There are songs that come in on the first try. ‘Crisco’, by Miranda Lambert, is one of them, especially if you manage to ignore the association that the title has for many with one of the sexual practices considered most extreme: fisting. You have to have a very dirty mind to read “Crisco” and go straight there.
Crisco is a brand of vegetable shortening widely used for cooking in the United States and which, for decades, a sector of the gay community has used for fisting. Today, however, its use is highly discouraged, since this product is difficult to clean and is not intended as a lubricant for intimate use. Better to save it for baking cookies… and songs, like Lambert does.
And Lambert, one of the great stars of American country, does not have such a dirty mind. Her ‘Crisco’ presents an endearing kitchen scene shared with the person she loves, listening to the radio at dusk, in a song that mixes “country and disco” – as the lyrics express it – with the same naturalness with which she mixes ingredients on the stove.
The nice song is not as groundbreaking as other recent country experiments, but it is very evocative for its mention of American “southern nights”, a reference to ‘Southern Nights’ by Glen Campbell. Above all, it is beautifully dressed by a luxurious string arrangement that -yes- helps to “lubricate” the song with an irresistible softness.
