“I Was Jack (You Were Diane)” Jake Owen? Really?
Jake Owen ain’t Jack. And he ain’t no Mellencamp either. It appears the years of prolonged exposure to radioactive bronzer treatments have finally all but officially fried his brain, while the removal of the lovely locks once adorning his head may have cleaved off a few brain cells in the process. All that a mid 30’s Jake Owen is capable of now is rocking casual T-shirts really hard, mumbling lyrics in a monotone dirge, and glue sticking rearranged elements of someone else’s worn-out 35-year-old dusty Heartland rock anthem together like some adolescent making a caterpillar with construction paper.
Yes this song makes me nostalgic. It makes me nostalgic for a time in music when new songs from country artists weren’t complete and utter shite, when people had an original thought and idea when they walked into the studio to record a song, when the best artists of the day were able to compose an original melody, and a song relied on its own guts and expression to steal your attention.
Jake Owen’s new single “I Was Jack (You Were Diane)” ain’t a little ditty, it’s a big ripoff, and a dud. We’ve been saying for years that much of mainstream country is nothing more than warmed-over John Cougar, and here Jake Owen is giving us a glaring example on a silver platter without the need to diagram chord progressions or point out nuances in lyricism. This is the big impression Jake Owen wants to make with the lead single from his next album, that he’s completely bereft of new or original ideas?
If we’re going to remake old songs in a modern perspective, why not choose a country one? It’s because songs that have been stuck in ClearChannel/iHeartMedia’s classic rock format rotation for a quarter century and so mercilessly run into the ground are still considered more relevant to Music Row than something that actually resembles country music. Yeah I know, old school Mellencamp is still way more country than most of what passes for country today, but by bleeding everything that was cool out of the original composition, this remake doesn’t even include enough of the original “Jack & Diane” essence to inspire a second spin.
And get this: You would think a song that relies so heavily on a previous composition would be a breeze in the writing room, right? Not so much. For as little original effort expended to compose this song, “I Was Jack (You Were Diane)” credits a total of five songwriters. That’s right, it took four humans, along with throwing Mellencamp an obvious bone, to lump this pile of stool together and set it on fire. Tommy Cecil, David Wray, Jody Stevens and Craig Wiseman, bravo.
And the monotone talk singing Jake. Stop. Just stop.
The original “Jack & Diane” came off of a record called American Fool. “Jack & Diane” wasn’t built off a guitar riff or even deeply-involved characters as the name implies. It was built from the line, “Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone,” which is repeated over and over in the original, and is glaringly missing in this remake. That’s because Mellencamp wasn’t waxing nostalgic in this song. He was bemoaning the inherent boredom and sameness of American life. He was impugning nostalgia, and how in America, you tend to live out your glory days, and “hold onto 16 as long as you can,” and how small that all feels. It’s also what mainstream country obsesses over these days—youth, nostalgia, looking back with fondness, and looking down on adulthood.
I get it, some will hear the immediately-identifiable elements of “Jack & Diane” retrofitted for use in this song like the iconic drum beat, the little keyboard part, and the hand claps, and maybe get a little steamy remembering the days of old. But who will be looking back at Jake Owen’s “I Was Jack (You Were Diane)” and be doing the same thing 35 years from now? Trust me, nobody will. Why? Because the original was so much better, and will withstand the test of time. This one is just a throwaway knockoff.
Sorry, but ain’t digging your new Coke.
March 6, 2018 @ 9:37 am
which one is jake owen again …?
March 6, 2018 @ 9:38 am
Completely agree, it actually makes the song very irritating the way it mimics the original.
Such a shame because Jake is actually capable of making some quality songs (as evident from his other stuff), but the Nashville machine keeps on spitting out junk from artists that used to be good.
March 6, 2018 @ 9:57 am
I’ve always had the sense that Jake Owen is one of these performers who is trapped in a contract. He knows this stuff is garbage. He’s even said as much at times. But he’s contractually bound to continue to record it and has bills like the rest of us, so on it goes.
March 6, 2018 @ 10:19 am
Which is exactly how I think a good bit of artists are stuck. There’s no way some of them release this stuff and are genuinely happy with what they produced. It is a shame it is the way things are, but they have to make money somehow. Same thing Scotty McCreery, him getting dropped was the best thing that happened to him.
March 6, 2018 @ 12:28 pm
Oh yeah, life goes on, even after the thrill of selling out is gone.
March 6, 2018 @ 1:00 pm
I 100% agree, Trigger.
