Dylan Scott’s “My Girl (A Rant)
WARNING: Language
Dylan Scott is a genuine, authentic, corn-fed, down home, Southern-raised, good-ol’ classic American dickhead my friends, and he’s looking to abscond with more than his fair share of the American dream by dropping the zipper on his $1,200 fashion-ripped jeans and rubbing his nutsack all over everything true country music fans celebrate and hold dear just so he can afford a really bad ass truck and screw hot Vandy chicks he Svengali’s in the douchiest bars in Nashville into thinking he deserves to be a star.
Heretofore, Dylan Scott’s biggest claim to fame was the dubious, ill-begotten decision to invite Chewbacca Mom into the hallowed circle at center stage of the Grand Ole Opry to “perform”—a place supposed to be reserved only for the most pure and talented in country music. Now his label Curb Records has gone and bought him a #1 song on country radio called “My Girl.” And no, we couldn’t be lucky enough for this to be a rendition of the old Temptations tune.
Is “My Girl” the worst country song we’ve ever heard? No, it’s not. And it’s not even really close. But what makes “My Girl” so offense is the fact that they’re not trying to market this thing as a flighty “hands in the air” summer song that yeah is pretty shallow, but whatever because it’s just feel good music so roll the windows down and have some fun to stuffy S.O.B’s, country music needs to evolve yo!
No, “My Girl” is what passes these days for mainstream country music depth and introspection. Corporate country blogs are fawning all over this piece of shit all, “Oh, the vulnerability Dylan Scott exudes in this heartfelt etude speaks to the maturation process of this budding star of substance,” and “The empowerment Dylan Scott bestows to the object of his desire is both Chivalrous and sweet.”
Yeah bullshit. This is a formulaic, Mad Lib-style, paint-by-the-numbers, women as a possession truck rap with fake piano imposed on a generic pop song, propped up solely by the perfectitude of Dylan Scott’s pectoral muscles and the come hither sturdiness of his jaw. The only reason anyone is paying attention to “My Girl” is because dumb chicks want to screw him. This is like a dreamy, daytime television version of “country.” Yet mark my words, come CMA time, Curb Records will be spending their political capital on Music Row to get this thing Single of the Year and Song of the Year nominations due to its “depth.”
Just listen to these lyrics.
“I love it when she raps to an Eminem song…”
Wait, did this asshole really just issue a line about rapping to Eminem in a country song? That’s even more egregious than the Chewbacca Mom incident. If Hammaurabi’s Code was still enforced, Dylan Scott would have his hands lopped off for the high crime of his culturally-appropriated urban gesticulations, and his vocal chords would be removed for the mental well-being of the public and misdemeanors against our eardrums.
I’m embarrassed for streaming this thing on Spotify and allowing 1/10th of $0.00002 cents to go to this son-of-a-biscuit. I pray all of the original members of The Temptations are dead so they don’t have to endure witnessing such an iconic song title be sullied by this tool. Otis Williams is still alive you say? Well hopefully his hearing sucks.
And I don’t care that you met Dylan Scott at a meet-and-greet one time and oh my gosh he was so nice to you. That’s because he wants your fucking money. Who knew Curb Record had it in them to actually launch another artist, but see what money can buy? Why didn’t Curb put out a similar effort with Mo Pitney?
Dylan Scott’s got nothing. He’s a two-bit singer being propped up my image consultants and personal trainers, perpetuating an image Music Row wants to sell you with music as the excuse to pay attention. Mainstream country is no longer about the music, it’s about lifestyle branding. Artists like Dylan Scott are the true reason there’s no women on radio, because marginalized females feel like Dylan Scott is singing to them.
And ladies, no matter how cute they are, no matter how charming they may be, no matter how ravishing they may look in a lycra-blended super thin cotton tee spray-painted on by some Hollywood image designer and have every hair on their head expertly coiffed, if a guy ever tells you how how good you look in his truck, and calls you “baby girl,” then for the love of all things holy and the imperative preservation of the gene pool, don’t, and I mean never, no matter how large temptation looms, ever ever under any circumstances fuck them.
This song is absolute garbage.
July 17, 2017 @ 8:48 am
Sam Hunt was unavailable for comment. His publicist later released this statement:
“Mr. Hunt is not offended by Mr. Scott’s music nor does he think that such music hurts the genre that has been enriched by Mr. Hunt’s MacBook Pro.”
July 17, 2017 @ 8:54 am
And ladies, no matter how cute they are, no matter how charming they may be, no matter how ravishing they may look in a lycra-blended super thin cotton tee spray-painted on by some Hollywood image designer and have every hair on their head expertly coiffed, if a guy ever tells you how how good you look in his truck, and calls you “baby girl,” then for the love of all things holy and the imperative preservation of the gene pool, don’t, and I mean never, no matter how large temptation looms, ever ever under any circumstances fuck them.
It’s embarrassingly sad how many women like this, as people have stated before, and songs like this only perpetuate the idea that this is what you should strive for, creating a vicious cycle in which women want to be treated like that, songs continue to objectify them, and I have to continue to read from people everywhere on every piece on SCM about the lack of women on country radio and being supported by the industry how it’s the fault of women listeners themselves because they wanted the misogyny in the first place.
July 17, 2017 @ 8:56 am
P.S. This song sucks, did I mention that?
March 17, 2019 @ 3:25 pm
No it does not
July 17, 2017 @ 9:17 am
let’s compare The Temptations:
I’ve got so much honey the bees envy me
I’ve got a sweeter song than the birds in the trees
I guess you’d say what can make me feel this way?
My girl (my girl, my girl), talkin’ ’bout my girl (my girl!)
patriarchal heteronormative oppressorz!
if corporate marketing types are puffing this Dylan Scott “etude” (hahaha, did they really say that?) as a marvel of introspection and maturity, they’re being “corporate marketing types” who would say their grandma’s 80-year-old boyfriend were “hot and mature” if they thought there were money to be made from fixed incomes
but anyway, compare the image of the woman in Kerr/Scott’s lyric to the one in Robinson/White’s — which is the richer of the two pictures? which is more “feminist”?
to me, the song is just a snooze: ripoff U2 bass, add club rhythm reverbed piano stabs, put beard stubble Ken Doll in t-shirt in a park with a Barbie and a fishing pole, and make BANK
this is The Way Monogenre Rolls, baby
next
July 17, 2017 @ 10:01 am
It’s sad after a post like this, I can only give it one “like”. Quite the contrary, if I could, I’d ‘like’ the shit out of it!
July 17, 2017 @ 10:02 am
Wish fulfillment music. It is like eating a bowl of Lucky Charms over oatmeal. You are not doing it for your health, you are doing it because it tastes “sweet.”
Check out my review of the first verse below for why.
July 17, 2017 @ 10:17 am
gotta think a lot of these bro type hucksters are pulling lyric game from PUAs. how long do we have to wait for a sexy song full of negs. it’s coming, you know it.
people will get more of whatever they pay for
same old
July 17, 2017 @ 11:52 am
Amen, Megan!! My thoughts exactly. 🙂
July 18, 2017 @ 9:38 am
I don’t know. I mean, guys fuck shallow hot chicks all the time.
ex. I consider myself a pretty cerebral music enthusiast–not to the degree of some commenters here, but above average in that department. And you know that chick that fucked up her lip synching on SNL (I’m not even gonna look it up–she’s not really that hot, and she’s some even worse airhead’s sister, as I recall)? Anyway, remember her? I would no more listen to her music than I would listen to Michael Moore shitting diarrhea in an empty stock tank. Yet I would fuck her relentlessly given the situation and opportunity, and feel only slight regret afterward at having had to sit through her CD listening party to do it.
