Jana Kramer’s “Said No One Ever” Couldn’t Be Worse
Warning: Language
What kind of fresh hell in a chemical tan has been dragged onto country music’s front stoop and left like the carcass of a disease-ridden rodent murdered in a noxious sewer by a mangy alley cat to fester of some Godforsaken stench that’s so diabolical you’d rather asphyxiate to death than take one more sweet breath on this mortal coil??
Right as we were beginning to graduate to lukewarm on Jana Kramer after she released the semi-decent “I Got The Boy” and it shot up the charts despite her being female and the song actually having something to say, now she’s got to haul off and release this monstrosity in bobby socks. The 31-year-old songstress might as well have sold out the Bridgestone Arena in downtown Nashville, promoted the show of a lifetime, sold scalped tickets on the secondary market for three figures, and when everyone showed up, wheeled a dumpster full of soiled baby diapers to center stage, lit it on fire, and then announced over the public address system that we could all go fuck ourselves.
There’s pop, and then there’s taking one end of a piece of bubble gum and holding it betwixt your upper and lower bridge while you twirl the other end around your finger and daydream about unicorns and princess weddings. That’s about what you get with “Said No One Ever.”
Now look, I know we’re all supposed to be adults here and just focus on the music, but the tone of Jana Kramer’s skin in the official video for “Said No One Ever” is so ragingly altered by synthetic substances in a dark direction, Jana would be putting her life at risk and probably get shouted down as a presumed illegal immigrant or radical jihadist if she had the audacity to show up to a Trump rally. I’d vote for Donald if he’d pledge to build a wall so big, so thick, and so tall and long that you could guarantee it would be impenetrable to this song for the length of eternity. “Said No One Ever” should be roughed up at a border checkpoint by overreaching jack booted Federal thugs with no comprehension of habeas corpus or due process, and unceremoniously deported in an inhospitably hot and wretched bus back to its native origins of Satan’s commode to never be allowed to return to the stars and stripes ever again so help us God.
It must be embarrassing for Jana and Old Dominion that they released basically the same damn song with with the same flimsy premise at the same freaking time. Yes, there’s actually two of these assholic offerings vying for people’s attention. It’s sort of like when the bimbo and the prude on the 90’s drama Beverley Hills 90210 both showed wearing the same stupid prom dress. The alpha and omega of “Said No One Ever” boils down to listing off crap people don’t like, and then saying in a squeaky, adolescent voice, “said no one ever”—not too far removed from exactly how Old Dominion’s equally-shitastic “Said Nobody” works.
By the end of “Said No One Ever,” Jana Kramer repeats the title phrase so many times and with such machine gun rapidity, you’ll become a staunch outspoken proponent of self-mutilation, or vote and actively stump for your least favorite candidate from the opposite party for President just to shut it up. Hopefully cooler heads can prevail, and the entirety of Western Civilization can come together, put political differences aside, and roundly renounce “Said No One Ever” as a legitimate or viable form of human entertainment.
Yeah, didn’t particularly care for this one.
March 3, 2016 @ 9:28 am
When I heard this for the first time on CMT, i was using the channel as background noise while i was on my laptop but when this worthless excuse of a song came on, my eyes immediately shot to the TV and my eyes were glued. I sat there with my mouth wide open and eyes wide open the entire video. I thought it was a joke, like some type of commercial at first. Then I realized it was for real. This is not country in any way. Anything on radio now is better and more country than this. Horrible, horrible song, and very immature and stupid to say the very least, and that is a serious understatement within itself!
March 3, 2016 @ 10:34 am
Someone could take this same exact song and video, do it tongue in cheek, and it would be the perfect parody.
March 4, 2016 @ 4:31 pm
“This song is country!” Said no one ever.
March 3, 2016 @ 1:33 pm
So now Jana can call “dibs” on the latest crappy single by a female
March 3, 2016 @ 9:32 am
A shitty song for sure, but it’s also embarrassing and sad that anyone over the age of 21 would sing a song like this, let alone a 31 year old.
March 3, 2016 @ 9:32 am
Disappointing this.
And that there seems to be no supply shortage of hell, and the logistics seem to be top-notch. It’s a roll of the dice if my Austin cheese crackers make into my hands with less than a week to go on the expiration date. Yet hell is always fresh as a fucking daisy. Supply and demand, I suppose.
March 3, 2016 @ 9:33 am
Seems like an epic miscalculation, especially as you said after a nice little countrified hit in “She Got the Boy”…she’s beautiful (when in a more natural state), no doubt, but a little old to make a jump straight to the bubble gum charts. As for the skin tone, I thought it was a part of a joke in the video until I realized there was no joke there. Then it became funny in its own right.
March 3, 2016 @ 9:35 am
“Yeah, didn’t particularly care for this one.”
LMAO.
March 3, 2016 @ 9:36 am
…and think I’d started appreciating Kramer after being incessantly bombarded with “I Got The Boy”.