March 6, 2018 @ 1:09 pm
I totally believe this. The one time I’ve seen him live he was wearing an Eddie Rabbitt shirt and playing a Buck Owens-style red, white and blue guitar. He knows and respects classic country, he’s just noting being allowed to play it by his label.
March 6, 2018 @ 4:54 pm
Cause Eddie Rabbit could easily be mistaken for Hank Sr. Ha!
March 6, 2018 @ 4:46 pm
Well this is his first effort since switching labels (from Sony to Big Loud) so you would have thought he would have demanded more creative control if that were the case. But I do agree, I don’t dig the effort very much at all.
March 6, 2018 @ 9:39 am
In no way is this new Jake Owen tune providing an assist towards the type of country music we all lean towards… However, for what it is worth, it brings a smile to my face to be able to remember where I was when Jack and Diane first dropped. That was a good place for me, and so this song gets a small pass from me as I dig out all my old John Cougar Mellencamp cd’s.
March 6, 2018 @ 1:20 pm
Kenny Chesney rehashing Mellencamp lyrics/theme wasn’t enough for you?
June 6, 2018 @ 3:45 am
i was wondering why kenny chesney’s song wasn’t mentioned in the article. it was a pile of shit too.
March 6, 2018 @ 9:41 am
I made it 18 seconds. Save yourself the time and sanity. Do yourself a favor and listen to John Mellencamp instead. Or Johnny Cash. Or Johnny Paycheck. Or John Fogerty. Or Johnny Horton.
March 6, 2018 @ 5:42 pm
Hell, Johnny MATHIS is more country than this.
March 6, 2018 @ 9:41 am
Jake Owen ain’t even Jake…he’s Josh
March 6, 2018 @ 9:44 am
If modern pop country sounded like Mellencamp I’d listen to a hell of a lot more of it… This sounds very little like real heartland rock or roots rock.
March 6, 2018 @ 9:52 am
I admit, I find it funny that Jake is probably getting a lot of hate on Twitter this week from morons who confuse him with Jason Owens.
That aside, this song sucks, but who should be surprised. Jake Owen is yet another “mainstream” Country artist who always talks a good game about releasing better material, now had the shot to do so on an indie label, and instead decided to cow to the almighty dollar at Country radio and recorded yet another crappy Craig Wiseman song.
March 6, 2018 @ 12:22 pm
NOT exactly Jake but there’s a music artist named Jason Owens. Didn’t Dig just saw it on a retweet. He was getting a lot of flack. Had to make a tweet that it wasn’t him. Not sure his genre either.
March 6, 2018 @ 9:57 am
It is kind of amazing, isn’t it? John cougar Mellencamp is a rock ‘n’ roll star, who sang pier rock ‘n’ roll music. He never tried to be Country, and no one ever thought of him as Country. He was a rock star. And yet most of his music sounds like Country music, when contrasted with “Country” music in 2018. I realize I’m onto nothing new here, but it really is amazing isn’t it?
March 6, 2018 @ 10:15 am
Johnny Cougar was to be promoted as the next David Bowie initially, I believe. So yeah–even weirder. But he hit on a different vib and followed that trail of cash and got himself re-molded into that persona, and apparently hated it–hated performing and all that shit. Just wanted to be a painter, I guess.
Seems like he got Flanderized against his will.
Which is still better than getting cookie-cuttered, as have Jake Owen et al.
Music Row took the ball away from country music fans very early in the game. We keep trying to get it back when it is well and truly out of reach. Why? Better to go find another game, I say. Right here, for instance.
March 6, 2018 @ 5:10 pm
I always had thought/heard that his label wanted to paint him more like Bruce Springsteen with his early work, and the heartland rock was more who he really was. Mellencamp was from rural Indiana and his family lost their land in the 80’s farm crisis I believe.
March 6, 2018 @ 5:53 pm
Interesting you bring that up… Mellencamp did go after country radio with his 2006 album “Freedom’s Road,” which even spawned a Top 40 country single in 2006 with “Our Country” (featuring Little Big Town on backup vocals). So on paper he could be considered another formerly hot pop artist who turned to country when the pop hits stopped coming. But as far as I know he was never quoted saying he considered the album “country” (more ’60s rock than anything else) so it’s possible the country thing was his label’s decision.
Incidentally, Detroit’s Nash FM outlet has “Small Town” in its gold library.
