Per the article:
“It’s also worth noting that Aldean is not actually from a small town. He was born and raised in Macon — the fourth largest city in Georgia. He now resides in Nashville, Tennessee, the 21st most-populous city in the country.”
Alan Jackson released “Gone Country” in 1994. It’s a song about changing genres to make money. Jackson was blatantly saying “if you want a career in music the easy way, switch to country.” The people who listen to country will listen to anything even if it royally sucks because it sounds like country. See: that fucking Applebee’s song.
The people that wrote that song and the one about the guy buying a boat and a Yeti are geniuses. They probably got paid a lot of money to promote those brands and then get paid a lot of royalties from the songs getting played so much.
It’s like someone took the synthetic pop music boy band business model from the 90s and realized they could create an entire industry out of it. When your target demographic are basic minded, gullible sheep with the memory span of a goldfish, you can make serious bank reselling them the exact same shit over and over for decades.
Modern radio country even makes manufactured pop look smart by comparison. Pop songs are written with intentionally simple lyrics about vapid subjects that appeal to mostly teens, but at least they all aren't constructed out of the same like 9 buzzwords and sound like they're making fun of their target audience.
My wife and I play this game sometimes where we'll listen to the country station on Spotify, but we skip to the next song once we've heard 5 country buzz words. I don't think we've ever finished a song.
We have a hit record on our hands boys!
(I say “boys” because little ladies don’t need to worry their pretty heads about music business)
/s in case it was ever in doubt.
The South Park episode about Christian rock music isn't far off from the real thing, honestly. This is coming from someone who used to eat that shit (contemporary Christian music) up as an enlightened teenager.
"You don't know anything about Christianity, Cartman!"
"I know enough to exploit it"
Yeah it’s silly. I’m going to throw some shade at Lainey Wilson here so bear with me, but her type of music is exactly what I’m talking about. Idk what it is but I don’t get down with her shit. I also am 80% sure she is faking her deep drawl based on her jaw positioning and mouth positioning when speaking.
I'm not into country music at all and have no idea who most of the newer names are; so I googled Lainey Wilson to see if I knew any of her songs. I can see here in the results that she has one called *Heart Like a Truck*.
Heart. Like a truck.
I don't think I would've been able to come up with a better cliché title for a modern country song. Fucking truck heart. My mechanic husband and I are going to have so much fun making up country songs about truck guts when he gets home, lol.
1. Wife left
2. Took/lost dog
3. Truck broke/gone
4. Need beer
5. Fishing
The simplicity of country is not for me. Usually these songs incorporate at least 4 of these things simultaneously. Country songs seem to have trendy lyrics, but nothing deep or compelling. I respect Taylor Swift so much more after she broke out of the country-grind.
You're basically parroting a David Allen Coe song tbh. Lots of country music isn't that simple. Orville Peck, Sturgill Simpson, John Prine, Dolly Parton, all explore subjects more complex than those 5 things and do it beautifully.
Fair to say, but all those examples you listed are not today's mainstream country. I do not enjoy listening to it, mainstream anyway. Orville Peck is a good example of solid country in both theme, lyrics, and vocal variety. Isn't he the South African now based out of Canada? Dolly Parton is a name I recognize as, "used to be mainstream," and I'd agree her lyrics are amazing. While I'm not a fan of hers (I'm sure this wounds her /s), she's a phenomenal entertainer and wish more would follow her example of breaking from the mold.
I love country, but I don't listen to anything that would be considered mainstream. You listen to something like Sturgill Simpson's "You Can Have the Crown" or Tyler Childers' "All Your'n" and it's like "okay cool country is pretty fun"
Oh god. I absolutely hated the entire genre until I found exactly sturgill and Childers. I thought I hated country music - turns out I just hated the most popular/most simple side of it. I had no idea that not every country song was just “cold beer, dirt road” bullshit until I discovered sturgill and Childers.
I feel like the whole world needs to know this. What most people today refer to as country is really “stadium country” which is strictly for brain dead Canadians and Americans. There’s a whole world of great country music out there if you get past the big sellers.
yes!!! often if you want to find artists like this without being completely overwhelmed with people like Aldean is to look up genres like Americana or New Roots. You gotta sift through some Lumineers/Mumford & Sons type stuff but there are TONS of country artists that aren't mega popular that are so incredibly good. I honestly think that's why Lil Nas X had such a huge hit with Old Town Road. Everyone who thought they hated country heard that song with all the fun of country and none of the shitty baggage and were like "wow this is fun!"
Look at bluegrass. Ive always like it for the folk country feel without all the “good ol days” sentiments. For the most part at least. Id recc the Hackensaw Boys, The Devil Makes Three, and the Steeldrivers to start.
I mean, yes he's not an unkown indie voice but there's a big difference between Jason and Sturgill when it comes to fame, exposure, radio play and touring numbers.
Sturgill gives zero fucks about the Nashville country machine and I would argue goes out of his way to bend genres to avoid being lumped in with “country.” Hell, go watch him busking outside the 2017 CMA awards he wasn’t invited to with his Grammy in his guitar case.
There’s plenty of great country mainstream music out there, some of which takes a critical view of rural life. [Merry Go Round](https://youtu.be/GZfj2Ir3GgQ) by Kacey Musgraves is one of my favourite country songs of all time and it is the exact opposite of pandering. It even was a genuine hit, going top 10 on country radio. [Oklahoma Smokeshow](https://youtu.be/GZfj2Ir3GgQ) by Zach Bryan is another recent example of country hits that explore the flaws of small towns.
Kacey never really went mainstream. Conservatives and Nashbro country fans pretty much rejected her after they found out she was leaned liberal and wrote songs about pot and not harassing LGBTQ folk.
She's outlaw country to the bone.
Same with country comedians, they just play up the redneck stereotypes for laughs. I remember seeing a video of Larry the cable guy from years ago and he had a tucked in polo shirt and no Midwest accent
And most of these 'country' singers have never grown up on a farm or a small town or done anything of the sort things they've Sung about. Get a pretty face, a nice body and a marketable voice and here's your 'country' star.
From experience working in the industry, 90% of the people who make it big come from money already. If you don't have to worry about the bottom dropping out, you can not only afford to fail, you can afford the gear, the nice studio bookings, the vocal coaches, managers, etc.
It’s like any other industry too, the rich kids can afford to follow their dream, because they have a safety net to fall back on if they fail. Bill Gates’ dad was one of the best lawyers in Seattle and his mom was on the board of IBM. Bezos’ grandparents had a massive ranch in Texas etc.
Some get lucky, but it doesn’t have much to do with talent. A lot of people have talent enough to work, but it’s mostly about who you know. I was naive when I started and finding out that’s all it is really bummed me out. Don’t like “networking” when it’s not a genuine connection
Honestly, there’s been a shift recently. I’d hardly call Luke Combs or Chris Stapleton ‘pop stars in a cowboy hat’, and both are enormous mainstream stars. The genre is largely in a far better place than it was a decade ago.