March 3, 2016 @ 9:36 am
That is bad! Gotta tell you Trigger, have never enjoyed reading a review more than this one. What a hoot.
March 3, 2016 @ 11:04 am
Agreed! I haven’t heard the song and have no desire to, but that was really well written and super entertaining!
March 3, 2016 @ 9:40 am
I heard this song late last year when I checked out some tracks from Jana’s ‘Thirty One’ album on YouTube. Even as an album-filler track I thought it was irritating as hell — I never could’ve imagined what would possess her or her label to release this hideous thing as a single / video. o_O
March 3, 2016 @ 9:42 am
Ha! What in the actual fuck was that?? Makes me want to send her a rope and how-to guide on tying a noose and write “says everyone always”
March 3, 2016 @ 9:55 am
This is why there is no women on country radio. This right here. And Kelsea Ballerini and Rae Lynn and that crap Danielle Bradbury is singing now. Stupid, cutesy, nasally, fake country accent shit. That’s what people think women want to hear? What we identify with? How freaking old is Jana Kramer? I know she’s on about her 4th marriage, so she has to be at least mid 30 something, yet she’s singing this Disney Channel, hypercolored shit. I’m so tired of these over made up, come fuck me eyed, pouty lipped chicks that I could puke. It’s almost uncomfortable to watch how these women dress all sexy but act like little girls.
March 3, 2016 @ 11:06 am
thank you! I am so insulted, as a woman, by the shit that is ostensibly marketed to me. I always wonder, is it just me!? Is this working for other women?
March 3, 2016 @ 11:22 am
Not just you at all! I keep hearing that they don’t play women because women don’t want to hear women. Wrong. We just want to hear real women singing meaningful material, not Barbie dolls singing teeny bopper crap songs.
March 4, 2016 @ 7:57 pm
I agree. It’s been a relief to be listening to red dirt and hear actual men and women singing. What a revelation! I don’t understand this trend of men and women in their 30’s and 40’s sounding like 8th graders and singing songs like “Games”. That I could relate too…if I were a 7th grader! The pouty lipped fake little girl thing also gets on my nerves. Enough already. I can’t believe I used to listen to Patty, Pam, Martina, Trisha in the 90’s. Puts these fake little girls to shame. Enough.
March 4, 2016 @ 12:48 pm
“This is why there is no women on country radio. This right here.”
I really don’t understand the current thinking that women don’t want hear other women singing on the radio. When I was a kid I read Tammy Wynette’s autobiography and she complained about that very thing when she was getting her start, although things were starting to get better thanks to the success of artists like Loretta Lynn, Connie Smith, and Skeeter Davis. By the late 90s/early 00s a lot of women (Shania Twain, Faith Hill) were outselling the men. People were complaining that country had become too chickified. In some ways, the bro movement may have been a backlash against that.
The point is — it was proven and well established decades ago that women can and do sell as many records as the men. So why did things revert back to a pre-1960s mentality that says they don’t?
March 3, 2016 @ 9:58 am
Sturgill posted on Instagram that he has an interview today that “you don’t wanna miss.” You should check it out just letting you know
March 3, 2016 @ 10:38 am
Yeah, exclusively streamed on Beats by iTunes so you sign up for their crappy service. I’ve been in open boycott of Apple for a decade now and I’m not about to stop anytime soon, especially after I got screwed this last weekend when an iPhone virus had everyone accusing me of putting popups on the site. I guess I’ll just have to hear the news from the grapevine.
March 3, 2016 @ 11:05 am
The only solace I can take is that most of the iTunes exclusives so far have only lasted a couple days or a week or so.
I hope that continues since there is no way in hell I am using iTunes or buying anything through Apple. Plus their streaming service is way behind Spotify and Google Play when it comes to ease of use and functionality.
March 3, 2016 @ 10:00 am
Old Dominion”™s equally-shitastic +2, good one
March 3, 2016 @ 10:07 am
I looked up the word ” formulaic ” on Wikipedia and it played a video of this song . Not only is the lyric pointless and generic but the key and and the melody do not challenge , showcase or otherwise offer ANY platform for an interesting performance from JK . I think you’re rating was too generous Trigger . These kinds of musical assaults on a listener’s time and intelligence should carry fines .
March 3, 2016 @ 10:10 am
When I saw the thumbnail for this, I thought she was pulling a Jason Aldean and threw on some blackface. Why anyone thinks it’s a good idea to throw that much fake tan on is beyond me, especially since she was rather attractive beforehand. Instead, she looks like a parody of a valley girl living in the reactor zone of Chernobyl.
As for the song, haven’t tortured myself yet, but I assume it’s about on the level of “Donkey.” The thing is with Trigger’s epic rants, they almost obligate me to listen to the subject of their vitriol if only so I can gain full appreciation for the wonderfully contemptuous writing.
Between the best rants in music writing, the priceless(or expensive, for me) suggestions for quality music, and the quality journalism, SCM always comes through. Many thanks for the hard work, Trigger.