March 6, 2018 @ 10:03 am
Jake is now on a new label, Big Loud Records, founded by — you guessed it — Craig Wiseman. The only thing I know of Big Loud is that it served us that absolute joke of a “country” singer, Chris Lane, and surely one of the most annoying “country” hits of the past five years: “Fix.”
And to think that I had some hope for Jake when he recorded, and released as a single, Travis Meadows’ “What We Ain’t Got.” And Jake was going around saying that it’s the best song he’s every recorded and so proud of it. Well, that didn’t inspire him to stop with this nonsense.
March 6, 2018 @ 10:42 am
Just like you many people had huge hopes for him. I’d love for him to find himself again but if he doesn’t he’ll just be another country singer who almost made it big
March 6, 2018 @ 10:08 am
Serious Clark? Jake also tries too hard to be Buffet at times and is bad at it. Be Jake Owen. Jake would get seripus about his career and pull off and cut a pure traditional record, he could be good. And EDM crap in country has to go and this is coming from someone that likes good EDM. Putting all my chips on Cody Jinks and Tyler Childers. The trash can have what they Call country radio these days
March 6, 2018 @ 10:24 am
Jake is good guy. Just playing the Nashville game bc he is trapped. Jake likes Sturgill and Cody Jinks. You know he knows good music. And Jake has some pipes and could be good if he wasn’t being restricted. Chris Young imo is the the same boat. Pretty good traditional artists that Nashville is trying make them into something they are not.
March 6, 2018 @ 10:26 am
To me, Jake Owens always been one of the fake accent guys. Or should I say “Fake Accent Guys”? It’s almost a subcategory now.
He really has no cultural ties to Country Music, and should go back to being an upper middle class guy from the beach.
March 6, 2018 @ 10:22 pm
I always thought country music was the most inclusive genre, that you didn’t have to grow up on a farm to love it or play it.
I can’t help that I was born in a suburb, and I can’t help that I love country music.
March 7, 2018 @ 9:05 am
I mean, I love Country music, but I would hardly call it an inclusive genre. I agree with your main message, but there are still a lot of Country fans who believe you can only be from south of the Mason-Dixon in order to enjoy/understand the genre, and let’s not get into the genre’s history/acceptance of fans and artists of color.
March 7, 2018 @ 11:43 pm
What is the country music genre’s history with fans and artists of color?
Doesn’t the banjo derive from an African instrument?
March 6, 2018 @ 10:40 am
I wish Mellencamp would sue him and the songwriters and win enough to put them out of business and us out of the misery of hearing this even by accident.
March 6, 2018 @ 7:41 pm
John gave him the okay.
March 6, 2018 @ 11:10 am
I hear this shit all the time now- shitty country artists name dropping classic songs and artists. Old dominion had a song on the radio where literally every line was them ripping off lines from other, better songs. They can’t even hide the fact that they have nothing new to say so they just rip off songs that their new demographic is too young to know.
March 6, 2018 @ 11:25 am
This sounds like John Mellencamp and Shawn Mullin – Lullaby got thrown in a blender. Just awful.
March 6, 2018 @ 11:28 am
These lyrics are just SO BAD. I don’t even know where to start. I guess, iIn fairness, the melody is good, but that only because it’s an anthem of my generation that I know like the back of my hand — This song feels like someone took my favorite old comfortable shirt, and took a giant $hit on it…
March 6, 2018 @ 11:38 am
One more Owen: Jason Owen…the aussie country singer.
(Un-)popular opinion: “I Was Jack (You Were Diane)” is the first Jake Owen song i like.
According to Billboard Country Update (03/05) is “I Was Jack…” the Hot Shot Debut (#22) on the Country Airplay Charts.
March 6, 2018 @ 11:53 am
I wonder if they were looking at a formula and trying to have success like Kid Rock did with All Summer Long
March 6, 2018 @ 11:54 am
Any thoughts comparing it to All Summer Long by Kid Rock?
March 6, 2018 @ 12:48 pm
I didn’t love “All Summer Long”. However, with nearly ten years of hindsight, It has somewhat grown on me. As a side note, Kid Rock has said that “All Summer Long” was actually very hard to write, as he was struggling trying to write original lyrics to his new song , while always blending the melodies of “Sweet Home Alabama” and “Werewolves of London”. I think history will show that “All Summer” is a fair song that stands the test of time while honoring the originals. While “I Was Jack” is crappy now, it will still be crappy in 10 years.
March 6, 2018 @ 11:58 am
Jake Owen’s first album was pretty decent, but it all went downhill from there.
