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Worst songs on country radio

"Rain Is A Good Thing" Luke Bryan (2009)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFkmB17RFYc

On the surface, it's your typical country song. But this song is pure evil to me. Because Luke Bryan does one of my biggest pet peeves in the chorus of this song:

"Rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey
Whiskey makes my baby feel a little frisky
Back roads are boggin' up, my buddies pile up in my truck
We hunt our honeys down, we take 'em into town
Start WARSHIN' all our worries down the drain
Rain is a good thing..."

There is NO "R" in the word "wash".

Our first President's name was NOT George WARSHington.

I do not live in WARSHington State.

ANNOYING!
 
Bongwater said:
"Rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey
Whiskey makes my baby feel a little frisky
Back roads are boggin' up, my buddies pile up in my truck
We hunt our honeys down, we take 'em into town
Start WARSHIN' all our worries down the drain
Rain is a good thing..."
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That song deserves a mention here, not because of the mispronunciation of a word (although that would be reason enough), but because the lyrics that you sampled here trot out every tired old stereotype heard in country music since the beginning of time. ::) I'm surprised that he didn't also trot out that "I'm more country than you" b.s., but maybe with these lyrics, he didn't have to! ::)
 
firepoint525 said:
Bongwater said:
"Rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey
Whiskey makes my baby feel a little frisky
Back roads are boggin' up, my buddies pile up in my truck
We hunt our honeys down, we take 'em into town
Start WARSHIN' all our worries down the drain
Rain is a good thing..."
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That song deserves a mention here, not because of the mispronunciation of a word (although that would be reason enough), but because the lyrics that you sampled here trot out every tired old stereotype heard in country music since the beginning of time. ::) I'm surprised that he didn't also trot out that "I'm more country than you" b.s., but maybe with these lyrics, he didn't have to! ::)
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There's also something I call "Artificial Hillbilly Flavoring" in the voices of many young, mostly male country singers. They have a nasally twang and various mispronunciations (they are artificial because you can hear the emphasis they make in their mispronunciations of these words.) On top of "warsh", there's "won't" for "want" and "thang" for "thing" (evidenced in Mark Chesnutt's otherwise excellent rendition of "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing")

The "I'm more country than you" BS is a byproduct of the "I'm more ghetto than you" BS that came from hip-hop. But like in any real life situation, if you actually put these posers on a farm (or in the deepest, most crack infested ghetto) the illusion quickly disintegrates into "I wanna go home" once they find out there's (still) no mobile web signals in many rural farm areas (or their computer/cell phone gets stolen in the ghetto) and they can't connect to Facebook or Twitter.

To be either "country" or "ghetto" means you gotta learn sacrifice, hard work, long periods of boredom and humility. And in the end, those are things you just don't brag about because you not only don't have the time for it. You don't see the point either......
 
Bongwater said:
There's also something I call "Artificial Hillbilly Flavoring" in the voices of many young, mostly male country singers.
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It's not artificial. These guys aren't transplanted New Yorkers. They are born & bred hicks who mispronounce words because they don't know any better. And their grammar, such as it is, is authentic and bad. They were raised this way. They say "warsh" for the same reason George Bush says "nucular."
 
TheBigA said:
Bongwater said:
There's also something I call "Artificial Hillbilly Flavoring" in the voices of many young, mostly male country singers.
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It's not artificial. These guys aren't transplanted New Yorkers. They are born & bred hicks who mispronounce words because they don't know any better. And their grammar, such as it is, is authentic and bad. They were raised this way. They say "warsh" for the same reason George Bush says "nucular."
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George W. Bush? He's NOT a natural Texan. Not even close. He's from Kennebunkport (or whatever it's called) and that's something he adopted.
 
Bongwater said:
George W. Bush? He's NOT a natural Texan. Not even close. He's from Kennebunkport (or whatever it's called) and that's something he adopted.
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OK...Jimmy Carter also pronounced it "nucular."
 
Many people do say "warsh". That word brings back fond memories of when I was a teenager. I had a friend who said "warsh". We all teased him about it and told him it's "wash".

One day he corrected his mother (who was a hardcore Country listener btw) and she became furious. I believe she hit him and said "It's warsh not wash..quit hanging around those preppie friends of yours".

Later that summer I went with my friend to visit his relatives in Kansas City (a huge country market, especially at that time) and we kept hearing people say "warsh". My friend got all excited "it is warsh not wash!".

So it just goes to show how common "warsh" is. It's not just a stereotype. I wouldn't be surprised at all if a higher % of country listeners say "warsh" than any other format. So using that word in a song makes it all the more relateable. Besides that's one of the charms of country music...the lack of pretentiousness.
 
