Zac Brown Calls “Old” Country “Predictable.” Says He’s Making More EDM Music
WARNING: Language
The “Benedict Arnold of Country Music,” a.k.a. Zac Brown, sat down recently with the always-complicit Rolling Stone Country to participate in yet another puff piece, and shoved his foot so far down his throat, Cheryl Tiegs would be colored impressed by his the once country star’s incredible pliability.
Speaking to them about his bullshit and aggressively-formulaic foray into EDM idiocy called “Beautiful Drug,” Zac Brown attempted to justify his incredible hypocrisy by speaking to people on economic terms, like that’s what’s going to mend the hearts of his fans who feel like they’ve been meat cleavered right through the rib cage by Zac, especially after he publicly called out Luke Bryan for his song “That’s My Kind of Night,” and the lack of real instrumentation on the track.
“Well, there’s a bunch of songs on [Jekyll + Hyde] that are country, but we don’t want to abandon any of the market we have now. We just want to gain new market,” Zac says.
Oh, well isn’t that great. So Zac wants all you country people to know that even though he’s a flaming hypocrite and broke your heart, he’s still values your fucking money. Just like he values the money of EDM fans. So hey, don’t go anywhere. It’s evolution, or whatever.
I mean, who has the hubris to talk to the public in these terms? I don’t give a shit about what you “want” Zac Brown. You lied to people, you called out other artists, and then you turn around and do something that’s worse, and then you feel like you have the right to continue to appeal to country fans just because you buried some songs on your album that strain to be called “country” in any capacity because they include a little fiddle?
And that’s just where the bullshit starts.
Zac goes on to say about “Beautiful Drug,” “It’s still a good lyrical song.”
Ha ha ha ha! Oh my goodness. So first off, by Zac Brown saying “Beautiful Drug” is “STILL” a good lyrical song, he’s admitting right there that the music is bullshit. But somehow that bullshit is justified because the words are so deep and soulful?
Here’s the chorus of “Beautiful Drug” ladies and gentlemen:
Tonight
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa, whoaWhoa, whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa, whoa(repeat)
Oh but somehow this puff piece interview with Rolling Stone gets even more ridiculous. As Zac Brown is explaining how he still loves “old” country—you know, because he still wants your money too country fans—he says,
“Some of the really old country music has amazing songs and stories, and the instrumentation is pretty much predictable.”
Are you fucking kidding me? So “old” country is predictable, and “Beautiful Drug” is innovative? Is that what you’re trying to sell people Zac Brown? Because the beat for “Beautiful Drug”—the exact same cotton pickin’ beat that is found on every single EDM song since the beginning of space and time—is as predictable as music gets, along with the stupid bass drop that “Beautiful Drug” also employs. And somehow you’re going to compare this to Ralph Mooney ripping a steel guitar solo, or a Bill Monroe run on the mandolin, or an Earl Scruggs banjo breakdown? That’s the beauty of humans playing instruments Zac Brown. It’s different every single time, and is pock marked with the beauty of human imperfection. The 1’s and 0’s of “Beautiful Drug” are the purified essence of predictability.
Zac Brown has six amazingly-talented musicians in his band, yet they don’t do shit in the studio version of “Beautiful Drug.”
I know what some of you are thinking out there. “Oh come on Trigger, if you don’t like the song, just don’t listen to it.” Am I right? That’s what Zac Brown says.
“You can de-select the songs that you don’t want to have on the record.”
Oh, except when you released them as singles, TO COUNTRY RADIO. Just like Zac Brown has done with “Beautiful Drug.” Zac hopes you hear this song everywhere, whether you want to or not—walking through the aisles of Walgreens, stopped at a red light with some asshole with 12″ Kikkers in his trunk bobbing his head to this bullshit. “Beautiful Drug” is a garbage song, country or not, and Zac Brown and his label are doing everything they can to make it as ubiquitous throughout American culture and beyond as possible. Oh, and all you country fans? Well there’s a couple of country sounding album cuts you can chew on as a consolation prize.
And “Beautiful Drug” is just where all of this gets started folks. According to Zac Brown, he’s found his new passion in music.
“I love electronic music,” says Zac. “I spend a lot of my time listening to that and just trying to understand what makes it work what makes it move people the way it does and why they have some of the best-selling festivals in the world.”
See, once again Zac Brown is coveting the popularity of EDM and how he wants to be a part of that, yet he’s also admitting here he doesn’t quite yet know how it works. Country artists make bad EDM artists, because they don’t know what the hell they’re doing. “Beautiful Drug” is the perfect example. I have no doubt there’s some folks out there doing some amazing stuff with electronic music. But none of them are named Zac Brown, and they never will be. He’s an interloper, a carpetbagger. And if I was an EDM fan, I’d be even more incensed at this putz for screwing up music I hold dear, just how country fans feel. That is the ultimate failing of the mono-genre.
READ: Zac Brown Band’s “Beautiful Drug” (A semi-rant)
Stick with what you know. Stick with what’s in your heart. These have been the guiding principles for artists since the dawning of time. If Zac Brown wants to dabble in EDM music, he can go right ahead. Comb through the vast archives of Saving Country Music, and see if you can find one instance where I gave shit to Zac Brown for collaborating with Avicii. You won’t find anything, because hey, Zac Brown can do whatever he wants. There’s nothing wrong with collaborating with other artists in other art forms.
The problem is calling “Beautiful Drug” country. Zac Brown has created this conflict. Zac Brown is the transgressor. Not even Taylor Swift was this stupid. And being open and honest about his economic intentions with “Beautiful Drug,” there’s only one thing left to say about Zac Brown:
Sellout.
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“We play all of our own instruments, we write the best songs that we can, and we put harmony on the songs, we have a real band,” —Zac Brown, calling out Luke Bryan, September of 2013.
September 17, 2015 @ 9:36 am
I realize it is the music “business”, but something about hearing an “artist” talk about markets, just sounds so wrong.
February 10, 2018 @ 11:12 pm
Oh how I agree with the main posted beef about this singer. It’s ironic that he says old country is “predictable “cause that’s the same thing i said about his music and new country music put together. Its soo boring, it is no way even one grain of sand being close to the talent and awesome depth of old country music! New country music is the worst of the worst in every aspect of its creation. Simple songs from simple minded people being enjoyed by simple people who have no taste in music whatsoever. Sadly because most of them have never heard the great stuff,So cannot compare or cannot form a fair opinion.