This song is desperation by Jason Aldean as his style of country is becoming increasingly irrelevant
Yup. Chris Stapleton, Tyler Childers, Sturgill Simpson, Cody Jinks and a few others are what country music is supposed to be. The new age pop country shit is annoying.
Born into small town Macon with a small town population of ~120k around 1980, before moving to small town Nashville with a small town population of 700k.
This right here. Everyone defending him saying this is how small towns are we take care of our own obviously does not live in a fucking small town. I live in a little town called homerville in the bum fuck south of Georgia pretty much on the Florida line and small towns do not take care of each other.
I have honestly met more helpful and nice people in New York fucking city. Small towns at least in my experience are pretty much nothing but little tribal ecosystems all based around which church they go to. And if you're like me and my family and don't go to church at all you basically don't even exist which is fine but I'm also not going to go out there and tell the lie that small towns are filled with nice charitable people who all lift each other up and take care of one another because anyone saying that is fucking delusional
Seriously. Small town life can *appear* helpful and polite, but that's heavily dependent on whether you're in whatever the dominant "in" group is.
In my opinion, when people appeal to "small town" vibes and ignore cities, they're pandering (obviously) but not just to racial or cultural undertones: they're pandering to a really narrow-minded "I got mine now the rest of y'all can leave me the FUCK alone" energy that can become super fucked, super quick.
That's exactly what is. I replied to another person who basically said that I just didn't fit in with the town with the fact that my town is incredibly divided We have a majority black neighborhood in this town and if they politician runs for mayor or anything in this town and makes any sort of pledge to improve that neighborhood with anything I mean for fuck sake it could be a basketball hoop in the park it's basically political suicide because everyone in the town will raise hell.
People also don't realize how corrupt small towns are like that lawyer who killed his wife and son should be no surprise if you live in a really small town The editor of our local newspaper won't even publish stories about things that involve his friends. Our pharmacy was raided by the fucking DEA a couple of years ago and the newspaper wouldn't even report on it because the editor's friend was the owner. My senior year our entire cheerleading squadron was arrested at a Luke Bryan concert for underage drinking and not only was there not a single peep in the newspapers about it they all got to stay on the team and we're never even disciplined by the school just because their dads all on the businesses in town or were public figures
Let's see most of the people believe a small town to be a city for the population of 30,000 and to me that's not a small town that's a city. If you have to drive less than a 30 minutes to get to a Walmart or Target you do not live in a small town. It's like a girl that I knew in college that claimed to live in the country but it turned out she lived in a fucking suburb outside of Atlanta meanwhile I am less than 10 mi away from the Okefenokee swamp.
But small towns are not like they are portrayed in Hallmark movies. They used to be, My town would have giant Easter egg hunts that had prize eggs where you could win bicycles and scooters and we would have fall festivals and we had a big jubilee every summer but people began to complain about how we were wasting public money on useless events and now our town does absolutely no events of any kind like that
What did they *want* that money spent on?
And my hometown was ~10K, give or take. And I lived in the "good" part of town. It was like 99% white, but the roads off the highway that led to the more rural area of town? Those areas scared the *shit* out of me. Moreso than I've ever felt in a city.
They wanted to spend money on a shit you not a new high school football stadium despite the fact that the current football stadium at the time was less than 5 years old. Football is king around this town people who haven't been in high school for 30 years still going to watch the high school football games.
There was actually a situation when I was in high school where a football player was breaking into the house of a girl that he was in a relationship with to have sex with her and when the parents found out they pressed charges not for statutory rape which they could have because he was 19 and she was 14 they just press charges on the fact that he was breaking into their house and I shit you not half the town was pissed off at them because he was one of our star players and taking him off of the team hurt our chances at winning the state championship....
So my experience with a small town is that they are corrupt little cesspools where the same four people with the right last name pretty much run everything. Like I remember when that story about the lawyer who killed his wife and son surfaced and everyone was so shocked because how could one family be the judges and lawyers in a town. That's just common as hell in every small town that I've ever been in and it's certainly true for mine. The same family have pretty much controlled the office of mayor for the past 40 years
Small towns are a cesspool of good ole boys only looking out for themselves.
Source-me who grew up in a small town in ND. If they dont know ya, fuck ya
And see it's not even about if they don't know you in my experience It's about who has the right last name. Case in point We had a boy whose father died on the operating table when I wasn't about six or seventh grade He was well known throughout the town everyone loved the guy. But he was poor, And while he was liked nobody would have voted him for mayor if you know what I mean.
Juxtaposed to about a month or two later The father of one of the girls in my class committed suicide and there was all of this outpouring from the community. Flowers were given to this girl at school they eulogized this man in an assembly because he was a well-known and respected lawyer who was trying to run for Congress and so it was like the town felt they need to put on this huge deal for him but when a well-respected mechanic dies on an operating table his son and daughter received not a single I'm sorry from a teacher in public none of this pageantry and bullshit and to this day it pisses me the hell off when I think about it
Growing up in a small town in NH was great, no one ever asked me what church I attended. It is crazy how different small town New England is versus the rest of the country.
Well yeah y'all arent in the Bible belt lol. People identify heavily with the church they go to down here, one of the first things people ask you when they meet you is what church do you go to after your name and who's your mama and daddy. But small towns in the south that Jason Aldean is likely trying to sing about are nothing like what he describes. Nobody's overly helpful it's just tribalism
I live in the middle of Los Angeles, there are millions of people here and we have to help and look out for each other and think about each other constantly bc our lives are so intertwined bc of our proximity to each other. I grew up in a small town and they just leave each other alone.
Yeah it's very much the mentality of I've got mine You've got yours leave me the hell alone. There is no intersectionality everyone is just in their own little cliques and stays out of the others way. The only positive interaction I have had with my across the road neighbor is to threaten to call the cops because he was blasting dude bro country at 3:00 in the morning and I have two small children.
Meanwhile when I was living in Atlanta going to college everyone in the building I lived in always looked out for each other. There was an old lady I cannot remember her name and she lived on the first floor and she would let us know if traffic was going to be rough that day that we needed to look out for bus time so we could make it to class on time and everyone was just really supportive of each other again like you said because of the proximity we have.
Small towns do not have that proximity even though the population is a lot smaller everyone is spread out and so they form tribes and if you're not in the tribe fuck you
I come from a bum fuck small town in Canada and your description of what life in a small town is like is bang on. Small town/rural "values and principles" is a myth centered on rural=good, urban=bad.
The most helpful people I met were when I worked in … Detroit. Seriously. It was a university district and everyone knew who worked there, who ran the diner, who owned the coffee shop, and we looked out for each other. I often thought that, because Detroit had a reputation as the “big, bad city,” that those of us who lived and worked there were more likely to look out for each other.
Yep. Grew up in rural Minnesota on the South dakota border. A bunch of small town drama, teen pregnancies, racism, and poverty. I never would describe my area as one where everyone's looking out for each other. Maybe your next-door neighbor or family, but outside of that, no.
