Keith Urban Defaces Iconic Merle Haggard Riff In “Coming Home” (A Rant)
WARNING: LANGUAGE
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Screw Keith Urban and that dead, rotting chupacabra of a haircut he has perched on the top of his head. They should rub his naked, Playgirl-posing body down in seal blubber, tie a water bottle to his ankle, and see if he can swim his ass back to his native New Zealand for the high crime of domestic terrorism and country music sacrilege this song perpetrates. The pronouncement of a new Keith Urban single lately has been similar to the pronouncement by your oncologist that you have Stage IV inoperable colorectal Cancer, except you don’t even get medical marijuana or goodie bag of Hospice opiates to dumb the excruciating pain the world is about to rain down upon your poor, withering corpus.
Somehow, inexplicably, Keith Urban has figured out how to take the most iconic guitar riff in the entire 70+ year history of country music, and make it sound like the last dying gasps of a faulty smoke detector smacked repeatedly with a sledge hammer, and slowly drowning it in a bucket of 7-year-old used motor oil in someone’s garage. The generically-titled “Coming Home” downright filches the opening riff from one of the sainted Merle Haggard’s signature songs, “Mama Tried,” and spectacularly fails to flesh out anything around it that’s even close to fit for audio consumption by even the most idiotic of indolent and stupefied audiences rendered opinion-less by a cocktail of over-prescribed American designer drugs.
“Coming Home” is supposed to be about home sickness and a yearning for simplicity. The lyrics and video allude to someone lost in the impersonal feel of a concrete cityscape, and pining for the familiarity of the green and genteel country life. Yet the shitty production of this song is about as busy and disjointed as the scene surrounding a fatality accident within a construction zone smack dab in the middle of an urban cloverleaf traffic-snarled clusterfuck during the utmost peak of rush hour with quarter-sized hail raining down from a supercell that a tornado warning has just been issued for.
Unfortunately Merle Haggard isn’t around to put his boot on Keith Urban’s throat while the original lineup of his backing band The Strangers takes turns extinguishing their unfiltered Camel cigarettes on Urban’s scrotum. Not to endorse or condone any form of violence against anyone mind you, but shit, “Coming Home” comes at your poor little ears like a mugger darting out of the bushes at your friendly, neighborhood park at dusk. A few seconds into this thing, and you start praying a serial bomber will infiltrate your quiet little bedroom community and detonate an incendiary device near you simply so the temporary hearing loss will alleviate the sheer pain of having to endure even a 30-second iTunes sample of this audio monstrosity.
And once again we have another pop collaboration from a male country artist, as Julia Michaels lends her voice to this underwear skid mark of a song. But why can’t we have a country music woman benefit from the added revenue and exposure of a big radio hit as opposed to advertising someone from the other side of the radio dial? Actually strike that, all the women in country have too much self-respect to be involved in this shit, even the pixie-sprinkled Kelsea Ballerini. And what does Julia Michaels do in “Coming Home”? She repeats the same exact line four stupid times in a row. Seriously, you can’t come up with any sort of arc for the bridge of this song?
This underscores the woefully-generic effort with lyrics of “Coming Home,” through frankly this is par for the course for today’s mainstream country. It’s the way that the poor, dying, electronified shell of an authentic, human-played Merle Haggard riff pursues you like a puma chasing you down in a nightmare that makes this song historically unbearable, almost mocking your traditional country leanings as opposed to appealing to them as Urban is of course out there conveying it should.
If there is any positivity to come out of this abomination, it’s that the Merle estate will receive a few royalties because of the riff’s inclusion. But it’s money dripping with the blood of what country music once was before scoundrels like Urban proceeded to slaughter it. We know Merle Haggard hated this kind of shit, specifically calling it out on many occasions, saying “I don’t find no substance. I don’t find anything you can whistle and nobody even attempts to write a melody. It’s more of that kids stuff…” And since he’s not around anymore to defend himself, it’s up to us to stiffen our upper lips, steal our resolve, and let folks know if they’re going to electronically transomgrify the efforts of Merle Haggard into objectionable filth to attempt to make up for the fact that they’re completely bereft of original ideas, they’re walking on the fightin’ side of us.
For the first time since Merle Haggard passed away in 2016, I’m glad he’s gone, so he doesn’t have to hear this. Yeah, fuck this song.
GrantH
March 21, 2018 @ 11:34 am
Oh boy, the age of sampling in country music may officially be upon us.
Myra Ray
March 21, 2018 @ 10:16 pm
I love you Keith! Assholes don’t know music! I am a songwriter and have bout 10 to 20 song ready to go.! I don’t sing I write. LET’S SHOW THESE HATERS YOU ARE BEST!
Cobra
March 22, 2018 @ 3:04 am
Oh, no. No! Not…*moves to hushed whisper* not the dreaded “h” word. Please, anything but that. Don’t call us *shudders” haters.
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 22, 2018 @ 5:23 am
Good for you.
stop calling it Country Music
Zues
March 22, 2018 @ 5:44 pm
It’s good that you write “songs”, there’s no need for grammar or punctuation in “songs”. Keep up the good work. You’re a testament to the public education system.
the realist
June 22, 2018 @ 12:12 pm
So Myra Ray calls real country music fans “haters” But yet, she calls those same fans “assholes” With genius like that, she would make a good communications director for the DNC..
Kathy Nantz
March 21, 2018 @ 10:27 pm
Great song!!! Every song l ever heard Keith Urban sing was perfect. He is an excellent singer and he is beautiful inside and out. Ee can’t take his music, class or looks away from him! He’s nothing but the best!!!! I love him!!!!
R.l. Polk
March 22, 2018 @ 12:40 am
NOT!
Cobra
March 22, 2018 @ 3:05 am
Not sure if satire or if you’re just an idiot.
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 22, 2018 @ 10:26 am
good for you.
Don’t call it Country Music.
really a simple concept
the realist
June 22, 2018 @ 12:19 pm
Ok Kathy, we get it. You got a “heart-on” for Keith Urbancowboy. It’s all about the looks to you. As for the rest of us, the music is what matters not Urban’s androgynous looks..
Dottie
March 22, 2018 @ 8:42 am
Okay folks everyone doesn’t like every song in every style, that is why there are different styles. Get over yourselves and don’t listen to what you don’t like!!!
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 22, 2018 @ 10:11 am
Hoo boy another one:
listen good.
if you go into a taco bell and order a taco and get served spinach and the cashier tells you “tacos evolved if you don’t like it don’t eat it” maybe then you’ll understand why fans of Country Music are steamed up.
it’s a very simple analogy
Snide
July 1, 2022 @ 11:24 am
Nicole, we know that’s you….
James Hooker
March 25, 2018 @ 7:27 am
You know, he might be the nicest fella on earth and I hope he lives to be 130 and dies in his sleep with a smile on his face. He makes gazillions of people happy and therefore, he’s a gazillionaire.
But, Dear Lord Sweet Sonny Jesus! – that was about the worst 03:34 I’ve ever spent on this earth.
ChrisW
March 21, 2018 @ 11:41 am
Absolutely brutal…. another desperate attempt by Urban, Paisley, and all the aging middling psuedo-country stars to stay relevant.
Jerre Yeager
March 21, 2018 @ 11:44 am
Well, I gave it a full 35-second listening, but only because I dropped my mouse and couldn’t hit the “Pause” button any faster. You nailed it in a way that I can only hope to express myself someday!
Mike hopkins
March 21, 2018 @ 11:45 am
Underwater skid mark is the leader in the clubhouse for best phrase of the year.
Anne
March 21, 2018 @ 10:31 pm
And the third sentence of the third paragraph is in for best sentence.
Seriously though Trigger, you outdid yourself with that one. Best imagery I’ve ever read.
Mike Blackwell
March 21, 2018 @ 11:47 am
Take “Home” out of the lyrics and have WWJ cover it. I smell a summertime smash.
Steve
March 21, 2018 @ 11:51 am
Fuck this song.
Martha
March 21, 2018 @ 11:52 am
Dear God.
MH
March 21, 2018 @ 11:52 am
I wish he would fall face-first on a sidewalk and shatter into a million pieces.
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 21, 2018 @ 11:54 am
Hoo boy. here we go.
let’s see some froth from the same mouths that said Jason Aldean’s latest single was a bit better than usual!
this is not directed at anyone.
But I do kinda feel like a lot of people go with the wind blows and just “mainstrea country is getting better mainstread country is getting worse it’s getting better again” back and forth.
It is my opinion that is not getting better at all and I point to this ridiculous piece of work as evidence.
is it as angering as… say… Boys Round Here?
no.
because at least it has the dignity to not have moronic braindead lyrics.
this is just sad because it goes nowhere, accomplishes nothing, and does so in the most ridiculous and embarassingly hokey manners imaginable.
It’s sort of like watching Elmer Fudd try to outwit Bugs Bunny. painfully embarassing but at the same time you don’t want him to win.
this is why Jason Aldean’s new single “not being as bad as the last one” isn’t enough motivation for me to ever put on any radio station.
this song tries so hard to be sad. it tries to be about being away from home.
Unfortunately it comes across like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nymLXZMDl1U
part of the way that music is sad is because its intimate and people play their instruments sad.
this is not organic enough to be anything.
it’s sort of like gluten-free soy-based tofu. it’s got no flavor. like kraft macarino and cheese it’s just too processed.
sad songs are sad because the people playing them were sad when they made them and sad when they played them.
RD
March 21, 2018 @ 12:25 pm
I always wanted Elmer Fudd to blast a hole into the flank of Buggs Bunny. Similarly, I wanted the coyote to deep fry the road runner and serve him with a side of hush puppies and coleslaw.
INDK
March 21, 2018 @ 11:54 am
Only people who eat Tide Pods enjoy this song.
Anne
March 21, 2018 @ 10:33 pm
That explains a few things.
Corncaster
March 21, 2018 @ 11:56 am
Drum track and BPM sounds like they just pasted it in from his John 3:16 song. Sampling Roy Nichols? There are worse things you could do, especially if royalties get to where they’re needed and deserved.
We know Urban has a lot of respect for guitar players like Nichols. At this point in his career, he could just go all-out and record some good music in the tradition. He can play.
Keith, you got the girl. You got the money. You got the fame. Start making music for other than commercial reasons.
Stephen Reed
March 21, 2018 @ 12:52 pm
And that’s the saddest part of it. We all know Keith Urban has enough skill to play decently well enough and make some halfway decent music (look at his work with The Ranch, for example.) But that makes the drivel like this song all the more tragic. His talent is going to waste.
the pistolero
March 21, 2018 @ 8:17 pm
I remember KU’s work with The Ranch and thinking it was really good. Not world-beating stuff, but leagues ahead of the vast majority of his solo work.
Gina
March 22, 2018 @ 6:43 am
Exactly. He’s actually good when he wants to be. I’ve only seen him live once, when the CMAS were in NYC, and he was damn good. I don’t know what happened, but it’s sad.
