Flight Diverted After Blake Shelton’s “Boys ‘Round Here” Causes Problem
We already knew Blake Shelton’s awful country rap song “Boys ‘Round Here” was one of the worst “country” songs ever, causing undue strain and consternation amongst true country fans and fans of all decent music. But now there’s a story of just how disturbing the song was for one holiday season commute at 30,000 feet.
On a Christmas Day Delta flight from Atlanta to Los Angeles, a passenger from Wichita, Kansas was listening to “Boys ‘Round Here” on his headphones, and singing along so loudly that it was disturbing other passengers. The people around the man began shooting him looks, but he continued to sing along loudly until flight attendants were alerted to the situation and asked the man to stop.
That’s when the incident began to turn potentially dangerous. The boisterous “Boys ‘Round Here” fan began to confront the other passengers who had complained to the flight staff, saying, “What am I doing wrong?” and saying to one passenger, “Can you tell me what I’m doing to you sir? All you have to do sir is talk to me about it.” Then the Blake Shelton fan apparently began to take an inordinate amount of trips to the plane’s lavatory, and then escalated the situation by making reference to the controversial deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown at the hands of police recently, saying to a woman who kept turning around and telling him to be quiet, “If I held my hands up and said I couldn’t breathe, would you feel comfortable?”
The race of the Blake Shelton fan, and the complaining passengers was not identified.
The situation turned so tense, that the crew of the Delta plane decided to divert the flight to Albuquerque, where the plane was met by multiple police cars, and the man was escorted off the plane. “It’s not exactly what you want to hear in the middle of your flight, to know that there’s a security issue on board and being met as the gate with multiple police cars,” said one passenger to KCWH 12. “It’s kind of alarming.”
The “Boys ‘Round Here” fan was detained, but eventually was let go and no charges were filed, and he took another flight on another carrier to his eventual destination of Los Angeles. Because there were no charges, the identity of the man was not released, though it’s guaranteed he had questionable taste in music.
December 31, 2014 @ 12:17 pm
I gotta say, I love Blake. I’ve worked with him, and I think he’s an all around great guy …
And I really DON’T like that song.
I’d say the first hint that something was a little off with this passenger was the fact that he was singing that song repeatedly. I mean, that song? Really? On Repeat? There are so many better songs in Blake’s catalog to sing over and over.
Then again, that may explain the inordinate number of trips to the bathroom.
December 31, 2014 @ 12:23 pm
What? Was he vomiting from the overexposure? Combine with the high altitude, one can only imagine the horrors that bro-country would inflict upon a person. And that’s just the listener, not the rest of the folks that were trapped in there with him.
December 31, 2014 @ 12:25 pm
In other news, stereotypes about the south and country music are once again blatantly reinforced by an idiot. THIS is why I personally dislike most laundry list songs, outside of the fact that they don’t have any substance for the most part. There are exceptions, but for the most part I can’t stand them.
December 31, 2014 @ 12:30 pm
Well, I guess this really happened.
December 31, 2014 @ 12:47 pm
That’s what I was thinking….is this for real? It sounded like one of Trig’s stories like “Luke Bryan Has a Vagina”, at first.
December 31, 2014 @ 1:01 pm
I was looking for the “fake news” tag.
December 31, 2014 @ 2:45 pm
That was my first instinct. I guess life IS stranger than fiction sometimes… o_O
December 31, 2014 @ 1:17 pm
Hated the tune but it gave me some fun fodder for a farm-centric parody at our fall farm festival shows….
