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Post by sabre14 on Jan 30, 2014 18:39:35 GMT -5
Yeah, this song has been doing quite well. And it's shaping up to be another big digital hit. Compared to some of the big names, sure, this is moving slower. But when all is said and done, I expect this to be at least a top 3 hit, probably another #1. Radio and the younger fans and bro-country demographic are all over this type of music. I don't like anything from Thomas Rhett. "Beer With Jesus" was decent, but that's it. I have not checked out the full album (just previews) but of the songs I have heard, I find them to all be severely lacking in lyrical depth. That includes this song as well as "It Goes Like This". His songs seem hook-based with very little in the way of a story built around that hook. None of his songs sound very country to me either, so it just bothers me that artists like this continue to get marketed to the country genre while guys like Greg Bates and Chris Stapleton (whose sound is much more rooted in country) get kicked to the curb. This song really bothers me. I completely agree on your view on Thomas' singles. "Beer With Jesus" was a good song. It was original and I thought the unpolished lyrics really sold the emotion in it. I thought I would get more of the same in the future. But "It Goes Like This" to me lacked in lyrical depth like you said. The rhyming of "Oh" with "Do" and "Hey" with "Away" didn't sit well with me as a suitable lyric. I understand you can't have groundbreaking lyrics in every song but that just screamed mediocre. This song is just one giant cliche fest. The money maker line ruins the chorus for me. I can't stand butt references in these "love" songs. Plus the song doesn't sound like a country song. It's has a pop beat to the melody and the video just reinforces that. The hand gestures are comically bad and makes me feel bad for Thomas having to look so awkward in the video. But this song is a perfect radio single for the country radio market right now. It's catchy and appeals to the 16 to 25 year old demographic which spells a successful single.
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Post by carriekins on Jan 30, 2014 18:43:08 GMT -5
Pretty much if any guy ever says anything to my daughter about her "money maker" he will wish he was never born. Just disgusting the way girls/women are treated in these damn songs anymore.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2014 18:45:58 GMT -5
Pretty much if any guy ever says anything to my daughter about her "money maker" he will wish he was never born. Just disgusting the way girls/women are treated in these damn songs anymore. Exactly. Man, I just love it when guys come up to me and say "Mmmm, gotta get me some of that." When I hear sentences like this, all I can think is "creep".
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Post by onebuffalo on Jan 30, 2014 18:47:18 GMT -5
Pretty much if any guy ever says anything to my daughter about her "money maker" he will wish he was never born. Just disgusting the way girls/women are treated in these damn songs anymore. Are you listening Trace Adkins?
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Post by onebuffalo on Jan 30, 2014 19:33:40 GMT -5
Exactly. Man, I just love it when guys come up to me and say "Mmmm, gotta get me some of that." When I hear sentences like this, all I can think is "creep". I can't believe real people actually do and say that. I am a guy, and I would never walk up to a girl and say something like "...nice moneymaker...". You could be more direct and say 'I'd love to lay you down'.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2014 22:49:49 GMT -5
Country Aircheck's recap of Thomas Rhett's CRS New Faces performance last week:
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I HATE "Blurred Lines". I liked "Beer With Jesus" decently well but the rest of Thomas' music is in my personal garbage bin, including the current single.
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Post by Marv on Feb 24, 2014 23:54:05 GMT -5
This song is too offensive for words, and the very first word that comes to mind for me, as is the case with a lot of the so-called 'bro-country' stuff currently polluting and desecrating the airwaves is JUVENILE!!!!
I could say a lot more, but I think I've made my point.
Insofar as countryhistorian's dig @ Trace Adkins, I can only say that I wholeheartedly agree with that remark, for as I've stated before, he's the format's most infuriating artist out here for me; his debut CD which included the instant classic 'Every Light In The House' was among the very first country CDs I purchased when I became a full-time country music listener in 1996, and I still play it a lot.
I don't know how a guy who gave us a piece of crap such as 'Honky Tonk Badonkadonk' could later enrich us with 'You're Gonna Miss This', but that's why he infuriates the heck out of me and lots of the rest of us, because when he gets his hands on a superb tune such as 'The Rest Of Mine', he's downright wonderful, but when he doesn't......
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Post by tim on Mar 22, 2014 0:28:44 GMT -5
I just wanted to come back to this thread and say that this is one of the worst songs currently programmed on country's corporately controlled top 20 rotation of songs. Instant radio changer.
