“Tomorrow Me” by Luke Combs is Not Your Typical Summer Song
Spring is here, and summer is just around the corner. That means the chrome on the truck is polished, the beer is iced down, the balls have been manscaped, quaffed, slathered with conditioner and are ready for action, and everyone is heading to their local body of water, blasting bad country music, because that’s America. It’s the season for summer anthems. And rising to meet the moment, here is one of country music’s biggest male stars releasing a mid-tempo song underpinned with steel guitar about regretting post-breakup sex.
It really underscores that it’s a new era in country music. Earlier this week, Luke Combs let it be known that his newest album called Growin’ Up would be released on June 24th. It won’t be a double, or a triple with cheese like we’ve been used to from the big names in country recently. It’s just 12 songs. But it will be from Luke Combs, and so it will be quite a big deal, and perhaps a release to finally give Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous the boot at #1.
Ahead of the album, Luke Combs has released “Tomorrow Me,” and again, at a time when summer anthems that are supposed to be playing in the background when you make dumb decisions to like jousting on jet skis. Knock offs of Florida Georgia Line’s “Cruise” and Sam Hunt’s “Body Like a Backroad” are what we’re used to hitting the airwaves at about this time, and here Luke Combs is wanting us to think and feel and stuff.
We’ve all been there in a relationship. Maybe the girl was bat shit crazy and too into cats. Maybe the guy had no future and still living with his parents into his 30s. But it’s so easy and comfortable just to slide into the sack with them like a bad habit, even though you know the next morning you’re going to be kicking yourself, because you know there’s no future there.
“Tomorrow Me” is not a world beater. Luke Combs songs rarely are. But it’s just the latest sign that country music continues to trend more country, and more quality. Luke Combs has been a focal point for this trend since the start of his career. And as he’s helped to creep open the door more and more toward country-sounding material, Combs himself has veered more country himself, culminating in “Tomorrow Me.”
Luke’s last single “Doin’ This” wasn’t half bad either. It was about how even if he hadn’t become a superstar, he’d still be playing country songs in a bar. And in this case, you believe him. Meanwhile, the biggest song in all of country remains Cody Johnson’s “Til’ You Can’t” heading into the summer. Carly Pearce’s and Ashley McBryde’s “Never Wanted To Be That Girl” is rising in the charts as well, so is Ernest’s “Flower Shops.”
Sure, there will be some flies in the ointment (looking at you Walker Hayes), but overall the sound of country music in the summer of ’22 could very well be country as the mainstream of country music continues to give us less to complain about. And Luke Combs has played a large part in that, proving country-sounding songs can find success if they’re just given the chance.
1 1/2 Guns Up (7.5/10)
April 23, 2022 @ 10:08 am
I’m not mad about that song at all.
I’m still not turning on Country Radio, but I’ll put it in the streaming mix.
April 23, 2022 @ 10:15 am
” – the balls have been manscaped, quaffed, slathered with conditioner and are ready for action, and everyone is heading to their local body of water,”
Ok, 2 things…
: D This site is So educational. Laughing. I’ll be doggone if i didn’t have to google quaffed as it appears in the above sentence.
And, 2.
“But it’s so easy and comfortable just to slide into the sack with them like a bad habit, even though you know the next morning you’re going to be kicking yourself, because you know there’s no future there.”
: D Hold Up.
Know what’s really cool?
Knowing you can, let’s say, go to one of your scuba buds, a former lover & dive master (cross my heart) and after the years apart, be treated to a lovely candlelit dinner where as you excuse yourself to the ladies room, & then come back, he has eaten EXACTLY half of the perfect chocolate mousse, with just moments before whipped cream, topped with chocolate shavings, out of a demitasse cup. From the Top, Down.
You stop in your tracks & give him that smile that says it is So good to see him.
The next morning as you leave, because you have a 20+ hour drive ahead of you to get your a** back to work by 8:00 a.m. – He stops you. Hands you a brand new GPS, & says, “So you can always find your way back home.”
This song is alright, but i want someone to write a song about how amazing it is to be able to go back to that love.
It has been a little over 3 and a half years, since i lost my amazing husband.
Think i am finally ready to go back home to St. Pete, go spearfishing with all my friends. Been too long.
Music is so very sensual.
April 25, 2022 @ 9:04 pm
Good for you! Been about 8 and a half years for me, who says you can’t go home?
April 23, 2022 @ 10:21 am
another slow song,yawn. this will definitely get a lot of people to say “we gotta change this music” if it gets played by a pool or on a boat
April 23, 2022 @ 11:12 am
Country music is slowly getting better in the mainstream with Luke Combs, Cody Johnson, Carly Pierce, Ashley McBride, Jon Pardi, Midland, Chris Stapleton, and Riley Green. Even Chris Jansen is starting to sound better.
