Song Review – Kenny Chesney’s “Setting the World On Fire” feat. Pink
So wait, Kenny Chesney changed the name of his new record and delayed the release … for this? Don’t bother shaving your legs or changing out of your sweatpants for this one ladies, “Setting the World On Fire” is a non-plussing, generic, lame, cliché, afterthought of a song, not worth the paper it was written on, or the undivided attention of anyone aside from critics who wish to urinate on it and those who enjoy watching.
This song can’t make it five seconds without trainwrecking, when the terrible generic electronic drum beat comes stealing through the adult contemporary guitar tinklings to drain your life force and break your country music spirit. You can go through the entirety of “Setting the World On Fire,” comb through it with fine detail, dissect it every which way, break it down to its most basic chemical components, blast it with a proton microscope, and you won’t find one kernel, one rice grain, one sand spec, one molecule of anything that even remotely resembles anything relating to country music with this song.
“Setting the World On Fire” is not ragingly offensive for any specific transgression. Many of its adverse elements—like the electronic drum beat and sub-par lyricism—are commonplace for these kinds of radio tracks. It’s more about how aggressively generic it is that makes it so offensive. It’s the song’s safety that makes it so dangerously benign.
What you have with “Setting the World On Fire” is a pop star pushing 40, and country star pushing 50, clasping onto each other in fear, hoping the combined glimmer of their dwindling stars will cast enough light for someone in the mainstream to pay attention to them before they’re pushed towards Vegas as nostalgia acts. Chesney’s previous single “Noise” failed to crack the Top 5 on country radio after his friends in the biz bestowed him five straight #1’s from his mediocre last record The Big Revival. Chesney’s one of the few country acts who can still sell out stadiums, but clearly some are looking to edge him out for new blood as the top of country music continues to get more crowded.
It’s because of this impending ageism facing Chesney that he’s trying to convey youth through a song set on Southern California’s La Cienega Blvd—mere miles from George Strait’s “Marina Del Rey,” yet worlds apart in maturity and substance.
“Said ‘Do you think we’ll live forever?’ As we killed another beer
And you wrote I love you in lipstick on the mirror
We were laughin’ until we were breathless
Never felt anything so reckless…”
Even Taylor Swift has moved on from writing such frivolous, juvenile “live forever” pap.
And look, it’s understood that some listeners whose tastes range beyond country music might have an affinity for Pink and her ability to contort herself and pick her nose with her pinkie toe on a Cirque de Soleil tapestry while still staying in tune. I appreciate that she did a sedated, folkish-style record a few years back and has some decent songs. You’re a closet Pink fan, or she’s a guilty pleasure for you? Hey, that’s awesome. But whatever talents and attributes she possesses, they sure didn’t come through with this song, or at least were wasted on its genericism. If this was Pink feat. Kenny Chesney and was released to pop radio, perhaps the story would be different. But if you bring this weak sauce onto the country turf, you’re setting it up to get reefed in the privates.
READ: The Country Music Collaborator / Interloper Field Guide
Chesney’s continued support by country radio hides the fact that he’s grasping for a direction in his career, and for the attention from common fans to maintain his top flight status as opposed to bowing out gracefully and adding to his more long-term legacy with memorable songs. His latest move is to follow the trend of the pop collaboration, and we’ll see if it has any effect, aided by Billboard’s flawed system that will give Chesney credit for spins of “Setting the World On Fire” on pop radio through Pink. But in the end, the question is if “Setting the World On Fire” has enough pyrotechnics or star power to push it to #1, and give Chesney and his label the radio hit their looking for ahead of his next album release.
We’ll see.
August 2, 2016 @ 8:35 am
They will still end up pushing this song to the top Trigger, believe me.
August 2, 2016 @ 8:45 am
beSt song i ever heard
August 2, 2016 @ 8:47 am
Awful.
August 2, 2016 @ 8:59 am
What ? ….no banjo ..? I thought banjos were an “order- now- and-we’ll- also- send- you ” kinda gift with every drum software purchase . Who’d have thought that Avicci with Dan Timinski would come closer to country with ” Oh Brother ” than all of these straw-grasping country acts hooking up with the Pitbulls , the Pinks the Gwens and the Demis …..and , of course , be way more country than Sam Hunt ? This whole trend reminds me of when our drugstore chains started selling TV sets and dill pickles . I think they call it cross-marketing but I can think of a half dozen other things I’d call it .
