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Post by ryanroberts on Dec 17, 2013 21:53:24 GMT -5
I actually like this, although I will say I'm getting closer to the crowd that's against these songs (lyrically speaking at least). Sounds great, but the subject matter is same old stuff we've been getting. This thing can only go on so long...Sooner than later the "Bro Era" will be over.
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Post by tim on Dec 18, 2013 2:29:29 GMT -5
I'm not sure what I think of this single yet. The lyrics are of course generic, trite, and somewhat irritating, but the melody, production, and video redeem the song to some extent. I think the theme of the video was pretty clever and the production makes this stand out a little more than songs like the recent Blake Shelton and Jason Aldean singles. This may grow on me or grow off me once I start hearing it on the radio. Not sure, but I definitely think it will be a hit in regards to both airplay and digital sales... probably at least a top 5 on the chart. Of course, I'm sure at least a 30-week chart climb is in store for Brantley, just like 90% of the songs on the chart right now. This review is about right. I'm not sure what I think myself and it is not at all what I was expecting. Lyrically it's as about as weak as any other bro-country style song out there on radio right now. A video, though, can sometimes make or break a song. In this rare case (and maybe intentionally), my first listen of the song coincided with the video. I loved the Godfather meets Gatsby meets the backwoods...it kept me thoroughly engaged. That said, I doubt I'll be buying this tune or actively listening to it on the radio. I do, however, like Brantley's grittiness and overall mystique he brings to the table. Don't always like his music, but I can respect his talent.
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Post by zjames on Dec 22, 2013 23:12:30 GMT -5
This one's an instant station-changer for me. I don't need every song to be about girls, partying, and alcohol. The production is fine, but if that's what constitutes a successful country single now, it's going to be a disappointing 2014.
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Post by Uncle Lumpy on Dec 26, 2013 13:09:05 GMT -5
I've never seen the appeal of this guy. The bro-country lyrics mixed with the gangsta-country video made me nauseous. He has absolutely no vocal range or quality and from what Ive heard his writing sucks as well. The video was the cherry on top though and makes Eric Church look like a pansy.
They really should have flushed before they left the studio.
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Post by phil1996 on Dec 26, 2013 13:16:48 GMT -5
He has some crappy songs....but he's one of the top songwriters in Nashville. Ever heard Halfway to Heaven, One Hell of an Amen, Modern Day Progidal Son, or Indiana's Angel?
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Post by Uncle Lumpy on Dec 26, 2013 13:46:17 GMT -5
Ive heard a handful of them but honestly , I don't go out of my way to hear "BG" as his voice sounds like proverbial nails on a chalkboard to me . Personally , I don't think Nashville "top" writers carries quite the weight it used to. I have heard "Kick It In The Sticks" , "My Kind of Party", "Dirt Road Anthem" , "Country Must Be Country Wide" and now this. I stand by my opinion that his talent alludes me.
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Post by sabre14 on Dec 26, 2013 14:15:04 GMT -5
^ I agree that Brantley's vocals are weak. The problem is he has no vocal range compared to other male artists. His style and songwriting credentials is why he has tons of devoted fans. Personally I don't care for the edge in his 'country'(I guess I 'll say country for arguements sake). But I would stand a much better chance to enjoy him if he released more stuff like "You Don't Know Her Like I Do" and less "Kick It In The Sticks (Which just flat out gives me a massive headache), and the tired, boring, cliched, weak "Bottoms Up".
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Post by Markus Meyer on Dec 26, 2013 15:05:16 GMT -5
Brantley is frustrating for me because his album cuts are some of the best music I've ever heard ("Bendin' The Rules and Breaking The Law", "Savin' Amy", "Halfway To Heaven", "Hell On An Angel") yet he releases stuff like "Kick It In The Sticks" ahead of those.
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Post by onebuffalo on Dec 27, 2013 11:37:17 GMT -5
#1 digital selling song at 63,000 sold.
