Listen: Aaron Lee Tasjan Releases “I Love America Better Than You” Remix Featuring Widespread Panic’s Dave Schools
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As the US election looms in the not-so-far-off future, commended singer-songwriter Aaron Lee Tasjan has revisited his powerful single “I Love America Better Than You.” The latest iteration of the artist’s newly remixed track features Widespread Panic’s Dave Schools’ distinctive bassline, an added punch of vibrational frequency that livens up the instrumental discourse, further illuminated when cast over satirical lyrics that play to the nation’s attributes.
With thought and consideration, the newly remixed “I Love America Better Than You” arrives one week before the 2024 United States presidential election. Using the number’s lyrical framework, which contrasts pride in one’s country with pessimism, Tasjan relies on the extension of catchy lines that refute the bad by cunningly positioning a twisted declaration of admiration: “I love America better than you/ Her dirty money and her hotdogs, too.”
“Given the current political climate we’re facing in this country, the timing feels right for ‘I Love America Better Than You,’” Tasjan explained. “People need these moments of brevity during intense periods of social and political discourse, and that’s what we’re living through right now. ‘I Love America Better Than You’ is an anthem for this moment in time, and the lyric-forward approach will allow people to make it their own source of inspiration to fight for what they believe in and make their voices heard at the polls in November.”
Besides the capacity of Tasjan’s word choice, Schools uses his skillset to establish instrumental mimicry by co-opting a fierce bassline to empower the bravado of “I Love America Better Than You,” providing builds that act as bass-laden exclamation marks. Tasjan initially released the track in 2016, further delineating the song’s status as a political anthem, considering past election cycles. The remixed version was included in his latest LP, Stellar Evolution, discussed in Relix.
Read Aaron Lee Tasjan: Conscious Evolution. Scroll down to listen to “I Love America Better Than You,” featuring Schools.