So why is turnaround not fair play? I guess I don’t get how an even playing field is supposed to play out.
What we really need is forced vasectomies for all males on top 40 country radio. To protect the species. There’s a parade I would march in.
July 17, 2017 @ 8:55 am
Rehashed lines from so many songs, copycat FGL without the GL and all the F causing it effing sucks.
July 17, 2017 @ 8:56 am
Kyle, if you ever put a compilation book together of your Two Guns Down reviews, I swear I’ll pre-order a copy from the independent bookstore of your choosing. Fantastic.
July 17, 2017 @ 8:59 am
That would be a great book and would probably make some money. A sad number of people would buy it, myself included.
July 17, 2017 @ 9:49 am
You could count me in, too. Two Guns Down = pure reading entertainment. Not good for the ears, though.
I think that Trig’s review of Donkey has to be one of my favorite pieces of music criticism I’ve ever read.
July 17, 2017 @ 10:38 am
I can’t remember if it was for the original song or for the video, but Blake Shelton’s “Boys ‘Round Here” sticks out in my mind (I seem to recall a line about being the musical equivalent of sneaking pot behind a Pizza Hut or something…). 😀
The best Trig rants have hyperbolic imagery that could’ve given Dave Barry a run for his money; and I could definitely see the appeal in a SCM compilation of them, sort of like Roger Ebert did with some of his harsher film reviews (‘I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie,’ ‘Your Movie Sucks,’ and ‘A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length’).
July 17, 2017 @ 11:53 am
Hell yeah, I’d buy it. Trigger, your rants are the best. Keep it up, man.
July 17, 2017 @ 7:22 pm
Alrighty, it *was* the original single review, and the actual quote was, “It’s the audio equivalent of sneaking out of your mom’s house to smoke pot behind a Pizza Hut.” 🙂
July 17, 2017 @ 3:06 pm
Off to read that now, I never have. I think it was Thomas Rhett’s “Vacation” that was my favorite, if I’m thinking of the right one, where he said if anyone comes here and defends this, I’ll personally go to your houses in the middle of the night like Santa Claus and take a dump on your bedroom pillows.
July 17, 2017 @ 3:59 pm
That one was pure greatness. Matter of fact, Trigger’s review of Thomas Rhett’s album “Tangled Up” was hilarious. The Donkey review was funny as hell too. And another one, I think it was one about FGL, made me laugh so hard I nearly peed myself. Nice job on the rants, Trigger.
July 17, 2017 @ 11:07 pm
Hands down, the review of Aldean’s 1994 was the pinnacle. This paragraph is what got me following this site regularly:
“Jason Aldean and his crack team of producers and songwriters were exhaustive in their efforts to compile only the absolute worst elements from every corner and crevice of popular music and then assemble them together to compose this ode to the decay of Western Civilization. At their dispose are hip-pop, wiener rock, laundry list country, Auto-Tune, and the general douchebaggery awfulness caused by a complete lack of self-awareness that Jason Aldean is a exemplary specimen of. These ingredients are then extruded into a feces-like industrial slurry that is injected into the hollow, mulleted, cop-mustached corpse of 90’s country semi-star Joe Diffie’s lifeless career.”
It doesn’t get better than that.
https://savingcountrymusic.com/jason-aldeans-1994-review-roast/
July 17, 2017 @ 1:38 pm
I would purchase multiple copies of that book. One copy for me, and many to send to my relatives who think that the music that warrants the Two Guns Down review is actually good.
July 17, 2017 @ 8:58 am
It’s a shame, because I heard his song ‘Crazy Over Me’ a while back and actually thought it was decent. But I looked into his music more once I saw he was climbing the charts (and that Wheeler Walker Jr was talking shit about him) and noticed that that was the exception, not his sound. HIs Spotify is mostly pop covers and shit pop country.
July 17, 2017 @ 9:00 am
Is that pubic hair on his face?
July 17, 2017 @ 10:12 am
It’s mosty the result of a sharpie.
July 17, 2017 @ 4:08 pm
https://i.imgur.com/fjaR2tY.jpg
July 24, 2017 @ 3:18 am
Omfg brah….you have me fucking crying! Hahahahahaha
July 17, 2017 @ 9:00 am
”Mainstream country is no longer about the music, it’s about lifestyle branding. ”
….and there it is in one sentence , friends .
But don’t miss reading this entire rant cuz you don’t wanna deny yourselves the ‘go for the throat-no-holds-barred-pure unadulterated honesty of THIS :
”And ladies, no matter how cute they are, no matter how charming they may be, no matter how ravishing they may look in a lycra-blended super thin cotton tee spray-painted on by some Hollywood image designer and have every hair on their head expertly coiffed, if a guy ever tells you how how good you look in his truck, and calls you “baby girl,” then for the love of all things holy and the imperative preservation of the gene pool, don’t, and I mean never, no matter how large temptation looms, ever ever under any circumstances fuck them.
This song is absolute garbage.”
If this crap makes you feel as shitty as it makes Trigger feel I can only offer this :Take two hits of Chris Stapleton ( poster boy for the anti-douche ) and at least one of Loretta every hour on the hour and call me in the morning .
July 17, 2017 @ 9:03 am
I’ve been waiting for this review. Nashville looks for their next crop of singers from their neighborhood Crossfit gyms, instead of honky tonks. It’s funny how these new stars love to name drop rappers and invite them on to country award shows but never wonder why they never get name dropped or invited to BET award shows.
July 17, 2017 @ 4:15 pm
”……..but never wonder why they never get name dropped or invited to BET award shows.”
ain’t that interesting though ..?
July 17, 2017 @ 9:03 am
Ha…great review, but I was at least happy the song is over a year old according to youtube. So shouldn’t it be on it’s way out now?
July 17, 2017 @ 9:16 am
Almost two years, it was uploaded in July of 2015. Apparently it took that long to demolish what was left of the foundations of country music to clear a path for this tripe.
July 17, 2017 @ 9:42 am
It’s not unusual for a debut single to take a long time to crest the charts. Labels literally put $1 million more more behind something like this since the artist has no name recognition. Then they must go on “radio tour” to ingratiate themselves to fat cat programmers, and only then is a song allowed to become a hit.
July 17, 2017 @ 9:59 am
It’s definitely not uncommon for a single to last two years, especially for breakout artists. They usually test it out on Spotify (i.e. New Boots, etc). If it does well, then a label may sign the artist, re-release it as the single under the label, send them out on a radio tour, etc.. Luke Combs released “Hurricane” in June 2015, and it just went #1 a few weeks ago.
July 17, 2017 @ 9:10 am
In a world of Sam/Dylan/Luke…be a Sturgill/Chris/Jason….Isbell not Aldean. It’ll do you no harm.
July 17, 2017 @ 9:16 am
There is not a single thing about this guy, this song, this video that’s not derivative of 10 other current “artists,” and 100 other current songs and videos. Even the Eminem thing… wasn’t there a recent song that had a similar line but with Jay Z?