Gabe
March 21, 2018 @ 11:57 am
Kinda miss the days when Keith performed country music
Cindy
March 21, 2018 @ 4:54 pm
When was that?
Donny
March 21, 2018 @ 7:09 pm
Yeah I don’t know when that was either.
Steve
March 21, 2018 @ 9:45 pm
See “But For the Grace of God” from one of his earliest albums. Beyond that, I got nothing…
Stringbuzz
March 21, 2018 @ 11:59 am
This is pop music.
Why is it called country? I have no idea..
Jamie
March 21, 2018 @ 6:06 pm
It’s about “coming home” and how “home” is sooo much better than the city. So it’s GOT to be country! 😉
Tubb
March 21, 2018 @ 12:04 pm
What a pointless song. Totally forgettable lyrics, totally forgettable beat. Other than needing to fill a quota there’s no reason for this song to exist. And the Mama Tried sample is pointless. Musically the rest of the song doesn’t follow it, and the lyrical content makes no mention of anything in Mama Tried either. Just pointless all around.
George
March 21, 2018 @ 12:04 pm
As an Australian, thank you for identifying him as a New Zealand native. We don’t want hIm
Gerald
March 21, 2018 @ 7:06 pm
You know those kangaroos that kick people in the nuts? Mail some to Keith Urban’s house.
Dino
March 21, 2018 @ 7:29 pm
Your comment gave me the best (and only) laugh I have had today!
The song sucks— long live Dale Watson and the Ameripolitan music – country music as we know it.
This song might sound ok if you were loaded on Oxy and Old Milwaukee—could that be the demographic of stuff like this??
Greg
March 21, 2018 @ 7:51 pm
As a New Zealand native, we should let America deal with its own problems.
Dobe Daddy
March 21, 2018 @ 12:12 pm
When Randy Travis first came out, my mom said she thought it was Merle Haggard for a moment, but after that she knew she had found another favorite artist. That’s how an artist pays tribute to the past, by being so authentic to themselves that their commonalities with those who came before can’t be separated from their own honest artistic expression. Garbage like this attempts to barter for the respect Merle earned through a lifetime of honest work. Putting on a Superman T-shirt doesn’t make you bulletproof. Chopping parts from one of the best songs in country music history sure as hell doesn’t make you Merle Haggard, Merle Travis, or Randy Travis. It just makes you another musical tomb raider with plenty of ability but zero artistry.
Tom
March 21, 2018 @ 2:17 pm
“When Randy Travis first came out”
When was this? I’ve heard rumors for years, but didn’t realized that he’d confirmed them.
Saint Savage
March 21, 2018 @ 12:12 pm
Jesus!!! This song sucks balls! I remember a time when he put out good music. I keep hoping that with every new song he would turn it around, but I guess he is now stuck on the roundabout called Shitty Music Avenue.
Isaac
March 21, 2018 @ 12:12 pm
…and I thought *I* was the King of hyperbole around these parts.
Richard Ellison
March 21, 2018 @ 12:13 pm
Didn’t James Burton do the lead and Glenn Campbell the acoustic part? All of them giants and now we’re stuck with these pygmies.
Trigger
March 21, 2018 @ 2:22 pm
I believe that’s right. According to Haggard, the session at Capitol in Los Angeles was:
James Burton – Dobro and Guitar
Glen Campbell – rhythm guitar
Jimmy Gordon – drums
Jerry Ward – bass
Norman Hamlet – steel guitar.
Doug
March 21, 2018 @ 8:33 pm
Wow, that’s a cool lineup! I assume that’s the same Jim Gordon who went on to play with George Harrison and Derek and the Dominoes — I know he was an in-demand session drummer in LA before he joined forces with Clapton, but never knew he worked with Merle. What a career! (And what a tragic ending to that career.)
COmfr
March 22, 2018 @ 9:02 am
You sir are not professional. You are obviously without an ounce of class. You can not stoop to a lower level than your choice of words On this idiototic take this song. DO you think every word has to bce filthy to look smart. It makes you look low. YOU CAN GIVE a bad review without being mean
Clyde
March 22, 2018 @ 10:11 am
And you sir (or ma’am) are probably not sober. Since when are mean and honest synonyms? If you really want something without an once of class just listen again to the ridiculous misuse of Roy Nichols classic lick in this song.
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 22, 2018 @ 10:28 am
You must feel so accomplished after leaving this incoherent comment
Marie
March 22, 2018 @ 3:25 pm
I don’t think “trigger” can do any better than this.
Corncaster
March 22, 2018 @ 11:00 am
On “Mama Tried,” I read that it was Burton on acoustic and Nichols on electric. They did a lot of sessions together.
Charlie
March 21, 2018 @ 12:31 pm
‘. . .woefully-generic effort’
That’s the more disturbing trend. Music Row is in an ‘offend no one’ mode and the music will suffer greatly because of it.
Clyde
March 22, 2018 @ 10:14 am
They managed to offend a bunch of people on this site.
Rob
March 21, 2018 @ 12:39 pm
So to clarify — you didn’t particularly care for this one?
Anne
March 21, 2018 @ 10:36 pm
I am so glad I wasn’t drinking anything when I read that.
countryfan24
March 21, 2018 @ 12:49 pm
I can’t believe this is the same artist that brought us “But For the Grace of God” and “Where the Blacktop Ends.” And how can he think this is paying tribute to Merle? This constant need/desire/pressure artists feel to “be progressive” is so disheartening and just results in bad must that is (usually, with some exception) in no way actually country music.
Hillbilly
March 21, 2018 @ 12:57 pm
Steaming pile of auto-tuned, drum tracked dog shit. That ain’t country, you can kiss my ass keith urban.
Barstool Hero
March 21, 2018 @ 12:58 pm
When I read the article that announced this new song on rollingstone.com earlier this morning (couldn’t bring myself to listen to it), I thought “Man, can’t wait to see Trigger rip this one a new a-hole”. Well done, Trigger.
Jeffro
March 21, 2018 @ 12:58 pm
Oh, hell no. I lasted 16 seconds. Three seconds fewer than the first time I had sex.
LINDA K Foreman
March 21, 2018 @ 1:16 pm
Merle Haggard sings the song a thousand times better than Keith Urban. I couldn’t listen after about 20 seconds listening to Keith Urban.
Don
March 21, 2018 @ 1:20 pm
Guess urban has never been down on some ole bayou with a bamboo cane stuck in the sand
Doug
March 21, 2018 @ 8:35 pm
When I first saw the headline on this I thought maybe that was the song Urban had lifted. One of my favorite cuts ever.
Kevin Davis
March 21, 2018 @ 1:25 pm
As I’ve said before, Keith Urban is the most pathetic of all the guys in “country” music. I can sort of understand why a new 20-something or even 30-something wouldn’t care and just release whatever his record overlords want, like Chris Lane and Walker Hayes and the seemingly endless number of generic white males in the genre. Urban, however, is an established guy in “country” for three decades, is 50 years old, and he’s the one writing this crap and is solely responsible for it. And he ALWAYS looks like a dweeb, from head to toe — in remarkable contrast to his always elegant wife.
Nancy
March 21, 2018 @ 1:27 pm
Hmmmm. I kind of liked it. Who said folks who liked country were laid back? Wow. I guess you turn on each other like Democrats wearing an NRA cap!
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 21, 2018 @ 1:54 pm
You’re always welcome to like it.
But be aware that this is incredibly insutling to people who have endured decades of people telling them that their music needs to change and being culturally stereotyped by the popularity of artists who claim to represent their interests but really don’t.
The same way I bet a lot of people in either political parties didn’t like being associated with their candidates because they made them look bad.
that’s how a lot of people feel about people like Luke Bryan.
like it all you want. please stop calling it Country Music.
please stop assuming people who like Country Music like this stuff.
from now on, please assume people who like Country Music enjoy the works of Don Walser, Joshua Hedley, Don Reno, Benny Martin, Floyd Cramer, Dick Curless, and Charley Pride.
The Jim Reaper
March 21, 2018 @ 3:01 pm
This website just can’t accept the fact that country music changes just like every other genre of music.. And when a singer releases something they don’t like or that isn’t The style of country they like, they Throw a fit and insult said singer for trying to be successful.
Gabe
March 21, 2018 @ 5:06 pm
No one is insulting his hustle. The problem is that while his intentions might be genuine the outcome isn’t
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 21, 2018 @ 5:12 pm
oooh boy here we go.
Look buddy, if you go into Red Lobster and order soup, and I give you a taco and told you that soup evolved, and you were happy with that, maybe your stupid comment would have some believability.
and again, our music isn’t changing, we’re being forcefed different music and told that it changed.
in the same way that a con artist like Scott Borchetta might tell you that raspberry pie evolved so that he can sell you a banana split.
The Jim Reaper
March 21, 2018 @ 8:59 pm
You’re not being force fed anything. If you hate the songs they play on Country radio, don’t listen to country radio. It’s really pretty simple. Listen to your CDs or get a freaking Spotify subscription. If you think Country radio is one day gonna randomly and magically play the kind of country music you like, then keep dreaming.
Country music is changing just like every other genre of music. You don’t like it? Fine. You don’t have to. And you don’t have to listen to it either, you listen to all the Merle Haggard you want I couldn’t care less. Just don’t try to ruin it for the people who like it. Who knows? Maybe Country music will change Back to the style you prefer?
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 22, 2018 @ 5:24 am
by that logic, if you like tacos, and taco bell starts giving you liver and onions and told you tacos evolved, you shouldn’t go to taco bell? the place that literally has “taco” in its name and where you always go for the food you liked?
It’s a very simple analogy but you seem to be strugglling with it
The Jim Reaper
March 22, 2018 @ 6:32 am
I’m not struggling with your analogy at all. Your analogy is stupid because at a restaurant, you choose what you want to eat, whereas when listening to radio, you just have to listen to whatever they happen to be playing at the time. Your analogy would be better if you were comparing Taco Bell to Spotify choosing your music for you.
Batterycap
March 22, 2018 @ 7:09 am
Country music has not changed. The term “Country Music” has been absconded and applied to a mixture of hip-hop, rap and pop music sung by several that have inappropriately labelled themselves as country singers, when in fact they are pop singers too old to be interesting to the teenage girl demographic. Were it not for this theft, they would have no way to make a substantially above average living, and Nicole would throw Keith out the door like yesterday’s leftover grits.
Meanwhile, the rest of us are left wondering which station we are going to assign to these radio buttons that used to be used to listen to actual country music.
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 22, 2018 @ 10:32 am
Yes, and when I chose to listen to Country Music I did not expect the waiter to plop down today’s “new country” and tell me Country Music had to evolve and not to listen to it.
tell me, were you a fan of Country Music before it got turned into watered down Pop Music?
if not, please stop having opinions about it.