THE CORN ‘ROUND HERE
WELL THE CORN ROUND HERE GROWS HIGHER THAN A STEEPLE
WE GROW IT FOR THE GOATS ,WE GROW IT FOR THE PEOPLE
ITS ALL ABOUT THE SUN AND THE RAIN AND THE SOIL
WE THROW IT IN A POT AND WE WAIT TIL IT BOILS
NOW THE BAND LIKES CARROTS ,TOMATOES AND LETTUCE
BUT THEIR CORN FIXATION IS A BORDER LINE FETISH
NOT A BAD JOB IF YOU LIKE GETTIN PAID
WITH A TRUNK-FULL ‘O COB AT THE END OF THE DAY
WELL THE CORN ROUND HERE
IS SWEETER THAN IT WAS LAST YEAR
SWEETER THAN SUGAR , SWEETER THAN PIE
SWEETER THAN MY BABY’S KISSES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
YEAH THE CORN ROUND HERE
IS BETTER WITH A COLD ROOT BEER
SLAP ON THE SALT , SLAP ON THE BUTTER
GO ON , CHEW IT UP CHEW IT UP AND HAVE YOURSELF ANOTHER
NOW THE CORN ROUND HERE’S LIKE A LITTLE TASTE O HEAVEN
AND THE BOYS ROUND HERE WORK 24/7
THEY TRUCK IT -THEY SHUCK IT -THEY MAKE IT LOOK PRETTY
THEN THEY THROW IT ON THE WAGON FOR THE FOLKS FROM THE CITY
YEAH THE CORN ROUND HERE WELL IT GLOWS LIKE GOLD
ITS YELLOWER THAN YELLOW AND EVERYBODY KNOWS
THAT THERE AIN’T NO WAY YOU CAN EAT JUST ONE
BETTER TAKE SOME HOME , STRAP THE FEED BAG ON
December 31, 2014 @ 2:24 pm
😂 lol
Can my band please record that?
😂
December 31, 2014 @ 4:55 pm
If Blake doesn’t call me all jealous and lookin’ for a follow-up …ITS YOURS !
January 2, 2015 @ 8:58 am
Give me your name and I’ll give you full writing credit
This is gonna be a freakin hit 😂
January 2, 2015 @ 1:11 pm
Yeah ….this one’ll be HUGE cuz we all know radio likes CORN .
December 31, 2014 @ 4:04 pm
Hell yea! Nice work Albert!!! 😀
December 31, 2014 @ 2:03 pm
If this was fake news i’m pretty sure Trigger would have made the song “Drunk On A Plane” instead of this…
December 31, 2014 @ 2:29 pm
As good as Trigger is at what he does, I don’t think even he’s capable of churning up a demented tale as gross and pathetic as this harsh reality.
December 31, 2014 @ 3:06 pm
It’s not surprising that trouble was caused by the sort of cretin who listens to this kind of music.
That said, I confess that Boys ‘Round Here is one of my guilty pleasure songs, along with Colt Ford’s Good God Almighty. I’m ashamed but, when by myself, I’ve been known to pull them up on my iPod. The “red- red- red- red- redneck” part is infectious for some reason.
January 2, 2015 @ 8:08 am
Interesting. The “red-red-red-red-redneck” part – in conjunction with the “chew tobacco, chew tobacco, chew tobacco, spit” line – is what pushes the song from likeable as a light tune to intolerable in my book.
December 31, 2014 @ 3:21 pm
Speaking of ole BS, his “Neon Light” wouldn’t be SO bad (maybe) if it didn’t have that idiotic hip hop beat in the beginning and use all those immature prases. And as mysogynistic as Cole Swindell’s “Hope You Get Lonely Tonight” is, it’s a whole lot worse because of the stupid drum machine, especially at the beginning. And there’s this new song by some Kelsea Ballerini girl that I think is generally pretty cool (for mainstream) but is ruined by the incessant drum machine. The recurring theme; why do these people find it necessary to give everything fake drum loops and sound “hip?” Do they not realize a lot of people find these things offensive? It’s about as far from country as you can get. And also, they seem to have it in their heads that steel guitars and fiddles are “old timey” and everything needs loud guitars. Well there’s plenty of songs that demonstrate how they, especially steel guitars, can be used in modern songs and sound awesome. I think steel guitar is the coolest sound ever, and I’m a freakin’ 19 year old traditionalist, which sounds like an oxymoron! If I can see it, anybody can.What’s their excuse?!
January 2, 2015 @ 1:13 am
Re: Drum loops
It’s a Nashville thing, man. It’s what’s “hip and cool” I did a demo out of one of the houses there a few months back, and we were talking about the production of it, and they kept saying “This’d sound really cool with a drum loop.” I told them no way in hell. When I got the tracks and laid them into Pro Tools for mixing, it was there. They had put it in the session, you know, just in case I wanted to add it.
I told them, if someone wants to license the song and throw that crap on there, that’s fine…but if I release this song, it won’t have a damn drum loop on it.
But hey, that’s just me.