September 17, 2015 @ 9:40 am
I see the Zac Brown Band is content to continue their slide towards mediocrity or worse. Their last album has two good songs on it, surrounded by generic songs or trash. “Bittersweet” and “Dress Blues” are examples of what this band can do when they try. Apparently they are tired of trying.
Country radio at this point is an old horse with four broken legs that needs to be dragged out into a pasture and put out of its misery. Quality on the radio is dead and will never come back unless the entire industry collapses and all the leeches are forced to abandon ship.
September 17, 2015 @ 9:56 am
“Dress Blues” is a Jason Isbell cut/cover. So that explains it’s quality.
September 17, 2015 @ 12:25 pm
Oh, I know and while I still prefer the Isbell/400 Unit version, the ZBB version is pretty damn good with a great fiddle solo.
To be honest I have always felt the ZBB was a bit overrated. They usually have had a couple really good tracks on each album, a bunch of filler and some radio dities. Their last album though has some downright offensively bad material which is a sad shift for them.
February 10, 2018 @ 11:14 pm
Oh how I agree with you 100% on your opinion. I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Thank you so much for your comment.
September 17, 2015 @ 9:44 am
I was really hoping you were gonna write about this. Mr. f****** “we play our instruments” is “working on new EDM music” HAHAHA. Zac Brown is biggest fraud in country music and I feel bad for his fans. I really do. He was selling out ballparks three nights in a row and winning Grammys before he started this bullshit but that wasn’t good enough for him. He wants to take over the world.
September 17, 2015 @ 9:48 am
That’s the problem with money. You can always have more of it.
September 18, 2015 @ 6:53 am
1 Timothy 6:10 King James Version (KJV)
10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
September 17, 2015 @ 9:45 am
I have defended Zac Brown here as well as criticizing the current album. However this asinine obsession with shitty music building them market share is almost Spinal Tap in it’s absurdity.
The Zac Brown vehicle needs to be Zac Brown and needs to let the talented members of the band go do something else where they can actually be musicians not puppets.
Sad to see this day come to fruition.
September 18, 2015 @ 1:06 am
I hope he gets stuck in a pod on stage.
February 11, 2018 @ 9:01 pm
Oh how I agree with you 100% on your opinion. I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Thank you so much for your comment.
September 17, 2015 @ 9:46 am
Zac Brown Band WAS my favorite band in all of music. It’s devastating to see Zac sell out like this, and it is only getting worse.
September 17, 2015 @ 9:46 am
My thoughts exactly! It’s sad too because Zac Brown could create some awesome country music and he can pick a mean guitar, but I just don’t get the direction of country music. Why don’t they all just come out and say that country music is now considered just “music” including all genres. I’m tired of hearing people say “if you don’t like it just don’t listen” or “that’s just evolution and nobody wants to hear the same old country”…bullshit
September 17, 2015 @ 9:55 am
When I had dealings with his management earlier this year, I knew the writing was on the wall. He has gotten too big for his britches. I’m waiting for the first of his band members to show they still have integrity and jump off this ship.
ZBB is the first indy band I ever really got behind. I watched them rise and reaching a zenith no one thought was possible for a pudgy, balding guitarist with a band that looked like musical misfits and had zero of the sex appeal that country radio/television covets.
I loved to tell people I was behind them when they were nothing. Now, I am ashamed to have helped them reach this pinnacle and forego their musical stylings for the almighty dollar.
Was hoping this latest trainwreck album was just a concept album that could be overlooked in the grand scheme much like Alan Jackson’s “Red on a Rose.”
That doesn’t appear to be the case and I am finished supporting ZBB. This has made me so sick I can’t even listen to their old stuff. I just turn the station or pop an Aaron Watson CD in. Sad few months to see your band turn its backs on the fans that made them.
September 17, 2015 @ 3:03 pm
There is a severe difference between Like Red on a Rose and Jekyll and Hyde–Like Red on a Rose is actually a great album that was experimental but without chasing trends. I find that album to be intensely emotional in ways that AJ isn’t always. I actually preferred that album and The Bluegrass Album because neither had any of the fun bullshit songs that Jackson has been so keen to release. Yes, he does beachy fun better than most, but for an artist who nails heavy and emotional as well as he does, I sure wish he’d just focus on singing about real things and forget about all the Jim and Jack and Hanks and the Bug in My Margherita (can’t remember what that one was called)s. He’s beyond that.
Granted, I’ve always been one to use music as an escape, so a lot of upbeat songs simply annoy the shit out of me. To each their own, as they say.
September 18, 2015 @ 6:57 am
Alan Jackson, without those fun “bullshit” songs, wouldn’t be Alan Jackson. He would be an emo country singer.
I like a mix of light and heavy Alan, which “Angels and Alcohol” nails.
Alan is wise enough to know that life isn’t all happy or all sad. You need to laugh and cry. Some singers are all cry and others are all laugh. An artist needs both.
September 17, 2015 @ 9:56 am
As far as I’m concerned, Zac Brown has always sucked. His music is for the type of people who wear winter hats in the summer time and people who like Kenny Chesney’s vibe, but find his music a bridge too far into the “country” genre.
September 17, 2015 @ 2:40 pm
It’s pretty ignorant to say he’s always sucked
September 17, 2015 @ 6:27 pm
What do you mean by “ignorant?”
February 10, 2018 @ 11:19 pm
I agree. His music sucks big time. It’s boring and so simple! I loathe it deeply! The only new country singers I find are more talented than most is AllanJackson because of his song “someone killed country music ” and Dwight Yokum.
September 17, 2015 @ 9:58 am
I saw Zac Brown Band open for Dave Matthews Band at PNC Park in Pittsburgh back in 2010. They were amazing. A top notch bunch of musicians on stage improvising and showing off their talent. Sure, they were never pure country, but they were authentic musicians playing real music. To watch them devolve into what they are now has been really sad.
February 10, 2018 @ 11:21 pm
Oh Wow! Two of my worst bands. I loathe both of their music and lyrics. Sorry just had to vent this out!
September 17, 2015 @ 9:58 am
How much of the bullshit coming out of his mouth is what he actually means and how much of it is a corporate speak, enforced by a record label executive holding a gun to the head of his career and telling him he’ll pull the trigger on his career if he doesn’t comply?
