, but they don't offer much wisdom." [6]

Chart positions

Chart (2011)Peak
position
Canada Country ( Billboard ) [7] 14
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [8] 12
US Billboard Hot 100 [9] 80

Year-end charts

Chart (2011)Position
US Country Songs ( Billboard ) [10] 62

References

  1. 1 2 Boldt, Blake (7 March 2011). "Toby Keith — "Somewhere Else"". Engine 145. Archived from the original on December 18, 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
  2. ↑ Graff, Gary (2010-10-08), Toby Keith, "Bullets In The Gun", Billboard , retrieved 2010-11-09
  3. ↑ John Coyne, Kevin (2011-02-18). "Toby Keith - Somewhere Else". Country Universe. Retrieved 2011-04-01.
  4. ↑ Peacock, Bobby (2011-03-10). "Toby Keith - Somewhere Else". Roughstock. Retrieved 2011-04-01.
  5. ↑ Phillips, Jessica (2010-09-24). "Bullets in the Gun : Toby Keith - Reviews - Country Weekly Magazine". Country Weekly . Retrieved 2010-10-01.
  6. ↑ Lewis, Randy (2010-10-05). "Album review: Toby Keith's 'Bullets in the Gun'". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2010-10-06.
  7. ↑ "Toby Keith Chart History (Canada Country)". Billboard.
  8. ↑ "Toby Keith Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  9. ↑ "Toby Keith Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  10. ↑ "Best of 2011: Country Songs". Billboard . Prometheus Global Media. 2011. Retrieved December 10, 2011.
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