Brantley Gilbert Releases ‘The Worst Country Song of All Time’
A washed-up jingoist, a normcore corporate songwriting dork with astigmatism, and a roided-out stove-headed tough guy in motorcycle garb walk into a bar … stop me if you’ve heard this one.
Yeah, I’m mad as hell about this new Brantley Gilbert single. I’m mad if for no other valid reason than I most certainly deserve a damn songwriting credit here for clearly coining the title and lyrical hook. Who the hell’s the agro blogger on record for years writing rants about the worst country songs of all time? It’s certainly not Brantley Gilbert, Hardy, Hunter Phelps, or Will Weatherly, who are given credit for writing this monstrosity. It’s yours truly, and it looks like I need to call out the law dogs to recoup some royalties.
You almost want to give Brantley Gilbert, Toby Keith, and Hardy a modicum of credit here for being creative with this attempt to turn the tables on critics, while simultaneously juxtaposing the same supposed badass stuff every stupid Bro-Country song crows about with antonyms. I’m sure there were plenty of high-fives going around when this thing was composed, like these geniuses had cracked some code.
But let’s face it, inverted context or not, ultimately “The Worst Country Song of All Time” is still just a dumb Bro-Country song that leans on lists of crap as opposed to a story, backed by unimaginative music, and a tokenary banjo. Including a saxophone as an attempt for humor is accidentally the most country element of the song. Merle Haggard carried a saxophone player with him on the road for decades, and so did Waylon Jennings on his final tour. Have any of these losers ever heard of Bob Wills?
And the funny thing is, this isn’t even an entirely novel or inventive effort from Brantley Gilbert to answer critics. In 2015, Gilbert released what could be counted as a PRO Bro-Country protest anthem called “Same Old Song.” In the song, Gilbert snarls about how artists like him are being unfairly criticized.
I hear there’s folks
Tired of us talking about dirt roads
Tailgates, tan lines and corn rows
It sounds made up but that’s the life I know
…And remember, this was back in 2015. Six years later, and this jackwagon is still out here braying about the same damn crap. And adding Toby Keith and Hardy to the mix in no way endears or resuscitates this idea. Hardy may be a bit of a hot name, but Toby Keith is an anchor to anything he’s involved in here in 2021, fair or not. Sounds like the dude couldn’t even sober up for his recording session. Or perhaps he purposely got blasted before going into the studio, knowing he’d need to swallow his self-respect.
This song is only smart in the way opposite day was a hoot to you when you were in 2nd Grade. And this monstrosity is actually a legitimate lead radio single from Brantley. Luckily though, the Godfather of Bro-Country fell out of favor with the format years ago, and this is likely to falter despite his label putting strong money behind it. Brantley’s years removed from being country music’s Golden Boy, his muscle has now turned to chub, and he’s still out here trying to shove Bro-Country down our throats, stupid angle notwithstanding.
No thanks.
Two Guns Down (1/10)
(one point for the saxophone solo)
June 18, 2021 @ 8:21 am
There are no words.
June 18, 2021 @ 11:43 am
Trigger’s got all the words here
June 19, 2021 @ 6:12 am
I can think of a few:
“Maybe none of these fucktards is vaccinated, and the next variant will do the Lord’s work.”
June 20, 2021 @ 5:27 am
The Lord’s work is killing people who make bad music?
July 31, 2022 @ 8:16 am
The unvaccinated are doing well. It is the vaccinated that are dying.
June 18, 2021 @ 8:31 am
Disappointed that Toby joined in. I know he’s not liked around here, but I’ve always liked him. But not this.
June 18, 2021 @ 8:51 am
He has made it harder and harder to defend him over the years.
How do you go from mostly quality duets with Merle, Willie and Jimmy Buffett to aligning yourself with these clowns?
And I know, a few of those songs with those guys aren’t great either, but as you said, they ain’t this.
June 18, 2021 @ 9:00 am
Toby Keith’s involvement in this song helps nobody. It sullies his own standing, and to Brantley Gilbert and Hardy fans, he’s dad country.
He sounds positively blitzed on the track. I think he had to drink himself into a stupor to suck up being a part of this. Unlike the other two, he knows better.
