Trace Adkins’ “Brown Chicken, Brown Cow” is DEFEATED!
Purity and decency in country music just won a big battle, as Trace Adkins’ follow up to “Honky Tonk Badanka Donk” called “Brown Chicken Brown Cow” has been summarily defeated, stalling at #39 in the Billboard country charts, despite a top-level media push and a major music video. Trace Adkins may be dumb, but he’s not stupid, and gave the epitaph himself as an apology to radio. From CMT:
Adkins took the stage at Country Radio Seminar in Nashville Friday night (March 4) just before the New Faces Show got underway. He was there to promote The Lincoln Lawyer, the upcoming Matthew McConaughey movie in which Adkins plays the leader of a biker gang. But he used his time primarily to apologize profusely to the radio crowd for releasing the tune about voyeuristic farm animals.
When I first bemoaned this song, it had yet to be released as a single. The impetus for the story was that Trace himself was pushing for it to be released as the first single off his new album, Cowboys Back in Town. Here’s the quote directly from his mouth:
“I kinda pushed for that to be the first single. I said, ‘Let’s just throw a hand grenade in the room right off the get-go.”
But now in his apology to radio he said:
“They told me it was a hit,” he joked. “I’m going to blame the three songwriters.”
What an asshole.
Meanwhile the video for the song, which I made a big stink about because Trace Adkins said it was targeting kids, has done slightly better than the single. Take a look for yourself and tell me if you think it’s fit for human consumption.
TyFar
March 8, 2011 @ 3:04 pm
“They told me it was a hit,” he joked. “I”™m going to blame the three songwriters.”
He’s joking. he’s not actually putting the blame on anyone, So I think it’s a bit unfair to call him an asshole for making a joke.
The Triggerman
March 8, 2011 @ 4:59 pm
I think he’s an asshole irrespective of anything contained in this article, so. . . .
OtisLeeMiller
March 8, 2011 @ 5:12 pm
Haha… That’s great! And I whole-heartedly agree. That guy is a blemmish on the face of all music, not just country.
Denise
March 8, 2011 @ 10:30 pm
I don’t know, I really will never know because I never will intentionally watch this video or listen to this song.
BTW, OtisLeeMiller, I love the sound of your name. I don’t know why either, I just do. It rolls off the tongue very nicely.
Sincerely,
Denise Sheen
The Triggerman
March 8, 2011 @ 6:07 pm
And I don’t know that Trace was referring back to the first quote with the second one. He may have been saying it jokingly, but it doesn’t mean he didn’t mean it.
Carla
March 8, 2011 @ 5:07 pm
Well you know you’ve made it when Jim Henson’s puppet shop makes a puppet likeness of you. Wow, he even got Pamela Anderson to appear in his music vid!
Carol Ann
March 13, 2011 @ 6:12 pm
By the way, Carla honey, that was not Pamela Anderson, that was Dolly Parton! Trace loves Dolly!!
UncleMary
March 8, 2011 @ 8:07 pm
I find it real fuckin sad it took 3 of them fancy nashville writers to right that steamin pile a shit.
Jerry
March 8, 2011 @ 8:39 pm
Sometimes it just scares me that people eat this kind of music up. The fact it even made it that far on the Billboard country chart doesn’t surprise me. There are plenty of great artists you cover here who deserve and would probably love to make it that far on the list. The fact that he expects a hit song is kind of arrogant, and it also shows that quality song writing and being an artist isn’t as important as turning out a trashy, generic, pop song to the hungry masses. Horrible! Keep up the good work SCM, and make these repulsive entertainers (shame on those who refer to them as “artists”) accountable!
The Triggerman
March 8, 2011 @ 8:55 pm
I was thinking that too Jerry. Many of the bands I cover here, if they got to #39 on Billboard, it would be a coup, and a payday the likes of which they have never seen before. But that is the underlying problem right now with Music Row music: if it doesn’t hit a home run, then it is a colossal failure. The must makes a million dollars off an album, because that’s the only way to keep the bloated infrastructure in place. Music Row needed this song to be a hit. I guarantee you there was a lot of money put behind this song and specifically the video, and now somebody is going to have to eat it.
IceColdCountry
March 8, 2011 @ 8:49 pm
This song is awful, but I still think it is funny that you lump this in with Honky Tonk Bodonkadonk.
Sure, there is a trend with songs like this and his Swing Batter Batter, but Honky Tonk Bodonkadonk, as bad as it is portrayed, isn’t close to the disaster this song is. Trace singing it is awful. If anyone has seen a clip of Jamey Johnson doing it, it is pretty funny, and very country.
So let the shit storm begin with those comments.
The Triggerman
March 8, 2011 @ 9:01 pm
No, I actually agree with you. Badonka Donk was the accidental hit written in jest. “Brown Chicken Brown Cow” is the doppelganger cheap imitation knock off written by a committee in front of a focus group that went over like a poop in a punch bowl. It’s similar to how Taylor Swift was successful, so then she spawned all these imitators like Sugarland and Lady Antebellum who are much worse because their music is sort of in servitude to what was mediocre music in the first place.