Jay F said:
Many people do say "warsh". That word brings back fond memories of when I was a teenager. I had a friend who said "warsh". We all teased him about it and told him it's "wash".

One day he corrected his mother (who was a hardcore Country listener btw) and she became furious. I believe she hit him and said "It's warsh not wash..quit hanging around those preppie friends of yours".

Later that summer I went with my friend to visit his relatives in Kansas City (a huge country market, especially at that time) and we kept hearing people say "warsh". My friend got all excited "it is warsh not wash!".

So it just goes to show how common "warsh" is. It's not just a stereotype. I wouldn't be surprised at all if a higher % of country listeners say "warsh" than any other format. So using that word in a song makes it all the more relateable. Besides that's one of the charms of country music...the lack of pretentiousness.
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Being from Western WASHington State, I'll admit, with all the Native American originating names of cities (Puyallup - pronounced "PEW-AL-UP", Tukwila - pronounced "TUK-WILLA", not "TUK-WY-LA" as one national weather anchor of Good Morning America, whose name I can't remember used to call it in the early '80s), especially if you've been to Seattle, we tend to be a little more linguistically correct than most of the Midwest and the South.
 
Bongwater said:
we tend to be a little more linguistically correct than most of the Midwest and the South.
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You just THINK it's correct. The people who pronounce nuclear "nucular" think they're correct too. Same with "Warshington." Often, various regionalizations are simply mispronunciations that become ingrained in local language. It's familiar, it's how everyone I know says it, so therefore it must be correct. But it ain't necessarily so.
 
TheBigA said:
Bongwater said:
we tend to be a little more linguistically correct than most of the Midwest and the South.
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You just THINK it's correct. The people who pronounce nuclear "nucular" think they're correct too. Same with "Warshington." Often, various regionalizations are simply mispronunciations that become ingrained in local language. It's familiar, it's how everyone I know says it, so therefore it must be correct. But it ain't necessarily so.
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Back in the late 70's, I worked at a now defunct Pittsburgh Paints Center in Midland TX. Got such a kick out of the sliding dialect of local painting contractors, I hung a sign over the obligatory fire extinguisher hanging on a wall in the stock room, FAHR STINGISHER. Got a few laughs.
 
Right now for me Drunk On You by Luke Bryan is probably the most annoying song on radio. "girl you make my speakers go boom boom" are some real quality lyrics. This guy seems to be the king of cheesy lyrics.
 
hmm luke bryan? kind of sounds like a manufactured stage name. whats his image trademark? torn muscle shirt, and torn jeans? aint too sure who he is, i'm livin in the country past apparently. yipes, i used to accuse ralph emory back in the 80's for not being up to date with any of the new name stars. looks like i, is there now. my guess is he sounds over produced and uptempo bland. kinda watered down, like all the rest we're force fed on Mc country radio by the system. girl you make my speakers go boom boom, huh. that is so now!! all the young pre 25ers like that hip-rip-rap-hop inuendo. one thing i do know, is willies got a damn good new album out right now. let us see where mr luke bryan's career is when he turns 80 years old.....
 
luvhonkytonk said:
Right now for me Drunk On You by Luke Bryan is probably the most annoying song on radio. "girl you make my speakers go boom boom" are some real quality lyrics. This guy seems to be the king of cheesy lyrics.
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Ranks in sophistication about the same as Conway Twitty groaning "I kin tell you've never been this far before" some 30 years hence. With the right instrumental drive, you could have a hit with lyrics about a brillo pad hittin' on a cactus plant.
 
scott salvatori said:
hmm luke bryan? kind of sounds like a manufactured stage name. whats his image trademark? torn muscle shirt, and torn jeans? aint too sure who he is, i'm livin in the country past apparently. yipes, i used to accuse ralph emory back in the 80's for not being up to date with any of the new name stars. looks like i, is there now. my guess is he sounds over produced and uptempo bland. kinda watered down, like all the rest we're force fed on Mc country radio by the system. girl you make my speakers go boom boom, huh. that is so now!! all the young pre 25ers like that hip-rip-rap-hop inuendo. one thing i do know, is willies got a damn good new album out right now. let us see where mr luke bryan's career is when he turns 80 years old.....
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I suggest you research the artist and listen to the song before waxing poetic about something you know nothing about. That is obvious from your post. As for Willie's album, I use it as a coaster..
 
An example of Willie's new CD: "Roll Me Up And Smoke Me When I Die."

How is that better than "You make my speakers go boom boom boom?"
 
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