June 19, 2021 @ 12:10 pm
I’m not sure how country music can be expected to go on with this kind of trash. If Brantley Gilbert once said that “Country Music Be Country Wide”…well, this is a sure way to turn anybody off to the genre (IMHO).
June 21, 2021 @ 3:49 am
In my opinion Brantley Gilbert himself is dad Country at this point
June 18, 2021 @ 3:17 pm
I’ve always liked Toby as well. You could make the argument that his ‘Murica anthems have done just as much damage as they have good (if not moreso), but separate from that, he’s a decent songwriter and more or less always keeps it country. And he also sang for Hag at one of his last concerts, so I have a decent amount of respect for him. Not sure what to make of this crap, though.
June 18, 2021 @ 8:38 am
What a bunch of assholes
June 18, 2021 @ 8:39 am
Typical garbage from garbage artist…. this guy was a fraud when he came out and guess what he still is!!!! Was he ever really popular?
June 18, 2021 @ 9:15 am
Brantley Gilbert’s first two albums are pretty good imo but it’s funny how if you go from his first to his second you discover how affected and fake his voice is. But he is the most clear example of selling out you can imagine when he released the Deluxe Edition of Halfway to Heaven that tacked on the terrible country radio singles at the end. But I do genuinely like modern day prodigal son and the original version of halfway to heaven even though he is faking a tough guy voice.
June 18, 2021 @ 11:48 am
I wish Brantley would re re record modern day prodigal son. They’re great songs but the recording is lousy.
June 19, 2021 @ 6:14 am
That’s just gross.
There is nothing redeemable about any of those cretins.
June 18, 2021 @ 8:41 am
Oh come on, this is 10/10 comedy gold. There’s just nothing as unintentionally funny as corny, cringe inducing, half-baked phonies trying to appropriate and flip the tables by producing corny, cringe inducing, half-baked phony shit like this. Bravo guys.
June 18, 2021 @ 8:42 am
Bet not one of you guys affiliated with this song, either singing this atrocity or having a hand in it otherwise, are man enough to meet me and stand around having a chat about this.
June 18, 2021 @ 8:44 am
This is soo awesome. True outlaws here. Country radio get ready B Gib is bringing the heat this time! Even has HARDY and Toby “should of been country” Keith with him. The only way this could get better is by adding The greatest country music artist in history Jason Aldean. They should be a super music group.
June 18, 2021 @ 8:44 am
Is Hardy any good? My brother whose taste is hit and Miss is a huge fan but I’ve never actually listened to him
June 18, 2021 @ 9:02 am
I heard one song of his, I don’t remember anything about it now but I do remember kind of liking it. Not in a “Hey, that was great!” kind of way, more like a “That didn’t suck nearly as bad as the other crap I’ve heard on the radio today” kind of way.
But I can’t get get past the fact that he looks like the love child of Dr. Phil and Kid Rock.
June 18, 2021 @ 9:06 am
He wrote Gods Country that Blake Shelton sang a few years ago if that tells you anything
June 25, 2021 @ 4:28 am
He wasn’t the only writer for that song. Gilbert is GARBAGE.
June 18, 2021 @ 10:50 am
He is a very talented lyrical songwriter. Clever at turning phrases. But definitely bro country lane. For example, Talk You Out Of It (FGL- just stay with me a minute) is a song where the Hardy lyric writing makes this a pretty decent tune.
June 20, 2021 @ 8:31 pm
Check out UNAPOLOGETICALLY COUNTRY AS HELL. If you like it, you’ll probably like him
June 20, 2021 @ 10:20 pm
I liked Hardy up to now but this song is really obnoxious.
June 21, 2021 @ 10:14 am
HARDY is just a likable bro. His music is mostly rock-sounding, and his voice is not special. People mostly like him bc of his personality and his insta page makes him look like a fun dude, and he’s friends with Morgan Wallen. If you only listen to true country, you won’t like him. But if you listen to other genres as well, you might give him a shot, although you will admit he isn’t country. At the end of the day, he is just a better version of bro-country.
June 18, 2021 @ 8:45 am
So if you ain’t country, you’re obviously a lazy city boy who doesn’t want to work, expects hand outs, and hates America. I can definitely tell the demographic of people who will enjoy this train wreck of a song.
June 18, 2021 @ 8:51 am
Yeah, there’s some veiled political stereotyping going on in this song that’s pretty nauseating as well.