January 2, 2015 @ 10:25 am
Yeah …I hear ya with the loops . And by the time the actual tune is released the loops sound like they’re from another generation’s music . Its been done and dated to death
Its like that omnipresent and insidious ” chant” on every song in every genre. Like they ran out of ideas for a solid chorus or a bridge or didn’t want to use an instrument solo . ” Hey I know …let’s throw in a sing-along chant section like every single other band does “….or ” Hey …don’t forget the chant ….no one will ever play it without the chant section ” …or ” This lyric isn’t QUITE mindless and vacuous enough – we’d better chant ”
WHY ON EARTH would any true musical artist with any semblance of integrity throw himself into the ” popular music arena ” in these times outside of a way to try and make quick $$$$$$ ?
January 2, 2015 @ 11:47 am
You’re right, that’s another thing. That Brad Paisley “Perfect Storm” would actually be an ok song, but “Ooooh” thing in the background ruins it. That’s a pop thing and has no place in country music. Same with drum loops. I’d say to be country music, it shouldn’t have anything that is not natural instrumentation, and no vocal except story-bound crooning. NONE of this EDM/rap/drum loop/chant crap. I’ll never understand why these idiots think that’s ok, or why they support these mindless songs as “evolution” when it sets evolution back to the dawn of time. It fills me with fury when one of the ditzy young girls I know labels Corey Smith of all people a country singer. I’ve never heard any of his music, but they say it’s country rap. These people don’t even know what country is supposed to be. Grrrr!!!!
January 2, 2015 @ 3:02 pm
Drum loops are the worst invention since the rap genre started
They annoy my more then the Loudness War (google for more info if you don’t know what that is)
What I hate most about modern country though is how the artist are tryin to rock and rap at the same time
If it didn’t work for Limp Bizkit what makes you think it’s gonna work for yall?
January 2, 2015 @ 3:08 pm
Sadly, I’d say their balance sheets show that it IS working.
June 2, 2020 @ 10:40 pm
It works because the hip down right foolish younguns that really are Rick & Pop lovers like it & it gets their spending “money money money” and pollutes and overtakes the real country music industry while the true country music fans are dying for good music and “country” is dying period. Much of what sells (majority) and gets passed off as country IS NOT “Country”. There is very little to none “country” left. It’s fading further & further away. As for Blake, specifically, he quite going home to see his beautiful & extremely talented wife until he completely deserted her, started out chasing a no talented, highly painted, shelacked, veneered and bleached out stick woman & making a complete fool of himself until his “country” tank is extremely low, running on fumes & soon to be left in the dust stranded.
January 2, 2015 @ 3:11 pm
No offense to any Limp Bizkit fans I happen to love some of their music
Especailly their version of Behind Blue Eyes
But their lyrical style and rapping gets a little annoying sometimes
January 2, 2015 @ 10:28 am
NEON LIGHT after several listens becomes a huge one- chord- bore , I discovered . I actually thought I might have liked it cuz it was a notch above Blake’s other stuff . But yes ….you read that right . That song is ONE chord from beginning to end . Go have a listen . Inventive huh ?
January 2, 2015 @ 2:25 pm
Correction it is a 2 chord song
Here’s proof: http://tabfinder.herokuapp.com/share/1518271
No I have no interest in learning it I just wanted to make a point
January 2, 2015 @ 2:26 pm
I just now looked at it and it’s 3 chords I’m stupid sorry
January 2, 2015 @ 2:48 pm
Sorry my friend friend friend…
But your tab chart’s wrong wrong wrong
Listen again -gain -gain
Its a one chord song song song
( couldn’t resist the Blake treatment-sorry ….all the best )
January 2, 2015 @ 2:55 pm
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was I’ve looked on there for tons of songs and some of em didn’t sound anything like the original
Look up Gimme Back My Bullets and try playing it tell me how much like the Lynyrd Skynyrd version it sounds
January 2, 2015 @ 2:58 pm
To be honest I don’t even listen to the acoustic in Neon Light I just like the electric guitar parts and that’s it
January 3, 2015 @ 7:42 pm
I personally love the drum loops and electronic drums in modern country music. But then again, I’m open minded, unlike many people. I enjoy both the songs with real drums and the electronic ones. I think it delivers a very fresh, modern sound to country music.
December 31, 2014 @ 6:06 pm
That’s crazy I work about 100 ft from the albuquerque runway, didn’t see any cop cars today on that runway though, should’ve been keeping an eye out dammit.
January 1, 2015 @ 2:18 am
I’m thinking the story should’ve stressed that no charges have been filed YET. The Feds may not have detained him, but I can assure you they took his name and address and an assistant U.S. attorney somewhere is reviewing the case to decide if charges are warranted. When your behavior results in diverting a scheduled passenger flight, they tend to take it very seriously.