Pink and Kenny eh ? Well , that pairing has muscle but it ain’t fit enough for country radio.
August 2, 2016 @ 10:51 am
“Pairing has muscle…” Yep. Pink’s bigger than Kenny’s.
October 14, 2016 @ 8:37 am
Well, Im loving this song!! Im from New Zealand and I probably wouldn’t have heard this song if it was for Pink being part of it. I used to live in Houston,Tx for 19 years and I miss my country music. Kenny is great, as is Pink. The fact that 2 different genres can come together and make a great song, and reach a greater audience is a great thing… I think anyway. Not slagging your opinion albert, but just giving a different “global” perspective. I must admit that I don’t know a great deal of Kennys musics , but I do know all of Pinks. And I think both of their voices blend fantastically on this track!!! Im glad to have found a bit of Country “down under”… even if you don’t consider it true country 🙂
August 2, 2016 @ 9:02 am
Pop acts are whores. Pop Country acts are sluts.
At least with a whore you know what you’re getting.
My analogy of the day.
Here’s to hoping this is the last mention of Kenny Chesney ever.
August 2, 2016 @ 11:23 am
Time to go the full monty of his Jimmy Buffet rip-off act and just do the occasional tour while releasing an album to rabid fans with no regard for radio.
Maybe open a burger & bar chain called The Blue Chair.
August 2, 2016 @ 9:03 am
Another thing that bothered me when I first heard this: Chesney pitched this song as “a perfect illustration of being on the brink of falling in love”… What?! The lyrics describe the actions more than feelings. To me its more a song of nostalgia; there are really no lyrics hinting that these are two lovers. They could be friends for all I know. P!nk is one of my favorite pop stars, so I do love her vocals on the track. But the song is lacking.
August 2, 2016 @ 12:21 pm
Chesney is the worst for having all of these marketing angles behind his singles. One of his other recent singles “Wild Child” he was trying to sell as empowering to women by portraying a strong character when the song was about a loose groupie. Most mainstream fans aren’t paying attention enough to pick up on the bait and switch.
August 2, 2016 @ 1:43 pm
Is it paying attention or is it just a general lack of intelligence? I hate to be “that” Country music fan, but if you are still listening to Country radio on a semi-regular basis by choice, you just can’t possibly be that smart. It has been drivel for so long now that even the most ardent radio supporters have to have given up hope of it ever turning around. The best chance for “traditional” Country music to live on is via digital radio, downloads and streaming. I don’t see it ever coming back in a big way at terrestrial radio unless the entire radio industry completely collapses and media giants like iHeart and Cumulus go bankrupt.
But I agree with your larger point, which is Kenny Chesney shifts narratives like the wind depending on what song he is pitching at Country radio. If he intends it to be one of his “navel gazing” semi-serious songs, then is he whistling at the media about how serious he has gotten about his music and his “artistic endeavors” and then when it comes to some radio slop like this he completely shifts narratives again. I know he isn’t the only artist to do this, but he has been the master of it for a long time now. Remember when he put out “Old Blue Chair” and was able to get radio to fall over themselves about how “risky” and “daring” it was for him to put out a mostly acoustic album? In short this is Kenny Chesney, he and his management push the Jimmy Buffett, good times songs as long and as hard as he can and right before he goes over a cliff he shifts the narrative about how much he respects women and is going to record serious music and how bro-Country sucks, etc. As much of a hack as he is, I’ll give the guy credit for being one of the “smarter” mainstream artists when it comes to reading the industry tea leaves. Especially in comparison to the Aldeans, Bryans, FGL’s of the world.
August 2, 2016 @ 9:23 am
Pink is disgusting. Every time I see Pink, I think of the US women’s soccer team.
August 2, 2016 @ 9:26 am
Living forever only works in country songs when it’s the Highwaymen singing about reincarnation.
