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Worst songs on country radio

TheBigA said:
No fiddles, banjos, or steel in Johnny Cash music. Guess he's not country. Oh well.
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Hahaha yes I know.It might sound like I'm condemning all the new stuff, I like some of it,but I prefer classic country from the old days of Hank Williams to about the late 1980's. I even like KLF's The Justified Ancient with Tammy Wynnette.Again it must be my age.
 
dustintv said:
Brad Paisley's "I'm Still a Guy" is a terrible song in my opinion. Nothing but further glorification of hyper-masculinity.
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I could probably enjoy the lyrics if not for that one word. I think it's one of George Carlin's seven, or at least one you used to not hear on broadcast TV, and it still gets censored in movies that get broadcast on TV.
 
vchimpanzee said:
dustintv said:
Brad Paisley's "I'm Still a Guy" is a terrible song in my opinion. Nothing but further glorification of hyper-masculinity.
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I could probably enjoy the lyrics if not for that one word. I think it's one of George Carlin's seven, or at least one you used to not hear on broadcast TV, and it still gets censored in movies that get broadcast on TV.
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I replayed the 43rd CMA's the other night,when Zac Brown band was on playing The Devil went down to georgia on the show,In a verse said SOB live on the air, which is on the uncensored Charlie Daniels version
too.Did ABC get any complaints from viewers or the FCC was called about that.The AMA awards censorers were working overtime.
 
gr8oldies said:
Cmon does every man have to be a "girly man"?
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No they don't. But they don't have to be the cartoon type stereotypical man in "I'm still a guy". Most men are somewhere in the middle of that range.

Another Paisley song with lyrics I dislike is "Letter To Me". Where an unhappy teenager get's a letter from his adult self telling him how wonderful his life will become. I'm sorry but that song does not reflect the experiences of most people at all. Life is probably harsher and full of more bumps in the road than most carefree teenagers would ever expect. John Mellencamp had much more realistic advice to the teens in "Jack and Diane" when he said "Life goes on long after the thrill of living is gone". I'm not that much of a downer but that's closer to the truth than the fairy tale world Paisley presents.

Maybe it's because it's so new and I have no burn on it but I do like "American Saturday Night" a lot. It's one of his best songs in quite a while.

If you want to read someone who overanalyzes Brad Paisley songs even more than I do. One of my favorite music critics Robert Christgau has an excellent article posted called "Paisleys Progress".

www.robertchristgau.com
 
I still don't get which word bothers you. Here are the lyrics.

I'm Still A Guy lyrics

When you see a deer you see Bambi
And I see antlers up on the wall
When you see a lake you think picnic
And I see a large mouth up under that log
You're probably thinking that you're going to change me
In some ways well maybe you might
Scrub me down, dress me up but no matter what remember, I'm still a guy

When you see a priceless friend's painting
I see a drunk, naked girl
You think that riding a wild bull sounds crazy
And I'd like to give it a whirl
Well love makes a man do some things he ain't proud of
And in a weak moment I might walk your sissy dog, hold your purse at the mall
But remember, I'm still a guy

I'll pour out my heart
Hold your hand in the car
Write a love song that makes you cry
Then turn right around knock some jerk to the ground
'Cause he copped a feel as you walked by

I can hear you now talking to your friends
Saying, "Yeah girls he's come a long way"
From dragging his knuckles and carrying a club
And building a fire in a cave
But when you say a backrub means only a backrub
Then you swat my hand when I try
Well, what can I say? At the end of the day
Honey, I'm still a guy

And I'll pour out my heart
Hold your hand in the car
Write a love song that makes you cry
Then turn right around knock some jerk to the ground
'Cause he copped a feel as you walked by

These days there's dudes getting facials
Manicured, waxed and botoxed
With deep spray-on tans and creamy lotiony hands
You can't grip a tacklebox

Well with all of these men lining up to get neutered
It's hip now to be feminized
I don't highlight my hair
I've still got a pair
Yeah honey, I'm still a guy

Oh my eyebrows ain't plucked
There's a gun in my truck
Oh thank God, I'm still a guy
 
Nothing I can see wrong with that. "Don't expect me to be your best girlfriend". Guys that are a woman's best girlfriend are permanently in the "friend zone" while the woman is looking for the guy with the Harley and the gun rack to actually be with. Deny it all you want, but it's true
 
I guess the lyrics aren't that bad. I can relate to the lyrics about not doing anything feminized or what is called metrosexual. I can't relate to the he-man lyrics such as the gun rack although I am pro-second ammendment. When I read the lyrics they are not so much offensive as they are burned to me like so many of Paisley's other semi-novelty songs such as "Celebrity", "Ticks" and "Online".
 