What I will disagree with is that the songs are not related. I think “Brown Cow” is the “Badonka Donk” formula rehashed. The popular urbanism theme, the sarcastic approach. But as much as it pains me to say it, Badonka Donk is a much better song.
This is what we’ve come to, we’ve lowered the bar so much, when we look at Taylor Swift and “Honky Tonk Badonka Donk” we can file stuff below it as even worse.
But we can’t undersell the importance that the country music community rejected it.
IceColdCountry
March 8, 2011 @ 9:15 pm
I agree with you partially. I just took a bit of exception to how it was written in the article.
1. I am Jamey Johnson fan, and certainly Trace has had other bad tunes since Bodonkadonk, and to bring up Bodonk, seemed to just be another chance to remind everyone, and of course everyone on here knows who wrote it, so kind of a shot a Johnson, but maybe that isn’t what was insinutated.
2. I think Bodonk was written as a true country tune. I said in another blog regarding it, I don’t find it much different in “idea” than Willie Nelson’s “Big Booty”.
Brown Chicken and those bands in Taylor’s wake are not near country, and use a formula. Bodonk wasn’t really written in that way.
But it is great that this one stalled out, but I don’t know that it stalled because people are smart enough, or if people were to dumb to get the “insinuation” of the porn music lick in it.
Denise
March 9, 2011 @ 8:50 am
Written in jest?! I’ll agree with that because POP Country is one big joke.
NLindsay
March 8, 2011 @ 9:34 pm
I made it to the 2:10 mark in finally watching this video and I got two observations.
1. I’m surprised they didn’t put some auto-tune on the crow.
2. It appears that they used the same dance choreographer for this video as Rob Zombie in the White Zombie video for “Thunderkiss 65”
The Triggerman
March 9, 2011 @ 9:36 am
The crow is a staunch purist, and only made an appearance in this video because his house was about to be foreclosed on and he needed the money.
Carla
March 10, 2011 @ 9:30 pm
That’s funny NLindsay!
Big A
March 9, 2011 @ 8:03 am
The monogenre begins to engulf us: Lil Wayne is on a new song called Bow Chicka Wow Wow.
If someone didn’t lump this song in with Honky Tonk Badonkadonk, they would lose all credibility in my eyes. I am a Jamey Johnson fan and I still think it is relevant that he wrote what is now the second worst “Country” song of all time.
The Triggerman
March 9, 2011 @ 9:31 am
Trace Adkins, the songwriters, and the label Showdog Universal, owned by Toby Keith, all come out looking bad by the defeat of this song. But if there’s anybody that comes out looking better, it is Jamey Johnson. He is no longer on the hot seat for writing the one song everyone refers to when illustrating idiocracy in country music. That is now “Brown Chicken Brown Cow”.
IceColdCountry
March 9, 2011 @ 12:24 pm
That’s true, but didn’t Bondonk make it to #1? So he still kind of holds the title. One could say that Jamey sure knows how to write shitty #1 along with the good stuff he writes. I honestly think that is the truth with Bodonk. It was written as purely a joke, and a country song, but others got their hands on it and turned it into a pop country mess.
I am not arguing it is a bright spot on the resume of Johnson, but it isn’t the wrost song of all time either. Get past Trace’s version of the hit, and it is just a funny country song.
How does Trace go from doing a song like Arlington to picking shit like this?
The Triggerman
March 9, 2011 @ 12:40 pm
I really do think that Trace, his handlers, and the writers thought this WAS the next Badonka Donk. That is why Trace cut it instead of another artist, that is why there was such a big push behind it. I think that’s how he goes from his good songs to his bad songs; he heard this song and got $$ $$ in his eyes.
One of the best voices in country music, and probably even some good songs if you did deep enough. But Trace will waste it all if he keeps trying to push his name with gimmicks.
Stubblejumper
March 9, 2011 @ 10:22 am
I found another interview he did about this shit. When asked if he’s gotten any flack from it, he said:
“The purists and the traditionalists all think that I’m such an embarrassment to this genre. It just makes them projectile vomit, you know. The idea that I’m actually a Grand Ole Opry member and put out this vile, heathenistic, s**t. Yeah, so what?”
Good thing Nashville artists still respect country music tradition…
That's right . . .Denise
March 9, 2011 @ 10:54 am
Yeah, so what?! Hey Trace. I’d respected this alittle more if you did the branching out tactic and made these lyrics into a children’s book, sans the pornographic implications and the hideous portrayal of real musicianship and artistry. (I’m taking the word of others whom I do respect for I won’t be watching your video) All for the money, right? Surely you didn’t do this type of song for the good of children and the love of music. The Grand Ole Opry should be ashamed AGAIN.
So what. Pffffft.
The Triggerman
March 9, 2011 @ 12:43 pm
What was Hank Williams kicked out of the Opry for again? Indecency? Not conforming to their family values?
Once again the irony is thick as I talk about morality, but that is just how bad this filth is.