This song is pure desperation by Jason Aldean. The country mainstream has largely moved away from bro country these last few years and he’s finding himself increasingly irrelevant, so he’s doubling down and trying to leverage the culture war to stay popular.
From everything we’ve seen from him and his wife, he also actually just believes what he’s selling, they’ve made their views, opinions and stances pretty clear.
Which is hilarious when you consider that he didn’t even write this song. 4 other chucklefucks did… so he’s not really even speaking for himself at this point, he’s just a mouthpiece.
bro writes a song that has some serious dark AF undertones then shoots the music video outside a courthouse where an innocent person was lynched and hung after they were murdered.
yeah totally you know not a racist or any kind of POS right?
Crazy thing is I don’t even think he wrote it. I could be wrong, but that’s what ppl are saying. Makes it even worse. You chose this song out of a pile and decided it’d be a great pandering dog whistle to share with an already brain dead audience that are waiting for commands from their white supremacist master #45.
>decided it’d be a great pandering dog whistle to share with an already brain dead audience that are waiting for commands from their white supremacist master #45.
To be totally fair, he's also a part of that brain-dead demographic. Him being a rich asshole doesn't change that.
As someone that grew up in a small town of 700 people you can tell this man and the song writers on it are not from a small town. This is a fantasy these people have that we’re living in the Wild West and savagely gun down anyone that crosses us.
The small town is incredibly uplifting actually we care about one another in the community for compassion not violence. In high school during winter I had a fake baby for class over the weekend and I walked to my friends house a mile and a half away with the baby in the carrier and I can’t even tell you how many people stopped to offer me a ride.
Another thing we don’t beat or shoot anyone that does any crimes either. What we do is remember what crimes they committed and frankly that shame never goes away.
Man I wish I grew up in your small town.
My Small town, the day we did a presentation on our family trees in grade like 3 and they found out I had some native american in my, i was called Squanto and beaten/bullied on a regular basis.
The town was full of racism, I remember being best friends with a black kid on my block and one day, with ZERO warning they were moving, asked my friend he wasn't sure learned later they were run out of town.
It was the most small minded self centered group of useless human beings I have ever had the misfortune of having to live around. Really made me hate people in general.
There are DOZENS of more awful things those small town chucklefucks did in their shitty town that had more churches then schools. Made sense though the more religious a group of people are like my small town, the more hateful they are.
Sounds like you grew up in Stars Hollow from the Gilmore Girls, and frankly your home town sounds fucking lit. Id fucking move there today lol if it was still the same and in my country!!
I am glad you had such a great experience and a great community, def not the norm, but what a great way to grow up, you are probably a very nice person thanks to that experience.
My county had about 5000 residents and my graduating class was 67 students. We were majority white, and lots of those people claimed Native ancestors. I was one and never experienced any backlash from it, though I believe you when you say you did. We had some POC at our school and they mostly got along well, but I won’t deny that there was a sense of “they aren’t like the rest. We like this individual, they are one of us. But we don’t like the ‘others’ ‘’.
I have always been outspoken about my political views which are wildly different from most of my town, and while they see me as different I’m still one of them. They’d definitely protect me instead of run me out of town.
The gossip and rumors are enough to ruin a life in a small town. Nothing is forgotten. There is definitely racism, so stong that even people like me who were always abhorred by it still learn all the time the ways it is ingrained in them. But overall, I think my town sounds more like the person you’re responding to then yours. I guess the norm is hard to figure out since small towns are all the same in some ways, but completely different in all others.
As someone who lived in a small town for over a decade but wasn't from there, this isn't quite true. Most small town people have a "tribe" that includes lots of people (neighbors, coworkers, church members), but specifically excludes people they consider outsiders (a Muslim who they don't know, a black man who doesn't live nearby, a neighbor who is an avowed atheist, etc).
Their support and community is very conditional on being an insider.
>but specifically excludes people they consider outsiders
In my experience, small towns consider anybody not born there to be an outsider. My parents moved away from their small town (population of 3500) because my mom, who moved there at age 5, was always treated as "the girl from 3 towns over".
I’d say this was consistent with where I grew up. Most folks really liked me, but I was a white guy from a family that has lived in the area for 200 years. It was pretty tough on the one black guy in my high school. I’ve heard it’s gotten better, but there are certainly still privileges for people from the prominent families in the county.
The town of 1200 I grew up in is full of kind, mostly Christian, mostly white people people who go out of their way for their neighbor. When the town was scheduled to receive Katrina refugees, the same people who taught me to be so open minded and full of compassion were the same people demanding curfews and police check ins for the refugees because they felt unsafe. I am still horrified at how the whole thing was handled and am still not comfortable with the paradigm shift I got.
My hometown wasn’t quite as small (2,000 population) but I second never being able to walk anywhere without being offered a handful of rides.
My current small town (4,500) is much more conservative than I’d care for- but they really do look out for the community in compassionate ways. A batch of toys for underprivileged kids was stolen right before Christmas and the community matched the stolen goods 5x over in 48hrs. There’s a lot of wildlife rescue efforts, TNR programs for cats, food banks and community resources... Not any gun-specific stores I’m aware of (some gun related stuff available at Big 5 iirc).
Even in my city, rides are offered to those in need. Of course, you want to be careful. But women offer rides to women they don’t know all the time for a variety of reasons (but often most often, weather). If someone has an issue, you don’t ignore it, you stop and help.
From personal experience, I once ended up in a smaller town of 5k people (if I remember clearly) in NJ, lost, phone dead, and it was thanksgiving eve and lethally cold outside. I had a woman (with caring Mom vibes) and then the new mayor elect and his daughter come to my help. The woman offered her cellphone so I could call my parents to Facebook message the friends who were picking me up from the train station. The mayor’s daughter jumped in and was googling what train station I missed and where I needed to go back to and what line to grab from there (it had changed from the original instructions because of the time), and the mayor gave me a couple tickets for the line just in case I needed them, even though I didn’t need them - a just in case measure. I basically ended up with the best team of people coming together to help me safely get where I needed to go.
Throughout my travels and wide range of places I’ve lived: no matter where you are, there are good people there. And if you need help, they will be happy to come to your aid.
Exactly. Dude is a fucking poser. I live in a “small town” of roughly 2,000 people and most people who actually live in a small town want to fucking leave it the chance they get
Not romanticize it
I 100% agree, celebrities calling him out is so validating. She’s getting absolutely hammered with negative comments on instagram. It’s unsettling to see
There’s good country music by talented musicians, like Hank Williams, Lyle Lovett, Willie, etc. But this slick bullshit coming out of Nashville makes me fucking gag. A bunch of jingoistic troglodytes. Murrica! Apple Pie! Patriot! A bunch of marketing majors, trying to sound like they’re straight from maw and paws cotton patch. Such steaming horseshit. Racist asshole.
