Worst songs on country radio

[TheBigA]

I think is was about pride. Now it is more about the need to try to prove themselves.

No I think it's still about pride.  Listen to Where I Come From by Montgomery Gentry.  They have nothing to prove, and they say so.

[Braves2005]

Red Solo Cup by Toby Keith. Enough said about that song as I don't know how this song has become so popular. Guess that Toby hasn't learned about what a good novelty song sounded like either.

Like My Dog Does by Billy Currington. Someone who has sung better with People Are Crazy and turns around and does a song that compares a woman to a dog and on top of this after Let Me Down Easy which favors a woman goes to #1.

Oh yeah, I miss Roger Miller. He was king of novelty songs and no one could sing them better than he did.

[jfrancispastirchak]

Red Solo Cup by Toby Keith. Enough said about that song as I don't know how this song has become so popular. Guess that Toby hasn't learned about what a good novelty song sounded like either.

Like My Dog Does by Billy Currington. Someone who has sung better with People Are Crazy and turns around and does a song that compares a woman to a dog and on top of this after Let Me Down Easy which favors a woman goes to #1.

Oh yeah, I miss Roger Miller. He was king of novelty songs and no one could sing them better than he did.

And Roger Miller was a "novelty" himself.  He stared down Nashville's corporate establishment and survived, although he never achieved nor strived for the "OUTLAW" brand, i.e Willie, Waylon, Tompal, David Allen Coe, etc.  Give him credit too for crossing over to pop charts without compromising his Country soul like Dolly P, Reba Mac, Vince Gill and Billy Ray C. did later.  Other "crossover" artists staying loyal to the brand were Marty Robbins, Conway Twitty and Johnny Horton.

[sdh483]

Those songs seem to be more about pride than anything else.  Alabama made a career with songs like that.  From Tennessee River and My Home's In Alabama to Born Country.  And they were one of the first pop country bands.  But no one is more country than Randy Owen.

I think is was about pride. Now it is more about the need to try to prove themselves.

It's hard to prove yourself country if your "country" song is more rock, even rap, oriented, you look like you came from NYC and your truck has heated leather seats.

[TheBigA]

It's hard to prove yourself country if your "country" song is more rock, even rap, oriented, you look like you came from NYC and your truck has heated leather seats.

I don't think it matters.  You're forcing some definition on the audience.  There has been rock and rap in country for 50 years.  Some of the original country music, by Jimmie Rodgers himself, was closer to rap than anything else.  The minute they allowed electric guitars and drums in country, it became rock music. 

[firepoint525]

I think is was about pride. Now it is more about the need to try to prove themselves.

No I think it's still about pride.  Listen to Where I Come From by Montgomery Gentry.  They have nothing to prove, and they say so.

"Where I Come From," "Something to Be Proud Of," and "My Town" are all basically the same song.  Eddie sings the verses, and Troy does the choruses.  How many times do they need to tell us the same thing?

[jfrancispastirchak]

It's hard to prove yourself country if your "country" song is more rock, even rap, oriented, you look like you came from NYC and your truck has heated leather seats.

I don't think it matters.  You're forcing some definition on the audience.  There has been rock and rap in country for 50 years.  Some of the original country music, by Jimmie Rodgers himself, was closer to rap than anything else.  The minute they allowed electric guitars and drums in country, it became rock music. 

SDH is only sharing his view, BigA; he's not "forcing" anything.  But your opinion about rap's role in country was enlightening.  You're right, at least some preemptive nature of rap can be heard on "I've Been Everywhere" (Hank Snow, Statler Bros and Johnny Cash).  Others hay-slingers followed with even more brazen rap melodies.  Toby Keith was one of them, I think.

[TheBigA]

But your opinion about rap's role in country was enlightening.  You're right, at least some preemptive nature of rap can be heard on "I've Been Everywhere" (Hank Snow, Statler Bros and Johnny Cash). 

Jimmy Dean, C.W. McCall, Charlie Daniels, many more.  The concept of rhythmic speaking is very country.  Go to an auction, and you'll hear it.

[vchimpanzee]

Like My Dog Does by Billy Currington. Someone who has sung better with People Are Crazy and turns around and does a song that compares a woman to a dog and on top of this after Let Me Down Easy which favors a woman goes to #1.

This may be a song I heard that I liked. Sorry about that.

[AHLPOR]

Anything by Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, or Rascal Flatts is crap.