April 23, 2022 @ 11:21 am
Another neutured Luke Combs relationship song. Zzzzzzz.
April 23, 2022 @ 11:28 am
Nah I’m over this dude.
His inability to write with female songwriters on his albums is inexcusable at this point in his career.
Also, he is one of those few singers who a year from now will announce a deluxe edition of his album (he did it with his first and second)
April 23, 2022 @ 11:48 am
What do you mean by “his inability to write with female songwriters” ?
April 23, 2022 @ 12:20 pm
That he’s/she’s so WOKE they never sleep.
Prius is probably covered in pro Biden and LGBT stuff.
April 23, 2022 @ 12:45 pm
Someone is letting their homophobic MAGA flag wave.
April 23, 2022 @ 1:47 pm
Let’s not veer into woke/Biden/culture war stuff please. Thanks!
April 23, 2022 @ 9:58 pm
Biden isn’t a woke… pretty sure he’s sleeping most of the time
April 25, 2022 @ 7:12 am
Prius is good on gas. Use the truck to go to Home Depot, use the Prius for road trips. Nothing wrong with being frugal. Have you seen gas prices lately?
I’m still waiting for a country song about the virtues of fuel efficient hybrids.
April 23, 2022 @ 6:59 pm
Hahaha. Co-writing with a woman. Sounds great if you want to fill your album with love songs or get your periods all synced up…
April 23, 2022 @ 7:28 pm
So you must hate most male country singers throughout the genre’s history then.
As for myself, I judge an artist on talent and good songs. Old fashioned but it has served my ears well.
April 25, 2022 @ 10:03 pm
he already writes horrible boyfriend country songs, he doesnt need a female to do it for him
April 27, 2022 @ 12:36 pm
Are you upset simply because he’d rather let the female songwriter he wrote with record the song instead of keeping it himself or is there another reason? Do you have a problem with the female songwriters getting a number one hit recording or possible gaining notoriety with a recording his name is attached to? Maybe you should keep in mind that some of the songs he’s written with women shouldn’t be recorded by him as it wouldn’t translate well the way they wrote it.
April 23, 2022 @ 11:47 am
Dear Today,
It’s Tomorrow me.
I wear my heart out on my sleeve.
What you get, is not what you see.
She’s beautiful & we’re better forever together.
April 23, 2022 @ 12:01 pm
Yikes Trig, TMI on how you prep for your summer escapades LOL. I did like the song, a good change-up pitch for a playlist.
April 23, 2022 @ 1:46 pm
That was about as autobiographical as me blasting bad country music.
April 24, 2022 @ 6:32 am
Everyone knows you secretly listen to Lube Bryan and Florida Georgia Line. Did you thnk you were fooling anyone?
April 23, 2022 @ 12:10 pm
Trig, who do you like better in chronological order ?
Luke Combs, Cody Johnson, Morgan Wallen, Jon Pardi, and Midland
April 23, 2022 @ 3:15 pm
I don’t know, but put Morgan Wallen at the end.
April 23, 2022 @ 1:24 pm
It’s ok, kinda mediocre. Which means with the mainstream handicap applied, it’s absolutely brilliant.
April 23, 2022 @ 1:47 pm
Tomorrow me is normally pretty understanding of what today me wanted.
Tomorrow me just needs to be good at waking early, dressing quietly, remembering what floorboards creak and how to open the deadlocks.
April 23, 2022 @ 2:28 pm
@Blackh4t.
Laughing. You’re a Bad Boy …
April 23, 2022 @ 7:42 pm
I try 😉
April 23, 2022 @ 3:10 pm
Any thoughts on Morgan Wallen’s new song, Don’t Think Jesus? Probably one of the most country sounding songs that he’s ever released outside of his Cover Me Up cover.
April 23, 2022 @ 3:25 pm
Luke Combs tends to be hit and miss for me, but Doin’ This is one of my favorite songs on mainstream radio at the moment. I think you hit on the reason why. I hear him dig into the chorus, and I believe every word.
April 23, 2022 @ 5:30 pm
On another note Tyler and Senora announced they are having their first kid, so I’m sure his songwriting will go up another level, but appearances may still be sporadic for the future
April 23, 2022 @ 6:01 pm
Trig I’m willing to bet everything I own this is the first joint of a double or Deluxe release. He teased a song on YouTube called “Growin’ Up and Gettin’ Old”. After seeing the album cover as a half portrait of Luke with the Growin’ Up on the hat logo, and it being 12 songs. It seems obvious to me.
I think Luke has found a formula for himself. Double or “Deluxe” version will come spring ’23 called Gettin’ Old.