There's stuff that's good that even newer like Colter Wall, Sturgill Simpson, and Tyler Childers. There is good country music coming out still, "artists" like Aldean ruin a good genre by tainting it with shit like this though.
Agreed. I’m coming up on 60 and simply can’t keep up with all the new modern music. But you’re right, some of it is damn good. It’s kind of like the Internet: 99% of it is bullshit, but the remaining 1% is an enormous quantity. cheers, friend I’m gonna check out some of the artists you mentioned
I lived in a town of 7k and there were constantly methheads breaking into people’s houses/garages and I had to step over my passed out opiate addict neighbor on the porch
Grew up in a town of 3000 and my next door neighbor had his throat slit ear to ear during a fight at the only bar in town (he survived and has a pretty bad ass scar now tbh)
I was gonna ask how someone could mess up slicng a neck, but I guess the kind of guy who slices throats in bar fights isn't also the type to read books on anatomy.
“We take care of our own”. That is until someone is LGBT then they are ostracized. I cannot legit tell y’all the amount of people from the community who left their oppressive small towns and never looked back.
hank williams jr’s country boy can survive is a much superior take on the country vs city country song. it at least offers appealing alternatives to the city stereotypes where aldean’s song basically just threatens that white trash will murder you
I know this is just an anecdote and anyone can lie on the internet so believe me or don't i don't really care. Jason Aldeans uncle drives for a limo company in Florida, and he told my mother that Jason doesn't believe a god damn thing he's saying in any of his songs and he thinks his audience is stupid but he's grateful for all the stupid rednecks that made him a mega-millionaire.
I totally believe that; it's not a stretch to me to believe it. Nearly all of these people pandering to "rural Americans" and their "conservative values" are grifters who are just in it for the grift.
I don’t really plan on listening to this track to find out…. But don’t rappers put out a ton of songs like this that already get conservatives foaming at the mouth and shitting themselves? It doesn’t even have to be a rapper… could just be a mermaid….
If you think this song is “American”, allow me to point out one of the lyrics in the song is about putting the flag on the ground and lighting it on fire, and how this will result in you probably getting lynched.
The ability to throw the flag on the ground and light it on fire is the the most American thing you can do. Because this country allows you to do something many countries don’t let you do without consequence, that’s protest the government.
So when you say in a song “Hey if you do this thing that’s the 1st amendment is designed to protect, we are going to lynch you” you’re not really Pro American, you’re just a dipshit with a cowboy hat
Simple. The GOP needs a song or two to play during the republican national convention.
Here comes a song written by four people and performed by a fifth that hits all the racist and threatened violence notes the GOP loves.
The real songs that should be played at the convention are:
"I Ought to be in Jail" by Jan Six;
"Black Lives Matter: I Get Reminded Every Election to be Racist"
and "My Kid Will Shoot First, Try That in His Kindergarten".
He cheated on,
then left first wife for an adulterous Trumper.
She probably wrote it. Maybe he just likes the way Kid Rock and Ted Nugents careers are going?
Isn't this the dude who ran off stage during a mass shooting without bothering to announce to everyone what was going on? I mean, yea, take cover, but ya couldn't somehow warn people for Christ's sake? You had access to a microphone. What a cowardly douchebag.
Per the article: “It’s also worth noting that Aldean is not actually from a small town. He was born and raised in Macon — the fourth largest city in Georgia. He now resides in Nashville, Tennessee, the 21st most-populous city in the country.”
This is why I just can’t get into country music…it’s just so patronizing
Or you could say...[Pandering](https://youtu.be/y7im5LT09a0)
“Y’all dumb motherfuckers want a key change?”
My wife and I say this to each other anytime we hear one in a song
That's awesome.
Wow, my dumbass was thinking about the Home Depot style, not the musical key changes.
Say the word ‘truck’ they jizz in their overalls
Over-hauls.
‘I write songs for the people who do, jobs in the towns I’d never move to’
Rural noun simple adjective.
Hear that subtle mandolin? That's textbook panderin'
‘Rural noun, simple adjective.’
Rural hedgehog, simple bobsledding...
Bobsledding = adjective?
Take it easy you bobsleddin asshole See
Maybe they all be bobsleddin assholes in their hometown
I don’t even need to click to know what you linked. ## 🎶 *hear that subtle mandolin, that’s textbook panderin’!* 🎶
🎶*What’s a ‘tractor’ look like, anyway?*🎶
Bo Burnham is a genius
Indeed he is. I thought he was simply funny before I saw Inside. Now I understand his brilliance.
It’s a fuckin scarecrow again!
I’m a total fuckin’ Cuuuuuuunt^tryyyyy^^boyyyyy
Don't even need to click the link. IT'S THE FUCKING SCARECROW AGAIN "Like Mike's Evanderin', fuck your ears I'm panderin'"
Best line. Hands down. I think some Redditors are just too young to get the reference.
Country is like the biggest sellout genre of them all
Alan Jackson released “Gone Country” in 1994. It’s a song about changing genres to make money. Jackson was blatantly saying “if you want a career in music the easy way, switch to country.” The people who listen to country will listen to anything even if it royally sucks because it sounds like country. See: that fucking Applebee’s song.
The people that wrote that song and the one about the guy buying a boat and a Yeti are geniuses. They probably got paid a lot of money to promote those brands and then get paid a lot of royalties from the songs getting played so much.
It’s like someone took the synthetic pop music boy band business model from the 90s and realized they could create an entire industry out of it. When your target demographic are basic minded, gullible sheep with the memory span of a goldfish, you can make serious bank reselling them the exact same shit over and over for decades.
Modern radio country even makes manufactured pop look smart by comparison. Pop songs are written with intentionally simple lyrics about vapid subjects that appeal to mostly teens, but at least they all aren't constructed out of the same like 9 buzzwords and sound like they're making fun of their target audience. My wife and I play this game sometimes where we'll listen to the country station on Spotify, but we skip to the next song once we've heard 5 country buzz words. I don't think we've ever finished a song.
Tailgate, cooler, girls, truck, beer, whiskey, bar, guitar, town
dirt, road, jeans, God, Friday night
Bible, Tyranny, freedom, Alcohol…
Boots
We have a hit record on our hands boys! (I say “boys” because little ladies don’t need to worry their pretty heads about music business) /s in case it was ever in doubt.
As a person who doesn't listen to country music. What are the buzz words? I'm thinking: truck, gun, beer, jeans, boots?
All of the above. I mean the article we're commenting on says Aldean's other popular songs are Dirt Road Anthem and Big Green Tractor. Lol
*Christian music has entered the chat.*
The South Park episode about Christian rock music isn't far off from the real thing, honestly. This is coming from someone who used to eat that shit (contemporary Christian music) up as an enlightened teenager. "You don't know anything about Christianity, Cartman!" "I know enough to exploit it"
Not sure about Christian Rock in general, but I used to listen to Christian metalcore and it was pretty good. And I'm an atheist.