June 18, 2021 @ 9:27 am
Dropping Kim Jung Un into a song is not a dog whistle, it’s foghorn! Thanks for sharing this turd, I definitely like terrible country music a lot more than the mediocre!
June 19, 2021 @ 7:00 am
You spelled valid wrong.
June 24, 2021 @ 6:55 pm
Try being a moderate and it’s impossible. This song is nothing more than a symptom of a disease that is fed by both Trump and AOC, of which I hatesnd detest both. And maybe it’s not a “country” song, maybe just a protest…a tongue in cheek one and as a NYer, I appreciate it.
June 18, 2021 @ 9:03 am
Yea. Meanwhile Brantley represents everyone of those dudes that’s always conveniently taking a shit when the hard work needs to be done…
June 18, 2021 @ 12:35 pm
Travis, I “ain’t country” and am “obviously a lazy city boy who doesn’t want to work” more than necessary, and think America needs a tuneup. But I have been in Roy Acuff’s basement, and, within a press tent, within an arms length from Kristofferson. shrug.
June 18, 2021 @ 8:47 am
I did not think I could hate B Gib anymore. He basically went away…. but he is back. Now, I can continuing hating this guy. Hey is doing better than me though. He gets to record music…
June 18, 2021 @ 8:52 am
Oh what fresh new hell is this?
June 18, 2021 @ 8:55 am
Hell yeah what a song. Makes me wanna light up a smoke and drink a big bottle of 87 octane.
June 18, 2021 @ 9:55 am
Well it sounds about the same as a lot of other stuff on the radio. I wouldn’t consider it good but it’s not horrible and it’s obviously more of a novelty type song with tongue n cheek humor. Perhaps it’s trying to be a little political I guess. I mainly don’t like it cause it’s not really a song, just a patchwork of song titles and slogans. But not everything has to be serious.
June 18, 2021 @ 9:03 am
The weird “culture war” attempt doesn’t even work here – I mean, not to get political but isn’t Putin defended these days by the American right? It’s like the song is 6 years stuck in the past.
June 18, 2021 @ 10:01 am
It is funny that the West has moved so far left than ex-KGB agent and communist apparatchik is now “conservative.” But, it does have much historical precedent. Ronald Reagan was a dyed-in-the-polyester New Deal liberal and remained so his entire life, but this country was moving left so radically that by the 1980’s he was a radical “conservative.” Ditto Gore Vidal, Daniel Patrick Moynihan and others….
June 18, 2021 @ 10:57 am
Reagan was a big fan of Calvin Coolidge, he even hung his portrait in the Oval Office. He gave big tax cuts to the ultra-rich and cut lots of social welfare programs. There’s no way you could call him a liberal lmao
June 19, 2021 @ 8:38 am
FDR was Reagan’s hero. Reagan mentioned several times that he didn’t leave the Democrat Party, the Democrat Party left him. He was completely on board with all of the Roosevelt/Truman/Eisenhower social measures and civil rights, etc. His complaint was that he thought that LBJ went too far. It wasn’t a difference of principle, only of scale or degree. Reagan, as governor of California, signed the state law legalizing abortion before Roe v. Wade. As president, he ballooned the budget, signed the largest amnesty in the history of the country, put two liberals on the Supreme Court, elevated a statist demon to Chief Justice, made MLK Day a national holiday, etc. He made bold promises about getting rid of several departments, but only ballooned their budgets. I can’t really think of anything “conservative” he ever accomplished.
December 22, 2021 @ 11:00 am
Amen. There’s actually some hick-hop that I like, but I got tired of the artists making their entire brands about being cheerleaders for right-wing politics. Everyone’s entitled to their opinions, but not every song needs to be a GOP anthem.
June 18, 2021 @ 9:07 am
Not great but I have heard worse, why do I get the feeling that if he issued a statement saying Screw Nashville I am moving to Austin you would call it the best thing since Coalition to Ban Coalitions and hail him a conquering hero. That being said, thanks for what you do, I respect your opinion and you have turned me on to some great music.
June 18, 2021 @ 10:14 am
Not exactly sure what you’re getting at here, but I’m hardly a homer for Austin music or musicians. I think Austin music is in a free fall, and if I heard Brantley Gilbert was moving to Austin I would strongly discourage it as a catastrophic career move, and wouldn’t change my opinion about this song whatsoever.