July 17, 2017 @ 10:46 am
Miley’s “Party in the USA” comes to mind — “That’s when the taxi man turned on the radio / And a Jay-Z song was on” — but that was several years ago… :\
July 17, 2017 @ 11:41 am
ah… more than likely it was one of these that I was remembering wrong… “Truck Yeah” name drops Lil Wayne and “That’s My Kind Of Night” name drops T-Pain.
July 17, 2017 @ 9:22 am
Disliking the song I get as I hate it as well. But to call him a dickhead and an asshole is just wrong if you ask me. To assume that Dylan Scott is a terrible person is just not right in my opinion. Keep how Dylan Scott is as a person out of it and just review the song on its own merits or lack of.
July 17, 2017 @ 9:47 am
Certain lines in this song, and the fact that he invited Chewbacca Mom on the Grand Ole Opry stage—a distinction some country artists work their entire lives for and never receive—I think are most certainly signs of assholic behavior and speak to flawed character.
That said, this is a “rant” and labeled as such for folks to know there’s an element of sarcasm here for entertainment value. So don’t kill the buzz 🙂 .
July 17, 2017 @ 10:05 am
But is Chewbacca Mom standing in that circle any worse than putz actors from the cast of Nashville standing in it? Probably a little,but not much
July 17, 2017 @ 11:02 am
She’s worse, but I’m in total agreement with you. ‘Putz actors’ nails them, if you ask me.
July 17, 2017 @ 10:32 am
After the almost indescribably horrible Luke Bryan concert I had the misfortune of attending, I feel like the term “asshole” isn’t specific and blunt enough for “artists” of this ilk. I used to kind of excuse their awful songs and blatant and pervasive objectification by thinking they were good guys at heart and I shouldn’t waste any time brooding about it.
But there was something about seeing it live and the reaction from the women in the audience that caused something deep within me to snap. I know they’re told what to sing and how to look and what to say/not say, but give me a fucking break.
These dudes have moms, or sisters, or nieces, or (god help them) wives, don’t they? How they look them in the eye and then get up on stage and do what they do is the very definition of assholish to me.
July 17, 2017 @ 9:23 am
“Mainstream country is no longer about the music, it’s about lifestyle branding.”
albert’s right, this sentence nails the whole thing together. the opening sequence of the video looks exactly like a truck commercial, or something about a state park
if you take this exact video and strip the audio, you could turn it into a Filson commercial
that’s what’s going on here
July 17, 2017 @ 11:59 am
I follow TN State Parks on Facebook, and today they shared this video, touting how it was filmed in… yes, a TN State Park.
July 17, 2017 @ 9:28 am
Since no one else has mentioned it, his painted-on beard sucks, too.
July 17, 2017 @ 8:03 pm
He looks like the bearded lady
July 17, 2017 @ 9:34 am
I heard this song when I was on vacation scanning through to find a country music station. A thing that bothers me is when someone says “my girl”, like they own them or control them instead of my girlfriend. Modern day country music is getting worse and worse very year.
July 17, 2017 @ 9:36 am
Heretofore, Dylan Scott’s biggest claim to fame was the dubious, ill-begotten decision to invite Chewbacca Mom into the hallowed circle at center stage of the Grand Ole Opry to “perform”—a place supposed to be reserved only for the most pure and talented in country music.
Forget Chewbacca Mom. Why was Dylan Scott allowed there?
July 17, 2017 @ 9:47 am
The only reason anyone is paying attention to “My Girl” is because dumb chicks want to screw him.
Yes! A thousand time, yes! This has got to piss off women like Margo Price and Whitney Rose more than anyone. Women are marginalized in mainstream country, in large part because (far too many) women have no taste and no self-respect.
July 17, 2017 @ 9:48 am
Let me start off by saying that everyone should go back to the top of the article and look at this guys picture. He looks like Sam Hunt with Down Syndrome. And that makes sense, since this song is completely retarded.
This song may be the worst song country radio has jammed down listeners throats all year. And that includes Sam Hunt abomination “Body Like A Backroad.” Any time this comes on the radio at work I sprint like Usain Bolt to the radio to change it. Usually the first station that comes up when I hit the scan button is a religious Spanish station with preachers screaming in a language I can’t understand, and I would still rather listen to an hour of that versus three minutes of this P.O.S. song.
One of the most painful things about these corporate bro country radio hacks, besides the carpet burns on their knees, is that god awful obnoxious over exaggerated accent most of them have. Look how many crossover acts lose it when they go pop (looking at you, Taylor). Pouring acid in my ears wouldn’t be as painful as hearing this idiot say “An Em-uh-nee-im saoung.” And you hit the nail on the head with your “baby gurllll” observation. You’re a grown ass man. Talk like it.
And why in the hell is there yet another song about her “going crazy in the passenger seat?” I would scold you for this, Dylan, but it’s clear you’ve never written a song in your life, including this. How repetitive can it get? It’s such a hacky trope now. “My passenger seat” “my dusty seat” “my bench seat” yeah, we get it. The female you’re objectifying in your song is in your truck.
Honestly, look at the lyrics. She “talk to her mama on the phone,” “dancing around in the passenger seat,” “rapping to em-uh-nee-im saoung.” Lets be honest, she sounds like a 16 year old girl that he’s taking out to the backwoods and getting drunk. Dylan, man, look up statutory rape. Pretty sure you’re flirting with that line.
Its funny that corporate blogs are saying that he’s found his “soft side” with this song. I figured any man whos loafers are light enough to sing over this corny And contrived drum loop with a stock Casio keyboard piano riff on top was already soft to begin with.
The bad thing is that with all the corporate money behind him he’ll probably go far in country radio. He’s got the backing, the lack of talent, and a shortness of self awareness to do just that.
July 17, 2017 @ 9:52 am
Honestly, I wasn’t going to say it cause it seemed petty, but… yeah, he does kind of have a tard face.
July 17, 2017 @ 1:19 pm
while the song most definitely sucks. You Virgil Caine are the dickhead on here making a reference in here to down syndrome. The rest of your comment is irrelevant on this issue after such a stupid and idiotic statement
July 17, 2017 @ 12:45 pm
Could not have said it any better my self. I honestly can’t comprehend how someone thinks this is good music. It’s nothing more than a money grabbing sugar high.
July 18, 2017 @ 8:57 am
Love the username, Virgil.
July 20, 2017 @ 9:15 pm
I served on the Danville train in another life myself
July 17, 2017 @ 9:49 am
Hilarious. I wonder if the girl singing Eminem was actually telling him “I wouldn’t piss on fire to put you out.”
July 17, 2017 @ 9:50 am
Freaking Hillarious Trigger! Your observations continue to be spot on!
July 17, 2017 @ 9:51 am
It doesn’t look like he skipped leg day, which is more than I can say for 99% of the bro-country types, so I like him. #doyouevenlift
July 17, 2017 @ 9:56 am
If women do like this song, it will be for the same reason that Bro-Country was popular with guys and girls. It is wish fulfillment music.
Look at the lyrics of the first verse:
“She looks so pretty with no makeup on.” (Natural beauty)
“You should hear her talking to her mama on the phone.” (A good mother-daughter relationship, increasingly rarer.)