I wonder if he or anyone else ripping off Mellencamp ever heard “Rain on the Scarecrow.” Pretty sure I already know the answer.
March 6, 2018 @ 5:12 pm
“Rain on the Scarecrow” is a great tune! My favorite Mellencamp song.
March 6, 2018 @ 1:06 pm
Listen, all you people cant be serious I think it is great.. my personal opinion is when people talk negative it is because they have nothing nice to say.. Jake stay young, sing what feels good to you.. and people he wasn’t trying to steal the original he made his version.. jealousy does not fit you people..
Mellencamp gave Jake his blessing..
March 6, 2018 @ 6:02 pm
I was wondering how long it would be before the first comment by a butt-hurt fan girl… looks like about three and a half hours.
And I will agree with you on one thing, we do have nothing nice to say about this monstrosity, and it’s because we know an artist like Jake Owen is capable of better than being a second-rate Kenny Chesney.
March 6, 2018 @ 1:19 pm
I don’t have the intention to listen to this song, but I wonder what Trig thinks of the new Aldean single that is shaping up to be a huge hit.
March 6, 2018 @ 1:37 pm
May have a review on the new Jason Aldean song soon.
March 6, 2018 @ 2:07 pm
Very well said. While I do enjoy Mellencamp’s music, I’m getting sick of these modern mainstream male “country” artists name dropping him and ripping off his style. Same goes for the obligatory mentions of other classic rock bands and songs. It’s become as worn out as beer, trucks, small towns, dirt roads, and daisy dukes. And why does nearly every single Jake releases nowadays has to have him talking/mumbling the friggin’ verses? He actually has a decent voice, but you wouldn’t know it with the crappy material he’s been wasting it on these days.
March 6, 2018 @ 2:20 pm
I am not even going to listen to it. I miss the old Jake Owen like his first two albums. Too bad Nashville got a hold of him and ruined him.
March 7, 2018 @ 6:07 pm
I miss that Jake too. Hes been a huge disappointment since the Days Of Gold album.
March 6, 2018 @ 3:57 pm
Life is about change. Jake is not a crossover, but there are many in the music industry now. The song just brings back teenage memories. It is not exclusive only to Jack and Diane’s relationship. Memories from time and age. I was a ’60’s teen and I don’t hear something new and think of it being the same song from 50 years ago and say ” oh that is the same song, but worse” Move on- don’t compare-have FUN with it ! Love Jake! Love the song !
March 6, 2018 @ 6:10 pm
While life is about change, most of us on this website would prefer what’s considered country music to have at least some semblance of actual country. This doesn’t. If it’s a crossover he’s looking for, he should just send it to adult contemporary radio and be done with it.
March 6, 2018 @ 6:23 pm
Like I said, he is NOT a crossover. Life is about change
March 6, 2018 @ 4:06 pm
if I was the lawyer for Chevrolet, and I heard Jake Owen “sing” about our brand in this song the way he does, I’d sue him for slander, libel, and defamation of character, even though I’m an automobile, not a person.
March 6, 2018 @ 4:29 pm
take out the vocals and this could easily be mistaken for muzak youd hear in a sad empty mall
March 6, 2018 @ 5:11 pm
Listened to 25 seconds of him mumble rapping. Choked back the bile. And read the comments. Now the original is stuck in my head, so not all bad.
March 6, 2018 @ 5:32 pm
Boring, just with buffed teeth.
March 6, 2018 @ 5:40 pm
Fuck this is a terrible song .
It was bad enough the first 14 times someone else wrote it but this ….Jesus .
It could have been sung by ( any male artist’s name here ) or ( any other male artist’s name here ) .
And damn …I don’t like rap but even I know that some artist’s actually know how to do it . I cannot ‘rap’ my brain around this guy’s attempt to . …why ……WHY ??? . ..
Skeeter Davis said it best :
‘Why does the sun go on shining
‘Why does the sea rush to shore
Don’t they know its the end of the world …
Could Jake please not rap …..anymore ???
March 7, 2018 @ 3:13 am
Do you know Mellencamp’s version of the song you just mentioned “end of the world”?
GREAT!!!!
John Mellencap is a giant songwriter and peformer and his latest more acoustic leaning albums are super good, check them out…
he also founded farm aid together with Willie and Neil Young…i feel like he’s got more than a tie to rural culture and the spirit of country music.
March 8, 2018 @ 7:23 pm
I did not know Mellancamp recorded that Danielle . What a great version . Thanks for the heads-up on that . It’s beautiful ….