March 3, 2016 @ 10:40 am
Thanks for reading Senator.
March 3, 2016 @ 10:31 am
I dunno…I kinda like it.
Said no one ever.
March 3, 2016 @ 10:31 am
I really like this song… said no one ever~
(Great minds????)
March 3, 2016 @ 10:39 am
“It must be embarrassing for Jana and Old Dominion that they released basically the same damn song with with the same flimsy premise at the same freaking time.”
It would be if these people had any shame at all. But if they did, we wouldn’t be having this conversation right now.
March 3, 2016 @ 10:42 am
HOLY FUCKING SHIT! That’s all I can say.
March 3, 2016 @ 10:46 am
Listening to it now. She seems to be trying to become the next Taylor Swift.
March 3, 2016 @ 12:26 pm
Definitely has a very “We Are Never Ever Ever Getting Back Together” vibe.
March 3, 2016 @ 4:25 pm
The irony is that Taylor Swift originally made her name in country music with far more mature lyrics than the bulk of mainstream country today.
I was just listening to “Come in with the Rain” on my playlist today, and it got me thinking: Somewhere out there, there is a vast, musically underserved group of former Taylor Swift fans. If the country industry were smart, it would shift toward greater depth in songwriting, not less, to re-energize that disaffected demographic.
March 3, 2016 @ 4:43 pm
Personally, I thought “Burning House” did a good job of hitting that mark.
I really enjoyed that one.
March 3, 2016 @ 5:24 pm
Why do you think Borchetta signed Maddie and Tae, haha?
March 3, 2016 @ 10:58 am
Is this song definitely being released to country radio?
March 3, 2016 @ 12:28 pm
Yes, this is definitely a radio single with the big production video and the whole bit.
March 3, 2016 @ 11:01 am
Also, there’s finally new music from Jake Owen…. Don’t think you’re going to like it….
March 3, 2016 @ 11:07 am
Yikes…..what a.load of crap….. Could we please get a courtesy flush….thanks….
March 3, 2016 @ 11:26 am
My wife got this album when it came out months back so I’ve heard this song a few times since then. First time I heard it I thought it was some pop station on the radio. I just figured it was one of those fillers that the artist was “having fun” with or just decided to mail it in. I’m shocked that she would release it as a single. Although the album wasn’t very deep, there were others that deserved a second listen and certainly more impressive than whatever this is.
I held out hope for her, but I think the ship has sailed.
March 3, 2016 @ 11:29 am
How the HELL do you go from a mature, emotional country song like “I Got the Boy” to this soulless, brain-dead pop garbage Selena Gomez would turn down for being too immature? I wanted to like you, Jana Kramer. “Disappointed” is a huge understatement here.
Great rant.
March 4, 2016 @ 8:01 pm
Agree.
March 3, 2016 @ 11:49 am
I am at the point where I can barely muster up the energy to be mad at garbage like this anymore. Personally, I think the pop country cabal released utter dog crap like this just to say, “Hey, let’s see how much we can piss off the traditionalists with THIS song?” I mean, seriously. How do you expected to be taken seriously as a musician if you release a pile of steaming dog crap like this???
March 3, 2016 @ 12:50 pm
“I am at the point where I can barely muster up the energy to be mad at garbage like this anymore. Personally, I think the pop country cabal released utter dog crap like this just to say, “Hey, let”™s see how much we can piss off the traditionalists with THIS song?” I mean, seriously. How do you expected to be taken seriously as a musician if you release a pile of steaming dog crap like this???”
Well ……exactly . Exactly . How in God’s name does this kind of shit see the light of day and WHO is stupid enough to put money into ensuring it does ?
March 3, 2016 @ 1:56 pm
Nobody’s trying Albert.
They don’t have to.
Technology has allowed serious music fans to sidestep the old ways, and the end result is that the only people left are the people with no taste.
If we were doing tests on rats and left the cage open, the only rats we’d have left are the dumb ones who can’t climb out. We don’t even have to try keeping them in there because they’re dumb enough to stay. Same with the radio.
The serious music fans have all evolved (see I used that word) into music fans who use CD players (or keep using vinyl) and don’t need to listen to radio to hear new music or their favorite songs anymore. The only people left are the ones who either don’t care or don’t understand music. The industry doesn’t have to try anymore, and it doesn’t need people who DO try. it’s easier to find Luke Bryan who can be molded into anything than it is to work with Haggard who has standards. It’s like keeping the rat trainer who always brushes the rats and always gives the rats treats even though the rats are too stupid to care and just come back dirty and eat whatever they find on the floor anyway. Pretty soon you’ll want to get another one who doesn’t waste time doing anything except the bare minimum since that’s all the rats care about anyway.