August 2, 2016 @ 11:33 am
Now wait….don’t leave out Billy Joe Shavers song Live Forever…that’s a must listen Hoss!
August 2, 2016 @ 8:23 pm
Or the Flatlanders’ Bhagavan Decreed. While that is not my cup of tea philosophically, that is a great song!
August 2, 2016 @ 11:25 am
“Anything But Mine” > “Setting The World On Fire”
August 2, 2016 @ 11:54 am
It is so Vanilla…
But that makes it even more forgettable.
I’ve already forgotten.
August 2, 2016 @ 12:49 pm
Pink deserves better, and actually she’s already had a hit this year on pop radio – “Just like Fire” which was much better than this song. I actually like Pink’s vocals, and think she likes Folk music, so if she wanted to make an actual folk/country album or record again, I’d be down with it. I’m ok with not hearing anymore from Kenny for a while though.
August 2, 2016 @ 3:31 pm
Totally agree seak05 …Pink writes some great stuff and she’s all about melody . I’m a fan of her brand of pop . She could most certainly sell a song with just her vocals and a simple acoustic accompaniment . That’s something you can’t say about a lot of country writers or artists..(.I’m looking at you Dierks , Sam , Luke , Kruze Kids , Aldean and about 20 others ).
August 4, 2016 @ 12:03 am
Didn’t Dierks release a bluegrass(or semi-bluegrass) album awhile back? And Luke Bryan, while being a sellout and overall idiot, certainly has the voice to pull off something similar if he were so inclined. Just listen to his early stuff.
August 4, 2016 @ 8:10 am
Yes Dierks released “Up on the Ridge” a few years ago. Solid album.
August 3, 2016 @ 7:16 am
Pink does have a great voice but I think she could do so much better if she’d get out from under Max Martin’s clutches, because she does indeed have the vocal chops to handle an all-acoustic album. Her song “Glitter in the Air” is the perfect example of what she’s truly capable of.
August 3, 2016 @ 8:51 am
Won’t see that anytime soon.
Career killer for a Pop Artist.
For the most part, Her fans love the anthems and the wit and the power of here.
August 2, 2016 @ 1:25 pm
Hey everyone, remember when I posted a month or so ago giving you my top 10 country artists ever? I took a lot of flack for not having Waylon Jennings in my list. Well, billboard just came out with a top 10 and he’s not in billboard’s top 10 either.
Though to be fair, they have some real head scratchers in this not well-explained list. They did get no. 1 right with George Strait…the list was from 1960s til now so don’t freak out when the real no. 2 Hank Williams is not on the list. I had Haggard at 4 (*I guess 3 if you take Hank out). Alan Jackson being 9th behind Barf Brooks is a joke. Jackson (my personal favorite) is 3. Willie is way too high and shouldn’t even be in the top 10. He was more of a songwriter (and cartoon character). Alabama shouldn’t be in the top 5. Nor should Conway Twitty. Charley Pride is the biggest joke, I’m not sure if he is a HOF/top 50 let alone 6. And I’m sure most of you will love how Tim McGraw is ahead of Waylon Jennings lol. And I personally think Cash is the most overrated artist in the history of any music, but he belongs in the top 10. George Jones at 16?? Um, no. Finally, Dolly is way, way too far down the list….
Side note: Why is it that the world mourned for like 10 years after Cash died but for Haggard it was like a day? Political? Maybe too be fair, when Cash died country music fans respected the past genre (pre bro country music).
http://www.billboard.com/charts/greatest-country-artists
August 2, 2016 @ 2:45 pm
that list has to be a joke
August 2, 2016 @ 5:53 pm
That list is based on commercial performance of albums, singles, and radio play. It is not opinion based, just FYI.
August 2, 2016 @ 8:44 pm
I’m not so sure…Willie Nelson at 3; Pride at 6???
August 2, 2016 @ 1:33 pm
Keep pathetically clinging to your youth Kenny. Honestly, that has always been something that has creeped me out about Chesney for some time now. He is just obsessed with his youth or youth in virtually every single he has put out for over a decade now. Not all of them have been offensively bad, but it’s kinda disturbing how Chesney seemingly refuses to tackle any topic that doesn’t revolve around football, frat party’s, young love or clinging to your youth when you are 40. In short, Kenny Chesney has quickly become the “Uncle Rico” of Country artists. If he weren’t a multi-million dollar artist and just acted or talked about his youth the way he does in his songs in real life, I think most of us would think he was kinda pathetic.
