"Portions for Foxes" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song by a woman or a band led by a woman. See the introduction for more.
This week, something fun and zippy and happy for a change: Red Light Love by Those Darlins, a country-tinged rock song from 2009 that was later used in a car commercial.
There's some winking going on here, and each listener gets to decide for herself just how far this particular Red Light Love is going.
Red light love
Makes my heart stop
Drives me so crazy
I can’t even walk
On the surface, it's just about driving around aimlessly, having fun with someone you love and not being worried about anything in the world.
We don’t worry about getting lost because he knows his way around
Singer Jessi Zazu sings that with a smirk and a subtle emphasis at the end, just in case you thought this song was entirely serious and straightforward.
This is a purely happy, peppy song that makes you want to jump into a car and drive away aimlessly with that special someone to make some Red Light Love of your own. Go for it.
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