Comic John Crist Lampoons Country Songs in Real Life Renditions
Ha! You gotta love this.
Comedian John Crist from Georgia is taking the lyrics of some of country music’s worst songs to task by turning literal interpretations of them into video skits. If you ever wondered how implausible the premise of Kenny Chesney’s “She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy” is, or why endorsing the lyrics found Jason Aldean’s “Dirt Road Anthem” is an extrajudicial act, John Crist is here to illustrate it for you in real life scenarios.
Not to be a prude, but “Dirt Road Anthem” co-written by Colt Ford and Brantley Gilbert sets just about the worst example possible as it pretty much glorifies a drunk driver with an open container in the console swerving down the road, not to mention the song being both the first true mainstream country rap single in history, and the precursor to Bro-Country when it became the biggest-selling song in 2011.
In a video posted on December 7th, John Crist rightly takes the song to task when the protagonist of “Dirt Road Anthem” gets pulled over and arrested. Similar hilarity ensues in his interpretation of “She Think My Tractor’s Sexy,” which also had actual country fans hanging their heads in shame when it was released by Kenny Chesney in 1999. Crist has also released a skit surrounding “Good Directions” by Billy Currington.
Of course, you could do this same exercise with many classic country songs, or songs from more of the cool crowd in country music these days by playing out the lyrics in real life. It’s all in good fun. But it’s also a good example at some of the inanity found in modern country. Here’s to hoping Jon Crist does more in this series. His co-star is pretty hilarious too.
December 15, 2020 @ 9:48 am
You smell like grass… hilarious!
December 15, 2020 @ 5:12 pm
he should do straw bary wine next
December 15, 2020 @ 10:22 am
Did you find this on the CountryMusicStuff Sub-Reddit, because someone posted it there quite recently, or is this just a coincidence
December 15, 2020 @ 10:38 am
I found it farting around on YouTube. It recommended the “Dirt Road Anthem” video after I had watched something else. Reddit remains mostly a mystery to me. I keep hoping someone who knows how to navigate it will set up a Saving Country Music subreddit or something. I have had a few articles go front page on there though. That was exciting as we prayed the web server held together with duct tape would stay up.
December 15, 2020 @ 11:07 am
I’m a frequent Reddit user. I’ve never started a subreddit of my own, but I think I can get one set up for you. I could be wrong, but I don’t think its terribly difficult to get one up and running.
December 15, 2020 @ 11:34 am
It’s not. I set one up on my phone not too long ago and it was super easy.
December 16, 2020 @ 10:42 am
The best part of Reddit is probably how comment-friendly it makes anything posted, but it would allow anyone subscribed to the subreddit to post as well which I don’t know if you would find desirable or not. Most subs especially the larger communities have a few active moderators to try to keep them tidy in terms of post relevance and inappropriate content. r/CountryMusicStuff is probably the best example of this in terms of country music subreddits.
December 15, 2020 @ 10:33 pm
Ayy, whatup, Cyrus!
December 15, 2020 @ 10:41 am
I actually laughed out loud at the ‘Good Directions’ video, which is the only one of those three songs I ever liked anyway. Wow, we really don’t think about how cheesy some the premises of these songs are.
December 15, 2020 @ 11:25 am
Lol that is not the kind of tractor I always envisioned in this song
December 15, 2020 @ 12:15 pm
Yeah, that New Holland in the video is best suited for pulling around a bush hog , which it appears hes doing. Plowing up the land? Nah.
Get a Deere 7R series with AC, GPS, and a good stereo and subwoofer so you can thump some Waylon while yer making pretty rows.
Hilarious videos…Much needed humor.Thanks Kyle for sharing.
December 15, 2020 @ 4:45 pm
That’s a roto tiller on the back of his 2wd tractor. Not a mower. A 2wd drive tractor of that size isnt good for much more than mowing, towing or FEL work.
December 15, 2020 @ 11:43 am
“You want to know what would be sexy? Hmm? A 401k and a shower.”
Laughing.
I guess this is what women look like, when we come back, to make yet another point.
These are fun.
December 15, 2020 @ 11:45 am
Pretty well done and mildly amusing. It seems though that making fun of the cliches of “country”music, is becoming a cliche of its own. Also kind of reminds me of Jeff Tweedy reading Black Eyed Pea lyrics.