August 2, 2016 @ 8:16 pm
The Uncle Rico of country artists…my God this is a perfect description of Chesney. He reminds me of that guy in Friday Night Lights who graduated in the 80s but was still going to team parties.
The dude really needs to let it go already. Hell, I’m only 34 and I still think of my teens and 20s on occasion. I’ll admit, it’s fun to go back in time when you were at your prime and anything in the world seemed possible but those days aren’t coming back.
August 3, 2016 @ 3:41 am
“No doubt. No doubt in my mind.”
August 2, 2016 @ 2:01 pm
Kenny Chesney hasn’t been worth listening to since he became a corporate cock sucker around the time of his first greatest hits CD.
August 2, 2016 @ 2:04 pm
This is probably the most forgettable song I’ve ever heard. Kenny Chesney is a total sellout. What ever happened to the guy that sang “Don’t Blink” and “You Save Me” and “Keg In The Closet”? So disappointing and embarrassing to say I was a lifelong Chesney fan till the sellout album “The Big Revival”. Chesney is literally the 1st artist I remembered as a child. Growing up with his music was great, but he has changed his music so much that it’s hard to tell that its even the same person!
August 4, 2016 @ 4:08 pm
He has a career to keep hold of, and if he wants to stay relevant enough to make it to radio, he has to sell out, or get out. Tim did it, too, with “Felt Good on My Lips” (one of the worst!), and let’s not forget that other one..I can’t even remember the title, but after about the third time I heard it, I was sick of it! I just remembered it..”That Girl”…UGH!
August 2, 2016 @ 2:57 pm
The only thing that is remotely interesting about this track is that it provides a clue as to where Pink can take her commercial career from here as opposed to, say, Kenny Chesney.
Because make no mistake: despite the billing, this is a Pink song featuring Kenny Chesney, not the other way around.
We get it. “Noise” fared worse than all four singles from “The Big Revival”. Columbia Nashville’s executives were unhappy with the result, and asked Chesney to have a word with them behind closed doors. It was there that they insisted they could not release his forthcoming album until it was retooled to pander to current trends. It probably went something like this:
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Randy Goodman: “Mr. Chesney………………this isn’t 2003. Country radio listeners don’t give a crap about your social consciousness anymore. They don’t want to overthink anything…”
Kenny Chesney: “You’re wrong! I’m at a point in my career where I can’t just put together a collection of songs that may sound great but don’t mean anything to anybody. Where they’re just rep…”
Randy Goodman: “Please! You wouldn’t know depth if it was written on the label of a Jones Soda bottle!”
Kenny Chesney: (demurring mumble)
Randy Goodman: “So, here’s how it’s going to be. First, we’re changing your album title. It’s………………boring! Too……………….Alan Jackson-like!”
Kenny Chesney: “But I like Alan Jackson!”
Randy Goodman: “PLEASE! Name me one Alan Jackson song title!”
Kenny Chesney: “……………….you know, the song about being country, and…”
Randy Goodman: “Let me see your iPod!”
Kenny Chesney: “No!”
Randy Goodman: “Give it to me!”
Kenny Chesney: “It’s mine!”
(Goodman lunges at Chesney, they grapple and struggle, and Goodman ultimately seizes control of the iPod. He peruses his song library.)
Randy Goodman: “………………..ha! Just as I thought! You don’t have a single Alan Jackson song in your music library! In fact, I’m not seeing any country at all! But oh……………what’s th……………..”
Kenny Chesney: “DON’T LOOK AT MY PHONE’S BACKGROUND WALLPAPER!”
Randy Goodman: “………………………..oh ha ha……………………you have an unhealthy crush on……………..PINK!”
(Kenny Chesney blushes in embarrassment)
Randy Goodman: “My boy………………it appears you sure have a crush on Pink, don’t you? Well then……………….perhaps she can be the solution to BOTH our problems!”