Jerry Taylor
March 9, 2011 @ 10:58 am
I cant believe how you idiots believe this song isnt good. Its only a song, and its got a good rythym, and brings a smile to your face. Are you people so hi and mighty, that you believe country music cant be fun? And about the “decincy quality” of the song, what about some of the classics, such as Kawliga?
That's right . . .Denise
March 9, 2011 @ 12:35 pm
Kawliga is a classic tale, written by a classic country artist who lived breathed and died true country. Hank Williams was kicked out of the Grand Ole Opry for reasons now celebrated today. The people of this forum are not idiots. Try again, please. The idiocracy of Brown Chicken Brown Cow shows just how low the country music wheel has sunk to ruin what artists like Hank and others fought so hard to create. Please Jerry, don’t insult the intelligence of this forum.
The Triggerman
March 9, 2011 @ 12:53 pm
“Hank Williams was kicked out of the Grand Ole Opry for reasons now celebrated today.”
I say we start a campaign to kick Trace Adkins out of the Grand Ole Opry for trying to feed our children puppet porn!
Who’s with me !!!???!!!
IceColdCountry
March 9, 2011 @ 1:01 pm
Not defending Brown Chicken, and Kawliga IS a classic, but lets not pretend that Kawliga would get a lick of anything in todays market. Today’s market wouldn’t have let it get as far as Brown Chicken, so I think that was the point of Jerry’s example.
No way a song about a cigar store indian would play today. No Way. Cherokee Outlaw was as close as we were going to get.
I don’t know that the Opry celebrates every reason it kicked Hank out for. I would argue there are members that had the same problems as Hank and they are still in, along with the Opry rides off Hank’s image.
The Triggerman
March 9, 2011 @ 12:50 pm
“I cant believe how you idiots believe this song isnt good.”
Ha! My response to you would be, if you like this song, then more power to you friend, don’t let an opinionated music snob like me get in your way.
And the decency I talk about has little to do with morality and values, save for the fact that this song was targeted toward kids according to Trace’s own words. But it has more to do with respecting people from an intellectual level, by not trying to feed them this drivel. Like I first said when I wrote about this song, the writers, producers, and Trace Adkins think you’re stupid. THAT is why they thought you would buy into it. And unlike so many great songs and artists that we try to champion on this site, who never get a chance to be heard and judged by the masses, “Brown Chicken” was. And what did the people say? No thanks. For once, even the pliable, gullible, spoon-fed pubic could see how awful this is.
But if you like it, that’s all that matters.
Big A
March 10, 2011 @ 1:11 pm
It is cracking me up that someone actually defended the quality of the song! I hope it wasn’t a joke. I am literally laughing out loud right now. Taste is subjective, so to each his own, but if you like this song, I can assure you that your taste is very different from mine. Even my wife, who likes everything, was yelling for me the other day when she saw this video on the TV. “Oh my god, this is really awful, right?” she said. The sad thing is that the bar is set so low that apparently this is now considered by some both “fun” and “Country.” It is neither to me.
COUNTRYISCOOL
March 13, 2011 @ 5:32 pm
I have read some of your comments, so you are the purists Trace is referring to.
What I have found that all of you Have No Life and are truly jealous of Country
Music Star Trace Adkins!
The hottest, sexiest man in country music! That’s right Country Music!
The song is very sexy, and that’s what his fans love from him, a funny, sexy song!
The video is brilliant and everyone loves it.
Who comes to this website? No one, just a bunch a fools with no life.
I was given this link by another fool who is totally jealous of Trace Adkins!
He’s a multi-millionaire, and does not have to have a #1 record!
His shows sells out everywhere!
His tickets go for over $500 in Vegas. In my area, $250.
So how much money you got in your bank accounts?
The awesome video is #1 on CMT.com and has been for days!
So what you fools have to say means absolutely nothing!
What you don’t know is country radio loves the song and country radio all over the United States had recently added it to their rotation!
I guess all you on here love gay Kenny Chesney, right?
Loving Blake Shelton with kiss my country ass?
I know you love Toby’s songs using the word ass so freely!
The Triggerman I would love to see you run when Trace gives you a
country asswhooping! You’re hiding behind your handle
The Triggerman.
How about giving me your name and number
because I will give it to Trace personally!
Trace Adkins said HE DOES WHAT HE WANTS!
So you fools with no life continue to leave your comments
because NO ONE IS GOING TO READ THEM!
Who am I?
A Trace Adkins fan club member and huge Trace Adkins fan!
Carol Ann
March 13, 2011 @ 6:15 pm
Thank you, COUNTRYISCOOL, for coming out and stopping traffic! We need more people to play point-counterpoint here!
Denise
March 13, 2011 @ 7:17 pm
I don’t see any road closed signs, honeybunches. You can think Trace is sexy and all. Doesn’t change the fact his song sucks.