March 7, 2018 @ 4:15 am
Maybe Jake Owen is actually making music he likes.
March 7, 2018 @ 11:00 am
If that’s true, it makes this shit show of a song even worse.
March 7, 2018 @ 6:18 am
I would be curious to know how many folks in country’s target audience now knows who John Mellencamp is. Or Jack and Diane for that matter. I know who they are, but I’m WAY over the target demo that “country” music is after these days. I’d be willing to put money on Owen not knowing who they were until he was given this song.
March 7, 2018 @ 6:26 am
The best thing John Mellencamp ever did was discover James McMurtry.
March 7, 2018 @ 9:50 am
…other than all the great music he wrote, recorded and released during his career. .
March 7, 2018 @ 9:52 am
I like some of Mellencamp’s music, but McMurtry greatly exceeds him. McMurtry is the greatest living songwriter.
March 7, 2018 @ 9:54 am
If I want more Mellencamp I’ll get it from James McMurtry or Will Hoge. Jake Owen just ain’t the guy for that.
March 7, 2018 @ 8:02 am
Surprisingly enough, I don’t hate it. Don’t like it, I’ve heard much worse, tho.
March 7, 2018 @ 9:41 am
John Mellencamp has become more country/Americana sounding the further his career has progressed…and yes, it’s a LOT more country than almost anything on country radio today.
March 7, 2018 @ 9:57 am
First, in defense of Jake Owen: his first few releases showed great promise, strong voice, good country and country-rock songs. As far as commercial country, he was one I supported and even looked forward to his new releases. Like with Jason Aldean, one had to avoid the trash strewn amongst the quality but, with a little digging, he had some nice stufff.
…since then he has released garbage. Once I heard Beachin’, I crossed him off my list. Much like Eli Young Band, I am waiting until he comes to his senses and starts releasing stuff his original fans would like, not the teeny bopper crap he is foisting currently. I speak with my wallet: the last two release by both Jake Owen and EYB I have totally avoided. Put out good product and you’ll get my dough. Until then, good luck with the kids buying your trash, they’ll be grown in a year or two and you’ll be left high and dry with no fans.
March 7, 2018 @ 4:15 pm
Craig Wiseman definitely peaked with Live Like You Were Dying.
March 7, 2018 @ 6:04 pm
Ive been a huge fan of Jake Owen since the day I heard Eight Second Ride back in 2007. The dude has an awesome voice and has proven with past records that he is fully capable of making a die-hard country record. Ever since the Days Of Gold album, he has been a trainwreck. “Anywhere With You” was the last good single he released, and that was back in 2013 from an album that had been out 2 years at that point. Days Of Gold was pretty bad, but American Love is single-handedly one of the worst albums ive ever heard and im pissed i spent 12 bucks on it, its god awful. Jake should’ve stuck with the “Real Life” album which was scrapped after the lead single peaked at #17. Well, look what that got him, the album that replaced Real Life and was actually released had flops from all the singles except one, and as a result he was canned by RCA. This new song is ok, but I cannot stand anything Mellencamp has ever put out and have always hated the Jack & Diane song, it sure as hell is better than anything hes put out in years ill tell you that.
April 23, 2018 @ 5:25 pm
This song is obviously meant to be nostalgic. Big problem right out of the gate, though. Jake Owen is 36 years old. Being the same age, I know what music I was listening to in the high school years with my buddies or my girlfriend. And it was pretty ubiquitous at the time. At no point was John Cougar’s “Jack & Diane” a song we in this age group related to, or even wanted to relate to. Our parents could relate to it because they were poor, early twenty-somethings without a dime to their name – which is why our mothers still sing every word of “Jack & Diane” to this day. But that’s because the song was released in 1982. Jake Owen acting like this song speaks to his past is utterly ridiculous. Guys his age in high school did not want to be Jack, and girls didn’t want to be Diane. Such a stupid concept for a song.
Oh, and stop talking your verses, bro.
July 13, 2018 @ 10:26 am
You nailed this response.