March 3, 2016 @ 3:57 pm
Good analogy F2S . I recently likened the current radio / country music scenario to something hockey great Wayne Gretzky said upon his leaving the sport in ’99. He said the game had gotten so ‘goonie’ with clutching and grabbing and illegal hits going on that there was no room or opportunities for GREAT players to play skill-based hockey any more . He went on to say that if they didn’t do something about that aspect of the sport and kept catering to fans only interested in that fighting/hitting aspect of the game as opposed to skilled guys who REALLY entertained and made the game exciting , those skilled players would soon ignore hockey as a career option as it would become frustrating and even dangerous . The sport would be devoid of sportsmanship and skills.
He was right ….and shortly thereafter the rules were tweaked to clamp down on the destructive aspects of the game , thank goodness , before it became Roller Derby . Today the league has far fewer , if any , ‘ goons’ whose sole purpose was to antagonize , disrupt , undermine and frustrate skilled players thereby diminishing the attraction and finesse of the game to prospective talent AND fans .Skilled players now flourish.
Its easy to cater to the lowest common denominator if the bottom line is …..well …the bottom line . But you do the game / music genre a complete disservice when you ignore the things that make them unique and great and ultimately you are only contributing to its ( and your own ) extinction .
March 3, 2016 @ 5:54 pm
That’s profiling, Fuzzy, and very stereotypical. In other words, what you have stated is simply NOT true. I could write a massive paragraph as to why you are wrong, but I will try to keep this short and to the point. There are people like me out there, in fact I’d say hundreds of thousands or possibly millions, that enjoy a good bit of pop country, neo-traditional country, traditional country, real modern country (like Jon Pardi, Josh Thompson, Mo Pitney, etc), and even the R&B influenced EDM country like Sam Hunt. We DO exist. I have NO ISSUE going from Conway Twitty or George Jones to some Sam Hunt and Luke Bryan. Probably because I am OPEN MINDED in most aspects, unlike most people, and I’d go as far as saying that most people on this site are CLOSE MINDED and do not like changes, or at least as far as music goes. I get what you are saying, but it’s nothing short of ignorant and arrogant to state that “all” people (in other words) that listen to country radio are brainless morons that will listen to whatever is thrown at them, because it is not entirely true. There is PLENTY of people like me that enjoy a good bit of what comes to country radio, but fight for more depth and for more actual country sound. For example, I cannot stand clowns making fake country frat boy music like Chris Lane, Granger Smith, Brantley Gilbert, and even Jason Aldean, and it pisses me off hearing them on radio or seeing them on CMT because its not what we need in country music. However, I applaud artists like Michael Ray, Justin Moore, Jon Pardi, Toby Keith, Chris Young, Dierks Bentley, etc, for sticking to a clean sound that you can turn on the radio and in a second know that it’s definitely a country music station. I dig out the good stuff on radio and turn off the shitty bullshit. As I stated, I understand what you are trying to say, there is indeed a massive population that are truly a bunch of morons that will listen to any garbage thrown at them on country radio and they think its country and that its great music, and that number is LARGE. However, there is also a pretty diverse population out there such as myself that are the way i described above, that listens to country radio as well.
March 3, 2016 @ 9:05 pm
WE LIKE CHANGES (see sturgill Simpson). What we don’t like is when the entire country genre is flipped over and turned into a whole other genre and sold to us as country still. Because that’s what it is: sold to us. There is absolutely nothing country about Sam Hunt. He is a wannabe R&B singer that music row said “hey he looks like a guy 15 year old girls will get behind.” And so they gave him a contract and now the rest is history. Basically, if anyone else, anyone at all, from a pop label signed him and he was played only on top 40 stations, no one here would give a shit about him. Luke Bryan gets flack because at one point he was country – albeit pop country – but his music still had a lot of country elements to it that now he’s thrown away in attempts to stay relevant.
Then there’s the whole problem of the quality of music has completely plummeted. Where you could listen to some of the older pop country and hear songs about a variety of topics and most halfway cleverly written and arranged, now we’re getting songs that are the same five key words and not even well written at that. And it’s taking 5 fuckin people to write the same sentence just rephrased over and over again. Kristofferson wrote “Sunday morning coming down,” which became a major hit, by himself and its topic has never been touched again really because what else is there to say about it? The song covered it and to write something similar would just be rehashing someone else’s idea
Speaking of which, I found this poem Johnny Cash wrote about him on the back of his “me and Bobby McGee” album and I think it perfectly sums up everyone’s feelings on the topic
“Poems don’t come from machines, machines can’t set life into rhyme, and you can’t manufacture soul nor gauge and chop soulful lines.”
It’s almost like Nashville is actively working against country musics rich past and those artists you listed that you like symbolize that decline in standards and even business ethics. I reckon because they’re partaking in it as well.
I used to enjoy pop country too, until I started getting sick of the same song with a different title and singer. Then I started finding other better country and eventually found this website. Now it’s like the matrix, I can’t be unaware. Take the damn pill and open your eyes. Catchy music is economically unsustainable in our fad-driven culture. If you want country music to stick around, it’s time to start supporting real talent
March 4, 2016 @ 8:04 pm
I couldn’t have said it better myself Courtney. Stated perfectly.
