David Hajdu
Posted on 06/10/2011 1:18:27 PM PDT by mojito
“I ain’t trying to start no fight, but I’ll finish one every time”—so crows the country star Blake Shelton in the song that won the first-ever prize for Best Web Video at the CMT Music Awards, broadcast from Nashville this Wednesday evening. Shelton is a coward, and I’m saying that not to pick a fight with him, but to defend country music fans from his award-winning song’s assault on their freedom of individual expression.
The title is “Kiss My Country Ass,” and it’s less a song than litany of cynically baiting Red State tropes and cliches. The opening lines:
"Tearin’ down a dirt road, rebel flag flyin’, coon dog in the back,
Truck bed loaded down with beer and a cold one in my lap."
Each stanza presents more of the same kind of thing, listed like the ingredients on one of those beer cans, and the items on the song’s list—Wrangler jeans, Marlboro Reds, a gun, a flag, a daddy who fought in Vietnam—are as interesting as barley, hops, and water. Though Shelton is credited with the video hit of the song, it was originally released by the singer Rhett Atkins and written by Atkins with Nashville song-mill writers Dallas Davidson and Jon Stone.
For all its rebel posturing, “Kiss My Country Ass” is a play-show act of defense from a straw attack and, worse, an insult to the ideals of individual freedom that it pretends to defend.
(Excerpt) Read more at tnr.com ...
Makes you want to shake up a can of Shiner Bock and spray it in this sissy critic's face.
David Hajdu
What would expect from someone named Hajdu?
Sheesh, my sister could kick his butt.
Maybe Miranda or her parents can talk some sense to him if he’s a lefty.
Hajdu: It rhymes with “dirty America-hating foreigner”.
Here’s the official video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJe754cLbok&feature=related
The one I posted earlier was a fan’s take on the song.
Either of my Maine Coon cats could kick his butt. They’d toy with him first, though.
Mr Hajdu; with all due respect please kiss my country as*!
Or so he thinks.
Yeah, right. KMCA!
Yeah, but your sister is a ninja.
Well, it is country music, so what does the author expect? It is not exactly a genre geared towards intellectuals.
Well, it is country music, so what does the author expect? It is not exactly a genre geared towards intellectuals.
Well, it is country music, so what does the author expect? It is not exactly a genre geared towards intellectuals.
Well, it is country music, so what does the author expect? It is not exactly a genre geared towards intellectuals.
Hey, Hadju! I live in the city but you can kiss my ass too.
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