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Post by bluedog6 on Mar 26, 2014 6:27:50 GMT -5
I stumbled my way back to the forum the other day and came across this thread. This thread makes me feel SO much better. I was just telling someone the other day how offensive I found this song, but then I was worried that I was being too critical or overly sensitive. I now see that there are others who feel as strongly about this as I do. My faith in humanity is now restored. Thank you. :) :)
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Mar 26, 2014 15:37:10 GMT -5
I don't think this is remotely offensive, nor can I even see how anyone would think it was outside "shaking that money maker", and heck, even Conway Twitty sang an ode to that part of the body so it's nothing new.
To me, part of it is the delivery and production. The song has a very "light" sound to it, instead of a heavy "bro country" guitar-spamming, and Thomas Rhett's delivery comes across to me as charming and playful, not sleazy.
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Post by carriekins on Mar 26, 2014 16:25:00 GMT -5
It is totally sleazy.
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Post by sabre14 on Mar 26, 2014 17:03:04 GMT -5
To me it's the title more so than anything else. The money maker line is awful, but the title is where I have a problem. If your writing a song called "Get Me Some Of That", then you should start over with another title. I agree with the fact that this song coming from someone as young as Rhett, makes me give him a break more so than others like let's say Luke Bryan or even Jason Aldean. But I still would like a better way to describe your love interest myself.
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Post by Andy on Mar 26, 2014 17:29:07 GMT -5
I swear, all of the songs by these types of guys sound exactly the same to me.
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Post by rjz on Mar 26, 2014 17:38:52 GMT -5
I think its sleazy. "Get Me Some of That" treats a woman like an object, IMO. Test it out and tell some girl you want to 'get you some of that' and see how most respond.......
I'm not usually that sensitive to that sort of thing (I laugh at Honky tonk bedonk, although anyone singing about-referring to a woman's body as 'money maker' is insinuating prostitution, IMO), but yeesh. I don't mind the 'sound' of the song, it is catchy, actually not bad; but some of the phrases, yuck.
Oh Thomas......you had me at Beer With Jesus and It Goes Like This (until it was so overplayed I turn it off now) but this one does not impress.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Mar 26, 2014 17:53:41 GMT -5
To me, "Get Me Some of That" is generic enough a term not to objectify a woman.
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Post by tim on Mar 26, 2014 23:59:07 GMT -5
Yea, "Get Me a Piece of That". As in, let me get a piece of that for the night. That's what the song is implying no? I mean, is it not just the title and subject matter of the song that displays just what is wrong with the current state of country music at radio? To me I view this song a prime example of why no female country act can find room in today's corporately controlled bro-country crowded format. A female act could never get away with a song like this, and she would be shunned just as Kacey Musgraves has been. I'm probably over thinking this song, but when I hear it I just cringe.
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Post by carriekins on Apr 8, 2014 14:29:49 GMT -5
To me, "Get Me Some of That" is generic enough a term not to objectify a woman. I found the following review on a country radio consultant's website who is male and refuses to recommend this song for adds. I now rest my case.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Apr 12, 2014 12:14:32 GMT -5
I'm still not seeing it. I honestly think that anyone seeing objectification in this song is overanalyzing it. To me, there is nothing in the lyrics that is any more overt than hundreds of other songs of the same kind. It's certainly a LOT less sleazy than, say, "Ready Set Roll". Maybe some of it is just how I read the artist — Thomas Rhett seems like a nice guy, and even if he's singing more about her physical attributes in the song, even that's been done hundreds of times.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Apr 12, 2014 12:55:36 GMT -5
I'm still not seeing it. I honestly think that anyone seeing objectification in this song is overanalyzing it. Said the same person who posted this about "Automatic": Okay, I mostly like the lyrics here. But I just don't get why the first line is "quarter in a payphone". It doesn't fit in thematically with the rest of the first verse, which is otherwise about things done at home. The second verse is the one more focused on communications. Seems like you over-analyze quite a bit for someone doing none of that for this tune. Color me confused.