December 15, 2020 @ 1:40 pm
I couldn’t watch it.
Sorry, I’ve lived it a lot better than that.
1. The dirt roads you use have no cops on them. Often private property.
I mean, this is why we get nostalgic about dirt roads. They feel free. There are no cops, no speed limits, no white lines. Its like “youre an adult figure it out yourself”. Getting on the highway afterwards is such a pain.
2. I’ve seen enough city girls/women who come to live/visit who think its totally sexy to get to play with big machines.
Or young couples starting out on their own as farmers and proud of their life even if the bank owns it all.
Couldn’t watch the 3rd.
Yes, bro-country went overboard. And Jason Aldean sucks.
But even if they are exaggerated and not always a good idea, they do represent real people.
December 15, 2020 @ 5:57 pm
She was cuter than a speckled pup just turned 21
She had a lot of fun playing with my gun
Just before the sun come up she couldn’t take no more
She came undone crying, crawling for the door
Well, it’s hard to be an outlaw who ain’t wanted anymore
The only friends that’s left is them behind that swinging doors
And it’s hard to keep your trying when your back is to the floor
And it’s hard to be an outlaw who ain’t wanted anymore
The record people nowadays keep spinnin’ ’round and ’round
Songs about the backroads that they never have been down
They go and call it country but that ain’t the way it sounds
It’s enough to make a renegade want to terrorize the town
And it’s hard to be an outlaw who ain’t wanted anymore
And the only friends that’s left is them…
December 15, 2020 @ 8:11 pm
DJ?
Are you the author of this little ditty?
December 16, 2020 @ 6:10 am
That’s Billy Joe Shaver and Willie. I don’t see much context in it posted here, but whatever.
December 16, 2020 @ 8:58 am
Oh OK, thanks.
Was about to give DJ props for this.
Daresay, had they been playing with his gun all night long, she would probably be stretching luxuriously, with a smile on her face, and he would have been the one, whimpering and crawling for the door.
Just sayin’
December 16, 2020 @ 2:46 pm
I guess it went over your head- but, that you recognized iit s part of the point- so, points for that anyway- LOL
December 15, 2020 @ 1:47 pm
OK, so I just read this article after the worst 2020 songs article. Can “Way Down” be the next song John Crist lampoons?
December 15, 2020 @ 3:27 pm
The line “plowing these fields in the hot summer sun” seems problematic to me. Not that I know much about agriculture, but isn’t all the plowing done in the spring, before crops are planted?
December 15, 2020 @ 4:38 pm
Yep. Spring and again maybe in the fall.
December 15, 2020 @ 6:03 pm
Yes to both especially the latter in England. It was seeing the Caterpillar tractors plowing (or rather ploughing) the fields in Autumn near his parish that caused Reverend Wilbert Awdry to get inspired to write the Railway Series story Thomas, Terrence and the Snow, which is much better than She thinks my tractors sexy. On an unrelated note I wish I still had access to my friends joke album he made when Bill O’Rileys “and we’ll do it live” video resurfaced. He had a number of funny songs insulting Bill that parodied country music with one of them parodying the Kenny Chesney song called “She thinks The Factor’s Sexy”
December 15, 2020 @ 5:11 pm
She’s a hoot!
December 15, 2020 @ 5:51 pm
“a 401k and a shower”
Good luck with that 401k, but I LOL’d anyway. More please.
December 16, 2020 @ 12:32 pm
very funny , the acting was very well done …especially the female …….one-the-nose .
December 16, 2020 @ 2:00 pm
Funny.
One silly thing I wish they had acknowledged in the Good Directions video that has bothered me for years: A guy who sells turnips off the bed of his truck referring to a girl with “Hollywood” written on her license plate as the “woman of his dreams.”
Dude, she’s not the woman of your dreams. Y’all are in no way compatible.
December 17, 2020 @ 11:30 am
Thank you. Wiping the tears away now. I know that Gary Floater and Michael Jackson Montgomery appreciate the video efforts as well.
December 17, 2020 @ 9:36 pm
Crist is great. Have you guys seen his video being a tour guide in Nashville? Hilarious! Also, Billy Currington’s song is “Good Directions,” not “Good Intentions.”