Okay, it's not one word I can't tolerate in that song. It's three. In short, touching a policeman. In reverse.

Thanks for printing the lyrics. I make a point of avoiding most web sites at home.
 
I would take up way too much space naming the ones I don't like that are trying to pretend to be country. Best to say that there are very few new songs out there that sound country today, yes some but not a lot and no a rock song with blairing music and a few country lyrics is not country and pop music is just pop music nothing more. it's not country music.
 
You have your definition, and other people have theirs. I have studied the entire history of country music, and it hasn't been consistent in sound from start to finish. The Opry tried to ban electric guitars and drums, and those bans were broken over 50 years ago. If it's OK for Bob Wills to bring a drum kit on the Opry, then it's OK for Taylor Swift to call her music country. To me, most of the classic country of the 60s is pure pop when compared to Roy Acuff. It's all about one's point of view. The fact that the same studios, musicians, writers, and artists who made classic country in the 60s, from Conway Twitty to Patsy Cline to even Johnny Cash were accepted as pop stars in their time says it all to me about strict music classifications. In other words, it doesn't matter.
 
TheBigA said:
You have your definition, and other people have theirs. I have studied the entire history of country music, and it hasn't been consistent in sound from start to finish. The Opry tried to ban electric guitars and drums, and those bans were broken over 50 years ago. If it's OK for Bob Wills to bring a drum kit on the Opry, then it's OK for Taylor Swift to call her music country. To me, most of the classic country of the 60s is pure pop when compared to Roy Acuff. It's all about one's point of view. The fact that the same studios, musicians, writers, and artists who made classic country in the 60s, from Conway Twitty to Patsy Cline to even Johnny Cash were accepted as pop stars in their time says it all to me about strict music classifications. In other words, it doesn't matter.
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None of this changes the facts. Today's music is garbage.

"Boots On" might have good lyrics but it has the wrong instruments to make it acceptable."She's Country" is even worse. A lot of the songs would be salvageable if someone would do country versions of them. But today's pop-sounding country is so much worse than the pop-sounding country of the 60s and 70s you can't even compare.
 
Anotehr problem with today's country radio is these nasty sound effects, loud guitars and other mess in the station identifications. I might have just finished listening to a good country song but have no intention of sitting through another one of THOSE.
 
vchimpanzee said:
Anotehr problem with today's country radio is these nasty sound effects, loud guitars and other mess in the station identifications. I might have just finished listening to a good country song but have no intention of sitting through another one of THOSE.
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Oh well. I guess the world will miss you when you find something else to listen to. Please find something else. Quickly.
 
TheBigA said:
vchimpanzee said:
Anotehr problem with today's country radio is these nasty sound effects, loud guitars and other mess in the station identifications. I might have just finished listening to a good country song but have no intention of sitting through another one of THOSE.
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Oh well. I guess the world will miss you when you find something else to listen to. Please find something else. Quickly.
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I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels that way.
 
I know how youy feel Chimp ,It's not only country ,it's all music genders are getting trashed,I'm sorry Its must be my age,But in radio we've have no choice ,but to play it,if we dont,We will be shown where the door is or do a all news talk format.Yes 1970's and the early 1980's where alot of crossovers in the likes of Kenny Rogers,Crystal Gayle,Late Charlie Rich ,Glen Campbell,Late Eddie Rabbitt,Dolly Parton to name a few.were playing on pop radio all the time, those artists sound like country.and yes there were electric guitars and drums play in those classic tunes,but not like todays tunes.Back then Rock bands like the Eagles were played on country radio,Legend 1050 WHN comes to mind on a great mix of tunes in their play list selection.Music tastes changes over the years I guess mind did.
 
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