I grew up on the Wilburn Brothers and Porter Wagoner in the seventies, I remembered seeing Charlie Louvin on Marty Stuart before he died, I watched Hee Haw and Pop Goes the Country.
unless you’ve grown with a genre you’re recently arrived opinions on a music and culture you have no prior experience with are meaningless because Country Music isn’t for you to just show up and change.
It belonged to me and to people like me and we’re very tired of seeing a bunch of young people just hear a pop song get labelled Country, decide “we like Country now” and then move in and try and remove our music and take it away.
please just stop. you’re unaware of the music’s history, unaware that you’re unaware, and oblivious to how you come across.
The Jim Reaper
March 22, 2018 @ 11:12 am
So if don’t like the particular kind of country music you like, then I’m not allowed to have an opinion? Okay.
To answer your question, no I’m not a fan of traditional country music. I’m not trying to take away your music, and neither Is anyone else who listens to contemporary country. And I also didn’t change country music, country music changed on its own.
Also yes stop going to Taco Bell.
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 22, 2018 @ 12:38 pm
then stop calling your music Country Music when it isn’t.
You shouldn’t go around spouting opinions on things you don’t know about.
Don’t tell a ten year welding professional about welding.
Don’t tell a chef about food.
and don’t tell people who grew up on music what your opinions about the future and presentation of that music should be.
Take your music elsewhere, but stop trying to parasite your music off of somebody else’s.
The Jim Reaper
March 22, 2018 @ 11:14 am
Also screw you and good day! 🖕
Kevin
March 21, 2018 @ 7:46 pm
So why did this Dickhead have to steal the haggard lick? Why didn’t he steal a guitar lick from some bro country douche bag? Because there’s no recognition with this trash. As soon ass you hear that lick you instantly know it’s hag. And this cocksmoker is cashing in on that.
Jack Williams
March 22, 2018 @ 6:02 am
This website just can’t accept the fact that country music changes just like every other genre of music..
Sigh. This horseshit again. As a long reader of this site, I know that the proprietor does support artistic evolution of country music that still pays at least some respect to tradition. If he didn’t, he wouldn’t feature so many artists in the Americana realm, for example. Or cover Chris Stapleton and Sturgill Simpson so extensively. Or maybe you think they’re pure traditional country artists.
The Jim Reaper
March 22, 2018 @ 7:25 am
I haven’t heard Chris Stapleton or Sturgill Simpson.
Chris
March 22, 2018 @ 11:16 am
Well, there goes any shred of credibility you have as an alleged “country music fan” since Chris Stapleton currently has the #1 radio single in the genre.
The Jim Reaper
March 22, 2018 @ 7:36 am
Also if listening to contemporary country artists infuriates you so much, why do you’ve listen to them or turn to radio stations with them? I don’t like Metal music, so instead of turning to a Metal music station and then getting infuriated that it’s playing a kind of music i don’t like, I just don’t listen to it I instead listen to music I do like.
Jack Williams
March 22, 2018 @ 8:19 am
Also if listening to contemporary country artists infuriates you so much, why do you’ve listen to them or turn to radio stations with them?
I don’t. Why did you presume that I do?
About 15 years ago or so, I saw an interview of Wynton Marsalis on PBS. The interviewer asked him why the “music today” isn’t that great. Marsalis said that there’s always great music being made and that the problem is what’s being sold to us.
Zues
March 22, 2018 @ 6:05 pm
Ok Jimbo, if reading this incredibly accurate review of this trash “infuriates” you, don’t read it. Go to Mr. Urban’s fan page, put your headphones on, and rub one out to Urban’s videos with the rest of the slack jawed mouth breathers.
The Jim Reaper
March 22, 2018 @ 9:05 am
I guess because I’ve seen other people on her complain about having to listen to contemporary Country when they turn on the radio, so I just assumed you did too. My apologies.
To your second point, what qualifies as “great music” is extremely subjective. What’s the worst song they have ever heard to one is their favorite song to another. I also don’t know “what’s being sold to us” even means, radio plays the songs that are popular right now. That’s how they get people to tune into their station.
MH
March 22, 2018 @ 9:42 am
“I also don’t know ‘what’s being sold to us’ even means, radio plays the songs that are popular right now.”
So what you’re saying is, you have absolutely NO idea about how mainstream music and corporate radio works. Either that or, you’re in the business and are just playing stupid.
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 22, 2018 @ 10:15 am
Again: as a fan of Country Music, I want Country Music on Country Radio. If I order a taco at taco bell, it’s because I wanted that damn taco and I’m sick and tired of asking for a taco and getting spinach. then when I go tell people I like tacos they assume I like spinach because they always get spinach at taco bell and have no idea what a taco is.
at this point just stop because you obviously aren’t grasping a very simple concept.
the pistolero
March 22, 2018 @ 11:31 am
No one is arguing that country music doesn’t evolve. So you can put that straw man away.
But speaking for myself, I still haven’t gotten a good answer as to why the evolution of country music can’t be Randy Rogers, Wade Bowen, the Turnpike Troubadours, or Jason Boland, as opposed to…this.
Anne
March 22, 2018 @ 7:59 am
Democrats don’t wear NRA caps
scott
March 22, 2018 @ 9:17 am
Smart ones do.
Realize
March 21, 2018 @ 1:46 pm
Why is so much judgement time moves forward.
Our Country singers are being trashed.
The clocks Ticks…… you❤ don’t HAVE to listen to him.
Let the beautiful legends just that.
Remember them trashing new Country..why???? Such hate…
Kevin Broughton
March 22, 2018 @ 5:23 am
Is English your first language?
Mike
March 22, 2018 @ 2:59 pm
Jesus Christ!!! Could you at least use SOME semblance of grammar? This post gave me AIDS!!
Sheri Blanchard
March 21, 2018 @ 1:46 pm
You sound like you missed your nap. Keith Urban puts out songs. You spew out nasty.
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March 21, 2018 @ 2:08 pm
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A make-ahead Orange Jello Salad that is perfect for a special occasion. Recipe from PocketChangeGourmet.com. Original Family Recipe from Lois Kimmel
Ingredients
Orange Jello – 2 small boxes or 1 large
1 can (15 oz) apricots
1 can (15 oz) crushed pineapple
1 cup mini marshmallows
Topping
1/2 cup sugar
3 tablespoons flour
1 egg, slightly beaten
1 cup orange juice
2 tablespoons butter
1 cup real whipping cream
1/2 cup grated cheese
Instructions
Drain apricots and pineapple, reserving the juice
Cut apricots into small pieces
In a large bowl, combine the jello and 2 cups boiling water, stir to dissolve
Add 1 cup of reserved juice, stir and place bowl in fridge for about 30 minutes or until jello is consistency of egg whites
Fold in fruit and marshmallows
Rinse 13×9 glass pan in cold water and pour in jello mixture
Return to fridge until set, several hours or overnight
Topping
In a small saucepan, add the sugar, flour, beaten egg and orange juice
Whisk constantly until thick
Add butter and stir until melted
Remove from heat and let cool, about 30 minutes
Beat whipping cream until stiff peaks form, fold in pudding mixture and spread on jello
Top with grated cheese
Kim
March 22, 2018 @ 1:05 am
Great response!! Priceless!
Benny Lee
March 22, 2018 @ 10:55 pm
That has to be the single best comment I’ve ever read on this site.
Best theme-related comment collection goes to Fuzzy for his running country music/Taco Bell analogy.
Rezina
March 21, 2018 @ 1:47 pm
I liked it! Old country music is gone forever! It’s over!! No one sings like Merle, Randy and George anymore! Just hang on to your old CD’s!
hoptowntiger94
March 21, 2018 @ 2:02 pm
GRANDMA’S PINEAPPLE CUCUMBER LIME JELLO SALAD RECIPE
Yield: Serves 6 to 8
INGREDIENTS
1 6oz package of Jell-O Lime gelatin
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups hot water
2 cups cold water
1 1/2 cups peeled, diced cucumbers
3 Tbsp horseradish (or more if you want it spicier)
1/2 teaspoon grated onion
2 Tbsp vinegar
1 1/2 cup of diced or crushed drained canned pineapple (you cannot use fresh pineapple with gelatins. The bromelaine enzyme in fresh pineapple will keep the gelatin from bonding.)
METHOD
1 In a bowl, dissolve lime jello and salt in 2 cups of hot water (don’t use boiling water, just regular hot water). Add 2 cups cold water. Chill until slightly thickened – the consistency of egg whites, about 30 minutes.
2 In a separate bowl mix cucumber, horseradish, grated onion, and vinegar. Fold pineapple and cucumber mixture into jello. Pour into a jello mold and chill for several hours (about 6) until gelatin sets.
3 To remove jello from its mold, fill up a basin half-way with hot water. Lower the jello mold into the hot water, metal side down, until the water comes up almost to the edge of the mold. Keep it there 5 seconds and remove. Place a plate on top of the jello mold and turn upside down. The jello salad should just slide out.
Gina
March 22, 2018 @ 6:41 am
My grandmother used to make this!
hoptowntiger94
March 22, 2018 @ 10:33 am
My grandmother used to listen to Keith Urban while making jello salad!
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 21, 2018 @ 2:02 pm
I’d gladly do that. in return I expect you people to stop associating me with Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean.
I’d sleep much easier knowing that when I say “I like Country Music” people don’t assume I like Luke Bryan but instead assume I like Marty Stuart.
So I do keep my old CDs and my old records but until I don’t have to explain “I like Country Music but not that kind of Country Music” you will find me angrily correcting you at every turn
Clyde
March 22, 2018 @ 11:13 am
The bait and switch is over and done with and “Country’s” probably never going back to anything that incorporates core elements of “real” Country Music.
I for one would not be opposed to taking a Dale Watson approach. He says that he does not play Country Music and has nothing to do with Country Music. He plays Ameripolitan Music. Then this site could be called Growing Ameripolitan Music and Trigger could completely ditch trashing crap like Urban’s music.
But that approach would really muddy the waters when it comes to things like the Country Music Hall of Fame, the CMA, and a bunch of other stuff that is so invested in the term “Country.”
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 22, 2018 @ 12:57 pm
so because you want to call your spinach a taco I don’t get to enjoy tacos anymore? I have to make up a new word for tacos because you, a person who never ate tacos, took over my taco bell to peddle your spinach?
dumb.
Clyde
March 24, 2018 @ 5:55 pm
Wrong. I want to call your beloved tacos spinach because your beloved tacos have gone completely rancid because they have been poisoned for quite some time now by a bunch of hacks posing as chefs. So you could join Dale Watson and continue to enjoy delicious tacos but just call them something else (sorry for the inconvenience). Then grow these newly named tacos into big franchises.
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 25, 2018 @ 10:07 am
this is perhaps the least intuitive and most ridiculous solution to a very simple problem.
as an actual dyed in the wool Country Music fan when it was AND wasn’t trendy and before it changed I have no intention of changing.
in the same way that I have no intention of selling any land that I grew up on so that someone can build something else there.
in the same way I intend to keep my mother’s china and my father’s furniture.