March 4, 2016 @ 8:08 pm
Fuzzy, it’s funny you mention rats. This past November I kept getting images of rats in my head bailing on a ship that was going to sink. Since I was born in year of the rat, I switched to red dirt and have not looked back. No regrets ever since.
March 3, 2016 @ 11:58 am
So instead of blackface we now have “brownface.” Saying she looks like Jennifer Lopez here would be an insult to Jennifer Lopez, who has released hip-hop songs that sounded just as country as this. (Actually she also reminded me a bit of Lady Gaga in that screen shot with the oversized sunglasses.)
I too thought “I Got the Boy” was a decent song, but now that looks like a fluke in her quest to pick up where Taylor Swift left off. One wannabe Taylor (Kelsea B.) is bad enough. She’s following up in the FGL “Dirt” tradition of following up something listenable with something… well… what’s worse than unlistenable?
Unfortunately given that she is from metro Detroit, both of our pop country stations will probably add this into heavy rotation instantly. Especially the Trash FM (aka Nash FM) outlet, alongside such true country gems as cuts from Taylor Swfit’s “1989,” the Pitbull remix of “Drink to That All Night,” and “Every Rose Has Its Thorn.”
March 3, 2016 @ 12:40 pm
Just thought about this now, but what if she is trying to play up the drop of Latin blood she has for marketing? Someone surely had to ponder representing her skin tone that darkly and how it would be received.
March 3, 2016 @ 1:27 pm
Detroit…definitely a place known for that deep Southern twang that Jana vomits up in every song. I’m from WV and we don’t even twang that hard.
March 3, 2016 @ 5:23 pm
I hate Dirt far more than their general pop stuff. At least they don’t sound fake when they talk about sticking pink umbrellas in girls’ drinks.
March 3, 2016 @ 12:08 pm
I can’t wait for her next single “wow. I can’t even”
March 3, 2016 @ 1:22 pm
Just out of curiosity, how many people did it take to write this piece of junk?
March 3, 2016 @ 2:43 pm
Writers are “busbee” ???, Nicolle Galyon, and the ever-present Natalie Hemby.
March 3, 2016 @ 2:48 pm
Only three? Hmm…
I think “busbee” was involved with writing the Maren Morris song “My Church”, wasn’t (s)he?
March 3, 2016 @ 2:53 pm
busbee’s country roots run deep (eyeroll):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busbee
March 3, 2016 @ 1:24 pm
Jesus people, “Said No One Ever” sure hit a nerve with you guys. I for one have heard way worse songs. Sure she overdid her tan just a tad but other than that the video was alright. The country/pop genre has been like this since way back, why are you all so offended all of a sudden? As we say in Sweden smaken är som baken which means there’s no accounting for taste. If you find the song so horrible just don’t listen to it.
March 3, 2016 @ 2:01 pm
“… why are you all so offended all of a sudden? ”
You’re new around here, ain’t ya?
March 4, 2016 @ 8:10 pm
Lol!
March 3, 2016 @ 2:34 pm
It hit a nerve for me because Jana’s previous single was quite good and quite country, and this is a major comedown for what could have been a positive female voice on country radio.
March 4, 2016 @ 8:12 pm
Agree. Ditto. Also Kerstin, this isn’t even pop country. This is a POP SONG.
March 3, 2016 @ 1:30 pm
The song is miserable, and to make matters worse, it lasts longer her first two marriages combined….
March 3, 2016 @ 2:37 pm
In other news
Master of Puppets turns 30 today
March 3, 2016 @ 2:40 pm
I just went to wikipedia to look up her ethnicity because I was so confused by that tan. Jana just had a kid so she should think about the fact that her child will one day hear and see this embarrassing song.
March 3, 2016 @ 4:03 pm
Kinda similar to the crappy song and video jennifer nettles tried to peddle ……and band perry for that matter .
March 3, 2016 @ 3:51 pm
Hey Trigger, tell us how you really feel. Oh my God, thank you for laugh, I had to read it twice! But seriously, it’s so frustrating that one of the few women who actually get a slice of airtime would put this out into the universe. On the upside, my 5 year old daughter was straight jamming when she heard me play the video and asked if I was watching Barbie? So not everyone is offended lol
March 3, 2016 @ 4:09 pm
That’s because your daughter is the target demographic for indoctrination into the CULT OF CRAPPY COUNTRY , Hayley . Its like the tobacco companies selling people on smokes when they knew all along it was addictive and they wanted you hooked for life . Yes ….you are probably rolling your eyes and laughing at that comparison but I think that once any industry has found the lowest common denominator they target product accordingly cuz its just TOO EASY .For mainstream country that demographic is young and very impressionable . The biz doesn’t have to try when the target demographic doesn’t have a reference for discretion .
March 3, 2016 @ 7:51 pm
I agree! I dabble in the industry a little, I can promise you that my little ones playlists stay guarded. Big money in any business is crooked as hell!