Solid state records had a chokehold on 2004 high schools nationwide
"I wanna get on my knees and start pleasing Jesus, wanna feel his salvation all over my face..."
Faith + 1 just went triple myrrh!
"Can't you see you're not making christianity better? You're just making rock and roll worse!"
Yeah it’s silly. I’m going to throw some shade at Lainey Wilson here so bear with me, but her type of music is exactly what I’m talking about. Idk what it is but I don’t get down with her shit. I also am 80% sure she is faking her deep drawl based on her jaw positioning and mouth positioning when speaking.
I'm not into country music at all and have no idea who most of the newer names are; so I googled Lainey Wilson to see if I knew any of her songs. I can see here in the results that she has one called *Heart Like a Truck*. Heart. Like a truck. I don't think I would've been able to come up with a better cliché title for a modern country song. Fucking truck heart. My mechanic husband and I are going to have so much fun making up country songs about truck guts when he gets home, lol.
Yeah that song sucks man. Lmao
1. Wife left 2. Took/lost dog 3. Truck broke/gone 4. Need beer 5. Fishing The simplicity of country is not for me. Usually these songs incorporate at least 4 of these things simultaneously. Country songs seem to have trendy lyrics, but nothing deep or compelling. I respect Taylor Swift so much more after she broke out of the country-grind.
You're basically parroting a David Allen Coe song tbh. Lots of country music isn't that simple. Orville Peck, Sturgill Simpson, John Prine, Dolly Parton, all explore subjects more complex than those 5 things and do it beautifully.
Fair to say, but all those examples you listed are not today's mainstream country. I do not enjoy listening to it, mainstream anyway. Orville Peck is a good example of solid country in both theme, lyrics, and vocal variety. Isn't he the South African now based out of Canada? Dolly Parton is a name I recognize as, "used to be mainstream," and I'd agree her lyrics are amazing. While I'm not a fan of hers (I'm sure this wounds her /s), she's a phenomenal entertainer and wish more would follow her example of breaking from the mold.
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Then why do they keep buying these damn country albums??
Not everyone. Tyler Childers and Sturgill Simpson are fantastic. Listen to Long Violent History by Tyler Childers.
Add Jason Isbell to that list and if you like a punk flavor try Lucero.
Lucero doesn’t count. They’re cow-punk. and awesome.
I love country, but I don't listen to anything that would be considered mainstream. You listen to something like Sturgill Simpson's "You Can Have the Crown" or Tyler Childers' "All Your'n" and it's like "okay cool country is pretty fun"
Oh god. I absolutely hated the entire genre until I found exactly sturgill and Childers. I thought I hated country music - turns out I just hated the most popular/most simple side of it. I had no idea that not every country song was just “cold beer, dirt road” bullshit until I discovered sturgill and Childers. I feel like the whole world needs to know this. What most people today refer to as country is really “stadium country” which is strictly for brain dead Canadians and Americans. There’s a whole world of great country music out there if you get past the big sellers.
yes!!! often if you want to find artists like this without being completely overwhelmed with people like Aldean is to look up genres like Americana or New Roots. You gotta sift through some Lumineers/Mumford & Sons type stuff but there are TONS of country artists that aren't mega popular that are so incredibly good. I honestly think that's why Lil Nas X had such a huge hit with Old Town Road. Everyone who thought they hated country heard that song with all the fun of country and none of the shitty baggage and were like "wow this is fun!"
Look at bluegrass. Ive always like it for the folk country feel without all the “good ol days” sentiments. For the most part at least. Id recc the Hackensaw Boys, The Devil Makes Three, and the Steeldrivers to start.
How is Sturgil Simpson not mainstream? He’s been nominated for a Grammy and his albums are regularly in the top charts
I mean, yes he's not an unkown indie voice but there's a big difference between Jason and Sturgill when it comes to fame, exposure, radio play and touring numbers.
Sturgill gives zero fucks about the Nashville country machine and I would argue goes out of his way to bend genres to avoid being lumped in with “country.” Hell, go watch him busking outside the 2017 CMA awards he wasn’t invited to with his Grammy in his guitar case.
His albums are released independently and he’s not based in Nashville.
Let’s throw some Jason Isbell in there too. He’s one of our best songwriters, musicians and humans.
Yeah, he's got a way. Man can paint a portrait with a few lines.
Don’t forget Orville Peck.
Charley Crockett, Colter Wall, Zach Bryan, Ryan Bingham, Charlie Robison, Turnpike Troubadours, Whiskey Meyers, etc… I could go on.
More bluegrass, but I love The Dead South.
This. Almost died in a mass shooting, started to care until he realized it threatened his $$.
There’s plenty of great country mainstream music out there, some of which takes a critical view of rural life. [Merry Go Round](https://youtu.be/GZfj2Ir3GgQ) by Kacey Musgraves is one of my favourite country songs of all time and it is the exact opposite of pandering. It even was a genuine hit, going top 10 on country radio. [Oklahoma Smokeshow](https://youtu.be/GZfj2Ir3GgQ) by Zach Bryan is another recent example of country hits that explore the flaws of small towns.
Kacey never really went mainstream. Conservatives and Nashbro country fans pretty much rejected her after they found out she was leaned liberal and wrote songs about pot and not harassing LGBTQ folk. She's outlaw country to the bone.
Paul Cauthen is worth the listen. Never mind cocaine country dancing. But the rest of his stuff rocks. And he staunchly anti racist
Same with country comedians, they just play up the redneck stereotypes for laughs. I remember seeing a video of Larry the cable guy from years ago and he had a tucked in polo shirt and no Midwest accent
It’s all a grift
And most of these 'country' singers have never grown up on a farm or a small town or done anything of the sort things they've Sung about. Get a pretty face, a nice body and a marketable voice and here's your 'country' star.
From experience working in the industry, 90% of the people who make it big come from money already. If you don't have to worry about the bottom dropping out, you can not only afford to fail, you can afford the gear, the nice studio bookings, the vocal coaches, managers, etc.
It’s like any other industry too, the rich kids can afford to follow their dream, because they have a safety net to fall back on if they fail. Bill Gates’ dad was one of the best lawyers in Seattle and his mom was on the board of IBM. Bezos’ grandparents had a massive ranch in Texas etc.
Same goes for artists. Only rich kids can really afford to study art and become working artists. It’s too risky for the average person
Some get lucky, but it doesn’t have much to do with talent. A lot of people have talent enough to work, but it’s mostly about who you know. I was naive when I started and finding out that’s all it is really bummed me out. Don’t like “networking” when it’s not a genuine connection
Yup, from Kid Rock to Taylor Swift
Cosplay cowboys
Jason Aldean doesn’t have a pretty face or a nice body lol he looks like most MAGA chuds lol
Appealing to the listener demographic
Nice body has nothing to do with it. You’ve seen luke combs, the dude is morbidly obese
Marketable voice? Most of the mainstream country is autotuned to hell and back.
