Kiss My Country Ass Blake Shelton! (A Rant)
I thought 
we had moved on from the “new Outlaw” era, to pop country stars trying to be the next Taylor Swift. Well apparently not. Now Miranda Lambert’s hubby Blake Shelton wants in on the fun, releasing a song called “Kiss My Country Ass”, an unapologetic, unveiled attempt at the Music Row “Laundry List” songwriting formula (written by Rhett Atkins apparently), that takes it to another level by rehashing David Allan Coe’s “If That Ain’t Country” and introducing “Outlaw” Blake to the spoon-fed masses.
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Gretchen Wilson’s Body Odor has more country boy in it than you do Blake Shelton. I do hope David Allan Coe hunts you down and drives a motorcycle square up your ass. At least the other “New Outlaws” like Eric Church and Josh Thompson have a shred of country cred. All you got is a drummer that looks like he belongs dancing at Chippendales, and a $400 Affliction shirt with sparkly fairy wings on the back.
Marlboro cigarettes and Wrangler jeans? Is this a country song or a fucking commercial? So I have to smoke Marlboro Reds to be country? What does brand loyalty have to do with being country? If you want a cigarette Blake, I got a butt you can suck on.
I hear you mention a “Rebel Flag” but I don’t see one. Is that because the makers of this video identify the stars and bars with hate and not heritage? And then I love this: “Well there’s a whole lot of high class people out there that’s a lookin’ down on me.” Oh fucking please Blake, you have more money than 95% of Americans. You’re trying to manufacture some sense of oppression so you can feel the pride of being identified with a lower social class than you actually are; a selfish, pathetic conceit that is insulting to people that really are kept down in life because of prejudice.
And it gets even better. “Don’t wear no fancy clothes, no ties or three piece suits.” What do you think I’m stupid? I’m watching your video right here, the video for this very song, and your guitar player is wearing a fancy dress vest from a three piece suit, and your drummer is wearing a flaming lipstick-red necktie, looking like he should be a cage dancer for Oingo Boingo.
As for these idiots in the crowd shots of the video, sorry folks, but you can’t claim any country cred from living in a KB Home or Toll Brothers tract house. I actually tried to get in this video, but they told me I didn’t qualify unless my megachurch was big enough to have its own Starbucks. These clueless sheep in this video are seriously pissing me off more than Blake Shelton. Look at these assholes rubbing their backsides together like a bunch of blue-assed baboons. I’ve seen more rhythm in a random orbital sander. And if you’re going to disgrace yourself and country music, stay the hell off the steps of the Ryman, for serious. There’s nothing wrong with being a suburban sissy puppy, until you lie to yourself that you’re not, and engage in this type of subversive escapism-style culture worship.
And as for Blake saying, “If you’re not down with my “Outlaw” crowd…” I love how these “new Outlaws” go all the way up to the line, but don’t have the balls to cross it. Are you saying you’re an Outlaw Blake Shelton, are you? Or not? Actually I used to care about people calling themselves “Outlaws” while completely misunderstanding the term, but now I understand that anyone listening to this song thinks the country music started with Garth Brooks, so the point is moot.
Look Blake Shelton, up to this point I had no excuse to bring your name up. So why cross that line now? Why sell your dignity, alienate your purist fans and rocket up the Saving Country Music shit list? The American rural culture is not for sale so the suburbs can stay satiated, subdued, and consuming. Well actually, yes, yes it is. You song and video is a perfect example of this.
Two guns down!
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(This rant was written by The Triggerman, who lives his mom’s basement, has no friends, and wants to invite terrorists to American and teach your children about homo sex. He also thinks that all guns should be illegal. His name is ironic, like a hipster’s curly-end mustache. He wrote this rant exclusively because he is jealous of Blake Shelton.)
March 24, 2011 @ 10:33 am
Triggerman, I wrote one of these laundry list songs for a MAJOR NASHVILLE LABEL that I would like to send to you so you can share it with your readers. I am in the hospital now with my daughter, the up and coming pop star “Natalie” (just one name, like Sting) due to complications with plastic surgery, but as soon as we get home I’ll send it to you. It is called “The Letter ‘B'”.
March 24, 2011 @ 10:43 am
Fuck this guy. He needs his ass kicked.
March 24, 2011 @ 10:45 am
BEsides this article bein great especially since I’m pretty sure I saw blake at the CMA’s with a fancy three piece suit on, and a tie, but my favorite part is the disclaimer at the bottom
March 24, 2011 @ 11:03 am
Ha! Just added a picture to the rant.
You know you look at pictures of Blake from the past, and he looks like he just blew in from the corn field. Now he looks like he’d try to sell you an annuity.
I don’t care what anyone looks like or how they dress, as long as the music is good. But probably not smart to bad mouth something in your song, and then turn right around and participate in it.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:08 am
Damn the upper class looking down at him when he wears his suit.
March 24, 2011 @ 6:35 pm
yeah that’s the suit and is it just me or is the CMA award just a little phalic?
March 25, 2011 @ 10:19 am
Yes, Blake does show up in 3 piece suits to Awards Show…But I’m pretty sure you dress up when you go to Wal-Mart. KMCA is just a song…everything in that song doesn’t pertain to him…someone else wrote that song, not Blake! (Blake does not smoke!) Get over yourself…not everyone is going to like this song, who the hell cares. But I can guarantee that Blake is Blake…no matter if he is in that 3 piece suit or in his dirty ass camo that he’s had on for 3 days with no shower!! Blake is one of the most genuine person you will ever meet…and you sir are a troll!!
March 25, 2011 @ 11:33 am
yes we are all trolls just waiting for some pop country singer to walk over our bridge so we can yell at them lol how does having an opinion on a song make you troll my god and you are the ones who call uis closed minded about music and cooter gal I’m sorry you feel that way and I’m glad you pointed out the fact that blake didn’t wroter that song which plays into the facts of pop country we say all the tim they recors what is commercially gonna put some change in their pockets, and blake is blake do you know the man, ever hung out with him maybe hes a nice guy but as far as i know or you know he could be the worlds largest douche, it’s an opinion about a song not a man so leave it at that. and furthermore this is a website about opinions on the state of nashville and a movement that’s gainin steam so watch out Nashville and your over used rehashed commercialism real country is back and we are here to stay.
March 31, 2011 @ 11:31 pm
YEEHAAA!!
April 4, 2011 @ 11:34 am
the ones defending BS, (bleuscootergal), thats her twitter name, she uses that name everywhere she comments, those are all his twitter followers, they “know” him, hell, he has tweeted them! and he wouldnt lie in a tweet, now would he? Take notice twitter followers- the only time BS tweets, from his iPhone twitter app(now thats country) is when he has a new album due out, he is gonna be on some show, or he is up for some award, otherwise he is “taking a break” he tweeted everyday when Hillbilly Bone was due out, took a break, tweeted everyday when he was up for Male Vocalist, took a long break, and then only came back because his whupped ass read an interview where Miranda said,”We just got sick of it.” He is back now, and lo and behold- he is on a new show, The Voice.
March 26, 2011 @ 9:40 am
As Tony Joe White might have said:
Even trolls want country with soul
March 26, 2011 @ 10:13 am
Well apparently WE give a hoot Bleucootersgal because the fact that Blake doesn’t smoke but is promoting it for the video, the fact that he didn’t write the song but SOMEONE CHOSE it for him to be on his next album to promote his “outlaw” image and the fact that I don’t get dressed up to go to China Mart all goes to show YOU . . .
This song sung by Blake Shelton SUCKS.
March 31, 2011 @ 11:33 pm
Here! Here!! I love the Rhett Atkins version
December 17, 2011 @ 6:38 pm
It’s a damn song, he is an entertainer! It is a good song which is what you said, as long as the music is good! Well numb nuts it is so get over it.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:44 am
Yes, because if your from the country, you would never, ever, ever wear a suit for any reason. Go to any rural church and the entire congregation is in their wife-beaters and over-alls.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:46 am
That don’t have a goddamn thing to do with it. It’s the fact that he’s a fucking hypocrite in his own fucking video. That’s like Merle coming out on stage in beads and roman sandals.