September 17, 2015 @ 10:40 am
Even if that’s the case, if he had balls he’d say “screw my career, I’m not doing that shit” and fight back. Ya know, like Jamey Johnson did. Because he has a pair.
September 17, 2015 @ 10:53 pm
The sad part is I don’t see that really being true. Artists hardly make the money from record sales they use to. The bulk of the income is from touring. Granted a major label greatly assists with growing the touring income, but at Zac’s level that’s hardly the case. A label exec should have very little sway over his decisions. I fear this is what he wants to do, not what’s he’s being told to do. What a bunch of garbage
September 22, 2015 @ 10:55 am
EDIT: Sorry that this is posted on the wrong comment; it was meant for RD’s comment above. Go take a listen and tell me songs like “Cold Hearted” and “Nothing” suck and aren’t country. And please try to justify how “Highway 20 Ride” and “Martin” aren’t well written, gorgeously performed songs. Even some of their southern rock forays such as “Make This Day”, “Who Knows”, and “Keep Me in Mind” are pretty solid, creative representations of the style.
The issue is, ZBB is capable of some incredible music. It’s a crying shame that they’ve chosen to forgo that in favor of bullshit.
September 17, 2015 @ 9:59 am
These “opinions” of Jason Aldean and now Zac Brown over the last few days… Is this their passive aggressive, cowardly way of responding to Merle Haggard’s criticism of the current state of country music? I mean, I was wondering when somebody was going to say something…or was this interview done before Merle’s comments came out?
Either way…this sucks.
September 17, 2015 @ 1:13 pm
I don’t think there’s any correlation between Merle’s comments and the others. My guess is Zac and Jason haven’t seen them. Merle’s comments really didn’t reach the viral pitch. I think they’re seeing lots of other criticisms in many different sectors, including from their fans, and the PR angle this year has been to attack the critics instead of ignoring them. Luke Bryan has been doing the same thing, and frankly I think it makes these artists look worse. Instead of explaining their case, they impugn others. Country music has just become one big battleground from artists like Zac Brown bringing in influences that have no business in country music. It’s getting really ugly. Basically any interview with a bigger star immediately veers to all the criticism the artists are facing.
September 17, 2015 @ 1:49 pm
Luke’s “gutter” comments were beyond ignorant and embarrassing. How could he possibly have listened to even a handful of hits from Willie, Waylon, and Merle and, just…ugh. But I digress.
I’ve liked some of the band’s stuff but have never gotten around to actually purchasing their music, this makes me glad I didn’t, and certainly won’t be a part of the “new market” that he’s keen on gaining.
February 10, 2018 @ 11:27 pm
Now Merle Haggard had some great songs. I agree with his opinion. New country lacks every thing about real country music. It should really be called something else. But I guess because most of the singers dress like cowboys and look the same way , they use that getup to fool people into believing they are the new essence of country music. They dont have me fooled. So boring.
September 17, 2015 @ 10:03 am
Looks like we’re stuck in colder weather…
I wonder what the Band in Zac Brown Band think of all this.
September 17, 2015 @ 11:31 am
I’m sure “Drew Machine” and “Fay K. Handclaps” and “Otto Tune” are perfectly fine with this, after all, they’re his band now.
September 17, 2015 @ 10:06 am
I wonder if he and Alabama will team up with Deadmouse and do a cover of Tear in My Beer. Both of them have sold out. The Alabama thing really pissed me off. It’s so friggin’ hard to even hold ground even with the established country artists anymore, let alone put an end to the new d-bags being shoved up into our radios. Sellouts everywhere I look. Even Spinal Tap stayed true to their music for god’s sake. Zac Brown will be playing proms soon, and I can’t wait for the long fall that’s coming their way, and I wish I could be a fly on the wall when he realizes that it’s ALL OVER. Then he’ll go back to attempting country music again, he’ll put out an album, and then do a thousand pressers talking about getting back to his “roots”, blah blah blah. THAT is predictable.
September 17, 2015 @ 10:09 am
Whoa…I am under the impression that “Country Music” has now reached a place of ” Where do we go from here”? Has anyone noticed that most of the
Singers from Music Row now have NO Where To go and everyone seems to be scattering to find something to keep them afloat in this genre? So now it’s
Let’s blend and see what happens? We have Brett Eldridge drifting into R&B,
Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan trying be the “Barry White” of Country Music with
“Burnin’ it down” & Strip It Down” and now Sac Brown wants to be the ” new Bee Gees” of Country music, lmao. SMH!
September 17, 2015 @ 10:33 am
Careful. Do not doubt the survival instincts of Music Row. After the coming apocalypse the cockroaches will be eating their Twinkies to the demonic sounds oozing forth from Music Row. I shit you not.
September 17, 2015 @ 10:13 am
Fuck you zac brown you won’t be getting a dime from me. I even kinda liked the song he did with Chris Cornell but now I know he’s just trying to get money from fans of every genre after listening to this edm crap he’s put out. He pretty much comes out and says it in the interview quotes you’ve used.
September 17, 2015 @ 10:19 am
Screw this guy.As others have said,I was a big fan and supported these guys more than any other mainstream artist that’s come out in the last decade.I was hoping I was wrong,but I really did think the start of the end came with the Grohl EP. It only got worse with this one.
Enjoy your new EDM fans,and washed up grunge rock fans Zac.Let’s see if they treat ya the same as your original fans did.
September 17, 2015 @ 10:22 am
Colder Weather was the high water mark for me. ‘Uncaged’ was a letdown, and this ‘Jekyll plus Hyde’ is unlistenable. A great live band, except you can’t get near them for all the pot smoke.
So, fuck’em.
September 17, 2015 @ 10:23 am
I guess it all boils down to greed. I am not sure. But over the last few years I have seen so many people go to shit and I don’t really understand it. Artists, some of whom I grew up loving because even though some of there music was a bit pop-sounding, they never went too far. They were artists I new would never change and their music would always be there no matter how bad life life got. Artists like Brad Paisley, Alabama, Tim McGraw, Jason Aldean, Kenny Chesney, Blake Shelton, etc. And now Zac Brown.
The worst part with ZBB is although I haven’t yet found the interview I remember being stationed in Texas in 2012 and hearing an interview from Zac Brown saying something along the lines of how they were immune to trends because they were already successful people outside of music and didn’t care if they were famous or not.
There has to be a moment where these people realize that they have not brought the country music audience with them, but shifted the audience. The sales of red dirt and americana albums should be one hell of a hint..