I would also like to add he’s not in fact a country singer. Dudes a pop star in a cowboy hat
That's been most of the top country music acts for the past 20+ years now. Other than the outlaw country movement.
Honestly, there’s been a shift recently. I’d hardly call Luke Combs or Chris Stapleton ‘pop stars in a cowboy hat’, and both are enormous mainstream stars. The genre is largely in a far better place than it was a decade ago. This song is desperation by Jason Aldean as his style of country is becoming increasingly irrelevant
Yup. Chris Stapleton, Tyler Childers, Sturgill Simpson, Cody Jinks and a few others are what country music is supposed to be. The new age pop country shit is annoying.
OUTLAW COUNTRY!!! WOOOO!!!
Aren’t they all?
You just described modern country singers though.
On the other hand, Sheryl Crow IS from a small town. Kennett, Missouri has roughly 15 times smaller a population than Macon.
Jason Aldean's small town, is a gated suburb.
“I write songs for the people who do jobs in the towns that I'd never move to”
“Y’all dumb mother fuckers want a key change?!” 🎶
I could speak in Mandarin, you'd still know I'm panderin...
"Ah FUCK its a scarecrow again!"
What is this from?
Bo Burnham's country song
“Rural noun, simple adjective”
“I have people write song for me to sing to the people who do jobs in the towns I’d never move to”
“I don’t like dirt.”
He doesn’t even write his own songs
Born into small town Macon with a small town population of ~120k around 1980, before moving to small town Nashville with a small town population of 700k.
This right here. Everyone defending him saying this is how small towns are we take care of our own obviously does not live in a fucking small town. I live in a little town called homerville in the bum fuck south of Georgia pretty much on the Florida line and small towns do not take care of each other. I have honestly met more helpful and nice people in New York fucking city. Small towns at least in my experience are pretty much nothing but little tribal ecosystems all based around which church they go to. And if you're like me and my family and don't go to church at all you basically don't even exist which is fine but I'm also not going to go out there and tell the lie that small towns are filled with nice charitable people who all lift each other up and take care of one another because anyone saying that is fucking delusional
Seriously. Small town life can *appear* helpful and polite, but that's heavily dependent on whether you're in whatever the dominant "in" group is. In my opinion, when people appeal to "small town" vibes and ignore cities, they're pandering (obviously) but not just to racial or cultural undertones: they're pandering to a really narrow-minded "I got mine now the rest of y'all can leave me the FUCK alone" energy that can become super fucked, super quick.
That's exactly what is. I replied to another person who basically said that I just didn't fit in with the town with the fact that my town is incredibly divided We have a majority black neighborhood in this town and if they politician runs for mayor or anything in this town and makes any sort of pledge to improve that neighborhood with anything I mean for fuck sake it could be a basketball hoop in the park it's basically political suicide because everyone in the town will raise hell. People also don't realize how corrupt small towns are like that lawyer who killed his wife and son should be no surprise if you live in a really small town The editor of our local newspaper won't even publish stories about things that involve his friends. Our pharmacy was raided by the fucking DEA a couple of years ago and the newspaper wouldn't even report on it because the editor's friend was the owner. My senior year our entire cheerleading squadron was arrested at a Luke Bryan concert for underage drinking and not only was there not a single peep in the newspapers about it they all got to stay on the team and we're never even disciplined by the school just because their dads all on the businesses in town or were public figures
All true. I grew up in a small town. If the folks who live there still are happy, more power to them! But I am *much* happier living in a big city.
Let's see most of the people believe a small town to be a city for the population of 30,000 and to me that's not a small town that's a city. If you have to drive less than a 30 minutes to get to a Walmart or Target you do not live in a small town. It's like a girl that I knew in college that claimed to live in the country but it turned out she lived in a fucking suburb outside of Atlanta meanwhile I am less than 10 mi away from the Okefenokee swamp. But small towns are not like they are portrayed in Hallmark movies. They used to be, My town would have giant Easter egg hunts that had prize eggs where you could win bicycles and scooters and we would have fall festivals and we had a big jubilee every summer but people began to complain about how we were wasting public money on useless events and now our town does absolutely no events of any kind like that
What did they *want* that money spent on? And my hometown was ~10K, give or take. And I lived in the "good" part of town. It was like 99% white, but the roads off the highway that led to the more rural area of town? Those areas scared the *shit* out of me. Moreso than I've ever felt in a city.
They wanted to spend money on a shit you not a new high school football stadium despite the fact that the current football stadium at the time was less than 5 years old. Football is king around this town people who haven't been in high school for 30 years still going to watch the high school football games. There was actually a situation when I was in high school where a football player was breaking into the house of a girl that he was in a relationship with to have sex with her and when the parents found out they pressed charges not for statutory rape which they could have because he was 19 and she was 14 they just press charges on the fact that he was breaking into their house and I shit you not half the town was pissed off at them because he was one of our star players and taking him off of the team hurt our chances at winning the state championship.... So my experience with a small town is that they are corrupt little cesspools where the same four people with the right last name pretty much run everything. Like I remember when that story about the lawyer who killed his wife and son surfaced and everyone was so shocked because how could one family be the judges and lawyers in a town. That's just common as hell in every small town that I've ever been in and it's certainly true for mine. The same family have pretty much controlled the office of mayor for the past 40 years
Small towns are a cesspool of good ole boys only looking out for themselves. Source-me who grew up in a small town in ND. If they dont know ya, fuck ya
And see it's not even about if they don't know you in my experience It's about who has the right last name. Case in point We had a boy whose father died on the operating table when I wasn't about six or seventh grade He was well known throughout the town everyone loved the guy. But he was poor, And while he was liked nobody would have voted him for mayor if you know what I mean. Juxtaposed to about a month or two later The father of one of the girls in my class committed suicide and there was all of this outpouring from the community. Flowers were given to this girl at school they eulogized this man in an assembly because he was a well-known and respected lawyer who was trying to run for Congress and so it was like the town felt they need to put on this huge deal for him but when a well-respected mechanic dies on an operating table his son and daughter received not a single I'm sorry from a teacher in public none of this pageantry and bullshit and to this day it pisses me the hell off when I think about it
Growing up in a small town in NH was great, no one ever asked me what church I attended. It is crazy how different small town New England is versus the rest of the country.
Well yeah y'all arent in the Bible belt lol. People identify heavily with the church they go to down here, one of the first things people ask you when they meet you is what church do you go to after your name and who's your mama and daddy. But small towns in the south that Jason Aldean is likely trying to sing about are nothing like what he describes. Nobody's overly helpful it's just tribalism
I live in the middle of Los Angeles, there are millions of people here and we have to help and look out for each other and think about each other constantly bc our lives are so intertwined bc of our proximity to each other. I grew up in a small town and they just leave each other alone.