“I love it when she raps to an Eminem song.” (Being into a popular rapper equals being popular. She likes cool stuff. Gotta fit in.)
“Man, her eyes really drive me crazy.” (Physical beauty.)
“You should see her smile when she holds a baby.” (Yeah, this is a weird line that was used to fit the rhyme scheme. I doubt too many of the targeted audience aren’t interested in baby making but they will probably ignore this line.)
“I can honestly say that she saved me.” (Reversal of the classic damsel in distress. The sweet girl saved the bad boy. Banal theme that is beloved and used by almost every singer. It is universal.)
“My girl.” (Statement of possession which is taken by most to be, “I am desired by someone!” And 99% are/were looking for someone to desire us.)
Man, that was painful.
July 17, 2017 @ 9:59 am
Supposed to be “are” not “aren’t” in the sentence with baby making.
July 17, 2017 @ 9:57 am
Why does this song like so many today mention a girl “with her ball cap on”? Seriously, there are about a dozen or so songs our in the lat 12-18 months that reference a girl wearing a ball cap…Are ball caps the new “Daisy Dukes”?
July 17, 2017 @ 10:09 am
she’s into sports, dream girl
July 17, 2017 @ 10:48 am
Mad libs. Like Muskadine wine.
July 17, 2017 @ 2:52 pm
Faith Hill’s “Mississippi Girl”.
July 17, 2017 @ 9:58 am
By the way, Trigger, I went to about 4 or 5 lyric sites for my review of the first verse and it appears that the line is “She looks so pretty with no makeup on.” And the official lyric video says the same thing. Just a heads up.
July 17, 2017 @ 11:39 am
Well I heard something different, perhaps because this guy is trying to sing with Gobstoppers in his mouth to try and sound manly. But I’ll stand corrected.
July 17, 2017 @ 1:42 pm
I have only heard the song once which was a couple of weeks ago and I forgot about it until you posted this rant. I wasn’t trying to be a smartass, I just don’t want anyone using the slight error against you.
July 17, 2017 @ 9:59 am
Why does this song like so many today mention a girl “with her ball cap on”? Seriously, there are about a dozen or so songs out in the last 12-18 months that reference a girl wearing a ball cap…Are ball caps the new “Daisy Dukes”?
July 17, 2017 @ 11:47 am
I think it’s more shorthand for explaining that she’s not spending hours in the mirror doing her hair and is just ready to go at the drop of a…um… hat. I don’t mind the cliches so much when they cut down on exposition and serve a story line, but as an item in a list song (which is red flag in and of itself), the ball cap is definitely played out.
July 17, 2017 @ 10:04 am
Boring…
…’nuff said.
Ok. The long version. I can’t stand the song. I can’t stand Dylan Scott & “My Girl” is not his worst or most stupid song. Remember “Mmm,Mmm, Mmm”?
His album is selling like…well…not so good (Roughstock, 06/19, 32.000 units, released 08/12/2016) & a “Deluxe” version is on the way.
Mo Pitney is not the first priority for Curb Records. Dylan Scott on the other hand…
July 17, 2017 @ 10:04 am
When I first heard that line, my first thought was “How many country fans know who the hell Eminem is?” Then I remembered who the country music industry is targeting and realized more listeners probably know who Eminem is than who Waylon Jennings is.
July 17, 2017 @ 10:10 am
maybe he’s trying to get in good with the Yellawolf crowd
July 17, 2017 @ 10:13 am
Great writeup. That first paragraph is classic! God, these guys want to be famous so bad for doing absolutely nothing. For doing the exact same thing 15 other guys did right before them.
Trigger, I look forward to your review of Brett Eldredge’s new single, “Something I’m Good At”. That songs just angers me.
July 17, 2017 @ 10:38 am
I saw this moron open for Lee Brice. Was unimpressed, and his damn set made my chest hurt
July 17, 2017 @ 10:42 am
Whoa! He’s so good looking even I’d do him.
Hollywood!
Yeah, and so would I,
Come on baby boy
Make yo daddy cry.
Yo!
Am I famous yet?
July 17, 2017 @ 10:48 am
23 seconds. Most of that was a stupid, cliche’ r&b “country” rhythm. Then the deep-voice talk-singing nonsense. At least he has a deep voice? I guess? How does anybody listen to this junk?
July 17, 2017 @ 10:51 am
Why are his eyebrows and beard darker than his hair?
July 17, 2017 @ 2:56 pm
I can’t speak for beards, but having your eyebrows darker than your hair is not that uncommon.
July 17, 2017 @ 10:53 am
Mainstream country radio is going to get worse and worse until there’s no real listeners at all – as OlaR mentions above the single isn’t doing much for album sales – it’s kind of a Potemkin Village and the songs prove it.
July 17, 2017 @ 8:32 pm
I wish you were correct. The problem, though, is that there are millions and millions of people out there who actually like this crap on the radio.
July 18, 2017 @ 11:38 am
It’s true that vast amounts of people like it, but they don’t like it enough to buy any albums, and they’ll “like” the next thing that comes on exactly the same – like Muzak in the elevator. That’s what I mean by real listeners – that mass audience is easily manipulated but they don’t take a penny out of their pocket anymore for the music.
July 17, 2017 @ 11:06 am
This rant was absolutely priceless lmao. Made my day. But on a more serious level, despite the #1 and the team of people working on trying to make the kid one of their next big franchises, I really don’t see the kid being a big star. Even with the amount of debauchery they will try to sell with him, I think that the girls buying what he’s dishing out will be in the minority. I could be wrong but I don’t think he has it and I don’t think the muscles, the looks, and the bro-pap is going to prevent him from falling into the pool of other drowning and bottom feeding acts right who had a couple hits and noms and then were thrown away. He’ll be on the bench next.
July 17, 2017 @ 11:23 am
I’m not sure whether to be angry or sad. Good rant.
July 17, 2017 @ 11:40 am
Meh.
I have a hard time getting worked up over this song. Do I like it? No. Is it the death knell for country music? No. Am I bothered by the fact that it’s being pushed to radio as a #1? Not really. Can I say for sure that the singer is a dick? No.
So why all the vitriol?
I absolutely love this site and admire the author. But this one feels like a personal attack based on something personal. And I can appreciate that. But why waste the finger strokes on this?
To me, this is harmless.
July 17, 2017 @ 11:45 am
He looks downright scary. How do people find this guy attractive? I’m nearly 21 years old (and female), and Dylan Scott does nothing at all for me.
Now William Michael Morgan, Mark Wystrach (from Midland), and Jon Pardi. Those are my kinda men.
Now, to the song. I have heard much worse. Body Like A Back Road? Yeah, we’ve beat that dead horse a million times. Walker Hayes’s You Broke Up With Me? Trigger summed up my feelings perfectly in his epic rant. Todd O’Neill’s Love Again? Yeah, this was the song that was so bad that when I heard it in the gas station, the only thing keeping me from walking out so I wouldn’t have to be subjected to that kind of garbage was the fact that I wanted to talk a little while longer to the cute guy behind the cigarette counter. Also, I will never forget the permanent shit stain that Thomas Rhett’s South Side and Vacation both left on my precious eardrums. In fact, “You Broke Up With Me”, “Love Again”, and those two Thomas Rhett songs are arguably a few of the very few exceptions to the long running “more country than Sam Hunt” joke.
