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Post by dm2081 on Jul 22, 2014 20:09:03 GMT -5
^^^What an awful and rude writer. I can't help but imagining the writer (I'm assuming it's a male) as some little scrawny dude who writes about stuff he has no business talking about (ex: the child support reference) but wouldn't have the balls to say that in front of Jason's face because he would get his ass kicked. I know it's just some amateur blog website, but it still disgusts me that there's miserable people out there writing filth like that about other human beings. I have no problem with his viewpoints, even if I disagree with them, but the way he expresses them is just gross. I hope this guy gets stuck in a bar with a broken jukebox that is stuck on this song for repeat for a 100 times in a row. And guess what? Just because he finds it creepy doesn't mean that there will be tons of ladies who will find this song and Jason both sexy. Moves like Grimace? What the hell does that even mean? Has he personally seen Jason dance? I'm pretty sure Jason won't be embarrassed when this song hits #1 and the single goes platinum.
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Post by tonyei31 on Jul 22, 2014 20:21:05 GMT -5
^^^What an awful and rude writer. I can't help but imagining the writer (I'm assuming it's a male) as some little scrawny dude who writes about stuff he has no business talking about (ex: the child support reference) but wouldn't have the balls to say that in front of Jason's face because he would get his ass kicked. I know it's just some amateur blog website, but it still disgusts me that there's miserable people out there writing filth like that about other human beings. I have no problem with his viewpoints, even if I disagree with them, but the way he expresses them is just gross. I hope this guy gets stuck in a bar with a broken jukebox that is stuck on this song for repeat for a 100 times in a row. And guess what? Just because he finds it creepy doesn't mean that there will be tons of ladies who will find this song and Jason both sexy. Moves like Grimace? What the hell does that even mean? Has he personally seen Jason dance? I'm pretty sure Jason won't be embarrassed when this song hits #1 and the single goes platinum. Aldean's Clear Channel deal came a week late to reap the rewards. This writer could have been diplomatic but this song isn't being embraced well. Sure it sold well because it was promoted well. I do not expect radio to embrace this, at all. I will even go as far as to say that "Cruise" was the peak of Bro Country and this song will be the "jumping of the shark" back to a more traditional sound. Lots of leading up to it but this is the finality of the climate change. From Luke's recent releases, FGL's "Dirt" sounding more traditional than anything, more of the true pop songs coming to country radio circa. 2000 (Sam Hunt) you will see the pop songs become the "bro country" songs of yesteryear where they aren't embraced from the minority but loved by the majority. Garth Brooks single release will be the nail in the bro country coffin. With that said I like this song if I heard it on a pop radio station or out at a bar. Just doesn't belong on the country radio format.
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Post by mrossp24 on Jul 22, 2014 20:28:48 GMT -5
I know it's not a popular opinion on here, but I LOVE this song. Is it the greatest Aldean song? Absolutely not. But it's a great way for him to show audiences that he's trying to branch out and do something different from the same-old sound. I'm anxious to hear the rest of the new album when it comes out later this year.
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Post by 43dudleyvillas on Jul 22, 2014 20:44:52 GMT -5
I have no idea where this puts me on the "prude" spectrum but the "naked" lyric doesn't especially bother me in this song, while that rant from Saving Country Music does to the point that I would personally prefer it to be linked (with a warning about vulgarity) without the text quoted on this board. At least that way it would be avoidable for people reading this board from work. Just a personal preference though, not a directive, and no one's in trouble. Has anyone heard this on the radio yet? I'm wondering, like others, if there will be a radio edit to take out the word "naked", which I'm also a little squeamish with. I guess at some point, people move on with their lives and it has been almost two years since the cheating scandal, but still, it's hard not to think about that with a song like this. I think that would be true no matter how much time had passed, to be honest. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the revelation that Jason misrepresented his relationship with his current girlfriend back when the scandal broke actually relatively recent? In any event, it seems to me that Jason, unlike most other country A-listers, doesn't inspire a great deal of interest for his persona outside of his music. It's to his credit that he's a top-selling artist without generating that interest, and perhaps that will help him to generate minimal squeamishness over a suggestive single.