June 18, 2021 @ 9:12 am
The sheer irony of producing “The Worst Country Song of All Time” indiscriminately from your peers’ shitty singles is absolutely beautiful.
What an amazing self own.
Being able to audibly hear Toby Keith reading his verse/bridge into the microphone was a nice touch as well.
This song is a joke, but not for the reasons intended by its creators.
June 18, 2021 @ 9:15 am
One irony is that if one does know the words to Family Tradition, Folsom Prison Blues and Walk the Line, odds are that such a person would think this is a garbage song and not country.
June 18, 2021 @ 1:13 pm
With all due respect, those are three songs that are largely embraced by the typical modern country artist and fan. I would expect every bro-country singer to be able to sing any of the three at the drop of a hat, and that most of their fans could sing along. It’s the lyrics to songs like “There Stands the Glass” and “Crystal Chandeliers” that Brantley Gilbert and his target market wouldn’t know the words to.
June 18, 2021 @ 4:49 pm
Exactly, Tom. It’d be like someone singing about people not knowing the words to “Livin’ on a Prayer” and “Don’t Stop Believing”. Everyone knows those songs.
June 18, 2021 @ 6:35 pm
Well, maybe I don’t know enough modern country fans? Because I would think maybe they’d know maybe 2 of the 4 verses of Folsom Prison Blues and the first verse of I Walk the Line.
June 20, 2021 @ 10:27 pm
Johnny Cash is embraced by a way bigger audience than just country. I got to see him in the early 90s in New York. Sold out audience was a sea of Slayer shirts, metalheads loved him. And lest we forget, his last creative act was covering Nine Inch Nails.
June 21, 2021 @ 6:28 am
Yeah, Johnny Cash’s muse and talent was so such that he transcended country music. Of course, that doesn’t mean he was a superior artist to other greats in the genre. For instance, Merle Haggard was wildly creative, but I think his muse was such that he wasn’t interested in going outside the genre.
Hurt was a great artistic achievement, but it was his last big pop culture moment and not his last creative act. I think the album it comes from (The Man Comes Around) is great in spots but a bit hit or miss. He kept recording with Rubin up until shortly before his death and I think the two albums containing songs from these sessions and released posthumously (A Hundred Highways and Ain’t No Grave) were stronger albums.
June 18, 2021 @ 9:16 am
Needs more cowbell. Or maybe steal a guitar lick from Freebird.
June 18, 2021 @ 9:30 am
Trumpists like him for some reason, but Obama wasn’t really in strong opposition to him. I still wonder what Obama meant when he said to Medvedev, “Tell Vlad I’ll have more flexibility after the election”. And Biden said some complimentary crap about Putin the other day. They all suck.
June 18, 2021 @ 9:45 am
where’s the banjo ? no banjo ? this REALLY IS the worst ‘country’ song of all time .
everybody knows even the shittiest ‘country’ songs needs a banjo . even the most novice producer knows that . at least they got the title right .
June 18, 2021 @ 10:20 am
A banjo on the song or steroids…
You can’t have it all.
June 21, 2021 @ 6:45 am
Yep, they definitely missed a country music virtue signalling opportunity there. Need that subliminal banjo low in the mix. Even Michael Jackson Montgomery knew that.
June 21, 2021 @ 7:05 am
sheesh …even a skateboarder like urban knows enough to throw a banjo on his science-fiction ‘music’ to dupe the uninitiated .
that’s just millennial ‘country’ 101.
June 18, 2021 @ 10:06 am
Oh my…
I listened to my current contender for SotY “Save You Now” (australian artist Allison Forbes) followed by “The Worst Country Song…”.
One of the two songs will be a massive hit or will end the career of the involved guys…
More Good Music:
Amber Lawrence & Catherine Britt – “I Am Woman” – Single – Released
The song…better call it a hymn (co-written by the late Helen Reddy) covered by two of the leading ladies of australian country music is already a hit on the charts (#17 in the first week – Country Songs Top 40).
Andersonlane – “The Fight” – Single/Track – Released
Co-written by living legend Allan Caswell “The Fight” is like a time machine back to the 60’s & 70’s. For all fans of Loretta Lynn or Tammy Wynette.