My Girl is blatant laziness. There is absolutely nothing about this song at all. It’s just like every other dime a dozen bro country song that has disgraced the country radio airwaves in the past few years. I think I’ll pass on it.
And also, an Eminem name-drop in a “country” song? Holy hopping sheep shit, you have got to be kidding me.
July 25, 2017 @ 10:51 am
Exactly. The sad thing is that these guys we’re told to do think are hot just aren’t. I wouldn’t sleep with Luke Bryan or Jason Aldean if you paid me. There’s nothing sexy or masculine about them. Music Row even gets that wrong. Country music used to be about the swagger and the unapologetic maleness, in a good way, not this frat boy vibe. What is the saying “Girls like bros, ladies love outlaws.”
July 17, 2017 @ 11:59 am
These labels can get themselves a guy who can sing a little bit, has the look, and maybe even the songs with all the commercial aspects in place, but there are intangible factors that are going to put a ceiling on these guys if they are not resonating like a Sam Hunt. Nobody should be panicking that this kid is going to be the next bro to take Country by storm. Brett Young is the one who seemingly has all the implications of becoming the next superstar. Thats not to say he’s this incomparable talent, but he’s got it with the audience and they’re responding is all I’m saying.
July 17, 2017 @ 12:05 pm
This song has been out for more than a year and has still not sold more than 310k. Can’t radio understand that the appeal isn’t there??? I truly feel sorry for him because this might be his ONLY single to scrape top 20 if he’s lucky. Enjoy it while you can dude, it goes by faster than you can say “My Girl”…
July 17, 2017 @ 5:32 pm
Ok, I don’t normally waste my time on people like you who don’t know what they are talking about, but you’re wrong. I’m not sure where you got your info and data, but here is why this guy deserves a #1 record and you don’t.
Album: Over 1 million sold
Debuted Top 5 at Billboard
My Girl Single: 640,000 and counting
95 million video streams
175 Million on demand streams
2.8 Million (average)Pandora Plays each week
Spotify :45 million streams to date
Video Streams: 65 million
Video Views on YouTube: 20 Million
So you know, maybe radio and record labels know a little bit more than you. I truly feel sorrry for you dude, and your horrific research abilities.
July 17, 2017 @ 7:04 pm
Man, those are some pretty incredible stats. Not only does he have “95 million video streams,” he has “Video Streams: 65 million.” So should we add those two numbers together to get the grand total, subtract them from each other for the real numbers, or triangulate them with the similar, but apparently separate “Video Views on YouTube: 20 Million”?
Also, Dylan Scott hasn’t sold over 1 million albums. He hasn’t even sold 100,000. He hasn’t even sold 50,000. At last count on June 17th, the album had moved 32,000 albums. That’s almost half of what Jason Isbell moved in 1 week, and 3.2 percent of what you’re claiming.
But you’re probably right 🙂
July 17, 2017 @ 8:47 pm
Lmao that was one of the most bizzare posts I’ve seen on here. I want what he’s sippin on. Or maybe I don’t cause then I’d be in a world where Dylan Scott is pushin 100 million streams.
July 17, 2017 @ 1:02 pm
Eh, song is about as good as the guitar solo imho.
July 17, 2017 @ 1:39 pm
The songs ok, I guess, by today’s standards, but, I don’t understand the steroid use look, the needing a shave and the girl style jeans, along with the rapper style moves….. I guess since the video was filmed in the country it’s a country video….LOL. Glad I don’t have a young daughter. She’d prob’ly be pissed when I threw that kind of crap in the fire.
July 17, 2017 @ 2:09 pm
It really is dreadful. ALMOST as bad as Chris Lane’s “For Her.” Almost. Anxiously awaiting a review/rant on that one!
July 17, 2017 @ 2:18 pm
How many of you have taken the time to sit down and write a piece of music or art whether it’s a song or something and made a number one hit off of it? Anybody?.. that’s what I thought stop wasting your time hating on people who have talent and aren’t sitting behind a computer whining. Whether it’s country, country pop or whatever. I actually find it a sweet song and yeah it’s a catchy “summer anthem song.” You don’t like it that much then don’t listen to it or pay attention. worry about your own life. Conveniently this website is nothing but bashing celebrities articles i noticed.
July 17, 2017 @ 3:01 pm
You can’t have looked much then; Trigger just did a piece about how we should be making a bigger deal out of Chris Stapleton’s success.
July 17, 2017 @ 4:34 pm
If you think this is art then I would be happy to record 3 minutes and 25 seconds of me taking a giant shit for you. Maybe I could throw in a cool drum loop and a few guitar licks I can download from my computer to make it a little more palpable, and I could have you a hit song in no time. By saying it doesn’t matter if somethings country or pop your just saying that you don’t care that those words were created to describe something for a reason. Your saying that country and pop are the same thing, and that my sir is why I have a problem. Feel free to read my comment further down on your buddy Steve’s comment.
July 17, 2017 @ 6:14 pm
I have a problem with people throwing the word ‘talented’ to just about everyone out there.
July 18, 2017 @ 9:52 am
It used to be that 95% of radio airplay was given to songs with top-tier writers, musicians, singers, and entertainers. These people were creative artists who put their songs above their image… hell, their songs were their image. “Talent” was a given for almost anyone on the radio.
Cut to now and it’s switched: 95% of radio consists of good-looking, mediocre-at-best hacks who care solely about their image and the music is an afterthought. The 5% left who are creative have to dumb down their work and are forced to shoehorn in a few radio-friendly tunes to stay relevant.
July 17, 2017 @ 8:41 pm
Riiiiight Trackstar. By your logic, nobody but professional athletes should follow or critique professional sports. The thing you are missing is this: fans of real country music are pissed that crap like this (cheesy, shallow, unoriginal, teeny bop, sugar pop) has basically taken over country radio. And they have taken the spot of the many other true artists who should be getting the exposure and air time that these dime a dozen embarrassments are getting.
July 18, 2017 @ 9:08 am
Most folks could write this in the time it takes to have a dump . Its generic cliche-riddled bro-shit and shoulda been flushed along with that dump . If you are finding something redeeming in this lyric and ‘performance” …,that , to me , is as worrisome as this lyric and ‘performance’. With all of the incredible music being made …THIS is considered the cream of the radio crop ? Worrisome indeed .
July 17, 2017 @ 2:26 pm
I think Dylan is a great artist and has great songs! If you don’t like it, then don’t listen to it! I don’t know why people have to trash someone cause they don’t like a song or something about them. This world has gone down hill!
July 17, 2017 @ 3:06 pm
We wouldn’t trash it if he wouldn’t call it country. But it’s not country and we are going to trash it and send it to the landfill and feel completely justified, like if we kill a fox that thinks it lives in our chicken house.