March 24, 2011 @ 12:36 pm
A agree Sean, we can’t look down at people just because of how they dress. That’s why the line . . .
“Don”™t wear no fancy clothes, no ties or three piece suits.”
is so offensive. And then he turns around himself and wears one and becomes a hypocrite. Why not stick to singling love songs? Blake Shelton just showed his ass, and it’s a shame because the man has done a few good songs in the past.
March 24, 2011 @ 10:48 am
Wanna know the sad fucking truth? David Allan Coe and Johnny Paycheck are not members of Country Music Hall of Fame. Coe, Kristofferson, and Hank Fucking Williams are not members of the Opry. But this motherfucker became a member of the Opry last fucking year.
I’ll probably stir up a little bit of trouble with this, but the Reinstate Hank movement is officially dead to me, as is the Opry itself. I would love for Hank to get the respect he deserves, but putting him in an institution with this son of a bitch is the most disrespectful thing I can possibly think of at the moment.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:59 pm
Sad truth right there. As much as I’d like to see Hank Williams get the TRUE recognition he deserves from The Grand Ole Sloprey…I really don’t think they deserve him, his music or his image. They have run the “Country Holy Grail” into nuthin but a fast buck profit margin!
March 24, 2011 @ 10:56 am
I thought he lost his dignity with that “hillbilly bone” song, a while back?
March 24, 2011 @ 11:00 am
Wow, that’s really all I can say. I believe you said it best when talking about his “$400 affliction shirt with angel wings bedazzled” on the back.” I know that when I think “Outlaw” bedazzling is the first thing that comes to mind.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:01 am
What i hate the most about these ” I am country” songs is that it suggests that to be country you need to wear the uniform like white t-shirts and worker’s jeans, drive a pickup truck, drink cheap beer, carry a shotgun all the time, and having a ” fuck you ” attitude against rich and classy folks. To them being country is all about following the same southern-caricatural lifestyle. For me, being country is all about being yourself and be simple folks who are true and doesn’t need to impress nobody with fancy things. To be that’s the basic step to be country
March 24, 2011 @ 11:13 am
Exactly Pagoul, in fact usually in these rants I try to finish up with that very point. What is beautiful about country folk is not that they’re drunk gun-toting assholes, but that they’re kind and simple and free spirited. Just like Aaron Lewis, Blake has completely missed the point about what it means to be from the country. He makes it be about imagery instead of soul.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:42 am
what’s bad about suggesting that ‘caricatural, jesus-freak, gun-toting” imagery is that it works. Being from outside the USA, i know that a lot off people who made their only opinion about what they saw on TV like politicians, music videos and movies , which give em’ a bad impression about americans (especially southerners). many people i know consider southerners as close-minded, gun totting hillbillies who are jesus freaks. To me that’s a shame but that’s a fact.
March 25, 2011 @ 7:02 am
I’ve always thought Tom T. Hall made the best what’s country laundry list song with “Country Is”
My favorite line:
“Country is what you make it
Country is all in your mind”
March 24, 2011 @ 12:03 pm
Well-said Pagoul.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:02 am
Ok, now I’ve actually watched the video and I’m getting more pissed off by the second. I repeat, fuck this motherfucker.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:06 am
The video is a complete shock. It can’t get much worse. It really stains the word “country,” because this is how country music is viewed by the masses.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:07 am
Sorry for this unrelated post, but I read from some radio sites that Rihanna will perform with Sugarland at the ACMs. What the f**k?
March 24, 2011 @ 11:16 am
Sounds about right.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:11 am
“Trig wrote”
(What I don”™t agree with or appreciate is the characterization that “pop country bashing” is all that happens around here,)
Seems to be happening a awful lot around here including this article you just wrote!! I’m not a “pop country” fan but when you say you don’t want your website known as “pop country” bashing place then why do you keep writing and bashing “pop country”???
As for Blake Shelton, He has been “Pop Country” since day one and always will be in my eyes.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:31 am
Oh come on dude, if you can’t enjoy bashing this stupid song from a visceral level, then I feel sorry for you.
And if you don’t want to read this, go read the announcement about Roger Alan Wade’s new album that NOBODY read, or my recap or previews of SXSW, where I talk about and promote dozens of artists, or my tribute to Ralph Mooney that members of his church, his granddaughter, and Shooter Jennings chimed in on, or about Bob Wayne’s upcoming tour, or Hank III’s records being released on colored vinyl.
Out of the 13 articles on the home page right now, 3 are bashing pop country. According to my calculations, that is 23% of the stories, which actually is really high because there has been so many high profile stories about pop songs in the news cycle lately. But 23% is not even close to a majority, and certainly not a focus.
Sorry, but I just don’t understand this argument, never have never will.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:41 am
Yes i could bash this song and thousands of others but its not worth my energy! If they wanna sing crappy songs let’em sing them. The more attention these fucks get from us the more money they make from watching or listening to the song.
March 24, 2011 @ 12:39 pm
Bash what you want to bash. It’s your website.
March 24, 2011 @ 1:34 pm
He can bash whomever he wants but he shouldn’t say he doesn’t want to be known as just a bashing pop country website.23% IMO is pretty high number when you don’t wanna be known for that.
March 24, 2011 @ 3:36 pm
I read the roger alan wade article trigger. Just to let you know, I enjoy those articles more than the rants. Just my opinion. I do get a laugh every now and then on your rants, but others are more useful to me.
March 25, 2011 @ 6:22 am
If someone acts like a dick only 23% of the time; that doesn’t stop you from kicking their ass.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:14 am
Internet high-five for the Triggerman! Good shit.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:17 am
Tried to watch the video. The connection I got in our hotel room isn’t fast enough to do so. Course, it doesn’t help that there’s 6 of us piled into one hotel room, sharing the little bit of food we have left and an internet feed. Doesn’t he mention his high class friends?? His low class enemies aren’t loving it either.
I did read the comments. Apparently someone else did this song as well, someone named Rhett?? No clue. So, there’s two idiots doing this??
I’ve never heard a Blake Shelton song all the way through. I wouldn’t even know if I did. Thankfully, due to my cheap hotel, I still haven’t. There are advantages to my lifestyle.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:33 am
I would never know about any of these songs if I didn’t read this website
March 24, 2011 @ 11:36 am
I believe Rhett Akins wrote and recorded this song first.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:38 am
Not something I would be proud of.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:41 am
ok…do I bother to google Rhett Atkins?? Or, should I just spare myself??
March 24, 2011 @ 11:20 am
Sheeple sheeple sheeple!! Man it must have been something back in the old days to live when the country was still strong and people actually had standards.
March 24, 2011 @ 3:46 pm
I was country..when country wasn’t cool 😉
March 24, 2011 @ 11:21 am
He’s rather well polished for an outlaw… the button up shirt screams rebel… those jeans have never been worn on the farm nor mud boggin, not one rip in ’em….
I also love the reference to his truck being filled with beer – thats all we need is more drunk fucks on the road. And why does he not pronouce the ss of the word ASS? Thats not very outlaw to me – VOMIT!!!!!!!
March 24, 2011 @ 11:39 am
Yeah, with a cold one between his legs.
Or maybe that’s to keep the swelling down when his “Hillbilly Bone” fell off.
March 25, 2011 @ 12:21 am
LMCAO! sorry couldn’t resist. kudos Triggerman! I think that video is just a true sign that your message is read(not understood)by Trashville! May the better fight prevail…
March 24, 2011 @ 11:23 am
“I”™ve seen more rhythm in a random orbital sander.”