I know some sexy men too. That sing AND play instruments. And love their friends and families. What exactly is your point?
jennifer terry
March 31, 2011 @ 11:36 am
i think all of the people who r freaking out about a video that uses puppets instead of people, yall are all crazy dont you think that people could be worse & its not like he j/ comes right out & say lets go f**k. i mean seriously all the awful things going on in our world & this is what u want to make a stand about. god i wonder why this place is going to s**t. trace isnt killing people, making drugs, taking all of americas hard earned money , & not to mention people dont want to help each other anymore, thats why we r were we r. NOT OVER A CUTE LIL SONG. I LOVE TRACE ADKINS!!!!!!!
julie
March 13, 2011 @ 6:35 pm
you took the words right out of all the trace adkin fans.i am so sick of hearing about this song and so damn mad cause my country station wont play bcbc when it is a great song just like all the other songs he has done.and i will personally along with all my trace ladies friends stand behind trace adkins when he gives triggerman a good country ass whooping.thank you for speaking for all the trace adkin fans and fan club members.a very loyal TRACE ADKIN FAN TILL THE END OF TIME.
The Triggerman
March 13, 2011 @ 7:03 pm
Haha nice! The old fashioned jealousy argument.
What am I jealous of, that Trace’s song got rejected by radio?
Oh wait, I bet you are talking about his money. Funny thing is, you couldn’t pay me enough to have Trace’s wealth. If I had that kind of money, I would give it all away. Wealth and fame are broken promises, and lead to the decay of the soul.
“How man times have you heard someone say
If I had his money, I could do things my way.
But little do they know, that it’s so hard to find.
One rich man in 10, with a satisfied mind.”
I heard that in a country song.
Denise
March 13, 2011 @ 7:19 pm
Great rebuttal Triggerman. 🙂
cathy
March 14, 2011 @ 5:00 am
So what will happen if you get names and numbers for Trace? Will he have all the anti-pop people wiped out?
He had a playboy model working w/him and a gave her his hat?? What a freakin’ tightwad…..he makes $30 to $250 per ticket and he gave her a hat.
“beautiful woman loving Trace Adkins” Loving?? Really?? No pay involved? Just wanted to love on Trace……har-dee-har-har. It’s all packaged, produced and promoted…..you fell for it and likely bought it.
In my opinion…..the hat given to the bunny-girl has a lot more talent than Trace Brown Cow Bedonk will ever hope to have.
Pam B
March 13, 2011 @ 6:08 pm
I totally agree with Countryiscool….you guys are all simply jealous of one of the most talented, sexy men in the music business…not only country music but all music. Trace is also a very genuine loving guy who loves his family, loves his fans and has a huge heart! I notice that all this ranting and insulting is between just a couple different people…ya, you have a long list of comments but it’s the same guy who must have an insecurity problem….yes, that’s you The Triggerman! You really need to get a life and shut the heck up. You have no idea what you are talking about. I would also love to have your real name since I will be seeing Trace in June and I would love to show him your jealous ranting comments. Actually it wouldn’t be worth it because if I know Trace, he would probably just laugh it off and not even let it bother him. He’s way too good for your nonsense.
Who am I?
Another Trace Adkins Fan Club member and another huge Trace Adkins fan!!!
The Triggerman
March 13, 2011 @ 7:12 pm
My real name is Kyle Coroneos. But Trace might know me better if you tell him I’m the one Taylor Swift wrote “Mean” about. 🙂 🙂 🙂
I have no doubt Trace loves his family, his fans, and has a huge heart. And I’ll one up ya, I think he’s got one of the best pure male voices in all of country music as well. It’s just too bad he used it to record such an awful song. But don’t take my word for it, apparently country radio agrees.
Carol Ann
March 13, 2011 @ 6:35 pm
I have one question. . .is this the Catholic League of Decency for country music?! I am a diehard 100% #1 Trace fan, and COUNTRYISCOOL hit it all on the nose! Facebook comments regarding BCBC. . .I would say 100 positive to perhaps 3 or 4 negative! You can argue that we are all sinking in the mire, but since when is having a little fun sinking in the mire?! Radio is just adding this song to their rotation, and DJs don’t even understand the apology, they love the song! Now, this funny, little song is never even going to be given a fair shake! Tell me, what is so wrong about a married couple working hard on a farm, wanting to have a little fun?! Maybe, I am not a country music purist, and I can tell you that back in the 70s with all of that “cry in my beer’ and hillbilly twang and all that, just like Trace sings in “Songs About Me”, that was me, and I wanted to vomit! I still want to vomit at certain artists today, but Trace is not one of them. . .he is a tried and true country man, loving his country, the military, and just one of those people who has his own mind, which WE respect more than a bunch of bashing fools!! And you dare to want to start a smear campaign to kick Trace out of the Grand Ole Opry for this! Wanna see an old country girl ‘whoop a man’s ass’?! Try it, you are outnumbered!!!
Denise
March 13, 2011 @ 7:12 pm
Carol Ann you are barkin’ up the wrong tree. What is wrong with it?! Did you read the article or just come to chime in? What is wrong with pop country is the dumbing down. The demoralization. The fact that Trace Adkins is considered more talented than Jayke Orvis. That Taylor Swift is considered more talented than Rachel Brooke. The fact that the Nashville Music wheel wants ev’ry body to think it’s ok to have stupidity, phluff and puppet porn as the model for what good music is. Please.
