20 Cigarettes (song)

The song uses an electric guitar and opens with a sparser instrumental. A bass line and percussion are introduced during the second verse, before the bass is featured in an instrumental break in the bridge.^[2] The story begins with the protagonist possessing 20 cigarettes and hanging out at a bar in Demonbreun, an area of Nashville, Tennessee, on a summer evening. He catches the attention of a woman, who leaves her friends to meet him.^[2][3] They start talking, smoking, drinking and flirting with each other. They leave Demonbreun in the night, driving out of the city in his truck and singing "Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver.^[2] They have sex in the truck bed and share their last cigarette, before the woman later disappears.^[2][3]

Billboard ranked "20 Cigarettes" as the 16th best song from I'm the Problem and commented the song's story was "smartly told".^[3] Reviewing I'm the Problem for Paste, Hattie Lindert responded negatively to the song, regarding it as among the "rompier, lighter fare" that "seem slightly stale amid a slew of sour-grapes songs" and adding, "For what it's worth, even '20 Cigarettes' is both a clear and inferior rehash of the bossa-nova-inflected sound that buoyed Wallen's unexpected 2021 hit '7 Summers'".^[4]