July 17, 2017 @ 4:19 pm
That’s exactly what the problem is. Words have actual meanings. What pisses me off is that these Abercrombie and Fitch models have taken three words that I love and associate so much meaning in my life to, country, music and art, and have twisted them into meaning whatever the hell they want to so they can make money. If you dissociate a word with its meaning, you are not just changing the meaning of the word, you are making the word meaningless. Yet somehow I am not supposed to care about this. When I think of the words “country music”, I used to think it was a type of poetry or dare I say art about the common, hardworking man that the world seems to forget about. I used to think it was music about finding meaning in life and overcoming life’s obstacles. It was music that made me proud to grow up in a small town. Now all I think about when I think of country music is that its about a bunch of misogynistic douche-bags in jacked up trucks, suburban white dudes who think they have all the moves and can sing R&B, and horny insecure girls who in order to feel good about themselves feel like they must be treated like an object or possession. Because I am from the country and it is a large part of my life and identity, I don’t want to be associated with the meaningless crap being formulated on music row. You will not hear a single complaint from me if country radio and people in general can start calling this music pop music and stop calling it art. Until then, better just get used to it.
July 18, 2017 @ 8:20 am
“Now all I think about when I think of country music is that its about a bunch of misogynistic douche-bags in jacked up trucks, suburban white dudes who think they have all the moves and can sing R&B, and horny insecure girls who in order to feel good about themselves feel like they must be treated like an object or possession. ”
the fu is strong with this one
spot on, C
July 17, 2017 @ 9:24 pm
Yes this world has gone downhill and its not helping that stuff like this gets passed off as country music. That is what this website is about – defending real country music. And hoping and praying that the genre doesn’t die out because of music row selling out for trends and money.
July 19, 2017 @ 1:53 am
I take it you write for Whiskey Riff
July 17, 2017 @ 2:32 pm
The guy looks like he has more make up on than the girl and the song sucks on top of it all. It’s the quintessential bro country song.
July 17, 2017 @ 2:46 pm
he kinda looks like the caveman tryin to sell me geico insurance
July 18, 2017 @ 3:14 pm
I’d rather listen to the gecko.
July 17, 2017 @ 4:31 pm
.. ….this would be a shitty lyric even if I HADN’T heard it about eleventy-thousand times already.
Honest to God ……these puppets have to be absolutely brain-dead – desperate to consent to this kind of mindless manipulation by these labels . SURELY none of them really think they are doing something interesting/artistic/creative/DIFFERENT at THIS point in the meltdown . SURELY these wannabes CANNOT be that oblivious …that STUPID ! I mean …..this is just bloody exasperating .
I can’t help feeling like I must be living in some sort of Bizzzarrrro world where people DO think shit on toast is tasty , the world needs another comic book movie and THIS is good music . A lesser man could get paranoid living in these f***** -ed up times.
July 17, 2017 @ 4:55 pm
this song is awful! Have anyone heard Toby Keith’s new single?
July 17, 2017 @ 5:05 pm
“No, “My Girl” is what passes these days for mainstream country music depth and introspection. Corporate country blogs are fawning all over this piece of shit all”
Trig I owe you an apology. This made me laugh and this is no laughing matter.
Love
JV
July 17, 2017 @ 7:30 pm
“The empowerment Dylan Scott bestows to the object of his desire is both Chivalrous and sweet”
What utter [extended radio edit] nonsense on stilts. I feel monumental sadness in my heart (referenced, to an extent, in the last paragraph of Trigger’s rant) because so much of our culture tells men this is how to treat women nicely and tells women this is how they should want to be treated.
As always, Trigger, you do a great job for calling this stuff on its complete and total emptiness. I seriously have no idea how you do this without succumbing entirely to a deep existential despair.
July 17, 2017 @ 7:39 pm
Your opening paragraph is one of the best of all time of your rants! Also about fell out of my chair about hoping the orginal temptations were dead so they wouldn’t have to hear this song.
Sadly, you are dead on the money here.
July 17, 2017 @ 7:44 pm
I heard this piece of shit this morning and am still trying to wipe it off my boot. Can’t even count how many times I said to myself, “What the fuck?”
Another thing I learned, immediately afterwards, is that, that new piece of shit Trace Atkins song is actually a new piece of shit Brothers Osbourne song. Learn something new every minute listening to shitty country radio.
July 17, 2017 @ 8:27 pm
Yet he’s ‘s married and has a kid on way. Guess some people I’ll do anything for quote unqote success. What songs has he written or co-written? Seems now they just pick whoever looks good and can manipulate the audience to but or stream the music. In his case just like Chris Lane the label spent money buying the success of the song, not through talent.
July 17, 2017 @ 9:44 pm
Excellent rant, Trigger! Absolutely awful song. Completely unintelligent and clichéd from start to finish. Horrible, clean, ultra-compressed sound makes it even worse.
Looking forward to more SCM reviews of hand-made, thought-provoking music from actual talented people.
July 17, 2017 @ 11:43 pm
BTW ….this crap has over 26 million You-Tube views . Probably with the sound down .
Do you think that even the original wave of bros are pissing their pants laughing at this..? I do .
July 18, 2017 @ 8:32 am
erm
maybe I’m just an old daft mofo, but I have this theory that to be really popular with music, you have to tap into the common moral vein. people want to hear something and go “ya, cool, and that’s totally how I feel, turn it up!”
Smokey Robinson could get away with “my girl” being (here’s the exhaustive list:) sunshine, May, honey, song, and riches
but in 2017? the “girl” in Kerr and Scott (here’s the exhaustive list:) is beautiful with no makeup, likes her mom, likes Eminem, has great eyes, is plenty ok with motherhood, ‘saves’ her man, is uninhibited, unpretentious, sportif, attractive, pious, grateful, makes him grateful, and is known to, and is everything to the guy
so I think this is a cynical pop song, but its popularity can probably be explained by two things: 1) it sounds similar to other catchy pop songs of the day, and 2) it taps into a broad consensus about what makes gals attractive to men these days
sorry, this stuff isn’t random — it’s calculated
July 18, 2017 @ 8:56 am
Corncaster,
You basically read my mind about this song. Great minds think alike.
It hits all the right emotional buttons for a girl to think, “Hey, the song is talking about me!” Additionally, note about how all the references to beauty aren’t detailed (eye color, hair hue, body type etc). This was the same tactic Bro-Country cleverly used. It is vague enough to let anyone insert themselves in the song. A girl doesn’t have to be a Hollywood model (though the music videos say differently) to feel “appreciated” by a Bro-Country song. How many people have ugly eyes? Precious few. That is an extremely rare physical critique.
Often on here, people will say that the songwriters don’t know what they are doing. Oh, they know all too well what buttons to push to sell this junk. You out a highly detailed description of your female character in this type of song and Plain Jane from Cavern Creek doesn’t connect. Write in “pretty eyes” and “no makeup on” and you established an emotional connection.
And that is just the physical stuff. Can’t forget about the other tropes: ball cap, faith, drinking. All common things that anyone from anywhere can do.
Music is all about that connection and these people are cynically capitalizing on that.
July 18, 2017 @ 9:12 am
I guess I’m stunned that we are giving this lyric …this “song’ so much attention and analysis . C’mon ….we all know what it is …..a giant turd calculated to appeal to the mindless minions who are more interested in the video than the …..err….” lyric ”
July 18, 2017 @ 9:38 am
If you want to defeat something, you study why it works.
