First Kiss

Album: First Kiss (2015)
Charted: 66
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Songfacts®:

  • This nostalgic song about young love finds Kid Rock reminiscing about a first kiss. However, the Jenny Clayton that he namechecks on the song isn't a real person. He explained to Classic Rock magazine: "Jenny Clayton was a girl that rhymed really well with the song! That was my hip-hop s--t."

    "I tried to use some of the things I learned about rhyme-schemes in hip-hop in the stuff I'm doing now," Rock added. "Like Rick Rubin said, the more words you can rhyme, the better it's going to be at catching people's attention real fast. So you can sneak in something like that, rather than have them dig up some girl who really was my first kiss and f--king hound her. Good luck on finding Jenny Clayton!"

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