September 17, 2015 @ 1:17 pm
Just a hypothesis, but I think when Zac Brown’s Southern Ground label went south, something switched inside his brain, and he decided he wanted to take over the world. I think he was perfectly content in 2012. Now, he doesn’t want to stop until he’s the most popular band in America.
September 17, 2015 @ 2:27 pm
Not a bad hypothesis. Although what did he expect would happen? Starting a label is a hell of a mountain to climb. Its not going to be a quickly successful venture unless all of your artists are sellouts.
And what happened to the others? Brad Paisley? I never thought I would hear the crap that we have today coming from him. I remember a song from 2001 called “Too Country”. Wonder if he ever plays that song for himself. Hell in 2011 he teamed up with Alabama and recorded ‘Old Alabama’ in which they quoted themselves and said “Play some back-home, come-on music
That comes from the heart. Play something with lots of feeling; Because that’s where music has to start.” Both he and them have sold out now.
Brad Paisley is the biggest irritation of all to me. Despite the sense of humor that annoyed a lot of people, I loved his music. He was the one artist who never really changed that much over the years, and as a guitarist he was a hell of a player to look up too.
I just don’t know what has happened to my music. I am 27 and I sound like my Grandpa.
September 17, 2015 @ 2:55 pm
Brad Paisley was my favorite singer. Ever. I thought his music was the perfect blend of modern and traditional, the perfect way to bridge the gap between generations. He had steel guitars and fiddles, combined with awesome guitar solos, and the songs actually had substance. Songs like “She’s Everything” and “Remind Me” were, in my opinion, just about the perfect example of how to have rock influences but still be very country, so that anybody can enjoy the music, casual pop listeners and real country fans alike. Why the hell did THAT style of country not catch on? They started making everything pure pop music, but doubled down on the “countryisms” so people would think it was country. How was THAT better than what Paisley did? Brad was just about perfect in my opinion. He was one of musical heroes, and now he’s gone!
September 18, 2015 @ 2:52 am
“just about the perfect example of how to have rock influences but still be very country, so that anybody can enjoy the music, casual pop listeners and real country fans alike. Why the hell did THAT style of country not catch on?”
That’s how country music used to be when I started listening to it in 2010. And then bro-“country” came along…
September 18, 2015 @ 9:49 am
In 2010, I was a fan of the country on the radio, and when I listen to those songs I still like them, a lot of the guys who were breaking out then are the chart toppers today, but back then they still played country music, even if it was more country-pop than anything else.
The Early 90”™s were another period of huge success and popularity for country music without sacrificing the integrity of the genre. I”™m hoping to try and bring some of that back, but country has shifted their audience, and its no longer country fans listening to country radio, or at least I doubt it is, its pop fans looking for a slightly different flavor of pop, with just a hint of “lets pretend to be rednecks”. Country music and country fans have both left the genre, so can we even get it back? Or is that why the Reddirt/americana Scene in Los Angeles has grown so much?
I really don”™t know….
I mean’t to post this in this thread, accidentally wound up throwing it up elsewhere…but oh well.
September 17, 2015 @ 10:27 am
Too predictable? Half the songs on his first couple of albums sound almost exactly the same. Colder Weather and Sweet Annie are near carbon copies.
Spare me Zac. You’re talented, but simply misguided.
September 17, 2015 @ 10:28 am
I guess Hyde won, then? :/
He’s talking out of his ass in all directions here. If he really just cares about the money, all he’s gonna achieve with statements like this and songs like Beautiful Drug is *shortening* his career. Trends are just that; they don’t have a long shelf life. Country fans, however, tend to be very loyal and he just screwed over that huge part of his fanbase. So who’s gonna be left to buy his next album? Not country fans. Not short attention-span pop fans who’ll be onto the next thing by then.
Experimentation in the name of art, even if it ends up sucking, is fine. I get musicians wanting to expand their boundaries. Doing a complete 180 in the name of making a buck is not experimenting, it is in fact selling out. And short-sighted. There are a good number of songs on “Jeckyll & Hyde” I really enjoy, and I’ll continue listening to them. ZBB has always been an automatic buy for me, but it’s sounding like he may have lost himself a customer, I mean fan. Maybe his “band” should go off and form their own band that plays actual music. I’d buy that. Zac can have fun collabing with DJs.
I think he needs to be schooled by Maddie & Tae.
September 18, 2015 @ 6:44 pm
Lol you say that like Maddie & Tae are traditional country and have paid their dues
February 10, 2018 @ 11:33 pm
I think he needs to be schooled by the greats like George Jones, Conway Twitty…Johnny Cash….oh the list is endless….
September 17, 2015 @ 10:34 am
Jesus F’n Christ! I was willing to write off beautiful drug as an aberration, but this is just horseshit. All the years I’ve defended him, saying he’s more than “chicken fried”, and he spews out this nonsense. Such a shame, because he does have a super talented band, who I can’t imagine are totally into this shift of style. I’ll keep my money and you can sell yourself out to the other “market”, you delusional piece of waste. Sorry for the rant. They were my favorite band before Jekyll and Hyde and this article. came out
September 17, 2015 @ 10:42 am
Jesus F’n Christ! I was willing to write off “BD” as an aberration, but after reading this article, I’m bleeping done. All these years of defending them and saying they’re more than “chicken fried” and they spew out this horse shit. It’s a damn shame, too, because his band is super talented and I can’t imagine they’re on board with this. Oh, well. At least I’ll have more money in my pocket. Sorry for the rant, but they were my favorite band until Jekyll and Hyde came out and this article solidifies how big of a sellout he really is. I hope the rest of the band moves on without him
September 17, 2015 @ 10:42 am
“Well, there”™s a bunch of songs on [Jekyll + Hyde] that are country, but we don”™t want to abandon any of the market we have now. We just want to gain new market”
I suppose we should give him credit for actually being transparent enough to use the word “market” instead of “fans”.
Piss on ‘im.
September 17, 2015 @ 10:52 am
Why don’t they just start calling this shit something else? Everybody involved in the making of this music knows it isn’t country, so why call it country? Why do they have to destroy the country music genre just to make these stupid songs? They seem to not even want to identify themselves as country, and most of the producers and DJs have never been country, so wouldn’t they prefer to not be called country? That format split Trigger keeps talking about isn’t good enough, because this EDM shit would still be called country. They need to take all the non-country stuff out of the genre entirely and create a whole new genre. I vote to call it “Douche Music.” Then country music can actually be country again, and Sturgill and Aaron Watson can finally be on the radio. That way all the real country fans can listen to actual country on the radio without running into those stupid pop songs, and the Douche lovers can listen to the Douche station and hear all the EDM club songs and Bro-Country songs they want without having to watch out for that “boring” country music. Everybody wins.