Starving Texas Music
March 22, 2018 @ 11:46 am
Your biggest problem is how much of your identity is attached to being a “real country music fan.”
It’s like when you go to taco bell and order a taco, and they give you a taco and you’re like…”that’s not country music!”
albert
March 21, 2018 @ 5:57 pm
” No one sings like Merle, Randy and George anymore! ‘
that’s pretty much all we’re saying here,my friend .
Mike Miller
March 21, 2018 @ 1:47 pm
Why can we not split this crap off from true country . Let them call it what they want and have there own genre. We need actual country singer-songwriter and live country musicians making our music.
albert
March 21, 2018 @ 6:00 pm
‘why can we not split this crap off from true country ”
I believe they did spilt this off from true country.
this is called RADIO now.
everything else is true country
DHall
March 21, 2018 @ 1:51 pm
I made it to the 16 second mark … and feel like I heard 15 too many. Whatever the hell that was, it has no place in Country music. Or any other kind of music, for that matter.
Jacob W.
March 21, 2018 @ 1:59 pm
It was trash but it was not enough of the actual riff to get mad about. Really i am pissed at you for making me listen to that whole pile of crap song looking for some terrible blasphemy againsy Merle Haggard. Yeah it is three notes from the intro and solo of mama tried but it does not even include the double stops that actually make that an entire riff and so badass. But it is not a sample or a plagiarism of any kind. That being said it is blasphemy to country music.
Bren
March 21, 2018 @ 2:00 pm
I love Keith & his music! Sorry, but that’s my opinion!
Teresa
March 21, 2018 @ 2:04 pm
I have not heard it but for all you Keith Urban haters, why are you so harsh on him. First I happen to think he is one of the sexist singers we have ever had. Love him and his hair!! Yes he can sing, he could sing the phone book, in my eyes he could. I love him no matter what you people say.
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 21, 2018 @ 2:23 pm
Be my guest.
but stop calling it Country Music.
if you want an honest answer for why we’re so harsh on him it’s because we go to work and to parties and people find out we like Country Music and people assume we mean the music of tattooed frat boys who like to get drunk and attract trashy women with too much lipstick.
to put it mildly, we say we like Country Music, and people assume we mean Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean.
and they tell us that our George Jones and Porter Wagoner had to evolve.
which is ridiculous. you don’t serve somebody spinach at taco bell and tell them that tacos evolve!
and frankly we’re sick of it.
we’re tired of being stereotyped by people who claim to represent us but don’t.
MichRit
March 22, 2018 @ 11:57 am
Music changes with time and what people want. They want Keith, Luke, Jason, Blake, Time, Miranda, Carrie and so on. If you don’t like it, don’t listen to it but don’t trash it. These entertainers work hard.
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 22, 2018 @ 12:40 pm
here again the airheads and their “don’t like it don’t listen.”
how about this?
you go into a discount tire and buy a set of tires, and I give you an MP3 player and told you that your tires evolved because nobody wants their grandpa’s tires anymore.
and if you don’t like it, don’t shop for tires.
sound stupid?
good. because that’s how all you people sound when you say Country Music evolved.
I’d love not to listen to it! in fact, take it off the Country Music stations and put real Country Music back on them so I don’t have to listen to it!
Starving Texas Music
March 22, 2018 @ 2:14 pm
The mental gymnastics that you have to perform to think that your analogies work on any level is remarkable.
It’s like…if you go into discount tire and buy a tire but they give you an mp3 player and say tires evolved…
This is the point, where if you can’t tell the difference between a tire and an mp3 player, you deserve every bad thing that happens to you, and I fear for the people that have to interact with you because you’re too stupid for society.
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 22, 2018 @ 3:08 pm
So why are you giving me an MP3 player when I want a tire?
I don’t want Pop Music on Country Radio..
why are you telling me that Pop Music belongs on Country Radio?
if you think this is Country Music, you are the one who can’t tell an MP3 player from a tire.
I just want Pop Music to stay off Country Radio and I want people to stop saying Country Music evolved just so that they don’t have to bother making it!
Starving Texas Music
March 22, 2018 @ 5:09 pm
If you bought the mp3 player you’re a moron. You pay nothing for music that is played on radio airwaves. It’s real simple, don’t listen to it if you don’t like it. The rest of your argument doesn’t work because the market decides what people want to hear.
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 22, 2018 @ 6:47 pm
another child left behind.
Tezca
March 21, 2018 @ 4:46 pm
I used to say Keith was the sexiest but that was ears ago when I was younger and an annoying idiot. Now that I’m a little older and a little less of an annoying idiot guess who I find the sexiest country singer ever…Waylon Jennings! 😀
Anne
March 21, 2018 @ 10:41 pm
I was going to disagree with this, but then I noticed you called him “sexist.”
Barbara Dennis
March 21, 2018 @ 2:06 pm
Who peed in all your cornflakes? Keith is awesome. Puts on a helluva show for his fans. Love this song and how Keith does it. Haters hate OFW.
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 21, 2018 @ 2:25 pm
Keith Urban did thank you very much.
and Luke Bryan came and did so too.
please top calling this Country Music
TD
March 22, 2018 @ 5:38 am
I believe you have problems, your rant is about as idiotic as it gets. I never knew anyone forced you to listen to any kind of music. I also assume everything you have done in your life is exactly perfect. Music is evolving, always has and always will. By the sound of your stupid rant you shouldn’t be listening to country anyway, maybe you should swing to the other side and listen to Kayne West or Snoop Dog. It seems to follow your nasty mouth.
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 22, 2018 @ 10:17 am
just about every time I go to work, or the mall, or basically try and function like a normal person I have to see people in cowboy boots talking about Luke Bryan (a 40 year old man in woman pants who raps about spring break) and how authentic his music is and how it speaks to them. there’s always some clown with his hat on backwards playing it out of his car window at a stop light.
and when I try and tell people I like Country Music they think I mean Luke Bryan.
I don’t.
I mean I like the Wilburn Brothers and Don Walser.
and I’ sick and tired of other people deciding what Country Music is when the term doesn’t belong to them.
hoptowntiger94
March 21, 2018 @ 2:34 pm
Y’all are gonna to have to start sharing the Jello Salad recipes.
Anne
March 21, 2018 @ 10:42 pm
If I ever join social media, I promise I will.
Shastacatfish
March 21, 2018 @ 2:12 pm
What exactly is the market for this horse shit?
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 21, 2018 @ 2:45 pm
People who have a hard time understanding the complexities and nuances of songs like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADdXDIQQgeA
Bill
March 21, 2018 @ 2:14 pm
That’s just plain awful. Keith Urban should be embarrassed.
Mike Honcho
March 21, 2018 @ 2:23 pm
You assholes wanted more women in Country Music.
hoptowntiger94
March 21, 2018 @ 2:35 pm
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!
Mike
March 21, 2018 @ 7:29 pm
Take all the moneys!!! You win the Internets!!!
Marianne Wurtele
March 21, 2018 @ 2:26 pm
OMG that sucks…(especially that mangled riff)…and I really liked Blue Ain’t Your Color, hoped he was going in a better direction.
Lady Fionn
March 21, 2018 @ 2:53 pm
Why is a song review full of personal attacks on the artist? What is the point of that?
Trigger
March 21, 2018 @ 2:57 pm
This is not a song review, it’s a rant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
Barry Cheevers
March 21, 2018 @ 2:57 pm
Wtf is this shit? Turned it off after a minute. Nothing country about it, even with the token banjo in the background. Garbage.
Adam
March 21, 2018 @ 3:30 pm
Are there fucking bots spamming this comments section all of a sudden??? I couldn’t name 5 Keith Urban fans if I had a gun to my head and now there’s a whole mess of the fuckers on SCM?
Trigger
March 21, 2018 @ 4:17 pm
Folks finding the article via Google and other search engines. This is how Saving Country Music spreads its subversive message as opposed to just preaching to a choir 🙂
Adam
March 21, 2018 @ 5:06 pm
Bullshit, give me my echo chamber!
DoctaMario
March 21, 2018 @ 3:42 pm
I like Keith, but I think he’s been on a bit of a downward trajectory for several albums now. Even if the songs are good, the production is usually either hamfisted, half-assed, or both, which is a problem with a lot of songs these days. As a producer myself, I thought I’d like the pop country thing a lot more once it finally hit but I find more than anything, these productions have no subtlety and ruin the song.
Remember, musicians and producers are just as responsible for destroying music as they are for creating it.
Susan
March 21, 2018 @ 10:00 pm
Agree about the direction of Keith’s music. Yes, he still puts on a good show but that doesn’t make up for this mess. When he sits alone at the keyboard playing Tonight I Wanna Cry, or singing with Patty Loveless on But for the Grace of God…I believe him. And I like it. No inspiration, now. It’s been gone for years.
albert
March 22, 2018 @ 12:13 am
”No inspiration, now. It’s been gone for years.”
well said , susan . he’s just grasping at whatever SOUNDS trendy/poppy……just bad ear candy.
really a shame cuz unlike so many sell-outs in the genre now , urban actually CAN sing a country song ……. he just can’t write or record one . these guys need to let someone who FEELS it do the writing …someone who is sincere and not chasing trends . guys like urban need to find material written by REAL writers .
Helen Marie Crenshaw
March 21, 2018 @ 3:53 pm
If you can’t say something good about Keith and his music than how about keeping your mouth shut and your thoughts to your self!!! A Keith fan for ever
MH
March 21, 2018 @ 4:37 pm
Please stop. Keith Urban will never have sex with you. The faster you realize this, the better you’ll be.
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 21, 2018 @ 5:13 pm
good for you. stop calling it Country and you’re welcome to feel that way.
Mike
March 21, 2018 @ 7:22 pm
What if I told you….
You will never marry Keith Urban, and you will go to work at McDonald’s tomorrow like you do ever day for the rest of your life…
Tezca
March 21, 2018 @ 4:21 pm
This Keither Urban song is a dumb little guilty pleasure pop song. Key word pop as it leans more towards pop. As in I felt like I listening to Olly Murs afterwards this morning after listening to this song rather than than Waylon Jennings.
Lizzie
March 21, 2018 @ 4:32 pm
Merle Haggard is overrated anyway…so…who cares.
hoptowntiger94
March 21, 2018 @ 4:51 pm
If this was a bar, you’d be cut off.
Tezca
March 21, 2018 @ 4:55 pm
If you had said Waylon Jennings is overrated then I would be typing a rebuttal full of the fangirly rage of a thousand suns.
Since I only heard Mama Tried really (hint it has more substance then the guilty pleasure that is Coming Home) I’ll let Fuzzy make a rebuttal to this horrendous comment.
Gabe
March 21, 2018 @ 5:10 pm
O No! Not Fuzzy!!
King Honky Of Crackershire
March 21, 2018 @ 7:51 pm
Waylon Jennings is extremely overrated, but that doesn’t mean I don’t like him.