March 4, 2016 @ 8:16 pm
Lol! It’s fine that the kids like it, but it really feels like the adults are S.o.l.
March 3, 2016 @ 4:17 pm
Horrible song.
I’m not a Trump supporter, but I think that joke about his fans is a bit on the unfairly harsh side…
March 3, 2016 @ 4:30 pm
The triggerman can’t stump the trump.
(sorry, couldn’t resist)
March 3, 2016 @ 5:19 pm
…eh? It’s not like it hasn’t happened multiple times at this point.
March 3, 2016 @ 10:14 pm
I am sure that some percentage of his fans are genuine bigots. When it comes to Muslims, the bigotry of Trump and his supporters is as direct as it is noxious. However, I think that much of the reason for Trump’s appeal is a product of decades of identitarians crying wolf and baselessly tarring broad swaths of the country as racist just because they hold different views on certain issues.
There is nothing necessarily racist about wanting to crack down on illegal immigration. For the record, I favor legalization (stopping at green cards, without a path to citizenship) for those already here. However, I can easily understand why people would support deportation of those who violated our laws and our national sovereignty in coming here.
There is nothing necessarily racist about opposing affirmative action or supporting tough penalties for violent crimes.
There is nothing necessarily racist about protesting against Obama’s policies. As much as I vehemently disagree with the goals of the Tea Party, I thought that the attempt to paint them with a broad brush as a white identity movement was preposterous.
I firmly believe that much of the racial resentment that we see in civil society today is due to the forces of identity politics having pushed aside the forces of economic justice in the left. Identity politics has frayed America’s social fabric and kept open wounds in our culture that could have been much closer to being healed by this point.
In the post-Recession era, we are seeing a return to a message of economic justice, but the left faces a choice in how it frames this issue. Does it go down the path of “intersectionality”, conflating economics with identity and thereby sabotaging the rise of the broad working-class coalition that we need in order to take back power from the economic elites? Or does it focus in a laser-like manner on the bread-and-butter issues facing regular Americans of all identities in this era of rising inequality and falling opportunities?
The future of America’s economy and national harmony will depend on how this question is answered.
March 4, 2016 @ 8:22 pm
Wow, Jana’s song is so annoying that we’ve switched to Trump. Okay, I’ll jump on that. I’m not a Trump fan but I do like that he wants to stop manufacturing overseas pronto. That has really killed this country economically, and the country’s pride, I think. So I do see why people want to vote for him.This whole outsourcing thing to China just sucks big time.
March 5, 2016 @ 11:42 pm
“Wow, Jana”™s song is so annoying that we”™ve switched to Trump.”
LOL! Kind of funny how these musical discussions tend to veer into politics!
I’m sorry if I offended anyone by taking the thread off topic, but I just felt like ranting…
March 7, 2016 @ 11:00 pm
Eric- lol, no worries! Probably in some Universe somewhere the 2 discussions have something similar.
March 3, 2016 @ 10:27 pm
I will add that it is not just economic justice that is threatened by the identitarians. With the rise of the “safe space” movement, free expression itself is under danger. Thankfully, the First Amendment serves as the great bulwark against these forces, but even at public universities we are seeing ferocious attempts to subvert the Constitution and expel students for “offensive” speech.
The problem is much worse in the private sector, where employees are regularly fired for making the smallest off-color jokes.
All of this generates backlash, such that when a candidate like Trump is accused of being a fascist (which I think is true to some extent), his supporters can justifiably point back to “political correctness” as equally fascistic.
As liberals, our two most cherished values are economic justice and personal liberty. When there is a powerful force threatening both of them, it is time for us to push back and find a better way.
March 4, 2016 @ 5:40 am
You liberal cucks better jump on the Trump bandwagon, or continue to lay down and rot.
March 5, 2016 @ 11:54 pm
No.
To start with, Trump’s views on civil liberties, to the extent that we know about them, are anathema to everything liberals stand for.
On foreign policy, he has been better than most of the GOP field but pretty inconsistent, sometimes showing flashes of greatness (e.g. in condemning the Iraq war and criticizing the concept of policing the world), but at other times demonstrating a dangerous lack of seriousness (e.g. his call to invade countries and take their oil).
The best part of his platform is on economic issues, on which he is easily the most liberal candidate in the GOP field. Now, the Democratic candidates are still as liberal or more so on most of those issues, and so for liberals this does not override all the other reasons to vote for Sanders or Clinton over Trump. Nonetheless, Trumpian economics represents a striking populist shift in the GOP after years of rightward drifting. It is especially a surprise that this is happening just 6 years after the Tea Party took over the GOP.
Anyways, that’s enough politics for now on this music forum.
March 7, 2016 @ 11:17 am
The Trump and Sanders revolutions represent terrifying futures.
On the Sanders side we have economic unfeasibility, cradle-to-grave entitlements that can’t be paid for, and a bond tax that would kill investments, thereby reducing the number of businesses opening, thereby raising unemployment.