Thank you, that had me laughing pretty hard.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:26 am
Yeh, there had to be an earnhart reference too, because people who think country started with Garth Brooks also think nascar started with Earnhart…. notices a vote for Toby Keith banner across the top of this page, it made me chuckle
March 24, 2011 @ 11:41 am
You mean Jr. had a daddy? And he raced cars too? And was pretty good? No shit. Next you’re gonna tell me so did Kyle Petty.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:49 am
HAHA! yeah, and Kyle had a grandpappy that was good to, lol. i was upset a few years ago when Jr, split ways with budwieser, i couldn’t call his fans redsheep anymore
March 24, 2011 @ 11:27 am
Way to give him hell! Shitbags like him hurt my soul.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:35 am
How car Miranda Lambert (or any other woman for that matter) marry this guy? They’re both clearly off their rockers…
March 24, 2011 @ 11:40 am
Ok…I’ll open myself up to vitriolic attack and defend the song.
Blake was born and in Ada, Ok (pop. 17,000), and has a rural background. He’s singing about the people he grew up around. I’ve never met him, but from what I gather he still sees himself as a small town country boy. Because he’s rich and famous now means he can no longer sing about the common man he came from? At what level of income are you not allowed to sing about country life anymore? Hank, Jr. has made a few bucks in his career, yet he can still sing “Country State of Mind” or “Country Boy Can Survive” without ridicule.
On to the audience…how can you know for sure they’re “suburban sissy puppies”. Because they’re in a city? That happens to be where the concert was. I’m sure many, maybe even most (don’t know where it was filmed) in the audience didn’t live in that city and came from their rural farms and towns to see the show. (Yes, they want a SHOW…lights, explosions, the works)
I work at a small, family owned radio station in rural Oklahoma. No consultants, no call out testing, no corporate overlords. Our “research” consists of call-in requests and what they’re talking about on Facebook and Twitter. This is the type of music the listeners ask for. For example, we ARE NOT playing Aaron Lewis. In fact, I’ve been resisting pressure from record promoters to play it. At the same time, I’m getting requests for it during my show (one caller said it was “the most patriotic song I’ve heard in a long time”), and I see listeners posting the video on Facebook. By not playing it, am I not being the “arrogant country music programmer deciding what is and is not country” that is railed against here?
Finally, be it someone says I’m a Nashville corporate ringer. I’m a big fan of this website. I would rather not be playing Taylor Swift, Sugarland, et al. But, it is not my job to play what I want, but to play what the listeners want.
(No, we’re not playing this Blake Shelton song, either.)
March 24, 2011 @ 11:43 am
Start exposing your listeners to some good music and they’ll start wanting something different. Have Jashie send you his Outlaw Radio compilation and play two songs from that for every one you play from Nashville. See how long before you can safely throw your Blake Shelton bullshit out the door.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:55 am
Actually, I had a two-hour specialty show I called “Rebel Radio” that ran on Sunday nights. Played Hank III, Jason and Scorchers, Whitey Morgan, Hellbound Glory among others. We also play a large amount or Red Dirt/Texas music throughout the day. (Well leave the discussion on whether or not that scene has been “corporatized” for another time.) Unfortunately, when I took over as Music Director, I just didn’t have the time to spend each week researching and hunting down the music for that show anymore and decided to drop it.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:55 am
Awesome Sean…glad you were able to do that for a little while at least. Keep fighting the good fight.
March 24, 2011 @ 12:41 pm
Sean is good people and doing what he can to get the good music out there. I understand what he is saying about not judging people. I have no doubt that Blake Shelton is originally from the country, and probably if I met him I would think he’s a pretty decent guy, but with this song he crossed WAY over the line, and I just couldn’t let it rest. I don’t even understand why he did it. I never had the need to bring up Blake Shelton before.
March 25, 2011 @ 12:27 am
I do…$$$ !
March 24, 2011 @ 11:53 am
There’s a great album you should check out if you haven’t, The Last DJ by Tom Petty. One of his best. It totally flopped, but, if you listen to it, I’m sure you’ll know why.
I know alot of people in your spot–always have. DJ’s don’t pick their music for the most part. Its not like it was, and, really, was it ever?? There’s a book you should read too—called Hit Men. Deals with payola mostly. You’re doing a job. I get it. I’ve had them before. Gotta pay bills.
Of course, I never had kids, never owned a home and was never responsible for anyone elses bill besides my own. That provided me some luxuries. I never sold anything I didn’t think was good. I never worked for people I didn’t like their practices.
And as a result, have never had any money. I can’t fault anyone for making either choice–and, I’m not saying you have it.
I defend country music, because it came into my life when I needed it–and I hold it to its honest form with passion.
It ain’t your fault–but, yeah, keep trying to get the right stuff heard–that’s the goal.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:55 am
I heard the local rock DJ play the title track from that album once. He ain’t there no more.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:57 am
The album was banned instantly. The tour flopped. Even Petty had to come back with something a little more “friendly” with the next record.
To me—The Last DJ is one great triumph against the system–I just hope it gets its proper recognition in the future.
March 24, 2011 @ 1:53 pm
The Last DJ is a great record, but man, that tour did not “flop”
March 24, 2011 @ 6:42 pm
Jashie, of course people came, its tom petty, one of the coolest m-fers on the planet…but, he did that one without a major sponsor, and so, as far as petty’s usual $$$ would be, it was a financial flop.
my guess, though, is that it felt a bit like a personal triumph…but at this point in his career, petty has a lot of mouths to feed…and the bare fact that he’s done it with such integrity and honesty in his music says tons about himself, and also about others.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:57 am
I don’t care where anyone is from, or how much money they have, as long as they don’t sing a song that is insulting and an embarrassment to people like this one is. I am a fan of country artists from New York City and Germany. Johnny Cash was a millionaire when he put out the American Records. As soon as you start putting limits on who you will listen to because who they are, you are doing a disservice to yourself. But that is not the point here. Look, Blake is bashing “high class” people. Why? Then he turns around and participates in this same “high class” culture himself.
Blake doesn’t believe a damn word to this song, his actions prove that. He’s just putting out there what he knows will sell. And yeah, I am making a wild-eyed assumption that these people are from the burbs, but anyone who would be a fan of this song, and then go out of their way to come to a video taping of it and make a sign for it, is clearly disillusion about life, and is embarrassing to me just as much as this song is.
I am tired of being ashamed of being a country fan.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:58 am
One thing to be sure of—never bash anyone for their money—its hard stuff to come by, and should be enjoyed when its available.(I’m not saying you were at all, fyi)
March 24, 2011 @ 12:01 pm
“I am tired of being ashamed of being a country fan.”
I believe this one sentience says it all.
March 24, 2011 @ 8:06 pm
Ok…here’s another way of looking at the song. He’s not singing from his perspective, he’s singing from the perspective of the listener. When he sings “I”, he’s not referring to himself, but the listener. There’s a literary term for it, but it escapes me now. Would it be better if he sang “Well there”™s a whole lot of high class people out there that”™s a lookin”™ down on YOU”…wait, maybe that’s a bad example. Makes it sound even more inflamitory.
I believe its a sign of a great songwriter if they can put themselve in the place of another and capture the emotions of a situation/life they’ve never experienced. That being said, in NO WAY do I consider this to be a great song. Guess I’m kinda playing devils advocate.
March 25, 2011 @ 11:39 am
I have been hearing this song since last spring/summer. I am a carpenter and my co-worker/friend had it on his i-pod. He never figured out how to get it to play all the songs he had on it so this song played EVERY day atleast twice… Crazy thing is HE put this song on there and likes it even though if someone saw the two of us they’d consider HIM to be far more “country” – whatever that means – than me. And anyone who knew the two of us would definitely think he was more of an authentic country-boy than me. He IS the stereotype. He lives for hunting and fishing and mechanic-in’… Owns two dozen firearms… What I am getting @ is that even though I have introduced him to many of SCM’s favorite artists and even took him to a Hank III show, he still doesn’t hear a difference between stuff like Blake Shelton and Hellbound Glory. So while this kinda shit is insulting to all of us who are constantly trying to seek out new bands, most other fans think songs like this and Aaron Lewis’ stuff is completely legit and it speaks to them. It is maddening but true.