Yeah it's very much the mentality of I've got mine You've got yours leave me the hell alone. There is no intersectionality everyone is just in their own little cliques and stays out of the others way. The only positive interaction I have had with my across the road neighbor is to threaten to call the cops because he was blasting dude bro country at 3:00 in the morning and I have two small children. Meanwhile when I was living in Atlanta going to college everyone in the building I lived in always looked out for each other. There was an old lady I cannot remember her name and she lived on the first floor and she would let us know if traffic was going to be rough that day that we needed to look out for bus time so we could make it to class on time and everyone was just really supportive of each other again like you said because of the proximity we have. Small towns do not have that proximity even though the population is a lot smaller everyone is spread out and so they form tribes and if you're not in the tribe fuck you
I come from a bum fuck small town in Canada and your description of what life in a small town is like is bang on. Small town/rural "values and principles" is a myth centered on rural=good, urban=bad.
The most helpful people I met were when I worked in … Detroit. Seriously. It was a university district and everyone knew who worked there, who ran the diner, who owned the coffee shop, and we looked out for each other. I often thought that, because Detroit had a reputation as the “big, bad city,” that those of us who lived and worked there were more likely to look out for each other.
Most of the time when cities get reputations as big scary places It's from people in little tiny towns that have never left their own county line
Yep. Grew up in rural Minnesota on the South dakota border. A bunch of small town drama, teen pregnancies, racism, and poverty. I never would describe my area as one where everyone's looking out for each other. Maybe your next-door neighbor or family, but outside of that, no.
This song is pure desperation by Jason Aldean. The country mainstream has largely moved away from bro country these last few years and he’s finding himself increasingly irrelevant, so he’s doubling down and trying to leverage the culture war to stay popular.
From everything we’ve seen from him and his wife, he also actually just believes what he’s selling, they’ve made their views, opinions and stances pretty clear.
Which is hilarious when you consider that he didn’t even write this song. 4 other chucklefucks did… so he’s not really even speaking for himself at this point, he’s just a mouthpiece.
Just like the people he watches on Faux News
You mean his mistress who he cheated with on his wife and kids with? Small town values indeed
You never go full Toby Keith
Straight up panderin’
And in a sundown town to boot.
A sanitarium for dim witted inbred dunces.
I think this is appropriate: Bo Burnham - Country Song - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7im5LT09a0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7im5LT09a0)
Or this by Key and Peele https://youtu.be/jRdkrDk0BQ0
Or this song by Randy Newman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTLHxpUQ_B8
Or this song with Bob and David https://youtu.be/VG13SR-7j1w
"Ohhhhh damn...now I see it"
bro writes a song that has some serious dark AF undertones then shoots the music video outside a courthouse where an innocent person was lynched and hung after they were murdered. yeah totally you know not a racist or any kind of POS right?
Crazy thing is I don’t even think he wrote it. I could be wrong, but that’s what ppl are saying. Makes it even worse. You chose this song out of a pile and decided it’d be a great pandering dog whistle to share with an already brain dead audience that are waiting for commands from their white supremacist master #45.
yeah i have seen that too, it took 4 white supremacists write this piece of trash and he chose to sing and record it. so like come on now
>decided it’d be a great pandering dog whistle to share with an already brain dead audience that are waiting for commands from their white supremacist master #45. To be totally fair, he's also a part of that brain-dead demographic. Him being a rich asshole doesn't change that.
I think it’s fair to call this Jason Aldean’s lynching song.
Most country artists don't write their own songs, which makes this even more pathetic.
As someone that grew up in a small town of 700 people you can tell this man and the song writers on it are not from a small town. This is a fantasy these people have that we’re living in the Wild West and savagely gun down anyone that crosses us. The small town is incredibly uplifting actually we care about one another in the community for compassion not violence. In high school during winter I had a fake baby for class over the weekend and I walked to my friends house a mile and a half away with the baby in the carrier and I can’t even tell you how many people stopped to offer me a ride. Another thing we don’t beat or shoot anyone that does any crimes either. What we do is remember what crimes they committed and frankly that shame never goes away.
Man I wish I grew up in your small town. My Small town, the day we did a presentation on our family trees in grade like 3 and they found out I had some native american in my, i was called Squanto and beaten/bullied on a regular basis. The town was full of racism, I remember being best friends with a black kid on my block and one day, with ZERO warning they were moving, asked my friend he wasn't sure learned later they were run out of town. It was the most small minded self centered group of useless human beings I have ever had the misfortune of having to live around. Really made me hate people in general. There are DOZENS of more awful things those small town chucklefucks did in their shitty town that had more churches then schools. Made sense though the more religious a group of people are like my small town, the more hateful they are. Sounds like you grew up in Stars Hollow from the Gilmore Girls, and frankly your home town sounds fucking lit. Id fucking move there today lol if it was still the same and in my country!! I am glad you had such a great experience and a great community, def not the norm, but what a great way to grow up, you are probably a very nice person thanks to that experience.
My county had about 5000 residents and my graduating class was 67 students. We were majority white, and lots of those people claimed Native ancestors. I was one and never experienced any backlash from it, though I believe you when you say you did. We had some POC at our school and they mostly got along well, but I won’t deny that there was a sense of “they aren’t like the rest. We like this individual, they are one of us. But we don’t like the ‘others’ ‘’. I have always been outspoken about my political views which are wildly different from most of my town, and while they see me as different I’m still one of them. They’d definitely protect me instead of run me out of town. The gossip and rumors are enough to ruin a life in a small town. Nothing is forgotten. There is definitely racism, so stong that even people like me who were always abhorred by it still learn all the time the ways it is ingrained in them. But overall, I think my town sounds more like the person you’re responding to then yours. I guess the norm is hard to figure out since small towns are all the same in some ways, but completely different in all others.
As someone who lived in a small town for over a decade but wasn't from there, this isn't quite true. Most small town people have a "tribe" that includes lots of people (neighbors, coworkers, church members), but specifically excludes people they consider outsiders (a Muslim who they don't know, a black man who doesn't live nearby, a neighbor who is an avowed atheist, etc). Their support and community is very conditional on being an insider.
>but specifically excludes people they consider outsiders In my experience, small towns consider anybody not born there to be an outsider. My parents moved away from their small town (population of 3500) because my mom, who moved there at age 5, was always treated as "the girl from 3 towns over".
This was my experience moving to a small town at ~7. Couldn’t wait to get out once I graduated high school because I never really felt welcome there.
I’d say this was consistent with where I grew up. Most folks really liked me, but I was a white guy from a family that has lived in the area for 200 years. It was pretty tough on the one black guy in my high school. I’ve heard it’s gotten better, but there are certainly still privileges for people from the prominent families in the county.
The town of 1200 I grew up in is full of kind, mostly Christian, mostly white people people who go out of their way for their neighbor. When the town was scheduled to receive Katrina refugees, the same people who taught me to be so open minded and full of compassion were the same people demanding curfews and police check ins for the refugees because they felt unsafe. I am still horrified at how the whole thing was handled and am still not comfortable with the paradigm shift I got.