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Post by mylifeback on Jul 22, 2014 22:49:06 GMT -5
^^^ I wasn't actually connecting my squeamishness with overtly sexual songs to Jason's particular circumstances, because I'm just personally like that with songs like this. I'd prefer some different language but I know it doesn't bother most others.
Re: Jason's personal life, yes fair point. His going public with the relationship is pretty recent, and I'm sure that's very distasteful for many. I don't tend to care very much/at all about the personal lives of celebrities and would just as soon know as little as possible. Probably fortunately for Jason, I think you are right that his personal circumstances don't generate much hoopla compared to most others.
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Post by dm2081 on Jul 22, 2014 22:58:00 GMT -5
Garth Brooks single release will be the nail in the bro country coffin. You have a lot more confidence in Garth Brook's new song then I do. You could be right in that bro-country will be on a downswing, but i'm not willing to bet on that yet. I personally could care less because I enjoy both traditional sounding country music and I also enjoy the "bro-movement", so either way I won't be affected. But you have to remember who today's target audience is: the coveted 16-25 age gap, which I'm currently apart of at a ripe age of 23. Not many in this group are extremely passionate about Garth's music. I like some of Garth's old stuff, but I'm not overly excited to hear new music from him. He's in the past. Same goes with rock music. I love Motley Crue, I even bought 2 tickets to see them on their final tour. But if they announced tomorrow that they would have a new album coming out, I wouldn't be all too excited. Sure I would check it out, and maybe get a song or two from the album, but they had their time, just like Garth did. It's been over 10 years since he's been relevant. The people who grew up listening to him have their own families now. I just don't see him having a big impact. I could be completely wrong, and maybe he will put the "final nail in the coffin", but I wouldn't bet my money on it. Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, and Florida Georgia Line are this generation's version of Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks, and Brooks & Dunn. I'm not saying they're as good or as talented, but in terms of popularity I think that's a pretty accurate description. People just need to accept it, and if people aren't a fan of it then there are plenty of CD's from that era waiting to be listened to. The song is #1 on iTunes all genre right now, even if radio didn't want to play this song to begin with, it would be pretty hard when this song is selling like crazy and making headlines to simply deny playing it. I would be stunned if this missed the top 5.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2014 23:34:05 GMT -5
To me it definitely fits into what "country radio" will play today and I agree with you about that, but that doesn't mean it's country in terms of the actual musical elements like instrumentation, production, and beat. I don't know how things will look 5-10 years in the future and if we'll reach a breaking point and there will be sub-genres spawned from the likes of "Burnin' It Down", "This Is How We Roll", "That's My Kind Of Night", etc. Unfortunately I feel corporate country radio and labels alike won't want that to happen cause after all, this music is making plenty of money right now whether I like it or not and until it runs a due course (it could be for quite a long time so who knows) I think country radio might stay pat for a while. I'd like to think we can find a new name for this music rather than calling it country simply because radio is playing it so therefore it must be country. I just don't understand the argument that if a song gets played by country radio, then it's a country song. Country radio is a radio format and a business, and it is changing rapidly, but that doesn't necessarily change how the genre is defined as a whole. It simply is a change in sound of the radio format. There are tons of country songs, from lesser-known artists (those without big record deals, many Texas country singers, etc), that wouldn't stand a chance at today's country radio, even though many if not most are actually more firmly rooted in the genre (instrumentally, vocally, lyrically) than today's mainstream country radio hits. I suppose the argument would be that because radio isn't playing those songs that they aren't "hits" (when in reality it's because those artists don't have the connections to get played at radio), but if the definition of a country song is "any song that a country radio station plays", then couldn't any song that country radio won't play be considered a non-country song? Like sabre14 says here, I just can't get behind the idea that a song is country just because a) it's sung by an artist who identifies as country and b) because it's bound to be a hit at today's country radio. None of that makes the song a country song. Regarding the sales for this, of course it's going to sell well. Aldean is a huge name after years of radio hits, he's touring major arenas and even baseball stadiums, and this is the first release from a brand new album. At this point he could release a song with terrible "Blurred Lines"-like lyrics and it would still sell very well. He could release him singing the alphabet and it would probably sell well. But this release and its imminent success (even if it does flame out early, it's still going to be at least a top 20 or top 15 hit thanks to early Clear Channel support) is just another signal that country radio, in essence, is simply another version of CHR/Top 40 radio, but country radio just supports different artists and different songs. I feel that country radio, for the most part, has truly lost the sounds and characteristics that made it distinct as a genre. Now it really only comes across as an alternate or companion format to CHR...it's basically light pop/rock music, and pretty much anything goes for any big artist, because corporate country radio has shown a willingness to play any song from any of the big names, no matter how far musically that the song is removed from country sounds. In other words, I don't know that country music is necessarily evolving or changing (and I don't know that it needs to), but country as a radio format is definitely heading in a different direction from how the genre has been defined for the last several decades.