June 18, 2021 @ 11:57 am
Adding those to my list of “artists to check out” thanks
I just did a deep dive into international American-style country music and holy shit there is so much out there. I was trying to do a week of international country posts on a reddit country music sub and there was enough that we could have done a month and not repeated much. And so, so, so much of it was so much better than American mainstream radio country music
June 18, 2021 @ 10:17 am
I made it to 1:28 an had to quit listening. That was enough torture.
June 18, 2021 @ 10:18 am
Brantley Gilbert’s the type of guy to smoke your weed then help you look for it….
June 18, 2021 @ 10:29 am
Been waiting a very long time for Toby Keith to put out quality songs like he did in his early years. He finally came through with ‘Don’t Let the Old Man In’. And now for him to put out something like this is not disappointing it’s maddening. He should get a clue from Reba & Ronnie Dunn and choose to duet with up-and-coming *quality* country artists like Cody Johnson & Triston Marez. Shine light on and lift up those who deserve it – don’t (yet again) go for some lame drinking ‘red-solo-cup’ type of song you think the Tik Tok generation will like just to earn some quick cash and brief attention.
Can you even call yourself an artist anymore if you put out garbage like this in an attempt to stay relevant? And don’t bother stating that it’s a ‘joke’ to try and get out of how pointless this song is or make an excuse for the idiocy. If that’s the case then just put it on the B side of some album or as a bonus track and hope no one pays attention to it. This kind of song infuriates me the same way a new song that names several other well-known old songs within said new song does. ‘Remember Jack and Diane…’ Why yes, we do – it was actually good and you stating that in your new song only makes me want to go listen to Jack and Diane and turn of your lame summer beach song.
I’m so tired of Nashville producing crap like this. This isn’t country music and it is insulting to those of us who have a deep passion for actual country music and grew up listening to actual country artists. No one I know who is a fan of actual country music listens to the radio or watches awards shows with this ‘country music’ playing.
I just watched a video that came out today on YouTube about radio play in country music and in summary it seems to be all about labels financing ‘hits’ and a limited number of radio programmers (who probably don’t know who Vern Gosdin, Keith Whitley, or Don Williams are) deciding what (same 20) ‘country’ songs the nation gets to hear. Again – this is why no one I know listens to radio anymore and hasn’t for years.
Apologies for the rant. I just wish actual country artists would get the attention they deserve and you could hear quality country songs on the radio again. (And that older artists who should know better would get their act together, have some self-respect, and show some respect to the genre.)
June 18, 2021 @ 10:34 am
Okay, I’m aware this is a relatively minor thing, but is no one going to point out the massive hypocrisy of Toby Keith of all people bashing a saxophone solo when he used a saxophone on “Mockingbird” and “Crying For Me”, used a horn section on “Good To Go To Mexico” AND “Stays In Mexico” AND for years and years had a goddamn horn section in his live band?! And what’s wrong with a saxophone in country? Some of the best country songs of the 80s used saxophones like “Tell It Like It Used To Be”, “Bobbie Sue”, and “Good Times”, and more recently “You Can’t Take The Honky-Tonk Out Of The Girl” featured one hell of an epic sax solo. Ya know when I woke up this morning I didn’t think I’d be defending saxophones in country music, and yet here we are
June 18, 2021 @ 12:08 pm
The appropriate “instrument” to peddle as the exact opposite of what you expect in a country song is the drum machine. Problem is, many of Brantley Gilbert’s songs already use it, so it wouldn’t be novel enough.
June 18, 2021 @ 8:18 pm
Think they know who Boots Randolph was? LOL
And no, Trigger, I assure you they have no idea who the King is. ( they’d probably guess Elvis.)
June 19, 2021 @ 10:13 pm
I was also about to point out the hypocrisy on Toby’s part, but then I read your post. Glad I’m not the only one who noticed! And yeah, I guess none of these guys have heard much country music from the 80’s, in which countless songs featured the sax. I’ll gladly take most contemporary leaning country from the 80’s over this turd any day.
The sax was also the only part of the song I liked. As Trig pointed out, it’s the friggin’ drum machines that don’t belong in country.
June 18, 2021 @ 11:09 am
This is such a banger. Its gonna fail though since it pokes fun at the people in charge of country radio and CMT.