January 1, 2015 @ 6:54 am
And yet again, we see the Bro Country demographic on full display.
January 1, 2015 @ 10:35 am
Poor manners abound.
January 1, 2015 @ 12:19 pm
I used to work with Kirby Vacuum’s awhile back and the group I traveled with just did nothing but play rap on full blast to the point where I hoped we get pulled over for blaring loud music (Mississippi law states you have to pay a $5,000 fine if they catch you blaring loud music) and needless to say that job didn’t last long because not only of the loud music but nobody wanted to fucking behave and it kept getting me upset.
I now only travel alone or with headphones when I’m with somebody because I don’t wanna deal with anyone’s bullshit music.
January 1, 2015 @ 1:48 pm
How is this news worthy?
Who gives a crap for one, second making a mountain out of s mole hole only shows signs an inferiority complex.
January 1, 2015 @ 9:22 pm
If you look back on the last two “Worst Songs of the Year” articles you might understand.
There’s a lot of issues with the song and the weak minded people it attracts. Personally, every time I hear a song like this I always start thinking about the fact I grew up believing country music was the music genre of the common working class men and women in American. It was a music genre where the songs told stories and had heart. This song is one of the best examples of how the genre has been turned into a paint by numbers pop music music cash machine that attracts a lower class fan base. Country music doesn’t represent the working class anymore. It represents teenagers and degenerates (thugs).
So, to your point, this article is news worthy because it highlights the type of fans this music is attracting and the decay of real country music into a pop music machine where making money any way possible (including the devaluing of the identity of the genre) is accepted.
January 2, 2015 @ 8:20 am
There are people on this very site–who would agree with its core taste in music and aversion towards bro country–who have demonstrated anti-gay/homophobic attitudes. Those comments tend to get tons of likes.
Being anti-gay is far more “degenerate” and “lower class” than someone who likes hip-hop beats or pop hooks with his country.
Not at all saying all or even many country traditionalists are racist, sexist or homophobic – they’re certainly not – but those attitudes absolutely exist (almost certainly at a higher volume than in current pop fanbases) among many people who want to “save” country music.
Similarly, there are plenty of people who like radio-friendly, contemporary country who are higher-class, more socially conscious and more intellectually enlightened than some country fans of old.
January 2, 2015 @ 10:16 am
So Daw…that has what to do with what he was talking about? Seems you just wanted to flame people whose opinions you disagree with.
January 2, 2015 @ 11:23 am
His entire post is about how this type of country music is attracting low-class thugs and degenerates to country music.
I’m arguing that it’s an absurd generalization rendered even more absurd by the fact that “traditional country” has its own share of scummy, degenerate fans.
January 2, 2015 @ 4:01 pm
The only true musical genre that has a basis of scumbag fans is rap.
If this site is truely about saving country music then this site and most of the people reading it should know
“You’ll attract more bees with honey than vinegar.”
Was the guy singing on the plane annoying? Sure
Does that make him a pop country scumbag? No.
If you want people to get into more traditional country music, try being nice and slowly introduce them to more traditional artists. You’ll never win over a Blake fan with insults and degrading articles. You will win them over by listening to why they like what they do. Why they like Blake or Luke or Jason. Then take those aspects they like and like putting a frog in cold water and slowly turning up the heat rather than dropping him in boiling water, you can turn him on to artists that meld the old and new, then little by little give them some more old til they either like both or turn away from modern country.
January 2, 2015 @ 10:15 am
I’ve never heard of a plane’s route being diverted due to a Hank Thompson song.
January 2, 2015 @ 2:29 pm
What would happen if you tried it with a Skynyrd song? Would people tell you to shut up? NO! Because Skynyrd is far more tolerable then BRH
January 3, 2015 @ 1:11 pm
Con Air – Sweet Home Alabama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLC79fxfaMQ
January 3, 2015 @ 7:44 pm
I don’t like Blake Shelton at all aside of Boys Round Here. I don’t see what is so horrible about it? All of Blake’s music sounds the same except BRH….it stands out. I personally believe he nailed it on BRH with the rap-style verses…very catchy song that is fun to blast while driving down the interstate with the windows down!
January 4, 2015 @ 5:15 pm
At least everyone had an air sickess bag handy.
I would certainly want to sneak one in if I went to one of his shows.