April 23, 2022 @ 10:41 pm
May be.
April 23, 2022 @ 6:10 pm
On an unrelated note. Tyler Childers gonna have big news soon. Heard it today from his wife.
April 23, 2022 @ 10:42 pm
Is it the baby news 63Guild posted about above?
April 24, 2022 @ 5:37 am
I honestly really like Luke Combs. Sure he’s not on level off Tyler Childers or Sturgill Simpson but when I’m in the mood for simple music I go for him
April 24, 2022 @ 6:34 am
I like Luke Combs, but he’s kinda like the Nickelback of country. Hugely popular and producing catchy hit songs that all sound exactly the same, it’s hard not to sing along. But it’s already starting to get stale, and you wonder how long before Luke will be the guy that no one wants to admit they used to be a fan of.
Hope there is some sort of new elements to this album than the two new singles indicate. Don’t expect it though.
April 24, 2022 @ 11:12 am
Doesn’t really sound that great to me. Kind of too mellow. On the subject of the song, the alternative band, offspring, had a great take on this subject. But far as what that was, I’ll let the folks who have strayed outside country music to think about that. Others won’t care
April 24, 2022 @ 3:15 pm
Guy needs to go on a diet. Remember when there were attractive , ruggedly handsome, manly country singers like Tracy Byrd, Aaron Tippin, Toby Keith ?? now we have either fat slobs or guys who get manicures and couldn’t lift a hay bale if their lives depended on it
April 24, 2022 @ 7:07 pm
I don’t know, kind of a chick song I think, but sometimes that role reversal thing works.
April 24, 2022 @ 7:25 pm
Don’t mind Luke Combs, but i feel like most of his songs have same formula, this song is no different. Not terrible, but really doesn’t move the needle for me.
April 25, 2022 @ 4:28 am
I don’t understand the continued revulsion for Morgan Wallen, when looking thru the modern “woke” lense Luke Combs is just as guilty as Wallen for having associated with Upchurch and is on video in front of the Confederate Flag.
April 25, 2022 @ 6:44 am
Well,he’s Luke Combs,so I’m sure “Tomorrow Me” will be great and perhaps be a chart-topper.
April 25, 2022 @ 6:51 am
Who cares how big Luke C. is if he keeps coming up with hits ? ( Aaron Tippin,almost exactly five years my junior,is muscular but far from telegenic, Toby Keith is…Toby Keith and where the heck is Tracy Byrd today? (What fat slobs, VernTobyTrace ? I can’t bale hay-I don’t know if I’ve ever seen hay,hailing from Windsor,Ont.,Can., a mile south of Detroit, and don’t get manis or pedis,but I write Country lyrics,a few of which I may send here….)
April 25, 2022 @ 7:05 am
We all know Luke Combs is one of the Okay-est acts in the mainstream at the moment. My personal opinion – these kind of tracks highlighting his sensitive side aren’t very good. I think he’s at his best with more energetic tracks like Beer Never Broke My Heart and Cold As You. If I were his manager, I’d say do an album of all bangers.
April 25, 2022 @ 7:26 am
Ngl… That first paragraph was brilliant. lol
April 25, 2022 @ 11:25 am
I can’t dig this guy. While Drake is for sensitive white and brown people in the pop sphere this Luke guys got the same energy and vibe for the sensitive ‘country’ college crowd. Boo hoo I drank too much matched with a fatty on Tinder. I’m never drinking again tomorrow it’s all going to change. Yuck. What a stupid hook. He is the Garth of this era. Popularity wise and being completely safe, mediocre and unremarkable in every single possible way. A total lack of personality and anything to distinguish him from the rest sure works for him though (I guess that’s what they mean by being an ‘everyman’). Pass.
April 25, 2022 @ 3:35 pm
What,Blockman ???? Luke’s the type dude who used to populate Country before the pin-up cowboys and cowgirls…an everyman good ol’ boy to whom about 95% of people can relate….particularly this black buckaroo!!!!!!!
April 25, 2022 @ 10:06 pm
didnt pop singer dua lipa already do this song? I cant let you in and do this again, weve broken up cant live with myself tomorrow blah blah blah. this is a song for women to drink wine and cry to
July 12, 2022 @ 9:07 am
I heard this song and I thought to myself this is a great country song and I wondered to myself how he wrote such a great country song ,and then I found out he wrote it with Dean Dillon and then answered all of my questions
April 26, 2022 @ 9:03 am
Is it just me, or do people agree that Combs’ YouTube posting of this song about a year ago way better than this version? It’s tough being a big fan of his when first hearing a song from him of this raw country caliber, with just him and a six string, and then hear it with a production behind it. In my opinion he needs way less music production behind him on his soundtracks and/or an acoustic version of his albums each time.