July 18, 2017 @ 11:14 am
well, no question beefcake is the main message of the video
painted or otherwise
July 18, 2017 @ 10:26 am
I know we locked horns elsewhere, but I think that you’re quite on the nose with this. (Ditto for CountryKnight’s statement, “If you want to defeat something, you study why it works.”) These songs are about ‘Country’-fied Manic Pixie Dream Girls. A woman who “is beautiful with no makeup, likes her mom, likes Eminem, has great eyes, is plenty ok with motherhood, ‘saves’ her man, is uninhibited, unpretentious, sportif, attractive, pious, grateful, makes him grateful, and is known to, and is everything to the guy” has no difficulties, struggles, or insecurities. She fits herself into in the singer’s space as she has no real self, and thus she requires no reflection or adjustment or work from him. She performs all the emotional labor.
She is the exact type of women that C’s “misogynistic douche-bags in jacked up trucks, suburban white dudes who think they have all the moves and can sing R&B” think they’re entitled to just by virtue of being able to take consecutive breaths.
Like I said earlier, everything represented by this song just makes my heart heavy.
July 18, 2017 @ 10:50 am
merf, we probably agree on more than we disagree. I actually don’t have a major problem with the image of a woman in this song, though, like *all* images, it’s reductive. but some images, just like some ideals, are more reductive than others.
you hit another point directly on the nose when you say the girl in this song is completely without difficulties for the guy. maybe I’m crazy, but I thought “country” songs had the virtue of being honest about life’s ups and downs — and especially the downs. it’s pop music that’s “sunny” and positive. country music can have that, of course, but it’s earned, and maybe it’s even more often happy and sad all at once. remember when Dolly sang about her blue-eyed mountain boy, it was with longing that he might be gone forever
without honesty, reality, and melancholy, country music becomes pop — with all the artificial flavors
we agree on that, I’m sure
July 18, 2017 @ 2:00 pm
“maybe I’m crazy, but I thought “country” songs had the virtue of being honest about life’s ups and downs — and especially the downs.”
100% with you on that–for me, country’s honest expression of pain, anxiety, and regret is at least as essential to the genre as the traditional instrumentation. It shouldn’t be all doom and gloom, of course, because neither is life. However, I think that one of the reasons that mainstream country’s endless valorization of simple, down-home, good old boys and girls (pardon the cliches–I find them as troubling and potentially condescending as most SCM readers, but I think they do a good job of suggesting the type of songs I’m referencing) has descended into an (unaware) self-parody is because there are virtually no songs that can serve as foils by unflinchingly address the honest difficulties of life. (I can’t remember if it was you or Honky or Honcho or someone else who lamented the lack of current songs that really grapple with things like infidelity, but I totally agree with that point.)
I get the sense from comments that I read here and there that Yelawolf’s “Love Story” is a controversial project among readers here at SCM, but I certainly wish that more mainstream country artists would be willing to have moments of honesty like he has on that record.
July 18, 2017 @ 4:20 pm
To add to your breakdown of the lyric Merf ……There are only about a gazillion ways to achieve the same results as this song TRIES to achieve and all possible without PLAGIARIZING ( which , if we’re honest , is what this and so many other radio-country shit songs do ) …there are tons of fresh , more entertaining , more interesting and clever ways to connect with people on tons of levels if people are REALLY interested in connecting . I ‘ll give you that perhaps very YOUNG ( immature ) women may love this lyric …but only in the same way they love most nursery rhymes and Sesame Street lyrics . THEY DON’T HAVE TO THINK .
This idea of pandering to lowest common denominators with songs /lyrics /movies/reality shows/news reports etc. is not only boring and tiresome but borders on being dangerous . Look at Trump’s vocabulary , for example . On second thought …..never mind …I won’t go there .
I think my point is made . There is a market for EVERYTHING . EVERYTHING. But this is just one shit song , cliche-riddled and so unoriginal it should be a crime. The fact that it finds an audience is , indeed , very worrisome to me for many, many reasons .
July 19, 2017 @ 6:40 am
I am glad to see someone else agrees with my sentiment. Often, I feel in these comments section that most people just immediately condemn a song, make a funny joke at it and go back to their independent music wrapped in their assurance about how they are smart enough not to fall for this tripe not realizing that not everyone is fortunate to know there are other country music options.
I don’t agree with that. You just can’t take that view. You need to know why this music appeals to people. So I decided to study Bro-Country. It is easy to sit down and say, “Well, only fools like this garbage” but it is also lazy. And I discovered why people ate it up. It is wish fulfillment, it is fun, it is a never ending tailgate party, it is hot girls, it is hot guys, cold beer, jacked up trucks, no worries for the rest of your days. It is music that appeals to someone struck in a dead end job, a bored suburbanite and a city guy looking for a rural fantasy.
If we are going to save country music, we must save it on the radio.
July 19, 2017 @ 9:32 am
I think it also has to do with a youth obsession that, in my opinion, is not historically super-compatible with country as a genre. I am *not* saying that younger artists (people 25 and under, lets say) are incapable of a)experiencing pain, loss, and regret and b)writing, playing, and/or singing on songs that effectively express pain, loss, and regret. However, mainstream country radio doesn’t give time to those artists, let alone older artists singing about experiences that are meaningful to them.
As far as I can reason out, based on what I’ve read here and elsewhere, while older fans are excellent music consumers (they buy whole records, not just single songs on Spotify), they are not a valuable demographic to the advertisers that mainstream country radio needs to survive. Advertiser demands seem to be driving station behavior, which only makes sense. So, one argument would be that saving country on the radio requires some sort of challenge to the advertiser model.
I love what gets termed “classical” music. As I’m sure you and most people know, this music is much less dependent on typical advertisers–it’s most often played on NPR stations, and because the music is seen as prestigious, certain corporate sponsors are willing to donate to fund live performances.
Just to be clear, what follows here is not really a concrete suggestion, but brainstorming. I’m certainly not suggesting that putting country on NPR itself is the answer, given NPR’s stereotypical association with coastal elite culture. Is there any institution (the Opry?) that has the infrastructure to create/staff a country radio station that at least partially uses the NPR model? Could certain corporate or foundation sponsors be convinced that country was also a prestige genre in that it represents a major American contribution to world music? Would they be willing to subsidize country radio and/or performance festivals?
I understand that there’s a massive risk here: there’s a possibility that this model incentivizes behavior that tries to rip country music away from the people who have always traditionally made it and listened to it. I also understand that the finances involved are hugely complicated. What other unconventional funding models are possibilities?
July 20, 2017 @ 4:36 pm
If all of the fast food drive thru restaurants stopped serving shit and changed over to healthy ,nutrition-centric menus……ALL of them…..people would still go to these restaurants . The only difference is that it would be a slightly different market. It would be a market that wanted fast food but wanted GOOD fast food and voila ! those places would have a whole other market to appeal to …and yes …even profit from. And a good portion of that market would be the folks who patronize these places right now een with the shit menus . They are merely opting for the only things offered at fast food restaurants . GIVE THEM BETTER CHOICES and you not only keep a lot of that market but you gain a whole other market.
People don’t ask for the shit music radio is playing . They CONSUME it because that’s what’s being offered and they get addicted to it …..to the similarities /familiarities /consistencies of it . JUST LIKE THEY DO WITH BURGERS at fast food joints .And the reason that shit music menu is being offered is that its cheap to crank out ….it’s easy to crank out …its lazy work writing and recording it and there will always be a demographic that consumes whatever is offered …from shit burgers to shit music .