September 17, 2015 @ 1:55 pm
They keep calling their crappy music country because they are artistic cowards who, deep down, don’t really believe that they could succeed in the pop world. But they believe that country fans are dumb enough to lap up whatever musical turds they drop. So far, enough fans have, unfortunately.
September 17, 2015 @ 10:53 am
I’m halfway thru the new Turnpike Troubadours cd, have not heard one instance of EDM. It’s great to be de-evolved.
September 17, 2015 @ 11:00 am
If they think this is gonna bode well for them, they are naïve or too damn stupid to care.
September 17, 2015 @ 11:15 am
I think Zac Brown is a hero. He’s trying to save the world from Cthulhu; the beast HATES steel guitars and takes pleasure in electronic drums… Zac Brown and Sam Hunt deserve statues in their honor for their efforts to protect humanity.
And I cannot tolerate this loser naming an album “Jekyll and Hyde” You know who sang that role on Broadway? Colm Wilkinson!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The man is a vocal talent unlike anyone else who ever lived, he is the greatest stage performer in musical theatre, and he could sing circles around Elvis and Jones combined! It’s such an insult to him AND R.L. Stevenson to name this trash after a legendary novel, horror film, and musical.
September 17, 2015 @ 11:21 am
And you know what? The CORRECT pronunciation of “Jekyll” is “JEE-KULL” (rhymes with treacle) IDIOT
September 17, 2015 @ 11:22 am
If you want more bs listen to my shit
September 17, 2015 @ 11:23 am
When I think of an artist trying to “market” their music, all I can really think of is industrial music. To explain that first sentence, I think of them making carefully calculated music with certain references, special beats and rhythms, and etc. etc. so you can be appealing to more than just the genre your currently in (I guess in a better explanation, you’re making yourself more universal). In my opinion going off of what I just said above, when you try and market music you lose the artistic side of the music. Music is just like paintings or sculptures, they are works of art. Now instead of having works of art, you have songs that are “made to order”. Products from an assembly line that are boring and dull. They aren’t crafted to inspire people, they are just crafted to make money. Music is art, and the problem with most of the mainstream artists and songs is there is no artistic appeal anymore. Everybody is just in it for the money, and it all starts with the men in suits sitting in Nashville. They don’t give a damn about this history of the Country music genre or any of the artists that paved the way for them to have even the chance to sit in those offices making millions.
P.S. If Zac Brown calls Old Country predictable, then why doesn’t he turn on every single Bro-Country song made to date and follow up by restating his statement about predictability.
September 18, 2015 @ 10:04 am
Well, as an artist myself, I understand thinking about Marketability before releasing music. Even Buck Owens and Merle Haggard and everybody else out of bakersfield made sure there music was danceable, because at the time, that was the main thing to worry about.
I definitely think about how to market what I’m doing, and its smart to at least be mindful of what market your going for. Me? I go for fans of real honest to God country music. Its nice when fans of other genres can enjoy my music as well, but I make music for myself, and for fans of country music, not for fans of EDM, or Rap, Pop, Classical or Jazz.
I understand that money is a powerful motivator, so I guess I can see why these guys are all going this route…but I still don’t get it.
September 17, 2015 @ 11:38 am
Trigger, You never disappoint! I look so forward to your new reviews, sure to offer real brain power, unbelievable wit and the good old sarcasm I love! This is the only place to read it like it actually is, and be rolling on the floor while reading. Please don’t stop!!
September 17, 2015 @ 12:44 pm
Thanks Kathy.
September 17, 2015 @ 12:21 pm
You forgot to allude to the portion of the interview where Brown gloated that he’d love to make enough “JEKYLL + HYDE”.
At the time of its release, part of me was wondering if the title was insinuating that this would be a self-declared one-off dalliance with contradictory sounds that, nonetheless, wasn’t designed to reflect their general artistic pursuits as a whole beyond this era. That Brown and perhaps his cohorts consciously decided to cut an album akin to them being possessed by all these other styles, but it would nonetheless be intended as an outlier and it’s follow-up would be more cohesive and naturally experimental in the vein of “Uncaged”.
But Brown’s latest remarks officially confirm that “JEKYLL + HYDE” is absolutely meaningless as a title and is nothing more than a catchphrase to get your attention. That, in itself, is without artistic intent.
And it also confirms that Zac Brown the Tycoon has completely swallowed Zac Brown the Artist whole by now. We’ve always known Zac Brown is a businessman and takes great pride in admitting he views his band as a brand, which is fair enough. But at least before, they were genuinely trying to produce purposeful and affecting music in spite of that.
At this point, Zac Brown has basically devolved into the Pitbull of country music.
But here’s the thing: as much as Pitbull can be absolutely annoying, I can’t help but respect Pitbull and even like him somewhat because he has not once pretended to be something he’s not. He has always flat-out admitted he’s not a rapper, but a hustler. He is transparent and candid about his shrilling, and to his credit actually sounds like he’s having the time of his life when he keeps cutting generic party songs. And that energy and charisma goes a long way in convincing me he is authentic in his intentions even when his music is sometimes awful.
Zac Brown, in contrast, looks absolutely disingenuous in his intentions. It smacks as the first signs of hubris.
September 17, 2015 @ 6:36 pm
Speaking of Pitbull, though I mostly would not call myself a fan, he does sometimes have his own unique sound. He is about the only artist today that gets consistent pop airplay with a Latin bent. His English songs are very light on the Latino side, but he has enough to differentiate himself from Flo Rida or Macklemore.
“Fireball” wasn’t that great of a song, but it did sound very different from everything else on pop radio at the time. He also has helped other Latin artists (Enrique, J Lo, Royce) maintain some relevance on English pop radio in the past 5 or so years.
So I give Pit credit for at least having a defined niche that nobody else is occupying. He gives Latin beats a small presence on English radio and I appreciate him for that.
I can enjoy Pitbull’s music to a degree in a way I can’t enjoy most mainstream country. Most mainstream country artists are completely interchangeable.