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Post by churchchoir on Dec 27, 2013 13:30:57 GMT -5
Maybe this won't take 30-ish weeks to reach #1 like I predicted. It's already debuted at #41 on Billboard despite being released at the very end of the year while all the holiday music was receiving peak airplay and the song has been hanging just below the Mediabase top 50, which it will surely enter as soon as the program directors get back to work and the Christmas songs fall off the chart. The video has already accrued half a million VEVO views in one week (about the same number of views Cole Swindell's video has gotten in a month). After listening to this a few more times, it sounds like a really big hit to me. While I can't say anything positive about the lyrics, I definitely enjoy the production and melody. This could easily grow on me over the next few weeks. I will go on the books for predicting a run to #1 between 20 and 25 weeks long for this single.
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Post by LBTrocks on Jan 12, 2014 2:42:35 GMT -5
I realized I haven't commented since I heard the full song. I REALLY love this one. I like the smooth vocal arrangement but also appreciate the edge the song has. I know the lyrics are typical of what is going on with the "bro country" right now, but if I love the song lyrics won't usually bother me. I think the melody and production on this make the lyrics sound better than anything the typical "bro country" artists have put out. I really hope this can do well for him. I know Brantley certainly isn't for everyone, but I actually do think he's talented and I've liked a lot of his music. Even own one of his CDs.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2014 17:56:20 GMT -5
This song strikes me as Brantley's declaration to become the king of the bro-country movement. It's got all the ingredients...pop/rock melody, ultra bro-country lyrics, and an incredibly bro-country video. I cannot even watch the video, it is so embarrassing. It is laughably bad, "gangsta", and rather creepy, as both carriekins and Uncle Lumpy have said. From the start where the girls call him "BG" to the 3:00 mark where he's sitting on a throne-like couch, surrounding by candles, and 3-4 girls are just caressing him like that's all they've ever wanted to do in their whole lives (aka, they were 'made for it'). I wish this bro-country movement would split off into a completely different genre, because there is nothing country about the bro-country 'culture' or w/e you want to call it. At the 3:00 mark, seeing Brantley in his "element"...yeah, just try to picture George Strait or Alan Jackson sitting there, or even someone like Kenny Chesney or Keith Urban. Brantley is so far removed from those artists. ...and yet, as I type this, "Bottoms Up" is sitting at #1 on the country iTunes chart, a spot it's held for the last week or so. Video is rapidly approaching 4 million views. This song is going to be a huge hit, Brantley's biggest so far, likely a #1 and a Platinum+ download. The inevitability of it is staring me right in the face and I can't get away from this song or others like it fast enough. How did country radio come to this?
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Post by sabre14 on Feb 9, 2014 18:00:12 GMT -5
How did country radio come to this? Florida Georgia Line. I agree about the video. Brantley sitting on that chair with those girls hands all over him is by far my least favorite part of the entire video.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2014 18:09:24 GMT -5
How did country radio come to this? I agree about the video. Brantley sitting on that chair with those girls hands all over him is by far my least favorite part of the entire video. It's definitely the creepiest part, but the whole video is just terrible. Lots and lots of objectifying women. It's all over music culture today (Blurred Lines, anyone?), and it has even seeped into 'country music' (or should I say "corrupted"?) with the rise of bro-country. The "Cruise" remix video. Luke's "That's My Kind Of Night". Just a bunch of models brought in to dance provocatively while the guys 'do their thing'. What happened to women standing up for themselves? Oh, that's right, country radio started rejecting those songs in favor of the ones that sell, the ones that bring in the big bucks...aka, bro-country. Songs with laughably bad lyrics about country stereotypes, and these songs don't really sound like country at all, nor do they have any connection to country music history or country music of the past (even as recent as the 2000's). It's an entirely different type of music from country music, yet no one has coined a name for it other than 'bro-country', and country radio became its home. This new generation of country singers? So many are not country. I'm not saying that to insult them...I'm just saying that because I wish bro-country would break off and form its own genre with its own radio stations, so that way country radio could get back to playing country music. The business-side of things likely won't let that happen, though. Country radio and 'country music' sales are flourishing with bro-country music, which, despite the word "country", is not country at all. Ugh, Brantley's video just disgusts me. There are no words for it. I want to hear people, men and women, singing about real life things and emotions...enough with the endless parties and all the hot women in attendance. It's like those women no longer have a voice. They are just there for the appeasement of the 'men'.