On the Trump side we have majority rule anarchy in which the masses interpret the constitution and laws are understood according to mob mentality and the first amendment only protects opinions with which the masses agree.
Hillary is a criminal, and Ted Cruz is too stubborn and unwilling to compromise.
In short, anyway we choose we’re all in deep trouble.
March 7, 2016 @ 11:07 pm
I’m not thrilled with any of these choices. I do like Bernie, but I’m concerned about what has already happened in Seattle with Mom and Pop restaurants closing. However Trump freaking arresting Muslims? Unconstitutional and frightening. Hilary is in bed with Monsanto so she is pretty much Satan’s henchman to me. I don’t know what I’m going to do.
March 8, 2016 @ 3:42 pm
To be fair, Trump has called for banning Muslim immigration, not arresting Muslims in America. Nonetheless, banning an entire religion from entering America is already plenty hideous and blatantly unconstitutional.
March 3, 2016 @ 6:30 pm
“Jana would be putting her life at risk and probably get shouted down as a presumed illegal immigrant or radical jihadist if she had the audacity to show up to a Trump rally. I”™d vote for Donald if he”™d pledge to build a wall so big, so thick, and so tall and long that you could guarantee it would be impenetrable to this song for the length of eternity.”
“Yes, there”™s actually two of these assholic offerings vying for people”™s attention. It”™s sort of like when the bimbo and the prude on the 90”™s drama Beverley Hills 90210 both showed wearing the same stupid prom dress.”
Man, you’re on your game Trigger!!! LMFAO
March 3, 2016 @ 8:30 pm
What a load of crap? this is song is a dumpster fire.
March 3, 2016 @ 10:09 pm
She is a interesting Entertainer.
Thought she was good on One Tree Hill
Always found it strange she isn’t a bigger star then she is.
Her 1st album was pretty good. Why Ya Wanna,Whiskey,I Won’t give up were good. Also I Hope It Rains had potential as a pop hit I thought.
Not a fan of the 2nd album.
March 4, 2016 @ 6:18 am
I actually hope this song gets a ton of radio play. I hope it keeps getting worse from here. At least that what it takes to get people to fuckin wake up.
March 4, 2016 @ 7:58 am
Jana is capable of so much better.
March 4, 2016 @ 8:09 am
I made it 22 seconds into the video. This stuff is like the cheap, knockoff kid’s cereal at the grocery store. Nothing but sugar and make you feel horrible.
March 4, 2016 @ 8:15 am
I’m wholely convinced that they’re just fucking with us now. It’s the only explanation. I don’t even know how to rationalize this. Fuck
March 4, 2016 @ 8:36 am
I stopped listening to country radio about eight years ago because I realized that I disliked more of the music I heard there than I liked. I didn’t think things could get much worse. but somehow it does keep getting worse …. much worse. The changes didn’t happen overnight, but it does seem like it didn’t take very long for an entire radio format to turn to crap. And the major labels who supply radio with their product are equally to blame.
At this point I think the only option is to support independent artists and hope that the decent mainstream artists who are getting screwed by their labels can get out of their contracts, go indie and take control of their careers. This genre has to find a way to move forward and be commercially viable without radio or the major labels.
March 4, 2016 @ 8:28 pm
I agree 100%. I want to start supporting more independent artists because honestly, I don’t have a good feeling about where this is headed.
March 4, 2016 @ 9:29 am
I really enjoyed her first album. It got me through some really tough times in my life. I even loved I Got the Boy, and there’s definitely some moments on her new album that I genuinely enjoy. But this? No thanks.
March 4, 2016 @ 12:12 pm
Having just seen what is supposed to pass for a “video” for this song, and for Jana (whose “She Got The Man” was a very reasonable, neo-traditional song)…well, I won’t say that it was three minutes of my life that I’ll never get back, but it was fairly….oh hell, “pathetic” doesn’t even begin to describe it. In my opinion, Jana didn’t just shoot herself in foot in terms of her credibility, she blew her whole damned leg off in the bargain.
But maybe the worst thing she, this song, and this video do is leave the door open for more bro-country sludge to keep poisoning the country airwaves, and to limit female country radio airplay to basically just two: Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert. This is just plain insanity, though the labels are just as guilty as the artists themselves, and the radio station chieftains.
March 4, 2016 @ 6:47 pm
You know, I really like Jana. Not a fan of this song though, but I won’t give her a hard time since she was smart enough not to marry Brantley Gilbert. That alone gets her off the hook with me.
March 4, 2016 @ 8:42 pm
Yeah, I would really like to know how anyone would defend this song as country. There is not one thing country about it. It’s definitely not the worst thing I’ve ever heard, but as a pop song, not country. And not even pop country. Play this next to a Rascal Flatts song. Not even close. Pure pop music.
I think as a community we really need to take control of the English language and start creating a term for this new crap, kind of like how the term “bro- country” was coined. We need a start date and a term. For me it started Jan. 1st, 2010 or May 2011. The terms I would use are Nollywood, Hick-hock country or Twang pop. I like Twang pop the best.