Kenny Chesney: (with stupefied look): “…………………..huh?”
Randy Goodman: “We’re going to call Pink immediately! You’re going to record a duet with your fantasy girl, like we’re forcing all our other A-list males to do!”
Kenny Chesney: “But with what? We don’t have any songs meant for duets!”
Randy Goodman: “Why, by claiming OneRepublic’s C-sides, of course! We’re going to call Ryan Tedder, let him do his usual vanilla schtick, and…”
Kenny Chesney: “But………………….that doesn’t sound like me! That’s not me!”
(Randy Goodman places hand on Chesney’s left shoulder)
Randy Goodman: “Kenny…………………….all people regard you as is the guy who sits around on the beach for no reason and gets nostalgic. You’re a prop! You always have been! NOW GET YOUR COPPERTONED ASS TO THE TAXI, TAKE THE NEXT FLIGHT TO LOS ANGELES AND HOOK UP WITH YOUR……………….(teasing voice)…………………sassy little girlfriend!” (kissy lips)
Kenny Chesney: (with yesman bobblehead motion) “Yes sir!”
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I mean, when you hear this, it sounds like a logical continuation of where Pink left off with “The Truth About Love” four years ago: still maintaining her playful, assertive personality but adapting it more squarely to Adult Top 40 sensibilities. And since Adult Top 40 has basically morphed into a 30% Less Bubblegum version of Mainstream Top 40, Pink still fits right in.
But Kenny Chesney? Do you seriously expect even a fairly recent country radio convert to listen to this with the windows rolled down while the chorus is playing and extol: “Oh yeah, this is pure country!” Let alone a Kenny Chesney song? Kenny Chesney doesn’t even sing in the chorus aside from backing contributions in the final one. Seriously: without even having listened to this song, you could be surfing the radio on a cross-country radio trip and, coming across this on your dial, easily mistake this for the lead single from Pink’s forthcoming studio album…………………featuring some token male singer because her smash duet with fun.’s Nate Ruess demanded another banner male-female collaboration.
And how more cliched can these lyrics possibly get? They’re cribbed from every “Live each day like it’s your last!” pop cliche since the club boom at the beginning of the decade. Granted they have percolated into country radio for a while anyway thanks to the bro-country phase, but at least then the lyrics still tried to lean on stereotypical cultural descriptors and token banjo to make them superficially country on the surface.
Here, they’re not even trying. It sounds like something OneRepublic left on the studio cutting board. It astonishes me seeing that Buddy Cannon sure enough produced this, because I can so easily mistake this as a Ryan Tedder production had I been blindfolded upon listening to the song for the first time.
And when comparing the gutless production to the lyrics, they seem so hopelessly mismatched. The lyrics are supposed to speak of the euphoria surrounding young love and starry-eyed restlessness that comes with it, yet the production is completely sterile and betrays any sort of mayhem and mania the lyrics try and depict.
Forget the fact the lyrics don’t even try to hide the fact they’re not country whatsoever. They could still have served a saving grace of sorts if there was a certain sense of tension or weight to why these experiences of getting drunk on La Cienega Boulevard and singing along to tunes coincidentally belonging to the entertainer depicted on Pink’s T-shirt would prove to be momentous in the context of their lives. I mean, after all, THE SONG IS WRITTEN IN THE PAST TENSE!
But no: the song is basically just Kenny Chesney reciting a list of awesome things he did with Pink in the verses, Pink bragging about all the awesome things he did with Kenny Chesney in the chorus, and……………………..then both of them bragging about how awesome it was singing in the hotel lights in the closing chorus!
WHAT’S THE POINT? What prompted Ross Copperman, Matt Jenkins and Josh Osborne to write another dime-a-dozen song about living it up like it’s your last day if there was no emotional incentive or event to do so? Even by recent country radio standards, Eric Church’s “Springsteen” is a much more effective song of its ilk because it actually taps into the bittersweet melancholia that comes with getting older and looking back on simpler times when hearing an old song lights a spark deep down. Same with The Brothers Osborne’s current single “21 Summer”. It’s mostly just a song about the narrator reflecting on when he lost his virginity and, thus, “became a man”……………………but it’s still a pretty effective and emotionally stirring song because its lyrics indicate something in the weather that impacted him and brought back the memory, with swirling, haunting production that aids it. But here, there’s no payoff. The stakes simply aren’t there: making for a disposable, gutless sing-along without any point or purpose.