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Post by sabre14 on Feb 9, 2014 18:19:55 GMT -5
I agree about the video. Brantley sitting on that chair with those girls hands all over him is by far my least favorite part of the entire video. It's definitely the creepiest part, but the whole video is just terrible. Lots and lots of objectifying women. It's all over music culture today, and it seemed into 'country music' with the rise of bro-country. The "Cruise" remix video. Luke's "That's My Kind Of Night". Just a bunch of models brought in to dance provocatively while the guys 'do their thing'. What happened to women standing up for themselves? Oh, that's right, country radio started rejecting those songs in favor of the ones that sell, the ones that bring in the big bucks. Ugh, Brantley's video just disgusts me. There are no words for it. I want to hear people, men and women, singing about real life things and emotions...enough with the endless parties and all the hot women in attendance. It's like those women no longer have a voice. They are just there for the appeasement of the 'men'. I'm scared to think it might come second nature. In pop, hip hop/rap, and rock videos you routinely see women being objectified in those videos. But it's so common, it's never considered wrong or sleazy to the fans eyes. But in country it's starting to happen more and more often. It seems to be widely accepted by the younger demograhic now and days and not many see a real problem with it. Country music is certainly heading down the path of the other genres and the emotion, real life and genuine feel of this genre will be nothing more than a thing of the past, or at least far more curbed than it should be.
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Post by joey2002 on Feb 10, 2014 2:02:29 GMT -5
Wow, that video is beyond creepy, it's really disturbing.
What bothers me the most is that country radio won't think twice about making this a #1 hit, yet they won't touch "Follow Your Arrow".
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Post by rsmatto on Feb 10, 2014 9:50:44 GMT -5
"Follow Your Arrow" is too "out there" lyrically for many top programmers. They'll think it'll offend more than songs like "Bottoms Up" will.
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Post by joey2002 on Feb 10, 2014 12:15:57 GMT -5
"Follow Your Arrow" is too "out there" lyrically for many top programmers. They'll think it'll offend more than songs like "Bottoms Up" will. My point is that I don't understand why promiscuous "bro-country" songs like this are not considered offensive.
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Post by rsmatto on Feb 10, 2014 12:45:45 GMT -5
Cause many don't even hear/care about 'promiscuous' things in the songs they hear on the radio. I never have even had that thought about any song, ever.
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Post by onebuffalo on Feb 10, 2014 13:57:09 GMT -5
Cause many don't even hear/care about 'promiscuous' things in the songs they hear on the radio. I never have even had that thought about any song, ever. It happened in 1980 when I'd Love To Lay You Down and Why Don't You Spend The Night were back to back chart toppers.
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Post by carriekins on Feb 10, 2014 13:58:29 GMT -5
"Follow Your Arrow" is too "out there" lyrically for many top programmers. They'll think it'll offend more than songs like "Bottoms Up" will. My point is that I don't understand why promiscuous "bro-country" songs like this are not considered offensive. For what it's worth, Joey, you aren't alone.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2014 14:05:37 GMT -5
Cause many don't even hear/care about 'promiscuous' things in the songs they hear on the radio. I never have even had that thought about any song, ever. That's what I was kind of talking about...the culture of music--even country music--has changed. People won't bat an eyelash if a guy is singing "hey girl get your little fine ass up in here", or if a song objectifies a woman (and lord knows there are tons of those these days). And yet if Kacey sings a song about "being who you are/want to be", it could be considered offensive? The fact that things are this way is repulsive to me. Chase Rice and Brantley Gilbert don't think twice about cutting songs like this. But could you picture any of the older names--George, Alan, Kenny, Garth, etc--singing a song like this, or a lyric like "get your little fine ass..."? Or could you picture any of them in Brantley's place in this video? (again, specifically the 3:00 mark) I certainly can't. That's how disconnected some of these new "country" stars are from the actual genre, and it also shows how drastically different country radio and many radio folks are from what it/they used to be.