If Jason Aldean does a concert with Tyler Farr and Canaan Smith opening, the songs of each respective artist could easily fit into any of the others’ sets. If somehow, a CD was misprinted and a few Frankie Ballard tracks wound up on a Billy Currington album, nobody would notice. That’s a problem.
September 17, 2015 @ 7:52 pm
I brought Pitbull up as an analogy not for the point of musical comparison, but the fact both essentially approach their music and other side projects in business terms and think like tycoons.
With Pitbull, the commerce has always come first and the music comes second. Even so, that doesn’t mean that someone who is commerce-minded isn’t capable of producing enjoyable, sometimes even evocative, music.
There are a fair amount of Pitbull songs I truly enjoy, one of which actually is “Fireball”. I also really liked “Timber” and would much rather listen to that than most interchangeable “country” music any day in how buoyant, tightly composed and infectious it sounds. “I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)”, “Don’t Stop The Party” and “Fun” also sounded damn solid in their use of eclectic sounds and samples. Granted there are also songs of his that are unbearable, like “Back In Time” and “Feel This Moment”, but the point is Pitbull has a gift for melodic ear and I respect him for being true to himself and dedicating his whole career to carving out a niche for himself, even when it wasn’t commercially viable, and continuing to cultivate it as a businessman. And even if he self-aggrandizes to confounding degrees, his voice is still unmistakably his and easy to tell apart from his peers. That demands some respect.
Pitbull hasn’t burned any bridges to be the ubiquitous, successful entertainer he is now. Zac Brown is burning bridges as we speak. That’s the clear distinction between these two head honchos, and guess which of the two is going to learn the hard way the first rule of thumb about running a successful business with staying power: don’t turn your back on those that got you off the ground.
September 17, 2015 @ 12:34 pm
“[‘Beautiful Drug’ is] still a good lyrical song.”
Hehehe! Thanks for the laugh, guy.
September 17, 2015 @ 12:46 pm
Hahaha, I have to hand it to Brown: at least his sense of humor is still intact! 😉
If “Beautiful Drug” is a good lyrical song, then Silento’s “Watch Me (Nae Nae)” is just as good and Theory of a Deadman’s “Blow” must be an undisputed candidate for Song of the Year! =P
September 17, 2015 @ 12:46 pm
I would like to point out that Earl Scruggs and Bill Monroe are bluegrass musicians, not country musicians.
September 17, 2015 @ 1:24 pm
Bluegrass is a sub-genre of country. I could have named some more distinctly “country” musicians, but the point is to say that “old” country instrumentation is predictable is irresponsible, especially for what is supposed to be a country musician.
September 17, 2015 @ 12:58 pm
I hope that one day I see Zack Brown on the street and I will tell him exactly my two cents.
Anyways, I rarely hope for somebody to fail, but in this case I mean it most sincerely.
September 17, 2015 @ 1:14 pm
When I hear things like this, it’s almost as if the artist thinks “…okay, you bought my first album and said you liked it; that means I own yer ass forever now! No matter what I put in my next album!”
Um, no. You don’t own my ass (or any other parts). On the other hand if you decide that you’d rather appeal to drunken college kids than folks like me who believed in you in the early days, you do own the consequences of that choice.
September 17, 2015 @ 1:36 pm
A grade of sellout huh? I like it, it actually has even more of a punch to it than “Two Guns Way Down!”
And it certainly applies to Zac, not his band, Zac himself. He didn’t just abandon country music, he abandoned a unique feature of his band, that they were an eclectic bunch of people who could actually play.
September 17, 2015 @ 2:02 pm
As some others have pointed out, I wouldn’t be surprised if in the near future there’s a defection from the Zac Brown camp and a scathing testimonial. Getting eased out by a sequencer has to be pretty degrading. But Zac has probably now forced everyone around him to sign non-defamation contracts.
September 17, 2015 @ 1:42 pm
I find it hilarious he actually used the word “market” instead of “fans”. Shows where his priorities lie.
September 17, 2015 @ 1:54 pm
Waaahhh…What a bunch of whiny bitches. So he wants to branch out and experiment with a different sound. Who cares? Don’t you have an article to write about how much Florida Georgia Line sucks?
September 17, 2015 @ 2:09 pm
“Beautiful Drug” is worse than anything Florida Georgia Line has ever done. Those guys are mindless party-hearty bros who don’t know any better. Zac Brown is an intelligent guy and a good musician whose decided to waste his talents by doing something that breaks the hearts of his fans. It really is a low blow.
September 17, 2015 @ 4:54 pm
God what a true statement. Couldn’t be said better
September 17, 2015 @ 9:10 pm
Exactly. It’s why I hate Blake, Bryan and Owen far more than FGL, too.
September 17, 2015 @ 5:58 pm
I pretty much hate electronic dance music. At the same time, if that’s what Zac Brown digs, I have no problem with him experimenting with it.
Just don’t label it as country music and for heaven sakes, don’t release it it to country radio.
September 17, 2015 @ 2:20 pm
do you know how much respect I gained for this man when he publicly criticized “That’s My Kind Of Night?” do you? no you don’t but I do (Ha! Hal Ketchum! REAL country music look it up Zac Brown!) and do you know how much I lost in an instant from reading this article? that plus the respect I lost for him from hearing this song in the first place makes it like he never gained any of my respect at all and frankly he doesn’t deserve respect he is the very definition of a sellout and a hypocrite! seriously all I’ll be able to see whenever I look at him from now on is Mr. Krabs from SpongeBob SquarePants waddling about repeatedly saying “money money money money money!”
September 17, 2015 @ 3:05 pm
I believe Zac Brown has been replaced by a Skrull, green reptilian aliens who can shapeshift and perfectly mimic anyone all the way down to their emotions. He may not be the only one…
September 17, 2015 @ 3:16 pm
I’m not quite ready to give up on ZBB. This is the same guy who requested Sturgill to be on his tour, covered an old Isbell song on a feature album, won over David Grohl with an awesome EP and helped get Blackberry Smoke off the ground
Yea this stuff right now sucks, but hes done enough good for me to give him a pass. Hopefully Beautiful Drug flops and he does a Grohl Session Vol. 2 after to win fans back.
If not, maybe he’ll figure out dance music enough to make some cool stuff. BD is cheesy but I thought Tomorrow Never Comes was a solid first try. Maybe I’m just being wildly optimistic because I love their old stuff so much.