June 18, 2021 @ 11:41 am
So….yikes. I’m not a fan — usually — of music that lists a bunch of things that people are supposed to like/dislike. They aren’t interesting because they aren’t saying anything. All they do is make it sound like you’re in a cult. I love sweet tea. But my mother doesn’t. But she’s still Texan. It’s just weird that people want to sing songs that are a list of things a group of people are supposed to like or dislike.
June 18, 2021 @ 11:55 am
This song is basically a walking contradiction. Brutal
June 18, 2021 @ 12:32 pm
Only part i enjoyed was the saxophone
June 18, 2021 @ 12:36 pm
It’s like they know people are craving something that’s not corporate and cliche, and this is the best they could come up with. “Ok, it’s Opposite Day.”
Wilson Pick It
June 18, 2021 @ 1:02 pm
I like to think this is an anti-Trump song since Cheeto loved him some Kim and Putin.
June 18, 2021 @ 9:14 pm
I’ll never understand leftists. So apparently improving relations with leaders who aren’t our allies with is “buddying up to dictators”? By your logic Joe Biden is doing the same thing with the G7 summit. Aren’t you gonna talk about how “Biden loves him some Putin” too?
June 19, 2021 @ 7:05 am
Biden’s family has confirmed payments from Russian oil companies. Vlad loves him some stupid Joe. He was bought and paid for before he even ran for POTUS.
June 24, 2021 @ 6:47 pm
Yup, sure, Right: (sources not from Parler, Q, or Farcebook(
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trumps-businesses-are-full-of-dirty-russian-money-the-scandal-is-thats-legal/2019/03/29/11b812da-5171-11e9-88a1-ed346f0ec94f_story.html
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/21/how-russian-money-helped-save-trumps-business/
June 19, 2021 @ 4:22 am
Good lord person for a group who preaches “love and acceptance” you sure have a lot of hate in your heart for a president who isn’t even in office anymore.
June 19, 2021 @ 6:42 pm
To be fair, he did troll half the country for four years, and still won’t accept that he lost because the people he trolled – surprise, surprise – came out and voted against him. Really the biggest sore loser in recent memory, hands down.
In a way, though, I agree with you. I would love to forget about that dude. He was like a reality show you couldn’t turn off.
June 20, 2021 @ 11:05 am
Maybe you should start paying attention to what’s going on in the country that mainstream news outlets aren’t reporting on. The audits going on are showing the truth that can’t be denied. If you’d take a few seconds to look into it you’ll see that he was right and they didn’t vote against him and he was cheated. It will come out in the next few months whether you look into it or not so either way you’ll find out
June 21, 2021 @ 7:12 pm
In the US of A, we settle these matters in court. Trump and his allies filed more than 40 lawsuits challenging the 2020 election results. All of them failed.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/here-are-the-legal-challenges-trump-s-campaign-has-filed-to-dispute-the-2020-election-results/ar-BB1aK8lr
My understanding is that some of the judges who ruled against him were his own appointees. So that doesn’t look good for him.
June 22, 2021 @ 6:16 am
My friend that article was from February. I’m not saying they’re gonna come out and say trump won he’s the president, no that won’t happen. But states are currently doing their own audits and finding that a lot of the claims have a lot of truth to them. But nobody’s reporting about it
June 18, 2021 @ 2:59 pm
That song is so bad it’s almost good in a sort of sick and twisted way.
June 18, 2021 @ 3:59 pm
I can’t believe some “pure country” fans enjoy the works of Hardy & Wallen. Hick Hop blows…
June 18, 2021 @ 4:02 pm
Can anyone assist me in putting together a country summer playlist?
I’ll start it off with Tracy Byrd – Jose Cuervo.
And Alan Jackson – 5 o’clock & Chata.
Send your recommendations below.⤵⤵⤵
June 19, 2021 @ 4:55 am
Here’s some that I like during summer
Fox on the run- country gentlemen
Rank Strangers- Stanley Brothers
Birmingham Turnaround- Keith Whitley
Too cold at home- mark chesnutt
Seashores of old Mexico- George Strait
Old Home Place- JD Crowe and the New South
The Boy Who Wouldn’t Hoe Corn- Alison Krause and Union Station
Desert Wind- Cody Jinks
If it ain’t love, Eighteen Without a Care- Sundy Best
June 19, 2021 @ 9:47 am
Thanks!! I honestly don’t know many listed. I’ll check them out!