I am extremely tired of how little creativity there seems to be in all areas of entertainment nowadays. Movie studios are constantly rehashing and remaking older films and bands can’t even stumble upon original lyrical ideas. Blake Shelton’s ripping off D.A.C., Lewis is ripping off Hank Jr., and if it weren’t bad enough that James Hetfield was ripping himself off on the song “St. Anger”, now Danko Jones is lifting from the great “Damage Inc.” lines. Nothing wrong with paying tribute to the legends but when seemingly every other tune you hear is in some way ripping off someone else, well it’s long-since gotten old for me.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:41 am
I was listening to one of the most beautiful songs about being from the south & the country this morning by an artist who never claimed to be a country singer Tom Petty’s Southern Accents Johnny Cash did a version on one of his albums but there are so many great songs about being country that actually get it this shit is a disgrace to country people and music but it will be a huge hit because every country wannabe will buy it
March 24, 2011 @ 11:44 am
I agree. That’s one of my favorite songs of all time.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:48 am
Southern Accents=One of my top ten albums of all time. The two songs, Rebels and Southern Accents themselves could make it on their own, but the rest of the album is great as well.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:49 am
And “Spike” which predicted the entire hipster movement.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:55 am
yes…spike…and the best of everything…and shoot, even the big single, Don’t Come Around Here No More…flat out great.
March 26, 2011 @ 6:30 pm
Spike is great. Ditto Don’t Come Around Here No More. And that video!
Scott Miller and the Commonwealth do a great cover of Spike on their Reconstruction live album. Also, Neil’s Hawks and Doves, which I hadn’t heard in about 30 years.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:42 am
Sometimes you are so utterly right on the fuckin’ mark…such as this time. This shift in Nashville was inevitable. They’re trying to create their own alternative to the fucking shit THEY produced. I know Waylon played the game for a while before he butted heads with the higher-ups, but, remember, NO ONE (of Waylon’s stature and commercial credibility) had laid it on the line like he did before…intentionally. For Blake Fuckhead to try to cast himself as an industry (or any other kind of) outsider is as hilarious as it is insulting. But image is what counts, and what sells. And not just in the mainstream. There are a lot of self-styled “Outlaws” on all levels, who know just about as much (or less) about Country than Blake Dicklick.
March 24, 2011 @ 12:02 pm
Blake Dicklick….hahahaha!!!! I have to say I agree. Here is the thing- as soon as Nashville or any money grubbing corporation sees an opportunity to franchise on something and exploit it they will. So, this really comes as no surprise. I pretty much can compare almost everything in life to a hamburger. There’s the kind you get from a back yard grill that’s amazing and nothin’ really compares to it…and then there is McDonalds. Both are burgers. I know I sound insane with my burger analogy but it’s true. You take something real and pure and true….and mass produce it, with the intention of making millions of dollars off of it and what do you get??? A Mc-Outlaw.
March 24, 2011 @ 12:47 pm
What’s weird is that this was a trend that happened about a year ago. Eric Church, Josh Thompson, and Gretchen Wilson all put out songs like this, loosely indirectly calling themselves Outlaws. I don’t know how successful or unsuccessful it was, but at that time, Blake was cleaning up his image and singing love songs. Now he puts out this filth.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:44 am
A know a person that covered a Blake concert using a media/press pass for the local newspaper. They posted a positive review of the show along with a picture they took FROM THEIR SEAT on their website. They was later contacted by his “people” asking that they please remove the picture because Blake was “sweaty”. Hmmm…do country boys not sweat?
March 24, 2011 @ 12:48 pm
Blake Shelton is like a woman: he doesn’t sweat, he glistens.
March 24, 2011 @ 2:08 pm
he should be beaten by a hammer-wielding gang of thugs for walking the earth. I might pay attention if he lived to tell about that one.
March 24, 2011 @ 11:48 am
First off Blake’s new release is not even original it is a cover of ” Kiss My Country Ass ” by Rhett Atkins !!! And blakes version blows even for a pop country song Dont try to change your image blake stick to singing those love ballads nashville loves to sell
March 24, 2011 @ 11:59 am
“front porch sittin’, guitar pickin’, bacca juice spittin’, moonshine sippin’ country boy from the woods”??
with a wireless microphone too, right??
way be a hounding disgrace to true blue country folks, Blake Shelton. I hope DAC beats this pussy within an inch of his life and fucks his band until they love him.
March 24, 2011 @ 12:27 pm
What I wouldn’t give to see Blake Shelton meet this guy in a dark alley.
March 24, 2011 @ 12:28 pm
damn it. how do you embed a video?
March 24, 2011 @ 12:53 pm
Post a link. Can’t allow embedded video in comments unless it comes from admin. Too many people trying to take this site down, and that can give them a portal.
March 24, 2011 @ 12:58 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoSKEhJvP2Y
March 25, 2011 @ 12:47 am
http://www.youtube.com/user/cropperfilms This is posted from a man who knew the Great Johnny Paycheck himself, I only moved to Chillicothe after this fantastic performance and I live for the stories I hear. I thank you greatly for posting this and refreshing a fucked up memory! OUTLAWS…THIS IS FUCKING “OUTLAW” !
March 24, 2011 @ 1:34 pm
I got 20 bucks that says I could beat Blake Shelton’s ass.
March 24, 2011 @ 12:45 pm
Why do people say ‘mute’? The point is ‘moot’, dammit.
March 24, 2011 @ 12:54 pm
Fixed. They don’t call me Typoman for nothing!
March 24, 2011 @ 12:48 pm
The more “Nashville” tries to imitate “Outlaw Country” the better. It is a sign of the times. If it wasn’t marketable it wouldn’t be done. The fact that is marketable shows that people are interested in it. You just stay the course and keep doing what you are doing. It’s a fight for the masses. Let them suck in the blissfully ignorant and then people like you and others in this fight continue to expose them to the real shit.
March 24, 2011 @ 1:36 pm
The more attention we give them the more money they make!!
March 24, 2011 @ 2:51 pm
I doubt me pointing out Blake Shelton’s hypocrisy is going to move his bottom line at all. And even if it does a little, oh well. I wrote this because it was in me and needed to get out before I went insane. Let the cards fall where they may. At least I’m on the record with no doubt of where I stand.
Tweet Up Tiddies…
March 24, 2011 @ 1:10 pm
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March 24, 2011 @ 1:17 pm
Trigger,
I have to say I disagree with you on a couple of points. First of all, if you’re going to rip on someone for this song… why didn’t you rip on Rhett Akins 5 years ago when he wrote and recorded it?
Second, busting on the use of cigarettes in the song? You know my biggest problem with today’s outlaw scene? The overuse of drugs or using drugs in the song lyrics. It totally turns me off. It’s almost like you’re not “real” country unless your shooting up or doing lines of blow. I have trouble relating to these artists because it is something I have never done and never will do. As much as I don’t like the use of cigarettes, the use of heavy drugs in my opinion is far worse.
Third. Blake Shelton can’t sing about being poor because he’s wealthy? Umm… can any country star? That’s like saying, Merle Haggard can’t sing the “working man blues.” When do you think was the last time he picked up a shovel or punched in at a factory.
Am I tired of the same old cliche’s? Sure. Am I tired of songs about John Deere’s and 4 wheel drives? You betcha. That’s why I’m here…. I’m bored w/ all of this pop country bullshit. But at the same time, I think “real” country is found somewhere in the middle. Is it the rainbows and butterflies of Taylor Swift? Is it the slit my wrists because I’m depressed out of my fucking mind and strung out on coke music of Hank III? I don’t think so. I think it’s somewhere in the middle.
I’m not really sure what the point is I’m trying to make. All I know is I like good music. I like country music. I like Blake Shelton. I like Hell bound Glory. Why do I have to choose between 2 worlds? Why can’t I enjoy both?
March 24, 2011 @ 1:39 pm
Big Stem,
I didn”™t make fun of the Rhett Akins version five years ago because this website wasn”™t around then. But beyond that, I really don”™t have a problem with Rhett Akins or him writing this song. I”™m not a fan of Rhett, but just like Blake before he cut this track, I had no reason to even pay attention to him. Rhett can write and perform this song because it doesn”™t make him a hypocrite by doing it.