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What I will admit is that Pink often doesn’t get enough credit as a charismatic, effective singer, and she sounds great here too. At the very least this feels like a genuine vocal collaboration as opposed to something like Florida Georgia Line’s new single “May We All” where Tim McGraw is hardly distinguishable in the mix whatsoever.
This isn’t a terrible song, but this is a completely pointless song with the sole purpose of securing Columbia Nashville’s fourth-quarter solvency (if even that). It does absolutely nothing to serve Kenny Chesney in his own artistic development, and it will only be a major hit because it’s clinically-designed to be nothing more than instantly-gratifying radio bait generic enough to be marketed to five different radio formats.
This gets a Zero as a country song, but a Decent to Strong 4 out of 10 as a song of its own merit.
August 2, 2016 @ 9:45 pm
If you’re auditioning to oust me as Saving Country Music’s mainstream single reviewer, I think you may have won it with this comment.
August 2, 2016 @ 3:12 pm
Except for the ticki-ticki-ticki of the e-drums, this sounds like every other sucki-sucki-sucki song since OLD BLUE CHAIR~ monotony is not a musical genre, though it sure seems to KC’s ongoing (but hopefully not ebduring) style. So far from “You Had Me At Hello”…
August 2, 2016 @ 3:43 pm
“monotony is not a musical genre,”
Oh I think Music Row would beg to differ, Tunesmiff .
August 2, 2016 @ 5:02 pm
This song is ten times better than “Noise,” which was seriously the worst song he ever recorded.
August 4, 2016 @ 4:16 pm
So you never heard “Beer Can Chicken” or “Pirate Flag”?
August 7, 2016 @ 5:01 pm
Haha yes, Pirate Flag would probably be the worst of his for me.
August 2, 2016 @ 5:56 pm
With literally tens of thousands of outstanding sampled drum kits, riffs, beats, not to mention the thousands of oustanding “live”drummers there are in this world… I can’t believe what they came up with on this tune for a drum part.
That drum riff is truly pitiful….. weak, boring, stale, and worse than nothing. Unless their idea was to have people just turn the tune off after hearing the opening drum part… sounds like a fifties jazz drummer playing his one rock riff.
August 2, 2016 @ 5:57 pm
With me, the basic problem with this song, besides its fairly generic arrangement, not only it being neither country nor pop, but also not being very good, period, is that, as Trigger has pointed out, it feels like one of those money deals disguised as a pop/country collaboration.
For the record, the only song of Kenny Chesney’s that I have really liked with all that much enthusiasm was his #6 C&W/#55 pop hit from 2002, “I’d Have Done A Lot Of Things Different”, which was co-written by no less a legendary figure than Bill Anderson. That’s pretty much it, since most of the rest of his stuff, the attempts at being a Jimmy Buffett clone that fall painfully flat and a truly wretched piece of “work” in “She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy”, practically laid the groundwork, at least in part, for Bro Country long before songs about screwing hot young chicks on the tailgates of F-14s ever came to swamp country radio.
As for Pink–I’m not much of a fan of hers either, although that folkish collaboration with Dallas Green of two years ago was much more indicative of the kind of singer she could be if she could get away from what she has been doing for so long. This cheesy Chesney “duet” isn’t going to do it for her, however (IMHO).
August 2, 2016 @ 6:19 pm
I think in a lot of ways Kenny Chesney is a lot like most popular country stars, in that, if Kenny just sits down and plays his guitar and sings about his life, he’s pretty good. It’s when he tries too hard that things go sideways.
I remember someone once said that of The Simpson’s almost 500 episodes only 120 are classics, which someone else responded “How many shows have 120 classic episodes.”
Has Kenny Chesney released bad singles, Yep! But I bet if you looked though his catalog, you would find 25-30 classic songs and how many artists can say that. Very few acts can go 20 years, put out five singles every year and not release some duds.