June 19, 2021 @ 3:28 pm
Nice let me know what you think!
June 18, 2021 @ 4:03 pm
Only listened to a little bit and heard enough.
June 18, 2021 @ 5:00 pm
At least now the bar’s been set, the baseline established, we’ve officially hit bottom, and we can only go up from here! I for one am excited for tomorrow!
June 18, 2021 @ 7:02 pm
I think it is funny in an ironic sort of way.
June 18, 2021 @ 7:52 pm
Song sucks. Horrible, horrible, horrible.
Now, random ass thought that I’m in no way proud of and am seriously considering finding a tall building to play Superman on for even saying this or making the comparison:
Is it just me or does Toby Keith sound a whole lot like Bobby Bare on this song?
Again, love Bobby Bare and I’d kill myself if he ever sang on such horrible music, but… Toby does sorta sound like him here.
June 19, 2021 @ 6:07 am
I was just telling my wife how much Toby Keith sounded like Bobby Bare on this song.
June 18, 2021 @ 8:26 pm
I’ve heard worse, so I I guess that makes BG a liar and a failure.
And yeah, sweet tea is overrated.
June 18, 2021 @ 8:40 pm
You seem like a real cocksucker honestly lmao and a little triggered
June 19, 2021 @ 2:29 pm
That the best you can do? You BG Army stans are one unimaginative bunch.
June 19, 2021 @ 6:54 pm
Imagine hearing that song and thinking it doesn’t suck…
June 18, 2021 @ 9:58 pm
agreed It’s a shitty song, so don’t listen to it, there solved
June 18, 2021 @ 10:39 pm
Truly trite fluff…
Been spending the day listening to .357 Lightning from the North… still an epic loss In my book.. this band shoulda ruled the world and set things right…
June 18, 2021 @ 11:17 pm
No it may not be “great country music”, so what. But is fine satire on the back and forth in the industry and to a degree our society as well. I’ll give Brantley and company credit for not being shy in this era of PC fingerprinting and Fascist politics. As someone who dwells in a “very large alpha world city”, I appreciate it even more, because it excoriates some of the excessive and extreme elements (DeBlasio, et al) up here and of the self righteousness that comes from it. Its tough being a moderate in Country Music or living in a large city, for that matter. BTW, I’ve yet to find a happy medium. Our extreme politicians on both ends are toxic and destructive, as are the nitpicking critics who expect either the Carter Family or Truck Yeah as being the ideal extreme as well. (I personally was so engaged in th the class of 89 and watched it die out in the mid 2k’s….)
June 19, 2021 @ 12:30 am
Sure, this is a bad, cookie-cutter-bro-country song, but this review makes it sound like you’re super-salty about it. I really wish you stopped giving these wannabes your time and attention. I come here for reviews of good music by a competent reviewer. If i wanted to read incompetent opinions on bad music, i’d be reading the rolling stone, pitchfork or listen to the ramblings of anthony fantano.
June 19, 2021 @ 2:28 pm
How often do you visit this site? Trigger very rarely does rants like this anymore. He gives considerably more attention to the good stuff than the bad these days. And part of saving country music is pointing out what it needs to be saved from.
June 19, 2021 @ 9:59 pm
I’ve personally missed the rants!
June 20, 2021 @ 5:57 am
that’s like kicking a open door.
June 22, 2021 @ 7:05 am
Someone tell Morton then can shut down their salt mines. This dude has enough to feed the world for decades.
June 19, 2021 @ 6:02 am
This is actually pretty funny in a ridiculous way. I was waiting for ‘so my friend told me he wrote the worst country song ever, but he never mentioned…so I wrote this next verse…’. A total missed opportunity but I guess that would add too much depth to it.
June 19, 2021 @ 6:15 am
Catnip for white trash.
June 19, 2021 @ 7:59 am
But apparently an even better dog whistle for white uber trash.
June 19, 2021 @ 8:22 am
aka antifa
June 19, 2021 @ 6:44 am
Not the best, but 100x more enjoyable than East Nashville Hipster folk garbage for sure.
June 19, 2021 @ 10:50 am
I would rather listen to Whoopi Goldberg rant.
