Lee Brice’s New Song “Country Nowadays” (A Rant)
Sure, I watched the Bad Bunny Super Bowl Halftime performance. Now I’m GAY!
I also immediately wanted hordes of illegal immigrants to flood over the American border bearing the flags of their respective countries, and armadas of refugee boats to crash onto our shores to unload throngs of unwashed masses to immediately receive health benefits and voting rights, transforming the United States of America into a Hispanic socialist utopia, subjugating all White people under an oppressive totalitarian thumb, and banishing them to gulags for re-education.
But luckily there was an antidote to the grand psychosis I’d succumb to. Just one spin of Lee Brice’s new song “Country Nowadays” and it slobberknocked the gay right out of me. And like the mighty caw of a bald eagle echoing through a canyon as it flies over rocky, snow-capped peaks with an American flag superimposed across its face, “Country Nowadays” resonated throughout every crevice of my cranium and red-blooded American heart, setting my perspective straight. Lee Greenwood, eat your heart out.
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Hey thanks Lee Brice for making all of country music, and all country music fans look like regressive cousin f-ckers, you horse’s ass. And an a pox on your house for attempting to revive the absolute most terrible excesses and sins of the Bro-Country era with your egregiously bad listing off of American country iconography, groveling to the very lowest level of low-brow denominators.
Nobody’s trying to tell you that you can’t mow your damn lawn or wear boots, or go fishing or whatever the hell else you say in this stupid song—you middle-aged, dork-ass, washed-up third-tier country entertainer hoping to springboard yourself back to relevancy by angling for “cancellation.” I thought victim casting was the domain of the left? You’re really trying to tell me you’re having a tough time of it, Lee Brice? Why, because you defaulted on your yacht loan because you haven’t had a hit in six years? Quit being such a pussy.
Listen folks, don’t be coerced into thinking you must defend this song just because it lands on your side of the stupid culture war. I’d rather country music succumb to AI slop than this panty-waist, fear-mongering, obsequious and slavish pandering to a constituency, slobbering over low-hanging culture war issues like it’s a vein-popping male appendage.
And yes, the folks that have tried to sell us on the idea that gender is a social construct who’ve all of a sudden become more anti-Darwin than the creationists, they need to step back. How about we let kids grow up and go through the growing pains and exploration we all did before making life-altering health decisions when they’re still adolescents?
But even that issue is resetting back to a more reasonable equilibrium. “Country Nowadays” feels like it was written in 2020 or something, and for smart reasons, was left on the shelf. At least the Aaron Lewis and Oliver Anthony songs were timely. This just feels abruptly outdated.
Hey, it’s your dude who’s in power now, Lee Brice. It’s a country song that’s #1 in all of music at the moment. So why are you bitching? And as we all lob grenades at each other over stupid songs like this one, it’s the elites from both parties robbing the treasury and immiserating us all. Now that would make a good premise for a country song.
“But Trig, this isn’t even a really song yet! There’s not a studio version of it!” For the love of God, let’s please keep it that way. Don’t let this bun out of the oven. Even right wingers can advocate for this being one creation not worth bringing to term. Because if they had any sense, they’d realize this song portrays them in the most negative of negative light.
Wait, what? The studio version comes out Feb. 19th? Well screw me.
This is the kind of refuse you get when you politicize country music. Either it’s screechy Maren Morris garbage that makes you want to scrape your eyeballs out, or this crap.
“Country Nowadays” does NOT represent actual country music these days at all. It represents one man’s over-ripened perspective as he overextends himself by feverishly grasping for attention for his dying career, inadvertently working to pull the entirety of the country genre down with him.
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February 16, 2026 @ 11:54 am
I think you need to give it another listen; It didn’t seem to knock the fa-got out of ypu.
February 16, 2026 @ 11:59 am
I’m not going to defend this guy or his song, because why? But I will say that there is some country music that has a political bent that isn’t horrible. The Pill, D-I-V-O-R-C-E, Ira Hayes, pretty much everything Steve Earle ever wrote. Maybe it’s not the having an opinion, maybe it’s just that this guy and Maren Morris suck.