April 26, 2018 @ 12:25 pm
Ok, so I REALLY don’t like modern country music … the vast majority of it makes me nauseous. Hank Williams? Roy Acuff? George Jones? Alabama? Each one is “real” country music in their own way. On a slow day I like Gene Autry, Roy Rogers or the Sons of the Pioneers. Bluegrass & banjo? Fiddle, jug and washboard? All parts of the country music buffet that is homespun and authentic. And in my younger years, when Roy Clark would play his guitar on Hee Haw, everything stopped. I was mesmerized. But country music in our day has become something more like a hideous monster. It’s truly awful. Some people have pointed to Boot Scoot Boogie and Achy Breaky Heart as the beginning of the downfall of country music. But I would actually go back further to identify the problem. Remember when Barbara Mandrell sang, I Was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool? That’s where the problem was starting. Not that her song was the problem … but that the song was identifying a rift in “country culture” and was intended to point clearly to “the real thing” … along with George Jones himself, echoing the call.
In the late 70’s, a whole bunch of urban, city-dwellers decided to start wearing cowboy boots, cowboy hats, and other attire that imitated the country life … in a way that was supposed to be cool and trendy. It was something new for the people who were starting to out-grow the “groovy” life of the 60’s and early 70’s. Kick off the beads and bell-bottoms … put on the hat and boots. But at that point … country music was still country. The performers were country, and proud of it. And those who weren’t “country” … the folks who didn’t grow up “country” … they were opting for the so-called “coolness” of the country culture. Of course they tweaked it in weird ways in their attire, but they basically left country music intact. They weren’t trying to re-make country music … they were coming to enjoy country music, and parts of country culture, for what it was. But the current trend of country music away from its roots is not because the rest of the world is trying to work its way into the country music scene, but because many (most) of the country performers prefer an audience that is wider than its true base … the people of the country. In the late 70’s the broader culture decided that it liked “country” and country music. Now, it’s the other way around. The musicians of country are being drawn into the broader culture … so this time, “country” musicians are trying to get acceptance from city-dwellers and urbanites. In total reverse of Barbara’s song, they are becoming un-country, because country isn’t cool. Billy Ray Cyrus may have been a key marker along the way (and looking back, he was actually more of a playful entertainer than a serious musician), but I think what happened since then has been a deterioration of country culture, not just country music. There’s a reason why the wide open country culture is different from the mass of population that swarms in the concrete jungle. And country music used to reflect that. Basically, it no longer does. It still talks (some) about the activities of the country life, but it no longer has the heartbeat of the country, or the soul of farming, ranching and living off the land.
Having said all this … I do my best to avoid modern country music radio stations at this point. In the 90’s, maybe 1/2 of the music was still “country.” Now, only 10% (or less) of what the country music industry is producing is … actually country. And because that industry and the flow of “country” music on the regular country stations has gone so far away from country … I come down on Jake’s song a bit different than most of you who have commented on here. I work in a place where the top 40 country drivel plays all day long. I can’t get away from it. Some days it feels like ear (and soul) torture. But … when the Jack and Diane riff begins to play … it is a welcome relief. At least for a few moments, I can enjoy the original Mellencamp song in my mind … and that much (at least) is better than whatever the next song is going to be. And the next song. And the next song. It’s a momentary oasis in my daily torture of having to listen to today’s top 40 country music crap. Because, with very few exceptions … that’s what country music has become. A bunch of crap. I can handle Jake’s song better than most of it. At least it lets me remember a song from the past, that isn’t crap.
So I’d say, give up on trying to analyze ways to fix the country music scene. Just enjoy the small handful of musicians who actually play good country music. But give up on the county music industry … is too far gone.
June 23, 2018 @ 6:36 am
I hate this song with a passion. I didn’t like the original song and this version isn’t any better.
July 13, 2018 @ 10:24 am
This song is wretched. The original was not a great song either, I found it annoying. But this one by Jake Owen is on a whole other level. It panders to tasteless people.
I love my husband very much, but he’s rocking out to this song right now and I’m just reconsidering everything.
April 2, 2019 @ 12:55 pm
Jake Owens was pissed that he paid $29.99 to pay to watch Tiger play golf. The only time I am thrilled about Streaming that killed the Music Industry is when I hear Jake Owens, FGL, Luke, Sam Hunt, Kane Brown or McGraw. Otherwise, I would be demanding my 29.99 back. Each time I hear any of the latter, my brain cells start dying a slow death. Garbage!
September 19, 2022 @ 11:03 am
Back in 2018 John gave his Blessing for this song
I had to wonder did he do that just to stay away from controversy?
This is absolutely garbage I didn’t even know it came out back then I was taking a crap in the truck stop and had some country music pipe through and I heard it.
Wondering what the hell is this crap?
and I had to Google to see what the heck it was. I’ve never been a fan of this guy anyway even before he cut his hair.