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gave the song a D+ grade, saying that it was "written solely to appeal to a demographic of people who also live in small towns and can relate to surface-level ideas
Without further development, the ideas just sound really, really clichéd." Karlie Justus of
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490:. KnowTheArtist.com. Archived from
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