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Post by Spacey_Kacey on Apr 12, 2014 15:40:50 GMT -5
It's certainly a LOT less sleazy than, say, "Ready Set Roll". That isn't saying too much though. I dont know. I think it's closer than we are making it out to be and not in a good way. And considering how bad Chase Rice is all the time, that should tell you how low he goes this song is. Just got the RTM survey and surprise surprise, They're going another single deep. Outside of singles 2 and 3, this record is a disaster. I cant believe another song is gonna get to see radio, but it took 3 to get the record out so they could probably go two more if they can find something passable. The bar is low if this got the go-ahead. I just wish Rhett would disappear as a singer (and probably writer too though he didnt write this one) already. I'm in shock this even went top 20.
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Post by churchchoir on Apr 12, 2014 15:58:30 GMT -5
This song doesn't do much for me and I actually agree that the lyrics are pretty crude. I don't think I'd go as far as the person in the review carriekins posted did in saying that I'd be embarrassed if the song came on the radio while a woman was around, but this has definitely become a station-changer and I don't blame any woman who is offended by this song. I don't necessarily wish for Thomas Rhett to go away since he still has "Beer with Jesus" to his name, but in general he epitomizes mediocrity. FGL, Luke Bryan, Cole Swindell, etc. have found some really catchy, fun tunes, while Thomas' songs are mostly just boring to me. However, I do enjoy "Make Me Wanna" and wouldn't mind seeing that one released next to radio.
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Post by matty005 on Apr 12, 2014 16:59:59 GMT -5
That isn't saying too much though. I dont know. I think it's closer than we are making it out to be and not in a good way. And considering how bad Chase Rice is all the time, that should tell you how low he goes this song is. Just got the RTM survey and surprise surprise, They're going another single deep. Outside of singles 2 and 3, this record is a disaster. I cant believe another song is gonna get to see radio, but it took 3 to get the record out so they could probably go two more if they can find something passable. The bar is low if this got the go-ahead. I just wish Rhett would disappear as a singer (and probably writer too though he didnt write this one) already. I'm in shock this even went top 20. That is such an awful statement to make. No one here knows if he is good, bad, kills nuns and puppies or helps the homeless. To say he is "bad all the time" is ridiculous. He tweeted a few tweets that people didn't like a couple months ago. What has happened since then that has made him be bad, "all the time?"
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Post by sabre14 on Apr 12, 2014 17:09:01 GMT -5
I dont know. I think it's closer than we are making it out to be and not in a good way. And considering how bad Chase Rice is all the time, that should tell you how low he goes this song is. Just got the RTM survey and surprise surprise, They're going another single deep. Outside of singles 2 and 3, this record is a disaster. I cant believe another song is gonna get to see radio, but it took 3 to get the record out so they could probably go two more if they can find something passable. The bar is low if this got the go-ahead. I just wish Rhett would disappear as a singer (and probably writer too though he didnt write this one) already. I'm in shock this even went top 20. That is such an awful statement to make. No one here knows if he is good, bad, kills nuns and puppies or helps the homeless. To say he is "bad all the time" is ridiculous. He tweeted a few tweets that people didn't like a couple months ago. What has happened since then that has made him be bad, "all the time?" Saying Chase is bad all the time is something I don't agree with either. But being someone from afar, I think it's quite reasonable to say Chase is immature and egocentric from the tweets and the long letter on his website last week. But that doesn't make him a bad person. To me a bad person is someone who kills, robs, and steals. I don't think though that Spacey_Kacey meant he's a bad person. A tool maybe, but not an awful person.