I don”™t have a problem with the smoking reference in the song. What he said was “Smoke NOTHIN”™ but Marlboro Reds”. That type of blind brand loyalty in a song is what set me off. And I totally agree with you about the overindulged drug references in underground/Outlaw country songs, and I think this is a trend that is winding down. But even when it was done, or still is done, it is not done necessarily to condone it or glorify it. You can listen to Hank III”™s album Straight to Hell and it may sound like this is happening, but in the final track he says, “but when you”™re loving an Angel of Sin, she”™ll never be there for you.” I can”™t see anyone listening to “Crazed Country Rebel” and then deciding to become a heroin addict. But as much as I think it is stupid when people get uptight about this type of stuff, I can totally see a bunch of kids starting to smoke Marlboro Reds because of this stupid line in this song. These “laundry list” songs throw out a bunch of qualifiers for people to be accepted into their corporate country culture, and yeah, some dumbasses are going to go out there and start smoking just to fit in.
I don”™t think anybody should be excluded from singing country just because they are wealthy, or from the north, or any other qualifier. If the song is good and speaks to people, that is what matters first. Blake brought his wealth up in this song, I didn”™t. I just clarified. He tried to pass himself off as being looked down by the high class and that he “Don”™t wear no fancy clothes, no ties or three piece suits.” when clearly he does. That is hypocrisy. The wealth beyond that is irrelevant.
March 24, 2011 @ 2:02 pm
You’re right Trigger. I’m sure some idiot kid is going to pick up a pack of cigarettes because Blake Shelton sang about it in a song. But this is like the news blaming the Insane Clown Posse or Mortal Kombat for a teenager who wakes up one morning and decides to go on a killing spree. We learn right from wrong at a very young age, if you’re dumb enough to let the lyrics of a song persuade you in to doing something that is morally wrong than theirs a bigger issue at hand.
And you’re right about him being a hypocrite I guess. But at the same time… I’ve heard Waylon and Travis Tritt sing about being down on their luck at points in there careers when you know damn well they were rolling in it.
March 24, 2011 @ 2:56 pm
It’s probably a little easier to teach kids that it’s morally wrong to kill than to smoke cigarettes. And I don’t even know that it’s morally wrong to smoke cigarettes, I just don’t want to hear some asshole preaching in a song about what you MUST smoke to be country. It’s all just bullshit imagery based on consumption.
March 24, 2011 @ 3:49 pm
I don’t think he was intentionally promoting Marlboro Reds. It’s just the only cigarettes that rhyme with deer heads over my bed. The song would of just been dumb if he would have used Pall Malls or Lucky Strikes. Jeesh.
March 24, 2011 @ 3:58 pm
So the song isn’t dumb as it is?
March 24, 2011 @ 7:08 pm
It was sarcasm dude.
March 24, 2011 @ 1:28 pm
Haaaaaa THANK YOU!! It’s about damn time someone called him out.Also,how many “OUTLAWS” have covered a fu*king MICHAEL BUBLE song? ZERO!!! How many OUTLAWS are judges on a pop music singing contest show featuring Christina Augriela ,Cee Lo Green and Adam Levin? ZERO!! How many OUTLAWS pretend to be drunk on TWITTER to get kids to like them?? ZERO!!!
Now,if only someone would call out his lard assed fiance for the phony fraud SHE is.I just seen where she’s wanting everyone to buy Josh Kellys (brother of Lady A dude) cd.Awhile back she was going on on how Taylor is one of the greatest songwriters of all time,lol..What a perfect couple!
March 24, 2011 @ 1:34 pm
I agree with 99% of what you said, but as for the Michael Buble thing I have to point out two things: 1) a great song is a great song (I can’t comment on whether or not this one is a great song or not. My instincts say no.) and 2) Waylon covered Bobby Vinton, Johnny Cash did Neil Diamond, etc.
March 24, 2011 @ 5:20 pm
And Willie Nelson’s stardust album
March 24, 2011 @ 1:29 pm
OHHH and is everyone here stoked about Rhiana singing on the ACM awards?
March 24, 2011 @ 1:35 pm
One more thing- Yall know Rhett Akinswrote this masterpiece don’t ya? Let’s not give Blake ALL the credit!
I guess he couldn’t get ahold of Michael Buble that day
I’ll shut up now..
March 24, 2011 @ 2:21 pm
I’m just tired of country music telling me what it is to be country….seriously, I can be country on my own. It seems like every month country radio gets a new one and they all sound the same. Write a different damn song Nashville!
March 24, 2011 @ 3:02 pm
I’m not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, cause I didn’t feel like reading everyone’s comments yet but this song was written by Rhett Atkins back in 2005. This song has been around for quite a few years and has been played at all the local honky tonks for a very long time. I don’t know if anyone is aware of this. I personally like the song but it’s old news to me.
March 24, 2011 @ 4:05 pm
I really didn’t have a problem with this song before, and I really didn’t have a problem with Blake Shelton before either. It’s putting the two together that I have a problem with, because it doesn’t work. You can’t bitch about three piece suits and “the high class” on one night, then wear one and participate it in the next. Rhett can pull it off because he doesn’t do this. If you’ve been listening to this song for years, then I could understand how any shock value might be diluted, but for me, it’s like trying to mix oil and water.
March 24, 2011 @ 4:11 pm
I guess I can understand your point in that the song doesn’t really fit Blake’s image that he puts out there. I personally was kinda shocked that he picked this song to release, but I’m sure he’s good friends with Rhett because I know they are both avid outdoorsmen and probably liked the song just as I did and thought why not.
March 24, 2011 @ 3:02 pm
http://www.amazon.com/Kiss-My-Country-Ass/dp/B0013G1WJ8
March 24, 2011 @ 3:24 pm
I guess I don’t really understand the rant here. I personally like Blake Shelton’s music for the most part. He has some pretty good ballads and a couple of other good songs like Ol’ Red. Yes, I agree he’s no outlaw in any terms but neither was George Jones or Roger Miller or any other country legend that sang great country ballads. Are we to dismiss him in country music just because he doesn’t follow the mold of Waylon, Willie, Coe, Hank III, Shooter, or anyone else we hail on this website?
I’ll be honest I’m starting to feel like the only artists most of those that follow this website only praise those artists/bands that have the rebel mentality, that wear leather vests, have beards, ride harleys, snort coke, have tattoos, etc. I feel like it’s reverse critisicm if that’s the right word. I’m with Big Stern on this one. I love Hank III, Scott Biram, Whitey Morgan, Wayne Hancock, etc. but I still also like those non-rebel type country artists but country artists in their own right such as Blake, Chris Young, George Strait, etc.
I understand that non of us like country-pop music like Taylor, Lady A, etc., but are there any artists in Nashville, fans of this site particularly like at all? Why not praise those limited few that still have country cred in Nashville and still have country roots? I’m starting to get confused with the intention of this site.
March 24, 2011 @ 3:56 pm
Agreed. I love the music of the guy’s you’ve mentioned among others. But if you put me in a room with Hank III and Blake Shelton. I’d probably hang out with Blake Shelton.
March 24, 2011 @ 4:06 pm
I don’t think I could answer that one honestly. If I had the chance to hang out with either one. I’d hang out with each for 2 totally different reasons. Hank III comes across as the guy to talk about music, history, traditions and party your ass off with. Blake seems the type to have a few beers with, go fishing/hunting, and have a few laughs with. I could be totally wrong though…hell both could be downright assholes.
March 25, 2011 @ 1:14 am
I think yer both in la-la land…if you walked up to Blake Shelton after a show he’d pat ya on the back(obligation) and say thanks. If ya walked up to Hank III he’d be proud to shake your hand and ask you where you comin’ from…THAT in my opinion is the difference between country and corporate !