Ulysses McCaskill
March 22, 2018 @ 11:38 pm
Damnit Honk! I just knew you’d take a shot at the late great Mr. Jennings. I think he’s underrated if anything. Cash and Willie are more famous but I think Waylon’s better than both of them.
King Honky Of Crackershire
March 23, 2018 @ 7:26 am
It’s not a shot. I like him.
But him and the other two folks you’ve mentioned are overrated.
Try not to conflate your enjoyment of someone’s music, with that person’s status.
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 21, 2018 @ 5:15 pm
If you think Merle Haggard is overrated, you probably struggle to understand Silly Songs with Larry
Messer
March 21, 2018 @ 7:18 pm
Overrated? You must be drinking that free bubble-ubb and eating that rainbow stew…
King Honky Of Crackershire
March 21, 2018 @ 9:02 pm
Lizzie,
I realize you’re trolling, which I totally get. It can be fun sometimes when done strategically, and to the right people. But what everyone who reads your comment needs to know, is that Merle could possibly be underrated, from the standpoint of public name recognition.
I like to judge a Country singer’s status, by how well known they are by people who don’t listen to Country. By that measurement, Hag is underrated.
Lizzie
March 21, 2018 @ 11:19 pm
I only said he was overrated to be nice. I actually think Merle flat out sucks. But don’t freak out. I also think Keith Urban’s music is terrible.
King Honky Of Crackershire
March 22, 2018 @ 4:13 am
Yeah, Lizzie, like I said, it can be fun, especially when there is at least a patina of legitimacy to the position you take(while trolling).
The troll you’ve attempted here doesn’t really work, because hardly anyone would take it seriously, which is why nobody will “freak out”.
Just trying to help.
Lizzie
March 22, 2018 @ 12:22 pm
You are quite possibly the most annoying person ever.
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 22, 2018 @ 12:53 pm
I thought the most annoying person ever was Jason Aldean…
Tyrone
March 22, 2018 @ 11:21 am
The nearly middle aged soccer moms are out in full force today.
Troy
March 22, 2018 @ 3:22 pm
And the song is ear cancer at best.
Cindy
March 21, 2018 @ 4:59 pm
I get you don’t like this song; but your personal crass comments are way overboard.
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 21, 2018 @ 5:17 pm
were Blake Shelton’s personal crass comments way overboard when he called fans who liked traditional music “old farts and jackasses?”
or is that different?
are Jason Aldean’s songs that objectify women “way overboard?”
The primary cause of anger among critics of mainstream country music is a pervasive feeling that people are actively trying to remove their input and trivialize their music.
Aggc
March 21, 2018 @ 5:49 pm
A shame because I really enjoyed his “In the Ranch” and “Be Here” albums.
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 21, 2018 @ 5:53 pm
I may not speak for everyone, but I think a lot of people enjoyed the early works of a lot of fallen artists like Keith Urban.
unfortunately his career isn’t aging well and he’s becoming ridiculous.
Aggc
March 21, 2018 @ 6:13 pm
His career isn’t aging well? I don’t know about that. He’s probably making more money now than he ever has. You think he wants to be hosting some lame talent show when he is 70 like Steven “I still dress like I’m 19” Tyler? I doubt it.
Still, this song is really awful. I’d love to see him release an instrumental album like Brad Paisley did that really showcases his guitar chops. Not a chance in hell of that happening though.
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 21, 2018 @ 6:22 pm
compared to Vince Gill his career is not aging well.
he’s desperate to keep on top and keep the money in and he’s not able to move forward and grow and change his material and his newer work is eroding his past work
Lynn
March 21, 2018 @ 6:01 pm
I’m not surprised Keith Urban decided to continue his pop genre exploration. After all, his last album, Ripcord, which is already too pop, did well commercially. There’s no incentive for him to suddenly go back to his countrier side when his pop projects are doing so well sales wise.
Wonder what Sturgill Simpson thinks of this Haggard guitar riff inclusion into this meh song.
perkins ficklin
March 22, 2018 @ 8:51 am
Yes. Lynn l am almost sure that sturgilI think ‘s that Keith urban is old king turd up here on shit mountain right about now……
Let Keith have the crown!
Troy
March 22, 2018 @ 3:24 pm
You know Sturgill will give the crown to Keith, no hesitation at all haha!
Corncaster
March 22, 2018 @ 5:37 pm
all incentives have to be commercial?
in his tax bracket, that’s not an incentive, it’s an illness
Louis A Rouviere
March 21, 2018 @ 6:03 pm
Trigger you have got to learn to express yourself. It’s ok to say what you feel. lol
Shari
March 21, 2018 @ 6:05 pm
I like it, and his hair is sexy……..
albert
March 21, 2018 @ 6:15 pm
of COURSE his hair is sexy . its that way so that YOU will like his music .
Mike
March 21, 2018 @ 7:19 pm
Sexy? That rug on the top of his head looks like a dead opossum took a shit on it!!
Troy
March 22, 2018 @ 3:25 pm
I say it’s wolf pubes, but your description is more accurate!
Benny Lee
March 22, 2018 @ 11:10 pm
You do realize that a singer’s hair has NOTHING to do with the music, right?
Conwayfan98
March 21, 2018 @ 6:08 pm
I heard this song being played on someone’s radio today, four times in two hours. It’s like they’re shoving it down our throats. Oh wait…
Gerald
March 21, 2018 @ 7:00 pm
Be prepared for radio to pitch this as Urban “going back to his roots.” Bobby Bones will proclaim this his new favorite song that he can’t stop listening to and will have this monstrosity at number one faster than you can say “old farts and jackasses..”
Aggc
March 22, 2018 @ 7:25 am
By ‘roots’ I assume you mean his natural hair color.
albert
March 21, 2018 @ 6:14 pm
In 30 years , country music will look back over its history and realize just what Urban did for the genre .They will realize that it wouldn’t be the same without his influence . They will understand how he carried the torch to the next runner and made it possible for a great American………oh hell..I can’t do this,,
hah hahaha hahahha haha haha
hahaha haha hahaha hahaha
hahahaha ….damn I think I just wet myself
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 21, 2018 @ 6:21 pm
in 30 years people will still be talking about George Jones and Merle Haggard and the only modern people are maybe Strait and Vince Gill.
Anne
March 21, 2018 @ 10:45 pm
I think “Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning” will get Alan Jackson into that club.
Dennixx
March 21, 2018 @ 6:19 pm
You’d think with all that American Idol money he would be able to afford a clue, or at least some talent.
Amanda
March 22, 2018 @ 2:10 pm
He has talent and plenty of it. He just chooses to waste and squander it on pop bullshit.
Jamie
March 21, 2018 @ 6:28 pm
Just what we need. More pandering BS. Reminds me of his equally pointless and annoying John Deer, John Cougar song. What really irritates me about many of these modern “country” songs is how the lyrics are are all about “going back to a simpler time and place” and list the usual country lifestyle cliches, yet the music itself is almost entirely pure urban pop. It’s as if they’re just repeating the same themes and buzz words just to say “See, this IS country music!” The thing is, I would much rather listen to actual pop music than these new “country” songs any day. If I want to listen to country, I pretty much just stick to my ipod, cds, and youtube/pandora.
albert
March 22, 2018 @ 12:24 am
”how the lyrics are are all about “going back to a simpler time and place” and list the usual country lifestyle cliches, yet the music itself is almost entirely pure urban pop. ”
great point jamie and one I’ve noticed far too frequently myself. kind of ridiculous isn’t it ? its like they don’t even see the hypocrisy and the contradiction in that approach . its like they seem to WANT to sing something of substance but not PLAY something of substance ….something involving REAL trad instruments to support the insincere lyric . just too ‘hip’ ……just chasing a ‘hip’ uncaring and uninformed listener .
Joseph Stein
March 21, 2018 @ 6:43 pm
As a long time fan, this flat out sucks. Inexcusable.
Skyler Peters
March 21, 2018 @ 6:44 pm
I can just barely hear the riff because it is nowhere close to resembling Haggard’s Mama Tried. True testament to how “fake country” 99% of new country singers are. What a shame.
Gerald
March 21, 2018 @ 6:48 pm
If the production didn’t suck this song wouldn’t be AS appalling. But they shitted on the Merle Haggard riff and used annoying synth, keyboard, and electronic drums instead. Somebody call up Shania Twain’s new producer and let him know Keith Urban’s got a job opening!
Dale Monroe
March 21, 2018 @ 6:58 pm
Call it a guilty pleasure, but I’ve actually liked Keith Urban’ s music (up to and including Fuse). “Days Go By” was a great song to drive around to, and I still love to listen to “But For The Grace of God” (in my opinion his best song). Even his more recent stuff from Fuse was alright (Raise Em Up, We Were Us). However, with “Ripcord”, his music just became… I don’t know how to describe it, but it’s as if he just gave up and started just screwing around because he felt he could do whatever he wanted.
But this song is not just bad… I think this is the only time outside of Walker Hayes’ music that I’ve been not just put off, but actively repulsed from music. I don’t often comment on this site but I felt I had to get my two cents in here. Say what you will about Chris Stapleton being more blues or southern rock than country, but at least his music doesn’t make me feel as if I’m having an aneurysm while listening to it.
Erika
March 22, 2018 @ 9:39 am
These are my sentiments exactly. I used to be a huge fan of Keith Urban, and Days Go By was one of my favorite songs back in the day. Heck, you could argue that it was the song that got me into country music. Get Closer was his last good album in my opinion – at least I was able to feel heart and passion through it. Then he released Fuse. I didn’t like it, but it was somewhat tolerable. I was holding out hope that his music would improve again after Fuse, but as it turns out, it was all downhill from there and his music got progressively worse over time. Ripcord was the nail in the coffin and it was then I decided that Keith sold out, and this garbage he just released confirms it even more. He and his music are dead to me. What doesn’t help is that he has shown he is very talented and can make great music, but I have no respect for anyone who wastes their God-given talent.
Amanda
March 22, 2018 @ 7:50 pm
Exactly!! I even thought Raise Em Up and We Were Us were decent. He started to really suck with Ripcord.
J. Burke
March 21, 2018 @ 7:02 pm
Got to the17 second mark…….and I was trying really hard to give it a fair hearing.
King Honky Of Crackershire
March 21, 2018 @ 7:13 pm
More absurd than this song, is all the folks on here acting like Keith Urban has ever been a Country singer, or recorded anything resembling Country music.
Dale
March 21, 2018 @ 7:14 pm
Garbage pure and simple , nothing remotely close to country or music
Mike
March 21, 2018 @ 7:17 pm
Me: I cannot possibly hate Keith Urban more than I already do now.
Keith Urban: Challenge accepted!!!
Maddy Brady
March 21, 2018 @ 7:20 pm
I couldn’t even get past the 3rd paragraph, the ranter over did it and bored me with all his or her stupid long drawn out insults in each sentence. Geeze!
liza
March 21, 2018 @ 7:26 pm
Would you know Merle was in there if you hadn’t been told?