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Post by Marv on Jul 23, 2014 2:01:04 GMT -5
If this atrocity could miraculously duplicate the crash-and-burn job of 'We Are ever Getting Back Together' from 2012 that would be downright delightful; the repetitive nature of this sounds like another piece of crap from Thomas Rhett, 'whose 'Get Me Some Of That' remains the worst #1 single of this or any other year over the course of the last 18 years that I've been a country radio listener.
The fact that Lee Ann Womack, Alan Jackson and George Strait have been blacklisted from the format in favor of 'music' such as this excruciating dreck is downright appalling to put it mildly, and 2014 will undoubtedly go down as the worst year for country music during those same 18 years, and you can certainly go back a lot farther searching for a year when the format was worse than it is today, but good luck with that.
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Post by trebor on Jul 23, 2014 2:53:31 GMT -5
The stream account on You Tube for the "Lyric Video" went up to 127'696 from just less than 660 recorded 19 hours ago!
Edits (It's a boring day, today...) [23/07, 14]
05:00 EDT - 127'902 06:00 EDT - 132'179 = +3% 07:00 EDT - 132'873 = +<1% 08:00 EDT - 134'265 = + 1% 09:00 EDT - 134'800 = +>0% 10:00 EDT - 135'905 = +<1% 11:00 EDT - 137'927 = +1% 12:00 EDT - 139'907 = +1% I'll be off home now
Love/Hate Ratio: 11:1 [23/07, 14/@ 12AM EDT]
Continuing like this, I am predicting a new entry at #1 in the Billboard Country Streaming Chart (08/16, 14) (which incidentally is occupied by FGL's "Dirt" this week)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2014 7:03:56 GMT -5
For completeness, #1 on iTunes Canada as well. Has anyone heard this on the radio yet? I'm wondering, like others, if there will be a radio edit to take out the word "naked", which I'm also a little squeamish with. I guess at some point, people move on with their lives and it has been almost two years since the cheating scandal, but still, it's hard not to think about that with a song like this. I think that would be true no matter how much time had passed, to be honest. That being said, I do love the groove of this song and am glad he did something completely different and unexpected. Yesterday I heard it twice on a Pittsburgh station and they don't edit naked out.
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Post by carriekins on Jul 23, 2014 8:28:22 GMT -5
For anybody curious, this actually did slightly better than "Dirt" yesterday. #38 on MB with 1091 spins and 10.255 in audience.
The negative or indifferent feedback is also not only on this board. The comments on the Highway's Facebook page and on various blogs I've checked have been lukewarm at best. It'll be interesting to see how that plays out once the initial buzz has died down.
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Post by countrymusic20 on Jul 23, 2014 9:18:14 GMT -5
Still #1 on all genre chart on itunes.