September 17, 2015 @ 3:24 pm
His comments are BS though. “The Wind” was a great example of a bluegrass/country song that has awesome instrumentation.
September 17, 2015 @ 4:26 pm
The pop sellouts should just save their breath and say “we sold out to pop.” I can’t believe such a good and authentic rootsy band that plays their own country instruments and called out a bad pure pop song now makes bad pure pop songs. The devil went down to Georgia lookin’ for a soul to steal, indeed, and he found one. Johnny lost this battle. Good luck keeping fans and gaining new market with fake wannabe EDM. All of this crap is like a fine jeweler selling fake Rolexes and asking the same price as the real thing.
“You can de-select the songs that you don”™t want to have on the record.”
No I can’t because I didn’t select any. I’d rather buy a real EDM and a real country or pop country album. Hell, I’d rather buy 10 copies of Taylor Swift’s latest pure pop album or the Ryan Adams cover.
September 17, 2015 @ 4:40 pm
Nice piece Trigger.
September 17, 2015 @ 4:43 pm
If you have to say your own song is good or great, it’s garbage.
Musically, I have so little to look forward to in my next 40 years. Thank God for dusty old records of “predictable” music
September 17, 2015 @ 4:53 pm
Trig, why I keep coming back. Thanks for the good work.
September 17, 2015 @ 4:53 pm
What a 2 faced jackass first he talked crap about Luke Bryan “That’s my kind of night” now he going to do this. I hate EDM music.
September 17, 2015 @ 5:07 pm
I am not turning my back on Zac Brown Band but he needs to stay playing good country music. He shouldn’t move to Big Machine Records but stay on his own label.
September 17, 2015 @ 5:30 pm
why not? he already turned his back on you me and all of his other fans who once thought he had a brain! (dare I say two years ago I thought he was a genius for his criticism of “That’s My Kind Of Night”)
September 17, 2015 @ 6:24 pm
You’re right Root Beer Man! Zac is just another sellout just like Luke Bryan and other so-called country singers who want to be a country.
September 17, 2015 @ 5:31 pm
Today when I was listening to local country radio station, I about fell over when I heard Zac Brown’s song. In my mind, I was thinking, is this the same Zac Brown Band that came out with Chicken Fried?Same voice, but geez, I felt like I turned the channel over to a dance/pop station of some kind! And it was probably this song. First, it was The Band Perry with Live Forever, now it is Zac Brown. You summed it up perfectly when you said Sellout!
September 17, 2015 @ 6:01 pm
I know Zac personally. And he has always said that he is not a country musician from day one. So the fact that all of these people on here are giving their opinion about what they don’t know is comical. Yes. Some of the songs that I don’t particularly care for, I hit the next button. Zac never wanted to be labeled to one genre of music. Say what you like. Zac will continue to be successful.
September 17, 2015 @ 8:22 pm
Years ago he said he’s not just a country artist, cool but he used to make better music and criticize the bad pure pop music he now makes. Making bad music is a problem if abandoning his roots wasn’t already. Pure pop or rap is the worst direction a roots oriented artist can go in and this album has a Metacritic score of 54, his all time low:
http://www.metacritic.com/person/zac-brown-band
Hopefully he’ll learn from this and make better music again like Tim McGraw did after Truck Yeah and Lookin’ For That Girl were criticized by his fans.
September 17, 2015 @ 9:09 pm
He only criticized it for calling itself country, though.
That’s why he’s only just now crossed into hypocrisy, for me.
September 17, 2015 @ 6:31 pm
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I don’t care what you do for a living I don’t see anything wrong with going out and getting the money. If you can get it, then I encourage you to do so. And he even said he was so I respect the fact that he said he was going after a bigger market. I find the idea of the term “sellout” to be laughable.
September 17, 2015 @ 7:37 pm
From a business concept, that sounds dandy. But when you’re breaking the hearts of thousands of fans, calling “old” country “predictable” because it’s expedient to your argument, and lying about the nature of your music, it has a little bit more to do with things than dollars and cents. Zac Brown is selling a product that is not what he says it is, and making money off of it. It is unscrupulous.
September 17, 2015 @ 9:08 pm
Honestly, that’s my only problem with the interview. I don’t give a shit if he wants to throw a couple EDM songs into every album so that he can expand his concert audience, but there’s no reason to throw the music he makes well under the bus as he does it.
September 17, 2015 @ 7:01 pm
So “old” country is predictable,but being an EDM sellout totally groundbreaking.I mean who could’ve seen this coming,oh wait EVERYONE!! Do these guys know that all traditional country is not old? There are other options besides their mainstream shit and thanks to this site for helping me find some of it.
September 17, 2015 @ 7:34 pm
Dear Trigger:
Zac Brown had stabbed us in the back and he pulled wool over our eyes.
September 17, 2015 @ 8:18 pm
Then again, Zac Brown Band has always been sellouts in one form or another. As we’re sure has been mentioned in previous articles, they released songs like “Chicken Fried” and “Toes” to simply get their foot in the door of country music.. or so they claimed. More than likely, they wanted to appeal to the lowest common proto-bro-country denominator as they now want to appeal to the lowest common EDM denominator. Granted, they released some great songs after their initial garbage such as “Colder Weather”, “As She’s Walking Away”, “Keep Me In Mind”, and even as recent as “All Alright”, but they have revealed themselves to be more concerned with profits than artistic integrity. Perhaps Zac’s weird attempts to become the Paul Newman of “lifestyle merchandising” should have been another big hint that preservation of the genre is not even on his short list of life goals. We’ll see what the future holds!
September 17, 2015 @ 9:06 pm
Chicken Fried came 5 years before people started to think about the term “Bro-Country.”
And Toes is awesome.
September 18, 2015 @ 12:51 am
Hence the use of “proto” before “bro-country”… and “Toes” is sophomoric compared to their later good songs.
September 18, 2015 @ 6:48 pm
Agreed. Chicken Fried and Toes are definitely awesome. NPC give your head a shake
September 18, 2015 @ 8:33 pm
I didn’t know Lil Dale had two additional aliases…
September 18, 2015 @ 8:51 pm
Believe it or not, “Chicken Fried” and “Toes” are introductory songs that were meant to pander to the good ol’ boy/beach bum mentalities of the Toby Keith/Kenny Chesney fanbases in order to get sales and spins, and they are the first songs that point to Zac Brown’s sellout status. In reference to Luke Bryan’s “That’s My Kind of Night”, Zac lamented, “If I hear one more tailgate in the moonlight, daisy duke song, I”™m gonna throw up. There”™s songs out there on the radio right now that make me be ashamed to be even in the same format as some other artists.” Hi pot, meet kettle!