Ain’t nobody gettin’ an ass whoopin’ round here! Trust. You are outnumbered! Trace didn’t have his own mind when he agreed to this little ditty and could have said NO. I want some songs with substance and validity. If more of these pop country stars would do that, then we could get somewhere.
The Triggerman
March 13, 2011 @ 7:15 pm
Wow, I didn’t know the Facebook world was behind this song, that changes EVERYTHING! Forget that it was rejected by radio, forget that it’s been panned by every major music critic in country. Full speed ahead!
And don’t make so much fuss about the Opry. It’s an old, irrelevant institution anyway. Trace has got CMT so who cares?
Nikki
March 13, 2011 @ 7:36 pm
I really did try to watch the clip but my computer apparently didn’t like it because it kept pausing. I got to the part where the bra went flying. Was he really targeting kids? If so, someone needs to have a talk with him about what is appropriate for children because this isn’t it. People are really defending this and then saying WE don’t have a life? Even if you are a huge Trace Adkins fan you can still admit when a song is bad. I am a huge Hank III fan and he has one or two songs I skip over. I have nothing against Trace personally. He has a few songs that are ok. I won’t buy his cd’s because I have other things to spend my money on, like my grandkids. No, I’m not old. I’m only 40. I just started young. For the person who was bragging about Mr Adkins’ tickets going for $250. How in the hell are the fans supposed to buy tickets for his shows? I have gone to 8 Hank III shows and never paid more than $26 a ticket. He likes to have his fans there. He also encourages us to pool our money together to buy one cd and burn them for everyone. Yes, IceCold, I am bringing up III however he was the starting point for this site.
COUNTRYISCOOL
March 13, 2011 @ 8:46 pm
Smart ass the computer didn’t like it and kept stopping….the reason for that is
because the video steams over 2,000 times a day. How do I know this?
Because I record the views daily!
You people need to get a life!
You come to your computer and bitch about a video?
Sick!
Nikki
March 14, 2011 @ 7:26 am
Why yes! I am a smart ass. Thank you for noticing. Sweetheart, I do have a life and it consists of my husband, kids, grandkids, family, firends and my job. I love A lot of music and I respect a lot of musicians but I do not make them my life. Obviously you do. That is completely your choice. I was making a joke about my computer not wanting to watch the video but honestly at the 1:10 mark I just lost complete interest in it. Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Toby Keith are not on my playlists and will never be. Try listening to Hank III, Wayne Hancock, Bob Wayne and numerous others who are talked about on this site. Hell, I’d even listen to Jamey Johnson to get this song out of my brain! I know one woman who makes Toby Keith her whole life. Her son and I make bets on how long a conversation will go before she mentions him. We’re talking seconds, not minutes or hours. Maybe I’ll introduce you to her. You both seem to have unhealthy obsessions.
Oh and if you want to give your buddy Trace names of people who don’t like this song, mine is Nikki Paris and I live in Moses Lake, WA.
Cowgirl Up Kay....
March 14, 2011 @ 8:35 am
Hey Nikki,
A bit off subject but my father in law, the guitar player, lives in a private apartment at Hearthstone in Moses Lake. Small world. He went there because his friend needed assisted living but he didn’t and now his friend is in a special unit. He will be ninety this year and plays in two bands. I mentioned this in another thread too.
The worship of performers personally has gotten to be an epidemic. The people who defend Miss Swift scare and sadden me with their blind and deaf devotion to her. They have been sold such a bill of goods that they would rather be her than themselves. She is just one example. This reality show kind of marketing has changed the face of music. But, I am sure I am preachin to the choir here.
COUNTRYISCOOL
March 13, 2011 @ 8:28 pm
Dude stop saying the song was rejected by radio! Stop lying! The song was loved by
radio and was played several times a day, part of it was requests, but mostly it was because it was approved by the program director for that radio station!
Getting a new song added takes time! I have talked with both program directors and DJ’s both and when I say all over the US I mean all over the US. I talk to them on the phone!
stop with all your bull shit slamming Trace and the song! I don’t know what’s up your
ass!
You just said this about the Grand Ole Opry
And don”™t make so much fuss about the Opry. It”™s an old, irrelevant institution anyway.
You the fuck do you think you are?
Calling Trace an asshole and then saying the Grand Ole Opry is old and irrelevant institution!
Country radio loved the song and once again it was added…that means that that
song was played every 3 hours 24 hours a day can you understand that?
Get your facts straight and stop all the lying bullshit!
And you bitches on here that are talking shit about Trace Adkins fuck you, too!
I happen to love Trace Adkins as a fan for many reasons, I have been a fan club member for over 6 years. I attend fan club partys in Nashville every year!
So no comeback about gay Kenny Chesney, or Blake Shelton or Toby Keith, right?
Trace’s prices for tickets are based on where he is playing ticket prices range from
$30 to $70 I choose to buy my tickets from a person who is a season ticket holder
every year! That’s my choice!