No doubt this is a polarizing song. The thing about polarizing songs is they pull people out of the woodwork to take the time to make the positive or negative comments on message boards ect .... As opposed to a boring same old same old song that no one gives a rats ass about. publicity is publicity - good or bad and keeps the song doubly in the public eye and makes more people curious to hear it - some of whom would have never heard it before and will actually like it. It's an interesting phenomenon. Not saying this song will be this big, but Country Girl Shake It For Me was a good example of this also ... Tons of negative feedback for that song - biggest song of Luke's career.
Saving Country Music's Trigger is probably some skinny ass computer nerd wanna be songwriter / artist who's taking the emotions of all his own personal failures and channeling them toward successful people that are getting to do what he will never be able to do. That's all that is.
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Post by kanimal on Jul 23, 2014 9:30:19 GMT -5
The "genre feedback" is not going to hurt this song. If it were capable of that, it would have sunk tens of songs that came before it, including Jerrod Niemann's "Drink to that All Night" and Aldean's own "Dirt Road Anthem."
The fact that the song isn't that great of a song...as a song...might. But that monstrous first day of airplay (bigger than FGL) suggests that radio still sees Aldean as a megastar worthy of play no matter what. And it sees the release of a new Aldean lead single as a major event. So even the quality might not prevent this from going top 5.
As for Saving Country Music, it's hard to take a grown man who (while not being a performer) refers to himself as "Trigger" (or, worse, "The Trigger Man") seriously. But I don't think the comments about him being some skinny virgin or whatever are relevant or necessary. What *is* relevant is the utter predictability in his analysis. There is absolutely no way I'm buying that he can't seem to find one "bro" or pop-country song he likes (just like there is no way I'm buying anything substantive is always awesome).
Even Pitchfork occasionally rips hipsterrific indie acts and praises bubblegum pop songs. It's just being realistic - there will be SOME mainstream, shallow country songs that are too good musically to resist.
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Post by Uncle Lumpy on Jul 23, 2014 9:40:58 GMT -5
"A kitten aimlessly careening across a Korg keyboard in a catnip stupor could make a more compelling composition than this."
I rather enjoy Triggers rants. But then again our musical tastes line up fairly well generally & my sense of humor tends to be a little left of the PC world.
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Post by countrymusic20 on Jul 23, 2014 10:08:32 GMT -5
The "genre feedback" is not going to hurt this song. If it were capable of that, it would have sunk tens of songs that came before it, including Jerrod Niemann's "Drink to that All Night" and Aldean's own "Dirt Road Anthem." The fact that the song isn't that great of a song...as a song...might. But that monstrous first day of airplay (bigger than FGL) suggests that radio still sees Aldean as a megastar worthy of play no matter what. And it sees the release of a new Aldean lead single as a major event. So even the quality might not prevent this from going top 5. As for Saving Country Music, it's hard to take a grown man who (while not being a performer) refers to himself as "Trigger" (or, worse, "The Trigger Man") seriously. But I don't think the comments about him being some skinny virgin or whatever are relevant or necessary. What *is* relevant is the utter predictability in his analysis. There is absolutely no way I'm buying that he can't seem to find one "bro" or pop-country song he likes (just like there is no way I'm buying anything substantive is always awesome). Even Pitchfork occasionally rips hipsterrific indie acts and praises bubblegum pop songs. It's just being realistic - there will be SOME mainstream, shallow country songs that are too good musically to resist. How did you turn "skinny ass computer nerd" into "skinny virgin" ? What? Haha
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Post by sabre14 on Jul 23, 2014 13:58:24 GMT -5
Debuts at #38 on the MB rolling chart with over 10 million in audience. It will be interesting to see how this song performs after the first week debut and some of the buzz dies down like carriekins mentioned earlier. Sometimes Clear Channel debuts can go both ways. On one hand it could fail to peak as high on the airplay chart as Broken Bow would like, but on the other hand, Jason's last lead single who got a Clear Channel debut was able to have smooth sailing to the #1 position on both MB and Billboard. However like others have said, this is a much more polarizing song than "Take A Little Ride" was.