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Post by Spacey_Kacey on Apr 12, 2014 18:01:29 GMT -5
That is such an awful statement to make. No one here knows if he is good, bad, kills nuns and puppies or helps the homeless. To say he is "bad all the time" is ridiculous. He tweeted a few tweets that people didn't like a couple months ago. What has happened since then that has made him be bad, "all the time?" Saying Chase is bad all the time is something I don't agree with either. But being someone from afar, I think it's quite reasonable to say Chase is immature and egocentric from the tweets and the long letter on his website last week. But that doesn't make him a bad person. To me a bad person is someone who kills, robs, and steals. I don't think though that Spacey_Kacey meant he's a bad person. A tool maybe, but not an awful person. Oh of course, I definitely did not mean to imply bad as a person. I don't know him or follow anything he does outside of music. That was meant to be bad as in lyrics in his music being as sabre puts it immature (and in my words, degrading). All about what he's singing, nothing about him. That's what I get for trying to post from a phone.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2014 19:32:41 GMT -5
I'm still not seeing it. I honestly think that anyone seeing objectification in this song is overanalyzing it. To me, there is nothing in the lyrics that is any more overt than hundreds of other songs of the same kind. It's certainly a LOT less sleazy than, say, "Ready Set Roll". Maybe some of it is just how I read the artist — Thomas Rhett seems like a nice guy, and even if he's singing more about her physical attributes in the song, even that's been done hundreds of times. I think Steve Warren's review is spot-on. "Get Me Some Of That" is just a disgusting song to me. The few times I've heard it (I don't hear it anymore, because once those opening notes come on, the dial gets changed to another station..), all I can think about is how goofy & creepy Thomas looks in the video. And the lyrics..."I've never seen nothing that I wanted so bad, mmmm I gotta get me some of that"? Seriously? The moment they decided to title a song "Get Me Some Of That", it was doomed. And the other lyrics... nothing is a pronoun that refers to things, not people. And referring to a girl as that seems like she is essentially being called it or property. Why they couldn't swap "no one" in for "nothing" is beyond me. I don't know how to put it any other way. Thomas just comes across as the creep sitting in the corner of the bar watching all the hot girls go by, thinking "if only I could get me a hot piece of a$$." Crude words I know, but sometimes crude words work best to describe a crude song. I'm sure that, in real life, he's a nice guy. But really, which country artists aren't? Of course they are all going to be nice people. In today's world, if you're a jerk or act like a disgusting lecher all the time, the public is going to find out very, very quickly. I doubt Thomas or people like Chase Rice are actually disgusting/creepy people but they sure don't help their cases by singing such terrible lyrics.
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Post by justme60 on Apr 12, 2014 20:20:08 GMT -5
I can't help this but, Thomas Rhett puts me in mind of Eddie Munster of the Munsters TV show.
I have to agree with Jhomes here...that song is about exactly as the title suggest. I don't listen to it either. JMO.
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Post by churchchoir on Apr 12, 2014 21:05:36 GMT -5
^Unfortunately, Cole Swindell did co-write this with Thomas' father and someone named Michael Carter. I'm just thankful Cole gave this song to an artist whom I already don't care for rather than recording it himself. But I wouldn't judge Cole too harshly for writing this one bad song. He's written a lot of great songs, such as "Outta My Head," "Water Tower Town," and "Roller Coaster." He's also had a hand in writing most of his own catalog, which includes some great songs like "Hope You Get Lonely Tonight," "Ain't Worth the Whiskey," and the stellar "A Dozen Roses and a Six-Pack" (totally not about what the title would lead you to assume).
Getting back to this song, it seems Big Machine is trying to hold off FGL's song so that Get Me Some of That can get to #1 first and not risk getting blocked by Luke Bryan's song, which is why my prediction that FGL would make trouble for Eric Church's song is turning out to be way off. I'm still not sure this plan to keep TIHWR behind GMSOT for several more weeks will work, and once FGL gets to #1, I think it'll be really hard for Thomas to sneak in a week at the top in between two of the biggest digital-sellers of the year.
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Post by sabre14 on Apr 12, 2014 22:33:45 GMT -5
I do agree that this is crude and degrading to women. I always thought if you have a song called "Get Me Some Of That", nothing good could possibly come of it. But a lot of the lyrics point to that as well. jhomes87 makes a great point out of Thomas singing "nothing" that he wanted so bad, rather than the more appropriate "No One". At the same time however, I can see someone not interpreting the song the way I do like Ten Pound Hammer. I really believe that Thomas, Cole, Rhett, or Michael Carter never intended this to be degrading. I think that with the songs going in the direction they are now and days, that it's unfortunately becoming second nature. Thomas is in his early twenties and I do think his intentions are innocent in nature. But at the same time he is the same age I am, and I do see the lyrics as degrading whereas he doesn't. I still want to give him a shot at winning me over with a song like "Beer With Jesus", or at least release something I can somewhat root for, cause so far he's only 1 for 4 with quality material to me.
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Post by Lizl on Apr 12, 2014 23:09:33 GMT -5
So this is another hit? It doesn't do much for me too. Terrible lyrics tbh.
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Post by onebuffalo on Apr 13, 2014 14:22:00 GMT -5
So this is another hit? It doesn't do much for me too. Terrible lyrics tbh. #7 after 21 weeks on the chart, so yes, this is another hit for Thomas Rhett.
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