Sure $250 for 1 ticket is alot of money….I put money back monthly so I can buy that ticket! I don’t go to a concert to sit in the grass and get drunk and smoke pot!
I go to a concert not to listen to music but to experience an amazing performer and
also a member of the
Grand Ole Opry that is very very good to his fans!
You don’t like Trace nobody cares what your opinion is! If you didn’t like Honky Tonk
ba donk a donk you are fucking gay!
So what was your opinion when Trace had a playboy model in the video this ain’t no
love song? I guess you had a problem with a beautiful woman loving Trace Adkins right? Did you know he gave her the hat he wore in the video when the shoot was over?
Do you want to know where that hat is? In the playboy mansion!
Fuck you all!
Stubblejumper
March 13, 2011 @ 8:44 pm
Ah, the sweet sounds of desperation.
The Triggerman
March 13, 2011 @ 10:24 pm
Wow.
Well first let me say that believe it or not, I have really enjoyed and appreciated that Trace Adkins fans have come to this article to defend him. And I mean that. I have said a couple times in this comment section already that if you like this song, don’t let the opinions of a music nerd like me get in your way. And any time fans come to fight for an artist they like, it gives me hope. It really does. There’s a lot of soul in speaking up for what you believe in and be willing to take the punches back. Up to this point I thought this exchange was healthy and productive. I get to hear the perspective from some Trace fans, and hopefully you understand that I am not just all bullets and razor wire, but that I actually care what your opinions are too, and that regardless of what I think about Trace’s music, he still deserves a basic level of respect from a human level.
What I will promise you COUNTRYISCOOL is that I will NOT use your “fuck you all” statements to think any differently about Trace Adkins, or Trace Adkins fans, even though it would be very easy for me to take those words and make wide assumptions about his fan base, just as many have made unfair assumptions about me and my readers. The simple fact is your words are not helping, but hurting Trace Adkins, and NOT contributing to a healthy discussion, and that is unfortunate.
And that Opry statement was clearly made in sarcasm. If you knew anything about me or this website, you would understand that there is no more important institution in country music than The Grand Ole Opry.
Denise
March 14, 2011 @ 5:48 am
Yes, Triggerman and let us not forget what the GOO has become . . . and how they have disrespected one of their own. Standing on high ground, looking down, and saying Hank Williams was not good enough. But Trace Adkins and his pop country catalog of songs that include puppet porn, women’s rearsides and Playboy girlie girls is upstanding reterick for the soul of country music? Well. I think COUNTRYISCOOL should cool the jets of her Trace Forever aeroplane and think again.
I was almost frightened by her response. ALMOST.
Cowgirl Up Kay....
March 14, 2011 @ 6:51 am
Hey Denise and Triggerman,
Keep up the good work defending real country music. It always amazes me how people will defend the person to death but not their music. To me, the music is the most important thing, not the “idle” worship of a performer instead of their music. Below the link is one I found when googling about Hank Williams. LOVE Hank. Grew up listening to his soulful voice. Didn’t know him personally or care that he drank too much, it was his music that mattered. The link is one opinion about what the Grand Old Opry is about now.
http://www.cinemablend.com/music/Underwood-Gets-Opry-Invite-9466.html
Denise
March 14, 2011 @ 5:14 pm
Wooo Doggie I bout came unglued reading that article Kay. When I saw that tarty picture of Miss Underwood in her nighty just barely hangin’ on and read the write up of her invitation to The Grand OLE POPtry I thought, well lookie at that! Another manufactured pop TART given the stage. But I saw how the article turned it around to the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth and I said
THERE YOU GO.
WONDER IF MISS CARRIE HAD HER BASEBALL BAT AND KNOCKED OUT A FEW FOOTLIGHTS WHEN SHE SANG, “WHEN HE CHEATS”
WONDER IF THE PEOPLE AT AMERICAN IDOL ARE GONNA GET ANOTHER POP COUNTRY STAR THIS TIME AROUND
WONDER IF THE GRAND OLE POPTRY IS EVER GONNA STOP HAVING HANK WILLIAMS IMPERSONATORS OUTSIDE SINGING YOUR COLD COLD HEART
OH HOW I WONDER . . .
Thank you Kay for the link. I’m glad you know what true country soul is!!!
BlueRibbonRadio
March 14, 2011 @ 1:20 pm
“If you didn”™t like Honky Tonk ba donk a donk you are fucking gay!”
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…pause for breath…HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…smoke break…HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…time out to sit in grass, get drunk, and smoke pot…HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Holy shit. Thank you.
NLindsay
March 14, 2011 @ 1:58 pm
I checked out CMT’s site yesterday to read the comments from Trace fans about all this. Few things I noticed that boggled my mind.
1. Some of the Trace Adkins fans seem to think the “controversy” over this song is that some people consider the song racist as it is a white man singing “BROWN Chicken BROWN Cow”. Someone even said that if it was a black man singing about white chicken white cow, nobody would raise a stink.