There are numerous success stories in recent years of country acts who didn’t sell their souls to radio and advertisers and found HUGE audiences willingly supporting their music . THERE IS A MARKET FOR HEALTHY , SMARTER OPTIONS . And I believe that even the folks who like the Bro-shit on radio would respond to those smarter musical options given the opportunity to hear them more frequently .
Record labels are about making money the fastest and easiest way they can with the lowest overhead . Just like cranking out unhealthy burgers using minimum wage help and a tried and true CHEAP but serviceable menu .The last thing they want in the ranks at Mickey D’s is a young management trainee suggesting healthier menus when the unhealthy one they have is working just fine.
July 18, 2017 @ 5:49 pm
Oh look, Trigger hating on new and improved country…. #notsurprised
July 18, 2017 @ 7:31 pm
I think your bling jeans are on too tight, bro
July 19, 2017 @ 7:06 am
“new and improved country”
LOL
fresh new minty taste!
July 19, 2017 @ 10:27 am
Shane McAnally, we know that’s you. Stop
trolling under fake names.
July 18, 2017 @ 6:59 pm
I’m afraid I’m going to have to disagree with everyone on this site. My Girl is actually a very important country song. Reading the lyrics has shaken my core. It is insight into something that has been bothering me for years. The ending of my friendship with Lynnette Felkerson my down the street neighbor when I was young. Everything was good. We’d ride our bikes through the fish hatchery, when it was off limits and jump off bridges into the river in the summer. She was a year older than me in school and when she was a freshman she just changed. It had to do with that guy that would pick her up in his truck from her babysitting jobs. She would keep her makeup with her in a bag and put it on in his truck. He’d buy her liquor and they would pour it into soda cans. She tell me the stories of her boyfriend and tell me to keep it a secret, her parents didn’t know. Turns out she was telling everyone who would listen. Drama came down. She started dressing in black lace leggings and her bra strap was showing, and she put dark eyeliner on her lower lid. She bleached her hair blonde and trapped her man into marrying her. Her parents weren’t that upset and she got what she deserved. He went on to run the town’s first meth lab.
But to capture that moment and to see it through Darrell McCurdy’s eyes, was to capture the precious moments just before it all goes into what I call, the big pig pen of love that makes up our culture. To a fruit fly, a rotten banana peel is relief and pleasure, looking at the flies smearing themselves into the doo, they seem to be experiencing pleasure.
Darrell would drop her off back at home late, telling her parents she was babysitting until 2am. She’d wake up and go to church. Whispering to me the first year. One baby became 2, then he was arrested, got out, got in a fight because baby number 3 was thought possibly to be Cyfus Williams’.
Anyway, she was better off than rednecks, let me tell you what. And it looked like Darrell was happy for a short time. He was too old, 25, to be buying alcohol for us anyway.
July 27, 2017 @ 3:52 pm
@ Ginger – I read your post and I think it would have been easier if you would’ve just wrote, “Dylan is like such a hottie, I’m like in love with him. I hope I like get to meet him one day and like get his autograph and like maybe get a kiss.”
July 18, 2017 @ 8:26 pm
So in fact, it seems, if you agree that the above interpretation was possible – and that it is also possible that it is deserving of a #1 country song. Then it would follow that the #1 one country song in this nation has a kiddie porn theme to it. An SVU back to back episodes dream. Sickening dream over and over and over getting mastbatory to it weaking the mind. Television and music can destroy minds when you consider the message and to think these people can’t marry the people they love the most. My friends could have saved themselves a lot of suffering. Our most despised thing is their most loved, is that a concept that exists. They are people and they have pride. What is black to them is white to us and the other way around. Their love is our hate and they have pride and joy when they are given the ability to marry. I would’ve gotten married at fourteen if given the chance to marry Michael Jackson. I was in love. And if I could go back in time, I would save his life by starving myself and pulling out my hair. I would whisper, “My one wish before I die is to see Michael Jackson.” I’d whisper in his ear “Don’t do the Pepsi Commercial!” Then I’d write him a letter to thank him when I was 18 and let him know that it was because of him that I survived because of him and I’d keep giving him advice. Hope he listened to me about the damn Pepsi commercial. Let him marry his pretty young thing, it should have been me! Don’t you people have a long history of this? I think it’s time you’re free to marry exactly who you like. It would’ve saved mine and Lynnette’s lives.
July 19, 2017 @ 12:54 am
Man , Ginger …I REALLY want to know what in God’s name you’re talking about but I can’t help wondering if YOU do . Are you saying you LIKE the song ? …you don’t like it …..you don’t like Pepsi ?
Wha……….??
July 19, 2017 @ 8:11 am
Ginger, I’m saving your posts to read on a sunless, rainy day.
July 18, 2017 @ 8:38 pm
God bless Wheeler Walker Jr for constantly bringing attention to how shitty this piece of trash is.
July 18, 2017 @ 9:55 pm
This just in – you shoot a video on a lake fishing yet no fish being caught. Wouldn’t it be heroic for him to help this backwards capped ‘country girl’ reel a live fish in instead of showing some strange lure likely not to catch any fish in any waterbody in the great state of TN? I guess the producers are now playing to the new country vegan crowd. As per the gesticulating on the pier, that is/should be against the law in TN and I for one would have welcomed Naughty by Nature to pile drive this mofo into the water when he first extended his arm.
#fratboywhitebreadwannabejustenoughblackbutnottooblackformyothersouthernfratboys
#geicocaveman
July 19, 2017 @ 6:09 am
It’s like you can see the words in my head. Every time I turn on the radio I get a little nauseous. This dude is a joke. More of the same easily ingested junk food that is pop country.
Off topic for a second. A friend told me about your blog over the 4th July. It’s fantastic. And thank you for introducing Slaid Cleaves into my world.
July 19, 2017 @ 7:23 am
Jesus Christ. If Curb thinks this douche’s song is “empowering to women”, then their collective heads would explode if they ever happened upon something like the first 3 tracks off Rodney Crowell’s Sex & Gasoline album.
What a damn joke.
July 19, 2017 @ 8:32 am
Really hate to change the topic here but it seems like we’ve all come to the same conclusion about beards sharpies chewbacca and atrocious songs. Need some advice- Whitey Morgan is coming near my neck of the woods and am wondering which songs/albums to check out. If I’m big on Jinks but not big on Sturgil (don’t hate me), where does Whitey fit in? I don’t know anything by him so wanted to explore. Thanks for any help!
July 19, 2017 @ 9:06 am
Though Whitey has been around for over a decade, he has only released three studio albums. So it’s not too hard with him to know where to point your nose. You can’t go wrong with any of his releases.
July 19, 2017 @ 1:36 pm
Good god that is one ugly MF. The music is bad but woof.
July 19, 2017 @ 9:26 pm
Worse excuse for country music ever.
July 21, 2017 @ 4:59 pm
It’s kinda hard to believe that a song like this one could make me hate his fictional girlfriend too, but mission accomplished.
July 27, 2017 @ 7:11 pm
Dylan Scott is garbage just like modern “Country Music”. All the same BS about a hot girl (that in real life will never get) pickup trucks and the worst beer of all time Bud Light.
Scott sucks period. He can’t hold a candle to Steve Wariner/Ronnie Milsap/Clint Black/Dwight Yoakum/Earl Thomas Conley/John Conlee/1980’s George Strait/Waylon Jennings/Merle/Hank etc.