August 2, 2016 @ 7:33 pm
I like Pink- her vocals especially, but I’m not a fan of this song at all. The vocals sound like they were recorded on different days, in different studios, and spliced together with protools. Crappy. Also, energetically the vocals are a TOTAL mismatch. I have the same problem with Demi Lovato’s vocals, etc. Vocals in a duet need to balance and pop singers aren’t used to balancing their voices with someone else. But feed the public Mcdonald’s and they’ll eat it, right? Please stop doing country duets, pop singers. They don’t sound good. And I’m not even talking about the annoying production, lyrics, etc.
Unfortunately, I am also wondering if this will make #1. I just saw that “Vacation” is in the top 20.
This is seriously getting depressing.
August 2, 2016 @ 8:40 pm
My wife loves Pink and hates Chesney. Can’t wait to play her this crap.
August 3, 2016 @ 7:18 am
Kenny Who ?
August 3, 2016 @ 9:54 am
Next album will be a return back to his Parrot-Head Country.
August 3, 2016 @ 4:26 pm
Good tune. Gonna rock dat bitch on my speakers tonight.
August 4, 2016 @ 6:38 am
Is “aggressively generic” a term? Because if it isn’t, I want it to become one. This isn’t a song. This is a framework for a song with filler lyrics and a generic backing track that someone decided to cut. I mean, “forgettable” doesn’t even begin to describe it.
August 4, 2016 @ 3:58 pm
this song beats anything by Chase Rice, Cole Swindell, or any other modern “country” artist. it’s not his best, but it’s certainly not his worst (Beer Can Chicken, Pirate Flag)!
August 5, 2016 @ 12:39 am
I will flood the country music stations with this song and force them to call it country music because I am an evil corporation!!! You are powerless to stop me!
MWWAAAHHHHHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
August 5, 2016 @ 8:29 pm
I don’t think that most of the other people commenting listened to the same song as I did…Kenny Chesney once again rocks it! He is a class act and gives the best concerts …you can feel the love he has for his fans. This collaboration between Kenny and Pink is great, upbeat, and fun. I didn’t know that there were so many (unqualified and ignorant) music critics in the world.
August 15, 2016 @ 6:01 pm
I am thrilled I found this page. Ratings aren’t done in stars or points, but guns! This is a generic song like just about most Kenny Chesney songs. Pink usually brings passion and real energy but this neutered song reeks of current country blandness. Shame girl. Btw to the readers kickin it on this site, vast majority I will correctly assume are lookin to Make America Great Again con Trump, Kenny Chesney likes a hard dick. Two different guys I know have either screwed around with him or were propositioned by him. Your welcome
August 15, 2016 @ 6:18 pm
Glad you found the site Austin. You might be surprised at the diversity this site attracts, and the open-mindedness of its readers, and the stimulating discussion that occurs in the comments sections. All are welcome here, especially dissenting viewpoints against the majority.
September 9, 2016 @ 9:33 am
To each their own. I love the way Pink and Kenny sound together and I love the song. I disliked the first single off his new album “Noise”.
September 12, 2016 @ 3:34 am
Great song, great sound, awesome pairing. The “new” sound (now what, almost 20 years old), continues to expand the once stagnant genre of our parents and grandparents…
September 23, 2016 @ 11:10 pm
i wish kenny would go back to when he was cutting songs like anything but mine and on the coast of somewhere beautiful to hold over his wannabe jimmy buffet act but as long as he cutting stuff like this or noise or pirate flag from a couple albums ago (ughhhhh) that will probably never happen again
October 1, 2016 @ 8:14 pm
I don’t understand how so many people can be so negative or feel they have to critique something when can they actually write a song, or sing one too?! I can’t and I would be the last one to be a critic. Kenny has his fan base and they don’t really care what critics or you all have to say about his music. He is a great entertainer! I stumbled on this website by accident and couldn’t believe what people write! Geesh! Give somebody a break. He loves what he does and is just trying to entertain people. Lighten up and have some fun!
October 19, 2016 @ 1:40 pm
Pink has an unbelievable voice – I hope she does more Country. I love this song.