Wow…
2. Apparently a LOT of fans of this song don’t even understand the pun of the title / chorus. I say this because the majority of the comments were people not understanding the porn connotation / pun and stating that you’re likely a porn-addict or a pervert if you think there’s anything remotely dirty with this song.
So…most of them that claim to love this song don’t even understand the stupid-ass pun it’s based on?
Is it fair to assume at this point that if Trace Adkins farted into a microphone for 2 minutes and 30 seconds his fans would support that too because it’s a fun song performed by a sexy artist?
IceColdCountry
March 14, 2011 @ 2:09 pm
Your so dead on that most people don’t even get the pun of the title.
I will try to get in line with small “click” on here and see if I can bite my tongue for a when an artist is jumped on and accused of things that are not true.
Nikki
March 15, 2011 @ 3:09 pm
See, it’s not that hard to be nice! 🙂
fedcamper
March 16, 2011 @ 1:14 am
Oddly enough, the worst part of the song to me is the fact that Trace Adkins doesn’t get the pun. He pronounces “Brown chicken brown cooowww” in a very drawn out manner- in order for it to be funny, it has to sound like “Bomchickabowbow”. If he doesn’t understand that and perform it accordingly, how can his listening audience get the joke? Who produced this pile of crap? I hold them responsible!
Joe
March 14, 2011 @ 9:45 pm
I dont care about the puppets are the “morality ” of the song. I mean have you listen to a DAC song. THe song just plain sucks just like all his stuff. His stuff like honkybondonkeydonk, swing, hot mama etc.. is just plain fucking stupid.
Denise
March 15, 2011 @ 6:16 am
I forgot about swing. That one is stupid. It shows the mentality of Nashville. Take an attractive performer. Have somebody write a cute and catchy lil ditty. Spend thousands of dollars on photo shoots and videos with overtly sexual themes and cram the song down everybody’s throat on public radio, CMT, award shows and magazines. Push push push. The majority of the public may think it’s great, but people with real musical ears cannot be fooled.
DAC is another outlaw who has snubbed the music machine and vice versa. He never fit the Nashville mold and never cared. He wants to make music not stupidity.
IceColdCountry
March 15, 2011 @ 7:54 am
Denise, I think your take on Nashville’s formula is the formula for just about everything “mass entertainment”. The attractive sports figures get the endorsements, the attractive actors/actresses get the limelight, the attractive singer in any other genre gets the benefit above the others. That is just how it works unfortunately.
I don’t know that I agree that it works for the majority of the public. I gave an example that Kid Rock gave in an interview, “Amercian Idol is watched by 30million people. There are 270M in the country.” So that isn’t the majority.
DAC certainly is an outlaw in all senses of the word. I love his music, but please don’t disregard some of his “x rated” stuff. It was purely stupid.
Cowgirl Up Kay....
March 15, 2011 @ 8:20 am
“the attractive singer in any other genre gets the benefit above the others. That is just how it works unfortunately.
What a difference a day makes, or two or six…….
IceColdCountry
March 15, 2011 @ 8:36 am
I am not sure what you mean? I have thought this all along since it is generally how mass entertain works. For the most part, people like to look at nice looking things.
When it comes to music, “mass or not” image is part of it. Has been since day one.
The Triggerman
March 15, 2011 @ 9:04 am
I disagree that it’s been party of it from day one. It’s always helped, but look at Willie, love him, but he’s as ugly as homemade soap. I think image became an essential back in the 80’s with the advent of video. As it goes, video killed the radio star.
IceColdCountry
March 15, 2011 @ 9:13 am
Willie’s “image” when he and Waylon changed things up, was the image of the times, so it played a huge part.
Before that he was struggling as the clean cut songwriter trying to break in. People recorded his stuff, but he wasn’t performing his stuff so much…a lot like today with .. ahhh, bite down on lip….
So I would agree to disagree with you.
Cowgirl Up Kay....
March 15, 2011 @ 8:50 am
Maybe I misunderstood, but you argued with me and accused me of being jealous and attacking C. Underwood for being too pretty etc, when the whole time I was saying exactly the same thing you just said. Image matters and it used to sell music.
I cannot believe I started this discussion again and probably will regret it, but you just proved me right.
IceColdCountry
March 15, 2011 @ 9:01 am
But Underwood can sing. She happens to be pretty as well. Here music isn’t my thing, but she can sing.
Others that come to mind too, (pretty and can sing) are Martina McBride, Faith Hill. The list could go on….(or other genres, Alisha Keys) Back in the day Loretta and Tammy weren’t exactly ugly ducklings, and had they been, they wouldn’t have gotten a shot. But their talent and looks did help. This era of performers isn’t the first to be pretty, and some have talent.
Of course hit is all just an opinion and should be taken as such and if it is inaccurate, you should just let it go.
Cowgirl Up Kay....
March 15, 2011 @ 9:46 am
Ice,
Well, I realize you are trying to be nice now and keep the upper hand too, but I am not the one who wouldn’t let it go before.
