Jack Ingram- “Seeing Stars” with Patty Griffin
Fresh off his second highest charting single with “Barefoot and Crazy,” which peaked at #10, Jack Ingram has released to radio his duet with Patty Griffin. I never knew who Patty Griffin was until I purchased Dierks Bentley’s Feel That Fire where Dierks has a duet with her on it. Patty has a nice folk voice that went well with Dierks on their duet. As for this song, Patty is basically background vocals until the end, which doesn’t help the song enough.
“Seeing Stars” suffers from a lyric that is too plain and doesn’t have much substance. The basic idea at first is the singer sees stars everywhere. While the chorus tries to relate it to wishing on stars and praying to God only when you need to, the ultimate purpose of the lyric only shows up in the last verse. By the time you get to the part where it explains that the guy is seeing stars because of a breakup, you have lost interest in the song.
What this song needs to be something other than album filler is Patty singing a verse herself early on from her point of view to possibly clue the listener in to the idea of the song. Since that isn’t the case, this song had probably already reached its peak on the Billboard Charts. It might make it a little higher, but this song is barely worthy of charting.
Billboard Chart Peak Prediction- Top 60
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