March 25, 2011 @ 5:33 am
Hank III won’t never kiss Blake Shelton’s country ass. Or Trashville’s.
March 24, 2011 @ 4:26 pm
This is not a commentary on Blake Shelton’s music. This is a commentary on this one particular song. And you don’t have to be an Outlaw for me to like your music. George Jones and Roger Miller weren’t Outlaws, but neither were Johnny Cash or Merle Haggard in my opinion. I still like them. Neither is Justin Townes Earle or Trampled by Turtles or Possessed by Paul James. I’m writing a review for Caitlin Rose right now, she’s definitely not an Outlaw, but she’s genuine, and true to herself. Blake Shelton was not, at least with this song, and that’s why he got a dose of the poison pen.
If he would have stuck with singing those good ballads and good songs like “Ol’ Red”, this rant would have never happened. Not because of my taste, but because he would have remained true to himself.
March 24, 2011 @ 3:44 pm
Here’s a video of Rhett singing this song on Tommy Wilcox’s hunting show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEZGa4hEORs
March 24, 2011 @ 4:25 pm
Triggerman I must point out that not only is Nashville reusing old themes, but this song it’s self is old. Remember a guy from the 90’s Rhett Akins? He released this same song back in 2005. http://www.amazon.com/Kiss-My-Country-Ass/dp/B0013G2UTE/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1301009054&sr=8-12
March 24, 2011 @ 4:28 pm
Sorry, I missed the other comments on this.
March 24, 2011 @ 4:37 pm
Where have all the average people gone?
March 24, 2011 @ 4:46 pm
I’m not watching it and you can’t make me.
March 25, 2011 @ 1:18 am
watch it Denise…watch corporate Trashville at its best! It will only cement your convictions! SAVE COUNTRY MUSIC!
March 24, 2011 @ 5:05 pm
I THINK THIS IS MY FAVORITE RANT TO DATE.. AND I LIKE HOW YOU PUT THE PIC ON THEIR FOR A NICE OF HIS 3 PEICE SUITE..
March 25, 2011 @ 2:34 pm
Hell yeah Aaron! I think mullet champ Travis Tritt was right when he said country aint country no more… Hit me up later tonight on my FB…
March 24, 2011 @ 5:24 pm
First up, sorry to hear about your dad Trig. My grandfather died of the exact same thing. I always wince at lyrics and imagery like that too. That video is classic! The people on the street mouthing the lyrics look like they are reading off an auto-cue. I love the drummer’s muscle shirt too. Very manly! The song is so crapola it’s laughable. Do the masses really get a big patriotic shot in the arm from this kind of crap?
March 24, 2011 @ 6:05 pm
all this is, is Rhett Akins song, nothing new
March 24, 2011 @ 6:23 pm
besides the smoking part, it’s just like saying you have to drive a Ford or Chevy truck to be Country, i personally have a Dodge… so that means i’m not Country? bullshit
March 24, 2011 @ 7:21 pm
I drive a Dodge Stratus!… People are afraid of me.
March 24, 2011 @ 9:31 pm
I drive a Toyota Corolla Super Windy. People are terrified of me.
March 24, 2011 @ 10:46 pm
I’m most terrified of kissing Blake’s country ass.
March 24, 2011 @ 6:46 pm
What’s going on with all the big name nashville pop artists covering the little guys songs? Jason Aldean put out his version of Brantley Gilbert’s (who is a helluva guitar player) Party song, and now this?? The big money writers can’t even come up with this stuff anymore?
I will admit though, when I heard Rhett’s version of this tune a year or two ago I thought it was funny. I’m sure I’m wrong, but I took it as a sort of playful dig at the whole pop country genre.
Wrong as usual I suppose.
March 24, 2011 @ 6:49 pm
why don’t you bring up who wrote this song? does the name Rhett Akins ring a bell? This song is from his point of view, not Blakes. Blake just did the typical nashville thing and sang a song an executive told him to sing. and that is sad. i fell in love with this song when i heard rhett sing it 4 or 5 years ago. i don’t really like the songs with a laundry list of things trying to prove that you’re country, but i felt this song and when you hear the songwriter sing this song and see the fire in his eyes it makes you believe him. so don’t hate the song, just hate the presentation. rhett akins is a hell of a writer
March 24, 2011 @ 8:00 pm
Jesse,
Rhett Akins has been brought up in numerous comments above, not that I expect you to read through 100 comments. But it’s not like I purposely left his name out. I agree that this song, and Rhett Akins are not as bad as the combination of this song and Blake Shelton, but I think it is a little unrealistic for anyone to look at this Blake Shelton performance and say, “Oh well, Rhett wrote that so it’s forgivable.” 90% of the people at that concert in the video, and 90% of the people who hear this on the radio will not know who Rhett Akins is, and probably half will not even know that you have songwriters, and sometimes teams of songwriters that write songs, and then performers that sing them. I have to look at it is Blake Shelton signing this song, and take it that it is his word and he believes it. It is completely unrealistic that I or anyone else look at it as being sung from Rhett’s point of view. This is not presented as a one-off cover song that Blake is doing for fun. This is a radio single with a full production video.
March 25, 2011 @ 5:56 pm
Triggerman,
That’s very true. That is one of the sad things about the Nashville system and the Nashville fans. Nobody knows anything about who’s writing the songs. When it comes to music the songwriter is the key. You have to take in to account what the writer is feeling or going through at that time. I can’t imagine how hard it is to pour your heart out on pen and paper and not have people get what you’re saying or even worse putting you down. Country fans are not educated when it comes to the actual music, they just want something catchy. Blake shouldn’t have done this song or video. Bad taste I think.
March 24, 2011 @ 9:36 pm
My thoughts, as I put them on my blog a few months ago:
“Kiss My Country Ass” is basically the flip side of record labels catering to the people they cater to with, say, Rascal Flatts and Sugarland. ”˜Hey, that song”™s genius! It”™s edgy! It talks about being country and it has the word ass in it! It”™s perfect for all those folks whining about Taylor and Sugarland and all the rest! Maybe they”™ll shut their traps now!”™”
Is that a cynical take on it? You bet. But not any more cynical than Blake’s recording of the song itself. I’m sure his label champed at the bit for him to record the song just for that reason.
And just for the record…yes, I hate that song. Not least of all because the hacks who wrote it have written several other crap songs that have been inflicted on us lately.
On a final note, I will say that I don’t necessarily think a country artist covering a song from another genre is an entirely bad thing. Waylon Jennings covered Gordon Lightfoot’s “For Lovin’ Me” and the Allman Brothers’ “Midnight Rider” and did a fine job with both of them. Of course, he was Waylon fucking Jennings, and that probably had a lot to do with it. 😉 And then there’s the fact that country is a lot closer to folk & Southern rock than it is to top-40 pop or adult contemporary…or at least it should be.
March 25, 2011 @ 1:43 am
Thanks Triggerman for giving me a forum to post my ever(fastly)fading opinion of the Nashville money machine. Sorry if I over commented here but some may be glad I only read 80% of the responses posted here or I may have left more. I appreciate this entertaining “heads up” of the current Trashville antics because I sure as hell don’t listen to local country radio anymore and its funnyier than hell to hear from someone who has the tolerance or patience to follow it. By the way I too read your review of Roger Alan Wade”™s new album. tHANKS!!!
March 25, 2011 @ 8:27 am
the dude 23 seconds in looks like Jesco..
March 25, 2011 @ 9:19 am
Ha! I thought that same thing and had to rewind to make sure.
March 25, 2011 @ 12:19 pm
@Triggerman, I know this doesn’t really pertain to this specific article but I was curious if you’ve heard about this: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1660650/lady-gaga-country-version-born-this-way.jhtml
March 25, 2011 @ 2:22 pm
Ha Ice Cold, how in the hell did you find out about that so soon. Looks like she just announced it at midnight through her twitter.
You don’t follow Lady Gaga on twitter do you? I cant defend her the way me and you do Jamey and Shooter around here.
Just messing with ya man.
