Laci Kaye (Confessional) Booth

Finding Heaven in the Motel Pool

There are songs that tell stories, and there are songs that feel like confessions.

Released today, Laci Kaye Booth's Ethereal Redneck Shit belongs firmly to the latter.

Opening with Booth admitting she's been "cooking and cleaning" and feeling "tired and ornery," the song unfolds like a late-night conversation - an intimate catalogue of small desires and guilty pleasures.

The chorus is instantly addictive:"I wanna go to the bar with the mechanical bull / I wanna go to the motel, the one with the pool..."

What follows is a list of things we're not supposed to romanticise: cigarettes, regrets, chewing tobacco, motel rooms and dive bars. Yet Booth sings about them with such tenderness that they begin to transform. The mechanical bull becomes something to be worshipped. The motel pool becomes the Garden of Eden.

There's a touch of Lana Del Rey's romanticism here—not sonically, but philosophically. Like Del Rey, Booth understands that beauty often lives in places society overlooks. The visualiser leans into this perfectly, finding something gritty and beautiful in the ordinary.

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Musically, the track sits in an irresistible pocket. A lazy drum groove rolls beneath one of the song's strongest elements: its outstanding slide guitar. Floating through the arrangement like a ghost, it lends the track its ethereal quality while firmly grounding it in Nashville tradition.That's what makes Ethereal Redneck Shit so compelling. The songwriting is intimate yet transcendental, elevating the mundane into something almost holy. In Laci Kaye Booth's world, the dive bar is a cathedral, the motel pool is paradise, and redneck shit becomes something ethereal.