That’s why when you survey the landscape of popular country music, Taylor Swift looks like the most appealing option out there, and why despite her glowing weaknesses, she’s the most successful. There’s no creative leadership, no innovation just pandering. This song is neither fish nor foul, very similar to the identity crisis facing country music as a whole: it wants to hold on to the stereotypical country elements, because that’s the marketing tool to suburbanites looking for escapism through the corporate country culture, but it wants to be hip as well. And if you want to have a Seger-esque nostalgia ballad, cheese it up, don’t disturb the mood with interruptive rap interludes. Don’t dip your toe in the water, dive in. If you want to have a rippety rap song with country themes, grow some balls. And this whole mentality of how the alpha and omega of life is marked by the titles freshman and senior seems like an unhealthy youth obsession that needs to be quashed. Taylor Swift brings twice the amount of heart to her songs. This song is such a cry by Aldean for relevancy and attention. And by the way, the next motherfucker that name checks cornbread in a country song, I’m killing a baby animal on their behalf. This is especially evident in the second rapping part when he says, “ And we like cornbread, and biscuits. But Jason Aldean is trying to sing all soulful, looking reflectively off in the distance, pensive, in the throes of nostalgia, and then all of a sudden busts into this almost satirically-stereotypical laundry list of “countryisms”. He can stand there with his gut pouring over his belt buckle and a pair of panties on his head, gnawing on a chicken leg and say whatever the hell he wants because he’s not supposed to be taken seriously. Colt Ford, who wrote this piece of shit can pull it off because that’s his bit. Not a specific comment about the rapping itself, but one of the reasons this song doesn’t work is because the rapping comes in completely incongruent with the rest of the song. Having to listen to these songs makes water-boarding sound like a refreshing summertime activity.Īnd if this is the “Dirt Road Anthem”, why is Jason standing on pavement during most of this song’s video? Maybe because he didn’t want to get dirt on his $700 designer jeans with customized rips painstakingly cut by Vidal Sassoon himself? Something tells me Aldean’s idea of roughing it is not getting his balls shaved that morning. How many times do we have to regurgitate this song people? It was parody a dozen years ago, and so were the stereotypical cornpone laundry list lyrics: The dirt roads, the ice cold beers, the backwoods it’s as incessant as torture. ![]() – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –įirst off, as I’ve said dozens of times before, 70% of the songs on mainstream country radio can be traced back to Bob Seger’s song “Night Moves”, and “Dirt Road Anthem” is the high school nostalgia rehash yet a-fucking-gain. ![]() And I’ll even tie one hand behind my back by steering clear of the merits of country rap as a whole. So I thought it might be fun to peel the skin back and see what this puppy is made of. With that, he called the lady forward and said, “Here’s the keys to your new Lexus.Jason Aldean’s country-rap breakthrough hit “Dirt Road Anthem” is climbing the charts, and after the recent release of the video and his performance with Ludacris at the CMT Awards, I suspect it will remain in the Top 10, if not take one of the top tier spots very soon. “Probably if it hadn’t been for Jessica,” Brown pondered, “we wouldn’t know Jason Aldean as the superstar he is today.” He observed the one constant support in Aldean’s career has been his wife, Jessica, who worked and encouraged him even when his career seemed to be going nowhere and he was thinking of leaving Nashville and retreating to his native Georgia. ![]() Just when it seemed the presentations were done with, Benny Brown, the owner and CEO of Broken Bow, begged for the crowd’s attention so he could give out one more award - an unscheduled one. “Dirt Road Anthem” marks Jason’s 7th #1 hit single it’s also been the best-selling ringtone of all musical genres for the past 14 weeks.Īldean was suitably modest when he came up to accept his trophies for “Anthem.” “This song was pretty much a hit before I got hold of it,” he said, giving a nod to writers Brantley Gilbert and Colt Ford, who had success with the song on their own respective albums before Jason. ![]() Jason and the song’s writers, Colt Ford and Brantley Gilbert, received plaques and accolades from Jason’s label, Broken Bow Records, Country Radio Broadcasters, the Country Music Association and others.
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