Can a song about a funeral be a valid candidate for the annual Song of the Summer sweepstakes? Maybe the subject matter should make it an automatic disqualifier, for what we think of when we imagine the picks for that title. And yet if there’s anything that can be said that applies across the board in the career of Zach Bryan , it’s that standard rules don’t apply. And they certainly don’t apply to “Pink Skies,” the song that he released in late May as the first single from an upcoming album.
So if a superstar as seemingly unstoppable as Bryan wants to usher in the summer with a ballad about family members coming together for a memorial service, who’s to say that shouldn’t be considered a banger, of sorts, alongside “Espresso” or “Lunch”? Even with close to zero radio play, “Pink Skies” currently stands in the top 10 of both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Spotify 50, and given the rabidity of his fan base, it could remain there for a while. It’s the feel-grievous hit of the summer. Bryan played “Pink Skies” live for the second time ever Sunday night at L.
A.’s Crypto.com Arena, where he and his band were playing the first show of a three-night stand, for which almost all of the 20,000 available tickets per night were sold out.
He flubbed the first verse, which became the light-hearted occasion for him to mention just how new to his setlist it was. (He’d given the song its live debut two nights earlier, at the Oakland Coliseum, in front of a.