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Post by layne on Feb 10, 2014 14:26:58 GMT -5
Maybe I'm off base here but IMO Kacey's song specifically references kissing a girl which could be construed as more than just singing about being who you are/want to be. If Brantley and or Chase Rice were singing about boys instead of girls, you wouldn't be hearing it on radio either.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2014 19:11:52 GMT -5
Maybe I'm off base here but IMO Kacey's song specifically references kissing a girl which could be construed as more than just singing about being who you are/want to be. How so? Because of the lyric "if that's what you're into?" If Brantley and or Chase Rice were singing about boys instead of girls, you wouldn't be hearing it on radio either. That's obviously true, but that's not really the point I was trying to make. I'm just wondering why it's ok for the (imo) derogatory lyrics in many 'bro-country' songs but it's not ok for Kacey to sing about being who you are or doing whatever you want to do (even if that includes girls kissing girls and boys kissing boys)? I realize it's a controversial issue (sadly)...I get that part. But what I don't understand is why it's perfectly acceptable to objectify women and/or to sing about one night stands and sleeping around (a la "That's My Kind Of Night"), or for country artists to sing about getting drunk and cheating and whatnot. I'm not saying we shouldn't have songs like that...just wondering why a song like Kacey's is seen as so 'out there' and why a song like "Bottoms Up" or "That's My Kind Of Night" is seen as just harmless fun.
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Post by layne on Feb 10, 2014 19:53:41 GMT -5
I don't personally think Kacey's song is "out there". However, we are discussing country radio. It should come as no surprise that radio didn't play her song when after the CRS show in Nashville last year, PD's basically said that Country radio was not willing to embrace the topic. Men have been singing about 'Hot" women, getting drunk, etc for years. It's ok and not controversial when it's not same sex relationships. (Sadly, that's what it all boils down to) I don't think Kacey's song lyrics are an issue with the listening demographic for some other genres.
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Post by zjames on Feb 28, 2014 20:19:30 GMT -5
This is #14 on the iTunes all-genre charts and currently sits at 479k sold, so it will easily hit gold next week. This has grown on me a bit, but I've still never really been a big fan of any of Brantley's music.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2014 22:40:30 GMT -5
This is #14 on the iTunes all-genre charts and currently sits at 479k sold, so it will easily hit gold next week. This has grown on me a bit, but I've still never really been a big fan of any of Brantley's music. Yeah, this is really blowing up. I had a bad feeling start about 2 weeks ago that this would be the new "face" of the bro-country movement. Brantley is already #2 on Hot Country Songs and that's with barely top 20-level airplay. This song is huge and it's only gonna be bigger. I have no doubt it'll hit #1 at radio and I believe it'll easily go Platinum, possibly even 2x Platinum.
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Post by sabre14 on Feb 28, 2014 23:24:00 GMT -5
This is #14 on the iTunes all-genre charts and currently sits at 479k sold, so it will easily hit gold next week. This has grown on me a bit, but I've still never really been a big fan of any of Brantley's music. Yeah, this is really blowing up. I had a bad feeling start about 2 weeks ago that this would be the new "face" of the bro-country movement. Brantley is already #2 on Hot Country Songs and that's with barely top 20-level airplay. This song is huge and it's only gonna be bigger. I have no doubt it'll hit #1 at radio and I believe it'll easily go Platinum, possibly even 2x Platinum. This is starting to look like the biggest hit of this kind of country music since "Cruise" (Though I don't think we'll see any success like that in the immediate future). I'm the opposite when it comes to this song. I find myself disliking it more as time goes on. Before, while I didn't like it, I didn't loathe it either. But the lyrics along with not being able to get that music video out of my head every time I hear it make me turn the dial every time it comes on. I personally can't wait for "Bottoms Up's" chart run to be over. PS: Ah, nice avatar change. Eric is absolutely crushed. ;)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2014 23:27:25 GMT -5
PS: Ah, nice avatar change. Eric is absolutely crushed. ;) What can I say? I'm in love with Charlie! Brantley...not so much.
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Post by tim on Mar 2, 2014 2:52:30 GMT -5
Well, coming from someone who is not a fan of the "bro-country" sound, I almost hate to admit that I slightly like this. I said back in December I was unsure what I thought of this, and I have to say I have yet to actually hit the skip button on the radio when this comes on. I guess I just like that Brantley's music is gritty and raw. I don't take Brantley as someone who panders or makes a specific kind of music that isn't true to his own style (i.e. Eric Church's sound). It just seems to be that Brantley's sound and style has found a home at country radio.
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