I always said she could sing but I didn’t care for her music, but she isn’t a country singer, she is a mass marketed pop singer. I was accused of not liking her over and over because of her looks when you knew perfectly well what I meant. Also, I never said she sold her soul, I said that my daughter didn’t want to sell her soul and therefore wouldn’t audition for Amer Idol, as people suggested.
To be fair, you weren’t the only one and I really hate this kind of back and forth.
I certainly don’t need to be told about looks and talent in the music business, have worked as a manager.
Let’s both agree that we know what good music is and what marketing is and let this go.
IceColdCountry
March 15, 2011 @ 8:07 am
Joe, I agree, regardless of morals/values, the song is plain stupid. Swing Batter was worse. His version of Bodonk was bad.
From my recollection, and I have only heard the Trace songs on radio, the only song that Trace has really knocked out is “Arlington”. I don’t know his music beyond radio, any have suggestions worth listening to?
IceColdCountry
March 15, 2011 @ 10:10 am
Kay February 4, 2011 at 8:42 pm
I don”™t know much about the stupid nomination process and never pay any attention to the media crap. All I see is that all of the little blonds look and sound about the same. Either lots of cleavage or lots of leg and sexy videos. All the same, except T. Swift can”™t sing at all.
Your words, not mine.
And not once did you say what you said just now “she isn”™t a country singer, she is a mass marketed pop singer.”
Which I and probably many others who were on you would totally agree with. But you wrote a much more damning opinion, thus some people took acception to it, and that should be understandable.
Cowgirl Up Kay....
March 15, 2011 @ 10:16 am
Well, it was obvious. The truth has no hidden agenda.
IceColdCountry
March 15, 2011 @ 10:23 am
just take some responsibility for your words… obvious or not, and then let it go. just let it go.
Cowgirl Up Kay....
March 15, 2011 @ 12:18 pm
I will if you will. Consider it done.
I prefer not to ever mention mediocre music or the sings of ever again.
I am here for pure country music, nothing else.
IceColdCountry
March 15, 2011 @ 12:36 pm
Really… what do you expect when you say something like:
Cowgirl Up Kay…. March 14, 2011 at 8:35 am
“The worship of performers personally has gotten to be an epidemic. The people who defend Miss Swift scare and sadden me with their blind and deaf devotion to her. They have been sold such a bill of goods that they would rather be her than themselves. She is just one example. This reality show kind of marketing has changed the face of music. But, I am sure I am preachin to the choir here.”
Statements like this are why people might feel the need to speak up, and not everyone here is your choir and wants to hear stuff like that, because makes the rest of look like idiots if we are in that choir.
Blanket statements like this, where you assume those that don’t like your brand of music are sad, blind, deaf and don’t want to be who they are is rediculous, irresponsible.
Cowgirl Up Kay....
March 15, 2011 @ 4:19 pm
Not wasting anymore of my time on a passive aggressive bully.
KennethRay
March 16, 2011 @ 9:40 pm
I just want to jump in here i know it’s over and ended for the most part but tI hate this song just in general and i’ve even been known to be caught singing a trace song at work, the country radio station here in san diego plays him like every ten minutes. And If we are the ones with no time on our hands whis it that country is cool came her just and only just to defend trace it seems. To call this website or reading it a waste of time is an injustice and a lod of crap we are a group of like minded people who believ country has gone astray and join here to read about bands we like, catch up on the bullcrap coming out of Nashville, and maybe discover a band or two we wouldn’t have otherwise. And talk about no time on your hands CountryisCool i believe you said you record all the plays of that horrible song on you tube, dear god if i had to listen to that song that many dan times i thnk my ears would fall off. And heres my name for you to Give to Trace.
KEnneth Ray Schmidgall, I live in Sand Diego, CA, and shit if you ask nice enough I’ll give ya my phone number and Trace can give me a call and i tell him how terrible that song is personally. And it would take a lot of Traces to give me and my family a good ol country ass whoopin’.
Karen
August 11, 2011 @ 10:42 am
Learn what country music is before you try to fix it. Another democrat trying to change something thats good!
Tiffany
May 30, 2011 @ 6:24 pm
Seriously people, lighten up a little. It’s a funny song and video, you really are taking things and yourselves a little too seriously if you can’t find any humor in it. This is tame compared to most of the stuff that’s on tv or even put out by other artists (Lady Gaga for example or the hundreds of country songs that glamorize cheating on your spouse). If you don’t like it, don’t watch or listen to it, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us shouldn’t have good laugh.
Karen
August 11, 2011 @ 10:40 am
OMG!!!! This is just a funny song no harm is meant by it. You people are putting the black eye on country music. No one in country music talks bad about one another but you call him an “asshole?” really? you don’t know what country music is about. You are stupid and I will not waist another minute of my day reading anything on this site. You cannot say you are saving country music you are destroying it. You are the asshole!
Rhonda Hawkins
September 30, 2017 @ 7:53 pm
So this is 2017 and I am 47 and just now heard this song, which btw I find hilarious and would have if I heard it then too! 6 years later and so much has changed since this song came out. I am just curious if anyone has changed their thoughts or still a SITM!!?? 😄