June 19, 2021 @ 1:45 pm
This song is garbage. Also, I don’t even understand it. Is it supposed to be funny? It feels like a collaboration with Hardy, Brantley Gilbert, Toby Keith and Satan himself. Toby sounds stoned and hammered, all at the same time. Toby get yo ass to an AA meeting stat. There is hope for you, as you clearly understand that singing on this POS song was completely impossible sober. As for the other 2, no comment. Is this supposed to be funny? To whom? Doesn’t make sense. Not clear on the 1980’s saxophone reference, also not clear on the traffic reference. So people who live in Atlanta, Nashville, the Triangle don’t listen to country or know what country is? There is massive traffic in all of those places. The song sounds judgemental of basically anyone that isn’t, I dunno, drunken male friends of Hardy’s? The perfect moment for me was the “Big Machine” label group 2021 as the last screen, Ah, of course. Haven’t you guys gone away yet? Oh, and dear Acms- your awards show wouldn’t be in the toilet if you actually had artists like Cody Jinks on, who has had multiple sellout crowds at venues like the Ryman. Seriously, what did you expect?
June 19, 2021 @ 4:00 pm
I’m not suicidal, but if I was, I’d listen to this shit to give me that extra push over the edge.
June 21, 2021 @ 4:21 am
In my opinion Brad Paisley is a shell of who he used to be as an artist; this song is the equivalent of auto-tuned, drumbeating Gen-Z’ers doing their best impression of modern Brad Paisley.
June 21, 2021 @ 6:46 am
Great, every time I go into Arby’s to eat I will have to listen to this crap, almost enough to never dine in
June 21, 2021 @ 10:01 am
Everyone needs to lighten up, With everything going on in this world today this song is meant to be fun and a joke and not taking seriously.
June 25, 2021 @ 12:54 pm
I agree. This song is funny and it is a nice break from all the boyfriend country that is literally all country radio and pandora country plays anymore. Country music has always had these light hearted funny songs, and that’s all I see it as. I don’t take it seriously at all. I haven’t watched the video yet, but I plan on it when I can. Maybe that adds more context, but just as a radio song, it’s fine.
June 21, 2021 @ 2:00 pm
The only good thing about that song is that I’m getting paid overtime while listening to that garbage
June 25, 2021 @ 12:59 pm
This song isn’t garbage, It’s meant to be funny and not to be taken seriously.
June 22, 2021 @ 6:26 pm
Love this song!
June 22, 2021 @ 6:52 pm
Meanwhile Brantley Gilbert does a respectable job lending his vocals on the song “Maybe It’s Time”. Some phenomenal vocalists on this song regardless one’s musical persuasion.
June 27, 2021 @ 1:00 pm
How in the name of unholy damnation does Brantley Gilbert still have a freaking career?? He has to be the most unoriginal singer of the past decade!!!
I made it to 1:13 and had to stop. This song is pure AIDS!!!
July 23, 2021 @ 11:00 am
Try being a Country Music D.J. and having to play this P.O.S.? I cringe and turn the volume down every time it airs. It is beyond awful. I love “Give Heaven Some Hell” by HARDY, but this collaboration puts HARDY in association with two guys who ARE NOT helping his career. They all three come across as egotistical, know-it-all, jerks here. I just can’t communicate the sheer disgust this song? evokes! ????
August 4, 2021 @ 5:46 pm
Funny how all these snowflakes get offended by a song just proves how weak and worthless they are
August 18, 2021 @ 8:35 am
Wow, you mad bro? It’s just a song.
September 12, 2021 @ 2:14 pm
Even the best novelty songs are only amusing once
January 11, 2022 @ 9:22 pm
Thank god for YouTube Then I can find Ernest Tubb, Merle Travis, etc. anything but the stuff over the last 20 years. And I ain’t even that old
August 5, 2023 @ 8:30 am
It’s Brantley Gilbert. Nuf sed.
August 5, 2023 @ 8:32 am
Braying.As he’s proven in the “Try That In A Small Town” cause celebre, dumb,ugly good ol’ boy Brantley is an ass .
August 5, 2023 @ 8:38 am
The only “B-Gib” to this 70-year-old,cover boy handsome black Canadian cowboy is the late,great St. Louis Cardinals right-handed pitcher Bob “Hoot” Gibson .