March 25, 2011 @ 2:36 pm
haha no, my cousin Jacob (he’s gay, and likes gaga, there’s a shocker) tweeted me suggesting I check out Gaga’s new “country” song. lol. Needless to say I’m not a big fan of it.
March 25, 2011 @ 2:51 pm
Ha. good man, I was starting to get a little worried.
March 25, 2011 @ 3:59 pm
Yes, I have heard about it from every form of communication humanly possible, and multiple times from each.
I guess I will have some comments about it upcoming.
March 25, 2011 @ 5:00 pm
If you could when you comment quote me as saying “That Shit Is Garbage” Worse than the nashville lot. Worse than Aron Lewis trying to join, but maybe a big crossover pop-country hit. You guys thought it was bad when kid rock went country the right way, lets hope this doesnt gain steam!
March 25, 2011 @ 10:54 pm
GagGag! this is some sick fukin shit…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmR5Aat11P8
March 25, 2011 @ 12:41 pm
The best part of the song is the fake laugh. Ha haaaa…..
He did that in that cursed Hillbilly Bone song too.
March 25, 2011 @ 1:24 pm
Blake is a doucher. Somewhere along the way he has confused Outlaw with white trash. That is what this and his last few songs are screaming. Hillbilly Bone are you fucking kidding me!
And the people in the crowd are exactly what you said Sheep, and their taste in anything should be immediately discounted. These are the type of people who will only go to a “honky tonk” if they have a DJ and he plays more Tone Loc and Rumpshaker than anything even labeled country. They wouldn’t good music if that was the only thing in their iPod.
Ok I am stepping down of the soapbox.
March 25, 2011 @ 2:30 pm
I’ve hated this fuck since his first song hit radio. The lyrics in his songs are fucking terrible… It’s almost comedic. Who the hell says P.S. on an answering machine anyhow???
March 25, 2011 @ 11:34 pm
I don’t know if anybody touched on this or not but this is yet another song he put out that he had no hand in writing. This is a Rhett Akins original song. Some guy nobody ever heard of as usual. But here is a link to watch him (rhett) play this song on the tommy wilcox show. http://m.youtube.com/watch?gl=CA&client=mv-google&hl=en&v=nEZGa4hEORs
March 26, 2011 @ 8:07 am
What a shameless, pandering, piece of shit song this is. Devoid of soul. As far the people in the people in the crowd, my guess is that for the most part, they’re not passionate music lovers.
March 26, 2011 @ 10:38 am
Jesus H. Christ, this made me happy. I didn’t bother to watch the video, and I’ve never heard the song, but I know of the man and his music and that’s more than enough for me.
March 26, 2011 @ 10:55 am
Know what you mean, Kyle. Especially this:
“I actually tried to get in this video, but they told me I didn”™t qualify unless my megachurch was big enough to have its own Starbucks. Seriously, these clueless sheep in this video are pissing me off more than Blake Shelton. Look at these assholes rubbing their backsides together like a bunch of blue-assed baboons. ”
Now that’s an inspired piece of writing! Makes me laugh out loud, for real. Just laughed again. Great stuff!
March 26, 2011 @ 6:35 pm
As you mentioned, this is a total DAC ripoff, but he also manages to ripoff Kris Kristofferson’s “If You Don’t Like Hank Williams” in the process.
March 26, 2011 @ 9:44 pm
Blake is a country boy who sometimes lives in the woods for weeks and loves nothing better than to hunt, you judgmental assholes. He’s basically a nice guy who’s friendly to everybody. He’s funny and you can hear him laugh three blocks away. Do you think every actor stands by the lines he says in a movie? This is a SONG, Blake is SINGING it. When Johnny Cash wrote and sang “I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die,” do you think that made him a hypocrite for not actually being a murderer? Big fucking deal, you’re overthinking.
March 26, 2011 @ 11:43 pm
I hear that Dick Cheney likes to spend time in the woods too. Does that change the fact that he’s a privileged pile of shit who has done nothing positive for society? I don’t give a shit how friendly Blake Shelton is. Sounds to me like one hell of a nice guy who should be given the fucking Medal of Honor. Just keep him the hell of my radio unless it’s on a goddamn pop station.
When XXX takes over, talentless fucks like him will be removed from their position of power within the establishment which supports manufactured bullshit over real music. No, Johnny Cash may not have killed anyone, but the fact remains that he did WRITE “Folsom Prison Blues” and millions of people are still listening to it 50-some years later,. Can you say any of that about this piece of shit song, this piece of shit writer, and this piece of shit artist?
What we’re talking about is the fact that this guy is a fucking fake who doesn’t know shit about country. I live in the woods 25 miles outside of a town of 3,000 people, but location doesn’t matter. Whitey Morgan’s in Detroit and Jashie’s in Chicago and they both know more about country than you and Blake Shelton ever will. It’s guys like them who are going to restore our music to where it once was.
I wanna help you out, though. You’ve obviously seen “Walk the Line” and heard Joaquin Phoenix impersonate Mr. Cash, so the next step is to find something from the man himself. Pick up “At Folsom Prison” if you can. If not, literally anything he ever recorded will do the trick. Then go home and listen to it. After that check out Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, David Allan Coe, Johnny Paycheck, Loretta Lynn, George Jones, Tompall Glaser, Bill Monroe, Hank Jr., Merle Haggard, Jerry Lee Lewis (one of the great country singers of all time), Roger Miller, Tom T. Hall, Bobby Bare, Gram Parson, Jerry Reed, Carl Perkins, etc. Then you can come back here and try to discuss country music with me and the other true fans. Until then stay in your fucking fantasy world where it’s all about a lifestyle and how “nice” a performer is.
March 27, 2011 @ 1:32 am
Feel free to edit/delete that as you see fit. I was a little drunk and a little pissed off.
March 27, 2011 @ 5:28 pm
Amen Brother.
March 27, 2011 @ 6:29 am
One difference between Folsom Prison Blues and this song is that the former is a fictional story song. The latter is a “this is who I am” song. Bit of a difference, I’d say. Can you imagine Johnny Cash singing a song like this. I can’t.
March 28, 2011 @ 11:36 pm
The chicks in teh video were basically slutty teen girls and slutty soccer moms. That who there catering to.
March 28, 2011 @ 11:38 pm
Johnny cash use to sing in prisons and about prison. Now you have surbanan pretty boys who never suffer pain and sing about how “country they are”.
March 30, 2011 @ 9:57 am
This is pure and simple commercial crap…Whitey Morgan save us!
April 1, 2011 @ 10:55 am
Years ago i went through a pretty rough break up with the best girlfriend ever. it was mutual with no arguments or hard words. It was decided the timing was wrong for us. months later, she moved to the other side of the country never to be seen again. For a long time, i customized my answering machine for if she would call. I was completely amazed and suprised when i first heard Blake sheltons “Austin”. I was starting to get pissed about the “country music ” i was hearing on the radio but, i thought that song had it all. It had a good story i could relate to, a good sound and it wasnt blatantly over the top with overused stereotypes. I thought maybe, just maybe this guy gets it. It is beyond me what im hearing from blake shelton now. I can accept a song or two as being the occasional bomb. but every time you turn on the radio it seems to get worse. Hillbilly bone?! All about tonight?! It goes on and on! I know some people dont like austin but good or bad, it had something to say. It had some meaning to me at that time. What im hearing now is plain jibberish! Now he plays the outlaw card? Are you kidding!? From a marketing point of view, why not? Hell, it worked for josh tompson. I guess when Hootie goes stale he can play it too. Believe me, blake shelton has lost that little bit of respect from me after all this bullshit.
April 1, 2011 @ 7:54 pm
Can someone explain me how Eric Church and Josh Thompson are any different than Blake? It’s nice to see a guy have his own website and obviously spends more time on the internet than anything calling out people who he thinks are not country. What a joke of an article.
April 2, 2011 @ 3:39 am
You know what, I remember seeing that video on CMT about the coondog that helped break the guy out of prison. I thought it was a pretty cool song. Now he jumped on board to sing about kissing his country ass. Who does he want to kiss it?!