Tezca
March 21, 2018 @ 7:33 pm
Yes anyone who listened to the song enough or listened to it before the Keith song then yes. Yes we would’ve.
Seth
March 21, 2018 @ 7:29 pm
REAL FUCKIN’ CLASSY making a mail bomb joke this week. Guess its funny to compare deaths in your city to a stupid pop song. I don’t know what your problem is but I’m sure you’ve got an angle on how you’re the victim here.
Trigger
March 21, 2018 @ 7:49 pm
Seth,
This article was posted over 8 hours ago. Understand that YOU, and your close-knit reality-tunneled clique on Twitter, are the only ones in those 8 hours who are so woefully blinded by pure hatred for me, cannot see the clear sarcasm of this article. The vast majority of the people who have read this article are Keith Urban fans. Thousands and thousands of them have read this article. Even they understand the drill. But you don’t. Sarcasm in its purest form is only effective if you have a dupe. You, my friend, are the dupe.
And pull quote me on Twitter all you want and portray it however you wish. My readers get it. Folks who converse in 240 characters never will. I assume an intelligent audience. For others, Saving Country Music will always fail them. They’re not ready for it. Like you.
Seth
March 21, 2018 @ 9:01 pm
Ah, so 8 hours is the magic threshold in which a weeklong crisis that’s killed people is fair game. Calling it sarcasm makes it cute.
You’re a intellectually dishonest coward who writes at a college freshman level and a professional victim who’d eat green horseshit for clicks. Pretending like this puerile yellow journalism you write is intelligent would be funny if you weren’t deluded enough to believe it. I’ve yet to see a double standard you haven’t used as an escape route. Pretending like you’re too smart for the concise limitations of twitter is funny because it demonstrates what a shallow and weak mind you are. You’re nothing without a giant bag of scatological verbiage to conceal how little your ideas are and you know it.
How’s your campaign against the whisper network coming? You got that apology yet?
Have fun in your shrinking echo chamber of a basement.
Trigger
March 21, 2018 @ 9:24 pm
“Ah, so 8 hours is the magic threshold in which a weeklong crisis that’s killed people is fair game.”
No dummy, what I said was:
“This article was posted over 8 hours ago. Understand that YOU, and your close-knit reality-tunneled clique on Twitter, are the only ones in those 8 hours who are so woefully blinded by pure hatred for me, cannot see the clear sarcasm of this article.”
In other words, thousands upon thousands of people who had already read this article, with the vast majority of them being Keith Urban fans, and they didn’t find anything offensive. They may have thought it was mean. They may have thought it was stupid. They may have thought it wasn’t funny. They may have thought it was incorrect. But nobody found it offensive for eight hours after it was live, except you, Seth Wilson. And the only reason you did is because you come here every day looking for something to be offended by. You don’t hate this website, you have a hard on for it. You’re one of my best readers.
And do you really think after the hatred you’ve shown to this site over the years, and the acrimony you display in your above comment, that the raging offense you took to this article is some sort of pure perspective from an unbiased authority? When you saw that quote, you weren’t offended, you got a shot of adrenaline. This was the opportunity you’ve been waiting on for years to finally take my dumb ass down. But the problem is when it’s presented in context, everyone knows this entire article is sarcastic bullshit. And everyone got that. Everyone. Except for you, Seth Wilson. And the only way you could present it as anything else than sarcastic bullshit is by doing a pull quote on Twitter. Link to the article, and people say, “Eh, don’t be so uptight.”
You should heed that advice.
And don’t ever watch a Comedy Central roast. Your head might explode.
Anne
March 21, 2018 @ 10:48 pm
Go Trigger!
Seth
March 22, 2018 @ 5:10 am
Sarcasm can still be in poor taste dipshit. My point was just because it took 8 hours for someone with a full set of I’ve watched way more offensive shit than your scribblings but it was from people that had a handle on how comedy worksI only see the trashy stuff you write because of the whisper network that
Seth
March 22, 2018 @ 5:49 am
Anyway, just because it took someone with a full set of teeth 8 hours to find out what poor judgement you use writing your little tirades doesn’t make it unoffensive. That was the point, dummy. Getting away with something for 8 hours isn’t some magic ollie ollie oxen free. You live in Austin. Go to one of the families that lost someone in a bombing and read this paragraph to them. See how they react to your intelligent sarcasm. I’m sure they’ll agree losing a family member is waaaay better than having to hear a pop song.
The funny thing about all this is writing is just accepting criticism and rewriting. Since you have some pathological inability to accept any kind of criticism you’re just going to keep writing the same poo poo pee pee screed over and over again every time 15 seconds of a song gets you triggered. I haven’t stopped by this site in years to do anything but confirm what more skilled and thoughful writers have shared on the grapevine. You used to, USED TO, do some decent work and I congratulated you on it, if you care enough to check.
The only adrenaline pumping around here is when you hit publish on another glorified youtube comment of a post because you think bad words are funny and online drama is exciting. If I’m such a problem for you then block me on social media and ban me from commenting. You won’t because people like me who do engage you in a less than congratulatory manner are too useful and fun for you to use as a boogeyman. You won’t engage on a more public forum like twitter because you know your schtick doesn’t play well on a level platform that isn’t built for your edification. Brevity is the soul of wit and you’ve routinely displayed that you’re just not suited to wittiness in this regard.
Annnnywho, have fun thinking you’re special and not just another grifter I sometimes yell at on the twitter. I’m flattered you think I thought I could “take you down.” I couldn’t stop you if I knew what to do because shit rolls downhill and
you’ve got inertia on your side.
Trigger
March 22, 2018 @ 8:52 am
“Since you have some pathological inability to accept any kind of criticism…”
That seems to be untrue since I have created a forum here for you to share your criticism, unlike 90% of the rest of the internet which has gone comment free. Go try to leave a comment on Rolling Stone Country.
““You won’t engage on a more public forum like twitter because you know your schtick doesn’t play well on a level platform that isn’t built for your edification.”
No, it’s because I believe that from the President on down, Twitter has created a terse, divisive environment that causes more problems than it solves, though I do value the readers who choose to use the forum to be informed about new posts from Saving Country Music. This current situation with you and Chris King is the perfect example. I would say we agree on most stuff about 90% of the time. But Twitter loves to exploit and accentuate the 10%, and due to character limits, breeds argumentative volleys as opposed to subsnative discussion.
Poolio
March 22, 2018 @ 12:59 pm
There’s nothing wrong with being wrong. Why can’t you just admit it was in poor taste? Only shitty people choose not take responsibility for their shitty things. All you do is deflect, and it doesn’t do you any favors. Can you not see that?
Let’s practice this together- “ you know what? You’re right, that was in poor taste”
It’s almost like you have some kind of complex. The day I see you admit that you’re in the wrong, I’ll eat my hat.
Trigger
March 22, 2018 @ 3:30 pm
I make mistakes every day. That’s comes with the territory when you don’t have an editor. I’m perfectly willing to admit when I’m wrong. I’m just not wrong in this instance.
For example, I admitted I was wrong when I brought up Nikki Minaj in a sarcastic manner when talking about Leon Bridges playing the Houston Rodeo:
“Could I have been more careful with my words when defending the Leon Bridges pick? I probably could have. I probably should have left the Nikki Minaj comment out, and calling the losers on Facebook saying Leon Bridges wasn’t popular enough to play the rodeo “Cretins” was a poor choice of words.”
https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/a-response-to-texas-monthlys-takedown-of-saving-country-musics-defense-of-leon-bridges/
Kanye Twitty
March 22, 2018 @ 1:11 pm
Trig, please admit you’re wrong (even if you’re truly not) so we can see this asshole “Poolio” eat his at. I think we should make him post a video.
Seth
March 22, 2018 @ 1:28 pm
FFS dude, sarcasm would be saying “Boy this song is just *great*” What you’re doing is hyperbole. Read that wikipedia link you’re posting around.
tbh I do feel bad when you get on twitter because you always dog piled by people who don’t fuck with your site. I’d stay here if I got stunted on that hard too.
King Honky Of Crackershire
March 21, 2018 @ 7:47 pm
I thought the cancer and mail bomb jokes were really insensitive.
Insensitivity doesn’t bother me.
Margaret Pate
March 21, 2018 @ 8:32 pm
Sounds to me like y’all are just bunch of haters!
JohnWayneTwitty
March 21, 2018 @ 8:47 pm
People who hate bullshit, cuntery, douchebaggery, dumbassery, and fuckery are indeed “haters”.
And we’re fucking proud of it because we have standards.
JohnWayneTwitty
March 21, 2018 @ 8:45 pm
Keith Urban should swim to the bottom of a pool and inhale deeply.
Troy
March 22, 2018 @ 3:30 pm
DAMN….that is harsh as shit. But I can’t help but laugh haha!
The Dot
March 21, 2018 @ 8:52 pm
As a one time Urban fan, I think this monstrosity should be taken out back and beaten. Is he trolling us?
Stork
March 21, 2018 @ 9:07 pm
Trigger,
Listening to you berate terrible music is one of the reasons I come to this site, and honestly, I’ve very rarely (if ever) disagreed with you on any of these matters…
And while this song is utter fucking garbage, I think the serial bomber part is in really bad taste given the timeliness of it. You have a huge audience in the Austin Texas area that have been on edge over these things recently, and I disagree with your choice of hyperbole there.
Other than that, this is an adequate summation of how I feel about this song.
Shastacatfish
March 21, 2018 @ 9:43 pm
I think people need to toughen up. It’s a joke and everyone knows its a joke. Jokes can be untimely and still be funny. In fact, it actually helps cut the tension sometimes. But seriously, folks need to not be taking perpetual offense at everything.
As the big toe once said “lighten up Francis” (everyone who gets the reference gets a cookie).
Trigger
March 21, 2018 @ 10:29 pm
Nobody was offended by this. At least they weren’t offended until someone told them to be and they were coerced by an out-of-context pull quote on Twitter placed by someone who has years of history in mischaracterizing Saving Country Music and swearing allegiance to destroying this website. They didn’t see something they found offensive, they saw an opportunity to draw blood on someone they hate, but can’t just ignore.
I live in Austin. The Saving Country Music Headquarters is in Austin. My family lives in Austin. My mother lives in Austin. This morning I had one of those bomb-sniffing vehicles drive down my street. It has been an incredibly tense last few weeks, and you’re exactly right, laughing a little helps cut the tension. That’s the entire premise behind this Keith Urban rant in the first place. That’s the reason I made the bomb reference. Twitter stars Seth Wilson and Chris King weren’t offended by this article, they were offended so many people were reading it and enjoying it, because don’t all those people know what a piece of shit idiot I am? I can’t even write dammit! Yet they will be here tomorrow, and the next day, and the day after that, sniffing around, looking for something to pretend to be offended by and taking to Twitter to bitch about it, and ignoring everything they may find agreeable or enriching.