February 16, 2026 @ 12:00 pm
He really has a good voice; the lyrics almost don’t stand out.
February 16, 2026 @ 12:09 pm
He can be very good with the right material (“Rumor,” which was a hit, and “Cry,” which stiffed), but takes the lazy way out most of the time. I guess he’s been in the business too long to change his ways, even with his lack of recent success.
February 16, 2026 @ 12:05 pm
Lee Brice is the only country singer I have any personal connection to (my wife knew him growing up) and I would like to defend him but he’s making it tough these days
February 16, 2026 @ 12:37 pm
My wife worked with Dennis Rader for three months back in 2003, in Park City, Wichita. I’m not going to defend him. He was a jerk, according to her (and virtually everyone who ever crossed his path).
February 16, 2026 @ 12:55 pm
This is hilarious. I wish Mindhunter had gone on longer so they could have continued showing how pathetic this guy was.
February 16, 2026 @ 12:09 pm
You nailed it. Possibly the worst song of the decade. It had to be AI right? Nobody would actually put their name on this record as a songwriter.
February 16, 2026 @ 12:23 pm
I watched Pat finnerty (what makes this song stink on YouTube ) do a reaction live stream to the tpusa thing and that was pretty hilarious. I think that was maybe the first time I’ve seen modern country idiots like this and several years. “I just wanna kish my feesh”.
I can’t wait for the exaggerated accent trend to eventually get shamed out of existence. If you listen to how 90s country acts sang versus everybody in country today, it starts to look like a parody of itself. Independent artists are no exception.
February 16, 2026 @ 12:25 pm
Written by Brice, Matt Alderman and Matt Kenyon. Alderman has co-written with Mitchell Tenpenny, Dylan Scott and Nate Smith. Kenyon has contributed to songs by LoCash and Chris Young (the current, bro version of Young). Given those “credentials,” this song might be the best either of these men can produce. Ugh. Double ugh.
February 16, 2026 @ 12:28 pm
Agree with this rant, especially how songs like this make country and its fans seem like we live down to the very worst stereotypes some people have of us. I’m registered as independent, detach from culture wars as much as humanly possible, and this current political hellscape can’t possibly end soon enough for me. As always with this type of “statement” song, not one mind will be changed and not one productive conversation about our differences will take place- it’s just more inflammatory BS that highlights and exacerbates our divisions. In other words, it’s exactly what we don’t need.
Also, why is Pace’s face so alarmingly beat read in that picture? Is it the endless supply of rage that fuels the entire MAGA movement, alcohol or drugs, or some sort of medical condition? A warning sign for all of us – anger, even when it’s just performative BS, ain’t good for the soul, the body, or for the quality of our music!
February 16, 2026 @ 12:36 pm
Sunny Ledfurd’s new dedicated country lane project ‘Grown Man Country’ just released the antithesis of that song. You can listen to ‘Horseshoes’ here; https://open.spotify.com/track/6jPTT9nFVHRZohu7xwDi2n?si=b1e5ec134546454a
February 16, 2026 @ 12:40 pm
Poor, poor Lee. Ever since the previous administration communistically banned beer, trucks, long guns, lawn mowers and dogs, he’s been one sad, hurting buckaroo. I mean golly, Lee can’t even watch the TV news anymore, what with the news and all. He just yearns for a simpler time, when a man could drink a bunch of beers, drive over to his tree stand, and accidentally kill his dog, without a bunch of uppity libtards lecturing him about it.
I particularly enjoyed the crowd “wooos” when he (sigh) made it a point to bring trans into the mix. In pro wrestling parlance, that’s the ultimate cheap pop. It’s cute how people pretend this sort of grievance-based entertainment is what they like.
February 16, 2026 @ 12:58 pm
I just want to sincerely thank Mr. Brice for putting this steaming pile of hot garbage onto a tee so there was no way in hell Trig wasn’t gonna take a swing at it with a Fat Albert bat. We desperately needed an epic rant and some levity around these parts.
February 16, 2026 @ 12:59 pm
I do love me a good Trig rant and this is a great one. I do like how the majority of people instantly shit on this not necessarily because it doesn’t fall on their side of the political spectrum, but because the song just flat out sucks.