This is a site for saving country music. Obviously you don’t want to participate. The difference between those you listed and let’s say Willie, Waylon, and Hank is obvious. Blake Shelton chose a song trying to be “outlaw” and “cool”.
Real country artists are just naturally cool.
April 3, 2011 @ 10:41 am
real outlaws don’t sing about being outlaws
April 4, 2011 @ 12:48 am
Fuck this asshole and his wanna-be music. well written, triggerman. i can’t find much to say that you haven’t already mentioned.
April 17, 2011 @ 9:07 pm
Country hypocite, its not about who someone thinks is or isnt country. For me its about what countrys trying to be and marketing itself as. If i want pop, i will turn on a pop station. The country out now it seems tries to compete with pop not by giving a distinct difference. They just put out more of the same thing you’ll hear on a pop station and call it “country”. Country now is riddled with gimmicks and phoneys. if you dont believe it listen to country from only 10-15 yrs ago and comare it to now. I personally am sick of every American Idol flunky who never once sang a country song on the show and cant cut it in pop music “turning” country. It seems overnight they find a southern draw then put out the same crap they would do as a pop song and claim its country. And this and other stuff is choking to DEATH the music i and other know and love. For me, its about having a place to voice that disgust.I thank triggerman for giving me that place and showing me other that feel the same.
April 24, 2011 @ 9:02 am
No offense, but I think Blake Shelton is too busy making a pile of money and being successful to really care what a bunch of douche-fag, rope suckers like you that think you know what country is and what country isn’t.
April 24, 2011 @ 9:51 am
“I think Blake Shelton is too busy making a pile of money”
Exactly my point.
June 22, 2011 @ 12:10 pm
I’m gonna admit something embarrassing, I watch “The Voice,” not just because I am old and married and would rather watch hot girls sing than “Law and Order,” but also because I have dreams too, perhaps with a little more substance than the contestants’ dreams, but nonetheless like the idea that somebody’s dreams are coming true. That show was my only exposure to this hack until I heard this song, and I liked him because he seems to genuinely care about the contestants he works with. Now I like myself a little less for not being well informed about who I was giving the benefit of the doubt to. I wish I had listened to every true statement in the rant and spared myself the horror of watching this stupid video, but I have to buffer the rant from the perspective of a songwriter, and one who recognizes the writing skill in some of these “new country” songs even while they don’t appeal to me. This song does not bear such recognition. I am a hugely unsuccessful songwriter and so are some of my friends, and we all crap better tunes than this.
July 31, 2011 @ 3:53 pm
Thank you so much for this.It just made my week.
blake shelton is a pompous moron and the fact there isn’t a law against this jackass making songs is something I cannot wrap my head around.
September 13, 2011 @ 7:54 am
This song fits us down to the T .We live in Knoxville,Tennessee we love Country Music we love this song and my wife loves u Blake. Love to get some of your tickets next time u come through Knoxville.At least 6 thanks ur the best.
October 30, 2011 @ 2:50 pm
Triggerman is the most stupid person ever. He doesn’t know a thing about Blake and I’m glad all the other morons on this website are willing to listen to this nonsense and agree with him, Triggerman is seriously hiding behind his computer and would never say this to Blake in person to his face if he had the chance, Blake Shelton’s music is great and he says it himself that music is supposed to be fun and when he stops having fun with it he will stop. “Kiss My Country Ass” is just a fun song that the fans enjoy and if you don’t like it then stop listening to it and stop trying to find more successful people to pick on and trying to find things to bitch about. Next time use your real name pussy…..oh I’m sorry I meant to say “Triggerman”
October 30, 2011 @ 5:26 pm
Miranda, er, I mean Allyssa, Blake’s music is not great compared to real country music. Take Blakes’ most successful song (I haven’t a clue as to what that song is) and place it against the worst song JC ever wrote and you just might see where Triggerman is coming from. Callin’ him a kitty is not gonna get ya nowhere.
October 30, 2011 @ 8:39 pm
Denise, yeah johnny cash songs are great and Blakes music might not be as great and I”™m sure he knows that but he”™s not trying to be Willy or waylon he”™s just trying to be Blake whether or not y”™all like it country music has to move forward and can”™t stop with hank Jr. The outlaw phase of country music is over don”™t listen to it or buy it if y”™all don”™t like it and stop bashing Blake for being himself.
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October 30, 2011 @ 6:04 pm
I saw him and Brad Paisley in concert (got in for free cause I was volunteering with the foodbank) Paisley didn’t put on a bad show, but Shelton was godawful. The drunk son of a bitch couldn’t remember the lyrics to his own songs.
October 30, 2011 @ 7:55 pm
Denise, yeah johnny cash songs are great and Blakes music might not be as great and I’m sure he knows that but he’s not trying to be Willy or waylon he’s just trying to be Blake whether or not y’all like it country music has to move forward and can’t stop with hank Jr. The outlaw phase of country music is over don’t listen to it or buy it if y’all don’t like it and stop bashing Blake for being himself.
October 31, 2011 @ 5:15 pm
Alyssa, country music moving forward should not involve greed, lowered standards and fake-ism. < ——– my new word. It should not be a POP fest, a glee-o-rama, a rappin' hoedown, nor a faux outlaw showdown at sundown. POP country has tried to destroy the roots of country now for how long?! And it's attitudes like that keepin' it thriving. I will never jump on a country bandwagon that has shinola greasin' it's axles. And Hank Jr has a son. His name is Shelton and he's a great musician. Check him out.
May 9, 2012 @ 10:12 am
This song is pure garbage, screw you Blake Shelton you stink I’m going to listen to some George Straight screw you man.
May 10, 2012 @ 7:58 pm
cookie cutters…amen
July 16, 2012 @ 12:28 pm
I really don’t think this song is about him, I think it’s about all the rednecks is the world. i actually like this song. so i really don’t see whats so bad about it? so if one of you would like to tell whats so bad about this song please tell me.
February 13, 2013 @ 8:28 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI8-i-KsCeY
April 18, 2013 @ 8:49 am
That stupid boys around here song is the worst abortion of a country song that i have ever heard.. who the fuck raps about how country they are. Blake is a retard! and I’m disgusted with the way most country music is going!
April 18, 2013 @ 9:07 am
“who the fuck raps about how country they are”
Now that was good.
January 15, 2016 @ 2:25 pm
This song is the epitome of what is wrong with so called country music these days. Listeners are so clueless to music, they only need singers to mention Dale Earnhardt, beer, cigarettes, rednecks, etc.. Who cares if the music and vocals are simple, range lacking, talentless, garbage..
July 13, 2019 @ 5:36 pm
When I heard the line in this song that goes “if you don’t love the American flag you can kiss my country ass” after all the other BS in here, it made me think of “Some folks are born made to wave a flag… ooh they’re red white and blue” and I realized just how far people have degenerated. You can’t be a rebel flag waver AND be all defensive about loving the American flag AND be an outlaw. Basically you’re just not a rebel or an outlaw, you’re a follower of trends. And not just the trends you like. ALL trends. It’s just completely stupid to put all those words into the same song. The PROBLEM is you walk around seeing lots of people buying the biggest newest trucks and ACTING like they think now they’re really rebel, country, outlaw, red-blooded American AND Christian at the same time when literally they are NONE of those things. And I’ve been thinking about how this song is a perfect distillation of that phenomenon. It goes way beyond the suburbanites co-opting country music. It’s pretty much the American lifestyle now. It’s about as country as George W Bush’s fake Texas accent hahah. And hey not to take it too far here, but it’s pretty much the same kind of “folks” / “volks” appeal to the simple country life and “traditional values” — (is being an outlaw a traditional value? I doubt Johnny Cash would think so) — same thing the German Nazis did with all their music and advertising to the masses, making you buy into the totalitarian government by way of associating the flag, the military, with always being right and serving the “folks”.
I’d like to hear what John Fogerty would say about this BS.