It’s perfectly okay if you enjoy “Chicken Fried” and “Toes”, but they are neither critical hits nor lessons in great songwriting.
September 17, 2015 @ 9:05 pm
Ugh. I have no problem with them recording shitty EDM songs, they make their money as Dave Matthews 2.0, and it makes sense that they want to expand their genre range, but don’t talk shit about the only music you’re genuinely good at.
September 17, 2015 @ 9:33 pm
I’ve been on the fence about ZBB since they burst onto the scene, but lately, he’s just become insufferable. His music is mediocre at best, now he’s trying to alienate the audience that has been buying his sonic noodlings. I won’t be listening to anymore of his music. Why bother?
September 17, 2015 @ 10:47 pm
I don’t understand what the big deal is. ZB has, by his own admission, never been country. Of course it is silly that his EDM stuff is released to country radio, but it was just as silly for any of his other crap to be played on country radio.
When I think of ZBB, I think of a horribly overrated laundry list song (chicken fried) and a staggeringly overplayed Kenny Chesney rip off (toes).
Personally, I am glad he is heading in the direction he is. Now I don’t have to listen to his country fans defend him and his schlock.
September 18, 2015 @ 2:57 am
I don’t care if Zac Brown wants to make EDM songs, but he is showing profound disrespect to the country music audience that made him what he is today by:
1) Releasing EDM songs to country radio. (If he is no longer interested in country music, then he should follow the example of Taylor Swift.)
2) Insulting the rich instrumental tradition of the country genre.
It is truly sad how once great singers are not only selling out completely, but adding insult to injury against their long-time loyal fan base in the process.
September 18, 2015 @ 5:41 am
I never was crazy about the ZBB, but my wife liked them, and I could stomach the first two albums. Just a shame to see another artist abandon his fans….and his roots.
Whoever made the point about Brad Paisley is dead-on, too. I was a big fan for a long time, but he lost me after “American Saturday Night”.
September 18, 2015 @ 6:50 pm
This Is Country Music was released after American Saturday Night and that was one of his best albums he ever released. I don’t know how he lost you at that point.
September 18, 2015 @ 5:45 am
Never trust anyone that wears a sock hat in summer! LOL
September 18, 2015 @ 8:11 am
All this coming from the guy who said “That’s My Kind Of Night” the worst song he’s every heard….that’s rich.
September 18, 2015 @ 8:43 am
Cyndi Lauper now gonna make a country album. Zac with his shit, Steven Tyler with his, Manson for Gods sake. Who the fuck knows what a “country” album is. So glad radio is not the only way to find music. Oh and Zac, pull your bottom lip over your head and swallow.
September 18, 2015 @ 9:00 am
I normally roll my eyes or worse when I hear that someone outside the genre is going to do a country album, but Cyndi Lauper might surprise people.
September 19, 2015 @ 2:29 am
Her jazz and blues albums were STELLAR. YOu don’t land a duet with Tony Bennett or B.B. King being fucking Luke Bryan that’s for sure.
September 18, 2015 @ 3:39 pm
What a hypocrite. I’m so glad I’ve never spent a dime on his music or went to a show. In a few years no one will hear anything from ZBB anyway. These popular male singers approaching 40 years old (Jason, Blake, even Luke eventually) are going to be pushed aside by the younger and hotter guys being rolled out on the Nashville assembly line. Only Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney still get regular airplay in their late 40’s and, honestly, their time is just around the corner. The fact they work out like crazy and flash their muscles is a big part of why they are still supported and sell. Zac Brown is trying to compete with the young bucks in the only way he can think of at this point–making music that isn’t country. He’s going to be the first of the late 30’s men to disappear. Young party girls don’t dig ZBB and Nashville knows it. The last ditch effort is in play right now.
September 18, 2015 @ 6:53 pm
First two albums from ZBB were great along with “The Wind” off of Uncaged. Too bad these guys are going down the shitter.
September 18, 2015 @ 7:05 pm
Zac Brown has lost his mind. Clearly from some of the comments it seems his ego has driven him off the deep end. They won’t get a penny from me for a long time. I thought he was better than this, but the almighty dollar can make people say and do crazy shit…
September 18, 2015 @ 9:07 pm
I went and saw EmmyLou Harris and Rodney Crowell tonight. At the beginning of the show Crowell made mention to the crowd that “we would be hearing some real country country music, the stuff they used to call country music anyways.” A small, insignificant comment in the grand-scheme, but it got a rouse out of our little audience at the show tonight.
September 21, 2015 @ 4:50 am
ZBB is a tight band comprised of capable, creative musicians who write solid, interesting songs. I know that the bar is really low for radio anything these days, but chances are you can find a similarly composed, similarly talented band playing some bar or restaurant within 50 miles of your house tonight, no problem. The world is not short of talented musician or song writers, it’s short of talented musicians and songwriters being paid the big bucks, and that’s what’s truly sad about ZBB – the waste of that position – talented guys who are serious about making good music backed by a fanbase that the Industry has to take seriously – the waste of that position and the accompanying opportunity to affect some real change. It’s like when that hard working smart guy at the office gets that big promotion to management and then turns into just another golf playing, back slapping douche. Opportunity for situational improvement blown.
December 16, 2015 @ 11:11 am
I have been following ZBB since their early beginnings. You guys have it all wrong… well not all of it. He is playing with fire, entering himself into the world of electronic music. He is changing music, and the world’s shitty idea of music. What the band did with Jekyll + Hyde is genius. They gave the people what they wanted with “Beautiful Drug” and others, as far as the electronic instruments go. But they kept numerous others that are truly great songs, without the electronic instruments, in hope that people will hear those songs and be turned on to their other albums. They didn’t create this new album for their true fans. What they said is “You guys hang on a second, we need to go save the world and its shitty idea of music”.
My suggestions:
1. Stop bitching about how the “old ZBB” is done.
2. Sit back, grab some popcorn, and “Enjoy the ride”
January 15, 2016 @ 11:22 am
Sam, nobody in country is asking for a EDM country song. Sorry, you’re severely out of touch with reality.