Shastacatfish
March 21, 2018 @ 11:16 pm
I don’t know anything about twitter (other than to avoid it) so I can’t say anything about it. I can say though that making some enemies means you’re doing something right. Anyone so easily offended needs to take some shark cartilage pills.
It is high time people stopped being so easily offended.
The funniest stand up performance I have ever seen was Lewis Black the day after Sept 11 in San Francisco. He was respectful but trampled some cows at the same time. Everyone left feeling a little better. It was still OK to laugh.
Chris King
March 22, 2018 @ 6:33 am
I’m sure Mt. Shasta is beautiful this time of year. Meanwhile, here in Austin, there was a rash of explosives killing & injuring folks. Sorry if I seem a little annoyed by his insensitive use of “sarcasm,” but you haven’t spent your week checking your doors, sidewalks, & stairwells for trip wires that could kill you…
Shastacatfish
March 22, 2018 @ 8:09 am
Grow a pair. Humor is a healthy way to deal with stress. Some of the funniest stuff I have heard was from guys about to mix it up with the bad guys. Stop being a pansy and live life. Sure, be careful, don’t get blown up and then know you laughed in the face of death instead of being spineless and easily offended.
Shastacatfish
March 22, 2018 @ 8:18 am
And yes, Mount Shasta is gorgeous right now. I got this shot at sunrise a couple of days ago:
https://hikemtshasta.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/cascades-mt-shasta-march2018-556-custom.jpg
Steve
March 21, 2018 @ 10:15 pm
I really, really, really want to like Keith Urban. He put out some fun music at one time. And “But For the Grace of God” with its fiddle was as country as it gets. So every time Keith releases an album, I give it a listen. And I always walk away disappointed. Yeah, maybe one or two of the tunes remind me of the fun days, but the bad stuff is just soooooo bad…
Jamie
March 21, 2018 @ 10:28 pm
“But For The Grace Of God” is by far one of his best songs, imo. Besides being a great song overall, it’s got some gorgeous sounding fiddle and steel, too. It’s too bad that his music hasn’t sounded that country since his first solo album. But even some of his earlier pop country hits like “Somebody Like You” and “You’ll Think Of Me” are pretty enjoyable and miles better than most of his recent singles.
molacka
March 21, 2018 @ 10:17 pm
Keith urban, rascal Flatts, Taylor swift, this is the future of country music?…..I just threw up!!!
Ulysses McCaskill
March 21, 2018 @ 10:24 pm
fuck keith urban
i’m too druk too figure ot tshift key
Ulysses McCaskill
March 21, 2018 @ 10:31 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne0DtYgqeRg
rban song pissd me of so much i immeditely turned that one
Bill
March 21, 2018 @ 11:01 pm
Today’s country music sucks……They can’t even do covers that sound good.
Thank goodness for the likes of Spotify where I can listen to the few that get very little air play such as Dale Watson, Cody Jinx, Whitey Morgan, Jaime Richards, Jake Hooker, Amber Digby and others that still do country music
Strait Country 81
March 22, 2018 @ 12:45 am
The sample doesn’t see the light of day if his family don’t give the okay.
So screw them too!
Ken
March 22, 2018 @ 2:37 am
Rant or review? Doesn’t really matter what it was but it was spot on. You keep going Trigger. Doing a great job and speaking the truth. Sod those who prefer pop.This place ain’t for them.
GREGG
March 22, 2018 @ 2:44 am
That’s why I don’t listen to much of this crap country today . I stay with Aaron Watson and Texas Red dirt Country .
Chris King
March 22, 2018 @ 4:07 am
First of all, I have to laugh at you using the phrase “Saving Country Music Headquarters” somewhere above.
Okay, now that that’s out of the way… You can insult my intelligence. You know I’m not dumb. You can say that I don’t understand sarcasm. You know I do. But you’re right, I’ll continue to mine this website. The same way you mine for terrible country music, I’ll mine this website for terrible writing. Your blog is for public consumption, so that’s the nature of the game – and I know you’re well aware of that.
You can criticize me for using Twitter as my medium, but you and I both know the actual reason you don’t go to Twitter to discuss anything (it’s not because of the characters). It’s because that’s where I (and others) hold sway. You hold sway here, in your comment section – your little corner of the world where all your readers are. This is your echo chamber where you’re King Trigger & your loyal subjects are here to serve you. That’s why you like things to happen here, so they have your back. So they can all rally behind you and tell you how brilliant you are. You built that for yourself, so congrats. I’m fine with that. I can take all comers. But let’s at least just be honest about that – let’s not mischaracterize (look, one of your favorite words!) why you choose not to go to Twitter as some kind of moral communication high ground.
Now – you made an insensitive joke at a terrible time to make one. That’s why I came here. That’s why I called you out on it on Twitter. That’s why I posted your words.
(Aside: Please quit referring to things as “pull-quotes”. You do that to try to frame their use as invalid. They’re just quotes. They’re words you typed. Me (or anyone) posting them doesn’t take them out of their context. If you’re worried about things being taken out of context, get better at words.)
So, you made an insensitive joke at a terrible time to make one. I found it offensive. Myself and others called you out on it. This is the way things work. You know this, Kyle!
Truth be told, there was a time I actually did read this website & found some of it interesting. But now, it’s become drivel to me. I’d liken it to mainstream country music. The glory days are long gone & there’s no going back. You’ve become a blogger who blogs in the same way a shock jock disc jockeys. I get your shtick. Say something to rile people up & get those clicks. I don’t know if you’re addicted to the ad revenue that you get from all the spam this site generates (I can see a litany of pop-ups & malware being blocked by my filter in the bottom left hand corner of my Chrome browser as I type this) or what, but I get it. I just disagree with it…
But I can’t stop you. I’m just one guy. Just like you. And just like you, I’ve found a hobby to occupy some of my time. So yep, you’re right. I’ll continue coming here to see this farce that you continue to call journalism. And I’ll continue to call you out on the bullshit that I see fit. In a weird way, you’re my bizarro “Country Music” and I’m just a dude trying to save people from you.
Trigger
March 22, 2018 @ 9:00 am
lol, I’m fascinated that you think your sway on Twitter is so robust, and mine so diminutive. The dopamine rush for your little likes and retweets must be a thrill.
I tried to engage with you via Twitter, Chris King, because I do think you’re a smart dude with an important voice, and we probably agree on stuff 90% of the time. But every time you were uninterested in discussion. Even when I was complimentary and conciliatory towards you, this seemed to make you even more angry, because it eroded the idea that I wasn’t some blowhard who will never admit they’re wrong. That’s why I stopped engaging with folks on the format, which is what you’re really pissed about, because what’s the fun in trolling when you can’t get a rise out of someone?
Chris King
March 22, 2018 @ 10:07 am
If you really think that anyone other than yourself has an important voice, you might try listening to them every once in a while. People who disagree with you can improve your site. You could listen to Marissa Moss. You could listen to Tamara. Hell, you could even listen to me or Seth if you wanted. Problem is, you can’t deviate from your “SCM” character. You’ve built a part for you to play. You’re like the Wheeler Walker Jr. of country blogs.
I don’t troll you, I try to challenge you & call you out when I think you’re being bullheaded. I’m not in here every article, just when I think it’s worth talking. But again, you’re the one that’s right. You have all the answers. This is your little corner of the world that you built for yourself so you can feel important and safe, and challenging your opinions isn’t welcome. You can mock me for implying that I have sway in some other medium, but at least I’m on a platform discussing reality with a bunch of other cool folks. And here you are… stuck in the small world you created for yourself.
Ulysses McCaskill
March 22, 2018 @ 1:54 pm
Get back on Twitter and bitch some more about gun control.
And I’m curious, since you want semi-automatic guns outlawed, are you going to personally see to it that they’re all confiscated once your fantasy legislation passes?
Wanna piss a whole bunch of bad motherfuckers? That’s probably not a smart move.
People aren’t giving up their rights to self-defense because of whackjobs hellbent on killing people.
If someone breaks into my house, I don’t want no goddamn bolt-action rifle, I’ll tell you that much.
It’s funny you mention there’s nothing in 2A saying you can own any kind of gun you want. But you wanna know something? There’s nothing saying what you CAN’T own either. Arms. Not muskets only, not revolvers only, not bolt-action only. Simply, Arms.
Kiss my ass.
scott
March 22, 2018 @ 9:53 am
Oh, I had no idea you were a sway holder, Mr. King. Wow, that must be very…..I don’t give a Kentucky Fried Fuck. Twitter warriors sooo fascinate me…
Chris King
March 22, 2018 @ 9:54 am
SCM warriors fascinate me more.
scott
March 22, 2018 @ 10:00 am
Is that even possible?
Chris King
March 22, 2018 @ 10:07 am
Is that even a question?
MH
March 22, 2018 @ 9:56 am
LOL did you really say you “hold sway” on Twitter? So does that mean Twitter is YOUR echo chamber?
Twitter is the sewage pit of the Interwebs. It’s where truth goes to die. It’s a distorted reality.
You sound like an incredible pussy, Chris.
Chris King
March 22, 2018 @ 10:08 am
Thanks MH! A coward who hides behind initials! Appreciate it!
Chris King
March 22, 2018 @ 10:12 am
This is your audience, Kyle…
MH
March 22, 2018 @ 10:47 am
LOL at the guy that “holds sway” on Twitter, the Internet Capitol of Faux Outrage and Misinformation.
Tuck in your safety space, Chris.
Trigger
March 22, 2018 @ 10:50 am
You’re my audience as well.
You’re also an opportunistic Twitter troll who saw an opening to defame someone you’re well on record as hating for years. I don’t believe for a second you were offended by the bombing sentence. If anyone’s exploiting a tragic event, it’s you in a failed attempt to discredit my character.
Jason
March 22, 2018 @ 12:30 pm
Kyle,
I once held great respect for you + the work you did on SCM. I discovered many great artists over the years. Admittedly, I stopped taking you seriously upon your “I’m Not a Misogynist” post, which equates to what many racists claim in “I have black friends,” back in late 2016. Ever since then, your bigotry + misogyny has become increasingly clear in the way you write about women, in general, + men who don’t ascribe to your definition of masculinity (see: Walker Hayes, Sam Hunt, Shane McAnally, etc.). Add this “joke” about a serial bomber into the mix + it’s even more clear you either really don’t see how dangerous this kind of writing is or you just don’t care enough to change. I’m willing to give people a chance, but you’ve had a million chances and yet here you are continuing to spew the same kind of sugar-coated bullshit Trump does.
Side note: I can’t wait until you review the new Kacey Musgraves tune + claim she’s “too full of herself”! #GoldenHour
Chris King
March 22, 2018 @ 1:55 pm
I’m a person who sees their opinion as fact. And I’m against that. And I’ll contest it every turn.
Chris King
March 22, 2018 @ 1:56 pm
A person who sees some who thinks*
Dude clear up your spam.
Ulysses McCaskill
March 22, 2018 @ 1:56 pm
Don’t you have a march to get to Chris?