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Post by mylifeback on Jul 23, 2014 14:21:11 GMT -5
For anybody curious, this actually did slightly better than "Dirt" yesterday. #38 on MB with 1091 spins and 10.255 in audience. The negative or indifferent feedback is also not only on this board. The comments on the Highway's Facebook page and on various blogs I've checked have been lukewarm at best. It'll be interesting to see how that plays out once the initial buzz has died down. I'm seeing diverse opinion on my personal twitter feed, too (super scientific, obviously). To be expected, I suppose, any time you dramatically depart from your signature sound for a lead single. So far, however, sales are holding up as BID is pretty steady at approximately double the nearest song on iTunes. I vaguely remember Take A Little Ride being #1 all-genre for a couple of days, but we obviously don't know at this point how that position translates to raw number of downloads. If this starts to hit a wall after the honeymoon period wears off, I wonder if they're ready with a follow-up plan similar to the roll-out of Eric Church's The Outsiders. I recall that meeting with very mixed reviews, but I don't know how it did sales-wise, other than it wasn't #1 on iTunes. If it continues to sell strongly, it'd be hard for radio to deny it, I'd think.
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Post by drummerman2009 on Jul 23, 2014 15:22:40 GMT -5
Is it really true that they used the f word in the song? My wish though is that they would have edited the "naked in my bed" in the chorus with "dreamin' in my bed" all the way through. I also thought that Jason would have chosen a ballad for a first single than this since his last hit "When She Says Baby" was a mid-tempo.
Chart wise I see it matching FGL's "Dirt" at #16 but probably unlike "Dirt" I can see a hangover from this too like mylifeback said and hopefully won't have an Eric Church "Outsiders" effect.
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Post by countryqueen on Jul 23, 2014 16:25:55 GMT -5
Heard the song yesterday and I'm not impressed. There is absolutely nothing country-sounding about this song (lets be honest, this is an r&b/pop song), except for the Alabama reference. I find it odd when artists name-drop other artists, and yet have nothing in their songs that sound like the person they are name dropping, and it appears now that Jason is a repeat offender at this (1994 comes to mind). As for the "naked in my bed" line, I'm not offended with it, but it does creep me out a little (I for one, HATE when people pronounce that word as neck-ed). This song is over the top sensual, and I don't like hearing these songs on the radio (I didn't care for Dierks Bentley's "I wanna make you close your eyes" as a single either). I also imagine this song as something Jason would sing to his new girlfriend, and that makes me feel bad for his ex-wife- it's a tad bit insensitive, especially as the first new song (not on Night Train) released since the news broke of them being a couple.
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Post by kw9461 on Jul 23, 2014 17:13:11 GMT -5
WTF Jason? I've been a big Aldean fan since day 1, but this is just garbage. And it isn't even particularly catchy (not to mention the melody is barely existent). I'd rather listen to 1994 on repeat then to be subjected to this song again. Aldean seems to always release the songs of his that I don't care for, but this is just going too far. There isn't a single country element found anywhere on this record. Songs like Dirt Road Anthem may not be my cup of tea, but at least there were enough shreds of country that you could draw a map from A to B. This is just Aldean pretending to be a R&B/pop singer. And what's worse is that he sounds awful doing it. I've always preferred Jason to Luke Bryan, but Bryan could have done much better with this.
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Post by Lizl on Jul 23, 2014 17:27:11 GMT -5
I watched the live performance on Youtube last weekend and tbh I was not impressed. I really want to like this new music from Jason and I was hoping studio version will be better but it didn't met my expectations too. Lyrics is cringeworthy. I have nothing against Jason but this song is not that good. Not my ideal lead single too.
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Post by lyhom on Jul 23, 2014 20:13:20 GMT -5
This honestly sounds more like a pop remix made for CHR rather than a country song.
Doesn't help that the lyrics are really generic. Honestly, all I can remember is the 4,000 times "burnin' it down" is repeated in the song.
I mean, I don't hate it, but it isn't something I'd willingly listen to.