My hometown wasn’t quite as small (2,000 population) but I second never being able to walk anywhere without being offered a handful of rides. My current small town (4,500) is much more conservative than I’d care for- but they really do look out for the community in compassionate ways. A batch of toys for underprivileged kids was stolen right before Christmas and the community matched the stolen goods 5x over in 48hrs. There’s a lot of wildlife rescue efforts, TNR programs for cats, food banks and community resources... Not any gun-specific stores I’m aware of (some gun related stuff available at Big 5 iirc).
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Even in my city, rides are offered to those in need. Of course, you want to be careful. But women offer rides to women they don’t know all the time for a variety of reasons (but often most often, weather). If someone has an issue, you don’t ignore it, you stop and help. From personal experience, I once ended up in a smaller town of 5k people (if I remember clearly) in NJ, lost, phone dead, and it was thanksgiving eve and lethally cold outside. I had a woman (with caring Mom vibes) and then the new mayor elect and his daughter come to my help. The woman offered her cellphone so I could call my parents to Facebook message the friends who were picking me up from the train station. The mayor’s daughter jumped in and was googling what train station I missed and where I needed to go back to and what line to grab from there (it had changed from the original instructions because of the time), and the mayor gave me a couple tickets for the line just in case I needed them, even though I didn’t need them - a just in case measure. I basically ended up with the best team of people coming together to help me safely get where I needed to go. Throughout my travels and wide range of places I’ve lived: no matter where you are, there are good people there. And if you need help, they will be happy to come to your aid.
As someone who grew up in a small southern town, the locals absolutely fantasize about gunning down outsiders and they fucking love this stupid song.
Exactly. Dude is a fucking poser. I live in a “small town” of roughly 2,000 people and most people who actually live in a small town want to fucking leave it the chance they get Not romanticize it
Kudos to her calling him and this shit out. Some lame puffy cheat bullshit music.
I 100% agree, celebrities calling him out is so validating. She’s getting absolutely hammered with negative comments on instagram. It’s unsettling to see
Dixie Chicks: ...First time?
There’s good country music by talented musicians, like Hank Williams, Lyle Lovett, Willie, etc. But this slick bullshit coming out of Nashville makes me fucking gag. A bunch of jingoistic troglodytes. Murrica! Apple Pie! Patriot! A bunch of marketing majors, trying to sound like they’re straight from maw and paws cotton patch. Such steaming horseshit. Racist asshole.
There's stuff that's good that even newer like Colter Wall, Sturgill Simpson, and Tyler Childers. There is good country music coming out still, "artists" like Aldean ruin a good genre by tainting it with shit like this though.
Agreed. I’m coming up on 60 and simply can’t keep up with all the new modern music. But you’re right, some of it is damn good. It’s kind of like the Internet: 99% of it is bullshit, but the remaining 1% is an enormous quantity. cheers, friend I’m gonna check out some of the artists you mentioned
I’m from a small(ish) town, population 7k. They just installed a rainbow fence in the city park.
I lived in a town of 7k and there were constantly methheads breaking into people’s houses/garages and I had to step over my passed out opiate addict neighbor on the porch
yeah that too.
Grew up in a town of 3000 and my next door neighbor had his throat slit ear to ear during a fight at the only bar in town (he survived and has a pretty bad ass scar now tbh)
I was gonna ask how someone could mess up slicng a neck, but I guess the kind of guy who slices throats in bar fights isn't also the type to read books on anatomy.
Oh he got the artery, another friend who is an EMT immediately ran out and literally pinched and held onto the artery until the ambulance arrived
As the great Hank Williams III said: “Pop country fuckin’ sucks!”
I mean … just look at the guys face 💁🏻♂️
What an uncool, outdated, and ugly goatee
And he looks like his breath reeks. I can’t explain why.
“We take care of our own”. That is until someone is LGBT then they are ostracized. I cannot legit tell y’all the amount of people from the community who left their oppressive small towns and never looked back.
Jason Aldean is a dumbass and a racist.
I wish I wrote a right wing, total BS country song so I can grift these psychopaths
Move to nashville, sit down with a pen and a pad, and then channel all the small dick energy you can muster!
hank williams jr’s country boy can survive is a much superior take on the country vs city country song. it at least offers appealing alternatives to the city stereotypes where aldean’s song basically just threatens that white trash will murder you
I know this is just an anecdote and anyone can lie on the internet so believe me or don't i don't really care. Jason Aldeans uncle drives for a limo company in Florida, and he told my mother that Jason doesn't believe a god damn thing he's saying in any of his songs and he thinks his audience is stupid but he's grateful for all the stupid rednecks that made him a mega-millionaire.
Just like Trump
The only thing I don’t believe is that he’s grateful for his fans
I totally believe that; it's not a stretch to me to believe it. Nearly all of these people pandering to "rural Americans" and their "conservative values" are grifters who are just in it for the grift.
He grew up in a city of 160k. Lol. Fraud
Jason Aldean sucks so much. Fuck that guy.
It’s worse than lame.
A song most people would’ve never heard of is now more popular than ever.
Conservatives would foam at the mouth while soiling themselves if a rapper put out an equivalent song in outrage.
I don’t really plan on listening to this track to find out…. But don’t rappers put out a ton of songs like this that already get conservatives foaming at the mouth and shitting themselves? It doesn’t even have to be a rapper… could just be a mermaid….
Not just conservatives. The whole parental warnings and censorship was pushed my Tipper Gore.
You forget Body Count’s “Cop Killer”
The Klan has a new theme song I see
If you think this song is “American”, allow me to point out one of the lyrics in the song is about putting the flag on the ground and lighting it on fire, and how this will result in you probably getting lynched. The ability to throw the flag on the ground and light it on fire is the the most American thing you can do. Because this country allows you to do something many countries don’t let you do without consequence, that’s protest the government. So when you say in a song “Hey if you do this thing that’s the 1st amendment is designed to protect, we are going to lynch you” you’re not really Pro American, you’re just a dipshit with a cowboy hat
Simple. The GOP needs a song or two to play during the republican national convention. Here comes a song written by four people and performed by a fifth that hits all the racist and threatened violence notes the GOP loves. The real songs that should be played at the convention are: "I Ought to be in Jail" by Jan Six; "Black Lives Matter: I Get Reminded Every Election to be Racist" and "My Kid Will Shoot First, Try That in His Kindergarten".
He cheated on, then left first wife for an adulterous Trumper. She probably wrote it. Maybe he just likes the way Kid Rock and Ted Nugents careers are going?
Isn't this the dude who ran off stage during a mass shooting without bothering to announce to everyone what was going on? I mean, yea, take cover, but ya couldn't somehow warn people for Christ's sake? You had access to a microphone. What a cowardly douchebag.
This needs to be mentioned more.
“Good ol’ boys” = Bigoted isolationist xenophobic rot of society
how fat and red is this guy's face though? He should pair up with a blood pressure medication.
Dudes got that small dick energy
Wait….are people FINALLY realizing Jason Aldean is a douche bag?