Chris King
March 22, 2018 @ 2:00 pm
WOW, bro! You’re, like, the most clever person on here!
Amanda
March 22, 2018 @ 6:09 am
Keith Urban has never really been country, per se. In my opinion, But For the Grace of God was his only actual country single, and what a great song it was and still is. The only other Urban songs that even qualify as great are Stupid Boy and Tonight I Wanna Cry (again, my opinion). However, I did not mind his early-mid 2000s music. Very few songs were great, but most if not all were at least decent. I miss the old Keith Urban. Not very country, but fairly solid and very unique. And a killer guitar player to boot. Now, he’s just an aging pop wannabe desperately gasping for relevancy. What a damn shame.
MH
March 22, 2018 @ 12:42 pm
LOL keep churning out that fake outrage, Jason. Keep cheapening the definition of “racist” and “misogynist.”
You’re part of the problem but you and your ilk are to stupid to realize it. You and your ilk are the reason Trump was elected. You have no one to blame but yourselves. So go ahead, keep up the nonsense that will get Trump a second term then blame everyone but yourself.
Troy
March 22, 2018 @ 2:45 pm
Wow Chris….trolling people on websites now. You, my friend, are sad. You claim to be intelligent but most intelligent people don’t around claiming their opinion to be fact. Nor do they act and conduct themselves in such a juvenile, immature manner. Instead of harassing people on SCM, how about you go do something PRODUCTIVE with your life? Because you come off being thirsty as hell and I’m close to giving your sorry ass a glass of water. With that being said: bless your heart and enjoy the remainder of your day.
Pat LaFever
March 22, 2018 @ 6:37 am
Why are you people so mean? Keith Urban is the best around! And I’m no teeny bopper! I was around when Merle Haggard was “big” and I never liked his so-called music. Not a fan of that honky took stuff. However, I love Keith Urban! You people really had to dig for this crap, didn’t you?
The Senator
March 22, 2018 @ 9:50 am
This site’s not really for you, just saying.
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 22, 2018 @ 10:20 am
Good for you. take your music and don’t call it Country Music and then we can agree to disagree
heidi fisher
March 22, 2018 @ 6:43 am
wow Keith ya nailed it with YOUR own take of this song. everybody expects country music to remain the same. that’s like saying rock should remain the same, with the crap alternative greasy haired stink ASS groups out. if ya wanna hear rock, ya gotta play the old time shit. same as country. you did it YOUR WAY. I LOVED it.
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 22, 2018 @ 10:58 am
whoop dee doo.
be my guest and love this song.
just don’t call it Country Music.
Mike Honcho
March 22, 2018 @ 8:31 am
Its beginning to occur to me that Austin is to Texas what Keith Urban is to Country Music. Pussified versions.
MH
March 22, 2018 @ 9:57 am
+1
Chris King
March 22, 2018 @ 10:13 am
This is your audience, Kyle…
Mike Honcho
March 22, 2018 @ 11:07 am
Chris go listen to some of your Boys to Men and dream about them being on Country radio.
Chris King
March 22, 2018 @ 2:02 pm
Hahaha, Mike…
This is a very specific reference. Boyz II Men?! What year is this?
Chris King
March 22, 2018 @ 2:03 pm
Seriously, Mike…
Is this your first week on the Internet?
Ulysses McCaskill
March 22, 2018 @ 1:58 pm
You are about the most insufferable tool I’ve ever had the displeasure of encountering on the internet.
Chris King
March 22, 2018 @ 2:01 pm
I’m sure that’s not true.
Mich-Rit
March 26, 2018 @ 3:24 pm
Really, no need for that talk, show some respect. I’m sure your mother taught you, or hope so. If I were hearing you say that in person I wouldn’t hesitate in slapping you silly.
Leda Rangel
March 22, 2018 @ 8:33 am
Speak good or bad… He is “The Best, He is The One!!!!!
RWP
March 22, 2018 @ 9:51 am
He do gots one purty mouth
Barry Owens
March 22, 2018 @ 8:35 am
I see why your just a critic!!! Do you even play any instruments????
Trigger
March 22, 2018 @ 8:36 am
It’s nothing more than an assumption that I don’t.
Barry Owens
March 22, 2018 @ 10:06 am
Well it wasn t an assumption, just a question!
RWP
March 22, 2018 @ 9:47 am
Barry,do you watch sports? Into politics maybe? Unless you ever drove for NASCAR,played for the MLB,NBA,MMA,NFL ETC, or ever been a Senator or other elected official,you are no longer allowed to have an opinion on any of the above. Thanks.
Barry Owens
March 22, 2018 @ 10:48 am
Well its nothing more than an assumption that I haven’t
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 22, 2018 @ 10:35 am
as someone who teaches a class at a music festival AND works at a music school.
rest assured that the perspective of musicians is well considered when I saw that this song is trash.
Mich-Rit
March 22, 2018 @ 8:48 am
Disagree. I love Keith Urban and all his songs. He is passionate about what he puts out there. He is one of the mist talented performers I have seen. He loves his fans, his show was 2 hours, he played bass for his opening act and didn’t let it be known until after. He loves his family and is very humble. If you don’t like his music, then don’t listen and don’t make negative comments, who are you to judge. No one is perfect, not even you. I will always be a #1 fan along with others. If I could I would be at every show, he truly interacts and cares about people, not just his fans.
❤❤❤ KU🎤🎤🎤🎸🎸🎸🎶🎶🎶🎼🎼🎼🎵🎵🎵
RWP
March 22, 2018 @ 9:40 am
I hope KU wins the NCAA Bball tourney too. I dunno tho,long history of choking out there with Bill Self at the helm.
scott
March 22, 2018 @ 9:59 am
And, he still won’t leave Nicole for you.
Mike Honcho
March 22, 2018 @ 11:08 am
He may if Mich-Rit is a male.
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 22, 2018 @ 10:36 am
Sweet Jesus it’s a very simple concept.
Go. enjoy. Keith Urban’s music. anywhere. except. on. Country. Radio.
Stop. Calling. This. Music. Country.
Mike
March 22, 2018 @ 2:48 pm
“So who are you to judge?”
Did you just assume my occupation, Mich Rit? I self identify as a jury.
albert
March 22, 2018 @ 2:51 pm
ok ….but HE IS NOT PLAYING COUNTRY MUSIC….and that is REALLY what most of us are saying here. KEITH URBAN IS A POP ACT . As such …yeah I’ll take him over the Ed Sheerans the Drakes …anybody . KEITH URBAN IS NOT A COUNTRY ACT NO MATTER WHAT RADIO TRIES TO TELL YOU . He’s also a very silly-looking childish – looking 50 year old guy ….WHO IS NOT A COUNTRY ACT ..
Senor BB
March 22, 2018 @ 9:56 am
Wow! He needs to be taken behind the shed and beaten! Why sample that riff when this music is so far away from that. Anyone that likes this KU song, more than likely hates classic country, so why even bother with a nod to a country legend?
This seems like an idea several tools thought up one day over muffins in a meeting. A guy in a suit got wood and boom….here we are with this baby.
Melynda Buchanan
March 22, 2018 @ 10:01 am
Omg,,really,,loved Merle Haggard and now I love this KU song.
OlaR
March 22, 2018 @ 10:19 am
The guy is a member of the Opry. What a joke. A bad joke.
I don’t care how much he loves his fans or how long his shows are. I don’t care how successful his last album was or how many awards he won.
Keith Urban is a so-so pop/monogenre-singer. Like so many other so-so pop-artists in the wrong format & the Nashville labels sign more so-so talented pop-singers. Just another way to destroy country music.
Trigger…i hope you will write a word or two about the new Walker Hayes single.
JB-Chicago
March 22, 2018 @ 2:47 pm
Please don’t get him started on Walker Hayes again……LOL
the pistolero
March 22, 2018 @ 10:42 am
Wow, that was impressively bad. I mean, like Walker Hayes-level bad. Keith Urban has never been a favorite of mine — there are maybe five songs of his that I can stand, if that — but I’ll admit he does have talent. But he displayed that talent with The Ranch a lot more than he ever has as a solo artist; at this point it’s completely going to waste, and when artists do that, it’s as if they don’t have any talent at all.
Mike Honcho
March 22, 2018 @ 11:05 am
This new genre of shitty Country Music will henceforth be deemed ‘Urban Country’, to separate it from the legitimate.
Fat Freddy's Cat
March 22, 2018 @ 11:13 am
LOL it looks like a lot of teenage girls have discovered this site. (Or perhaps one teenage girl posting under multiple names.) “Oooo you’re being so mean and he has sexy hair! OMG U R a H8R!!!”
MThompson
March 22, 2018 @ 11:36 am
I have purposely tried to avoid listening to any Keith urban throughout my life and have done well. I can honestly say that I don’t know any of his songs and couldn’t recognize his voice. I made it to around the 20 second mark. That is some of the worst shit I have ever heard. It is so very disheartening that he has appropriated some of the material of Haggard, country music’s one true King, and apparently learned nothing.
Mich-Rit
March 26, 2018 @ 3:42 pm
Fuzzt two shirts
Don’t listen if you don’t like it. There are many ppl that do, put your big panties on and don’t slam on people because you think it should be your way. If you want that then create your own radio company and play what you want. . . old country and Blue Grass. If you are not a producer or working with a label then JUST SHUT YOUR BIG ASS MOUTH. turn your radio off and put your 8 tracks back in problem solved.
MichRit
March 22, 2018 @ 12:10 pm
If you don’t like it, don’t listen to the radio, go back to your 8 tracks. He and others are great COUNTRY artists. . . Luke, Jason, Carrie, Miranda, Blake, Sam Billy, and so on. . .
Fuzzy TwoShirts
March 22, 2018 @ 12:44 pm
and again. if it weren’t taking up space on the Country Radio stations where we would like to hear the Country artists like Don Walser and Joshua Hedley.
We’d love for the Pop music to be on the Pop stations and not here.
but no.
you and your ilk came into our Joe’s Crab Shack and started selling the Taco Bell menu and told us that Joe’s Crab Shack evolved and not to eat there anymore if you don’t like it.
or to put itanother way.
you have come into my father’s temple and turned it into a den of thieves.
get out
James O
March 22, 2018 @ 1:17 pm
Ur acting like we don’t like new country- pretty much everyone here likes Miranda and others
Ulysses McCaskill
March 22, 2018 @ 9:34 pm
They’re not country dude. If you think they are you’ve never heard real country music.
Ryan
March 22, 2018 @ 1:21 pm
I’ll go pull out The Ranch cd I still have when I really enjoyed Keith Urban…………
Troy
March 22, 2018 @ 2:48 pm
When did country music start to sample itself? This song is an abomination on all levels. However, I’m definitely not surprised at all. After hearing that ear cancer of a song called The Fighter, I knew he’d release something far far worse than that. And he lived up to my low expectations. Congrats Keith…you truly outdid yourself!