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Post by mnopom on Jul 23, 2014 21:32:52 GMT -5
Rich Redmond posted this on his IG page earlier today: @richredmond - Be Patient. BIG drums drop in on the 3rd chorus of this NEW #jasonaldean #country #rock #radio #single #itunes
Does anybody know what's going on with that? Are they releasing another version? Even if they are I'm not sure it would make the song any better. This is the first lead single to date that I have never purchased of Aldean and if the album is the same I will not be buying it. I understand you have to change it up and try different things but I feel like he is trying way to hard to keep up with the younger crowd. He needs to realize he's nearing 40 and is a father of 2 girls and I don't even want to think about what the music video will be like. As a fan I was looking forward to his new album but now I'm kind of dreading it. :/
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Post by kml567 on Jul 23, 2014 22:33:41 GMT -5
Shades of "Looking For That Girl". That one needed a new radio edit to remove all that auto-tune.
I think this song may be ahead of its time. Country fusion with pop and hip-hop is now accepted as mainstream on country radio, but adding in dance/EDM elements and heavy autotune is very new and could be a huge turnoff for listeners. There's a clear difference of how songs like "That's My Kind of Night" and "Boys Round Here" would be much more easily accepted by country listeners than "Burnin' It Down". I can see why Team Aldean could be a bit worried with the negative reaction. Luke and Blake may have gotten bad reviews from the usual anti-bro brigade that complains about "worst song ever" every 2 months, but their own fans mostly love TMKON and BRH. It's a bit scarier for Jason that his own fans are almost evenly split on liking the song. As I mentioned, it's almost like Tim McGraw getting negative reviews from his own fans with "Looking For That Girl".
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Post by countrymusic20 on Jul 24, 2014 1:25:55 GMT -5
Still #1 on ITunes all genre chart ... On pace to download around 200,000 for week 1 ... So I seriously doubt that Team Aldean is losing much sleep over any of the negative comments. When any established artist tries to change it up a bit there is always a very vocal dissension from a few. Bob Dylan got booed off the stage the first time he tried to perform with a full band. No, I'm not comparing Aldean to Dylan ... Just using the example of an iconic figure being chastised for trying something new.
Burnin' It Down has one of the core attributes of a huge hit song - people either love it or they hate it. The haters are always much more vocal than the fans who love something - but those negative comments also draw additional publicity/curiosity/attention to the song - which in turn motivates people who would otherwise not care - to seek out and listen to the song - and some of those people will like it and download it. 200 + iTunes comments on the Burnin' It Down download page are split about 50/50 between love and hate. In general - Women/ladies/girls seem to love it ... Men/guys seem to hate it - but most importantly, pretty much everyone has an opinion about it.
The most common complaint about this song is - it's not country at all. But that doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad song. In fact - the fact that its still at the top of the all genre chart on iTunes after 48 hrs means that there are more than likely a bunch of Not necessarily country fans that like it and have downloaded it. Aldean is expanding his fan base - and no, the core fan base will not abandon him - the ones that don't like this song will be right back on board when he puts out the next standard sounding Aldean song, which will more than likely be the very next single. Word on the street in Nashville about the new Aldean project is that this song is an aberration and that we can expect the rest of the record to be pretty much Aldean standard fare. I personally thought that the single Night Train was the worst single Aldean has put out to this point mainly for the fact that is wasn't original musically or subject matter wise ... When She Says Baby was a close second. And in Aldean's defense, I'm sure it's becoming increasingly hard for him to find fresh sounding material about the same things that he's always sung about. There's only so many ways to say it and only so many colors to paint it - so now he's trying to branch out a little bit. Love it or hate it, I commend him for the effort.
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Post by trebor on Jul 24, 2014 11:12:34 GMT -5
Billboard Review : By Chuck Dauphin, Nashville | July 22, 2014 2:43 PM EDT
Country Star Jason Aldean Gets Sexy on New 'Burnin' It Down' SIngle
Fans of Jason Aldean will want to hit iTunes or tune into their favorite radio station today. The country superstar released “Burnin’ It Down” -- the lead single from his sixth studio disc, due out before the end of the year.