March 6, 2016 @ 4:21 am
SILENCE, YOU UNDERLING!!!! We at the Illuminati have decreed this song to be country, and therefore it shall be known as such!!!! We applaud the work of our agents Jana Kramer and Scott Borschetta in destroying what you peasants call country music in our quest for complete world domination!!! Your dissent shall NOT be tolerated!!!!!
March 7, 2016 @ 11:29 pm
Dear Supreme Illuminati Ruler,
I completely understand your goal for world domination. I am sure you are very proud of your two talented agents, Jana Kramer and Scott Borchetta. They have made excellent puppets. However, the problem is that the music you have manufactured is offensive. It is offensive to me as a person, as well as being offensive to robots. I will continue to refer to this manufactured electronic wannabe musical production as “Twang pop”, or, crap, or ” total garbage”. To conclude, I leave you with this final chant. “Hey hey, ho ho, this total crap has got to go, hey hey, ho ho, this total crap has got to go.”
March 4, 2016 @ 9:43 pm
For some reason, I thought it would be a good idea to take a break from listening to Loretta Lynn’s (excellent) new album to listen to this. I knew it would be awful, yet I just had to listen to fully appreciate the review and everyone else’s comments.
After a half hour of listening to Lefty Frizzell and Sturgill Simpson, I feel much better now.
March 5, 2016 @ 10:54 pm
There was literal bubble gum that rolled across the screen at the end. I watched it all the way through because I am clearly a glutton for punishment and was in such a stupor from the bullshittery unlike I have ever seen that I couldn’t click out of the screen for a few seconds.
I may also feel shame that I am the same gender as Jana Kramer with that loathsome pile. Did someone honestly snort a bunch of coke and hit the bong a little too hard before they decided “YEAH! Let’s make a thirty something woman sing a song that sounds immature for a fifteen year old.”? Because I feel like drugs were involved in the making of this song and video. I feel like I need drugs from this video.
March 6, 2016 @ 3:49 am
Blame Shania Twain.
March 6, 2016 @ 10:19 am
and Mutt Lange, lets be honest. This is really where it began to change to where it is today IMO. He and Scott B are the same.
March 6, 2016 @ 6:30 pm
I’ve changed my mind I love the song. Its catchy. Won’t win any awards.
March 7, 2016 @ 12:56 pm
Herpes is “catchy” too. Don’t mean it’s good.
March 7, 2016 @ 7:58 am
Did anyone count how many times she actually repeats “said no one ever?”
I really want the number but if I listen to the song again, I won’t be able to function for the rest of the day.
March 13, 2016 @ 10:40 am
When I saw the pic before the title I thought it was going to be about blackface! Wow, so much fake tan.
March 15, 2016 @ 5:44 am
I follow this lady on Twitter and apparently her fans are loving this song…something tells me, Trigger, you probably don’t condone calling singers out on Twitter do you? Because I’m seriously tempted to let her have it.
June 2, 2016 @ 6:28 pm
Could be Jana or her management is pulling a Band Perry and deleting all negative tweets. Reaction from her fans on Pulse Music boards was almost unanimously that this song was a horrible single choice and would kill off any momentum built up by “I Got the Boy.” So far they seem to be right.
April 26, 2016 @ 7:26 pm
Gee, Jana’s country “drawl” is nowhere to be heard on this single. Could it be she’s been faking it all along… could it? could it really be??? nawwwwww…
May 12, 2016 @ 12:19 pm
Wow at all the negative posts about this song, yeah everyone is entitled to their opinions , but I like it , it is a fun song , nothing more , nothing less, it’s not out to make any kind of statement and at 1st listen ,I found it annoying , to many Said No One Ever. but more listen to it , more it grows on me and I like it and the video is fun to watch ,Jana is just having fun and last time I checked there is no age limit on having fun. Personally. I hope it is a big hit.
June 2, 2016 @ 6:23 pm
If Jana and her label weren’t marketing this song as country, no one would care. if she’d left this as an album cut, no one would care. But making it a single and expecting people to embrace and accept this as “country” gives the impression she’s not serious about country music and is only using it as a stepping stone to pop stardom. The only “country” station this belongs on is Radio Disney Country where it can appeal to the 13-year-old girls who consider Taylor Swift’s “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” classic country. She should have just sent this to Hot AC and CHR radio and been done with it.
Ultimately it’s a moot point because the song is a non-starter on country radio. It has yet to break the Mediabase Top 50 as I type this. Even WYCD in Jana’s home-turf of metro Detroit – the station that once had Taylor’s “Wildest Dreams” in power rotation – is barely playing it at all.
August 31, 2016 @ 11:57 am
Not my favorite song, but I don’t think it’s as bad as everyone says. Songs can be for fun- not every song has to be deep and brooding. Kind of reminds me of Terri Clark’s Girls Lie Too.