The seductive track marks a change in gears for Aldean, who has launched albums in the past with uptempo cuts such as “Hicktown,” “My Kind Of Party,” and “Take A Little Ride,” which led off his 2012 set "Night Train." “That’s been our format for releasing a new album -- coming out with a big tempo,” the singer said in a press conference before a performance Saturday in Cincinnati. However, Aldean felt it was time to roll the dice with something new. “At the same time, I don’t want to feel like we keep doing the same thing. This was a song that came in that I felt was really cool or different. For me, it was about going in a little bit of a different direction to launch an album. It is probably the steamiest song we’ve ever put out, but I love the song. I think it’s one of those things that people don’t really expect to hear from us -- which I like to throw those songs in every now and then.” The cut was written by Chris Tompkins, Rodney Clawson, as well as Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard from Florida Georgia Line.
The two-time ACM Male Vocalist of the Year says he’s excited for fans to hear the song, which he premiered during a concert Friday in Cleveland as well as Saturday night at the Great American Ball Park, home of the Cincinnati Reds. What made it a home run for Aldean upon first listen was a reference to one of his favorite musical groups. ”That was the clincher. It mentioned Alabama," he said. "I’m a huge Alabama fan, and anything that makes reference to something I’m a fan of, it’s cool to have it in there.” To date, the Georgia native has placed 19 songs inside the top 10 of the country singles chart -- including eleven trips to the top. Each of his five studio discs have been certified platinum.
Link to source: www.billboard.com/articles/news/6175459/country-star-jason-aldean-new-single-burnin-it-down
"Burnin' It Down" enters the Mongrel Chart (Billboard Hot Country Songs) at #42 If it zooms to #1 it will beat FGL who flew to the top spot from #40
On a personal note: We now learn that the corporate white collar terms for "shallow" and "bland" are in fact: "steamy" and "seductive"... He He More shocked I was this morning when I caught myself humming to BID under the shower... May this not be held against me.
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McCreerian
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Post by McCreerian on Jul 24, 2014 14:41:16 GMT -5
Just listened to this. Bad Country song but good Pop song! This is something more of the lines of Usher or Justin Timberlake. It could be a crossover hit and that is what they were going for I believe. I'm just glad is wasn't another song about tailgates in the woods as the title suggested it could have been.
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Post by onebuffalo on Jul 24, 2014 17:24:23 GMT -5
On a personal note: We now learn that the corporate white collar terms for "shallow" and "bland" are in fact: "steamy" and "seductive"... He He More shocked I was this morning when I caught myself humming to BID under the shower... May this not be held against me.
We still like you in the early going!
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Post by someguy on Jul 25, 2014 23:59:48 GMT -5
The beat would fit perfectly into a Pop/Hip Hop radio playlist. I couldn't find anything sonically that relates this song to country music besides the Jack Daniels reference. Don't forget the "Old Alabama" name drop. Even though I like the feel, I agree that there is very little country about this song. Do you think he's referring to the song, or just them listening to some older Alabama music? I had thought that he was referencing some older romantic Alabama songs ("Feels So Right", "Love In The First Degree", etc.). I find it hard to picture him and his girlfriend "Burnin' It Down" listening to "Old Alabama", but who knows. Jason's getting a lot of negative comments about this song from his own fans on Facebook. You would think that the people commenting on his own Facebook page would be biased in his favour, so I thought that was interesting.
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Post by sabre14 on Jul 26, 2014 0:01:45 GMT -5
Don't forget the "Old Alabama" name drop. Even though I like the feel, I agree that there is very little country about this song. Do you think he's referring to the song, or just them listening to some older Alabama music? I had thought that he was referencing some older romantic Alabama songs ("Feels So Right", "Love In The First Degree", etc.). I find it hard to picture him and his girlfriend "Burnin' It Down" listening to "Old Alabama", but who knows. Jason's getting a lot of negative comments about this song from his own fans on Facebook. You would think that the people commenting on his own Facebook page would be biased in his favour, so I thought that was interesting. Just the band, but the song's lyrics say "old Alabama, so that's why I mentioned the "old" part. :)
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