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Post by lockebox on Dec 1, 2010 18:00:27 GMT -5
Debut solo single from the lead singer of Staind.
Here is a live performance.
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Post by rockmaniac on Dec 1, 2010 18:22:08 GMT -5
meh. enough said
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Post by lockebox on Dec 1, 2010 18:28:54 GMT -5
No meh from me... I think it's awful.
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Post by rockmaniac on Dec 1, 2010 18:34:58 GMT -5
going country is a bad idea.
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Post by pen on Dec 1, 2010 19:42:21 GMT -5
It's not nearly as weird as Jason from Godhead's country album.
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Post by jvandyck87 on Dec 1, 2010 22:18:29 GMT -5
My local active rock station had an exclusive deal with Aaron for this song for awhile. They've been playing it as their #1 song in rotation since September. By the time this charts, it will already be the #1 song of the year on our local station. I've definitely grown to hate it less, but if they play it anymore, I'm gonna be really really sick of it.
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Post by Devin on Dec 1, 2010 22:40:34 GMT -5
i like it. although some of the lyrics are bad.
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Post by pen on Dec 1, 2010 23:35:40 GMT -5
Terrible lyrics. Terrible. So terrible I was actually mentally trying to predict the next line in the verse and found my predictions were way better than the reality.
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Post by Nicholas2.0 on Dec 2, 2010 2:33:01 GMT -5
He played this when he was in town about a month ago. Way to acknowledge and pander to your current audience, douchebag. Everyone assumed it was a cover, but then he said that it was an original and he'd already shot the video for it, which featured George Jones, Charlie Daniels, and some guy I'd never heard of and to expect to see it premiere on CMT in December. It's not nearly as weird as Jason from Godhead's country album. Um... ...What?
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Post by pen on Dec 2, 2010 8:47:30 GMT -5
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Post by mcbrearty on Dec 2, 2010 13:51:19 GMT -5
This is pure poo. I like country, but this is Staind type music mixed with country. Not a good mix.
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Post by Devin on Dec 2, 2010 14:04:24 GMT -5
Make that heavy album already Staind!
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Post by PHOBES on Dec 3, 2010 2:13:10 GMT -5
He tried to recreate "A Country Boy Can Survive," and failed...miserably. Hell, the bridge begins and ends with "‘cause Hank taught me just how to stay alive" and "don’t cha know I know can survive" respectively.
I like country, but this song WAYYYY overdoes it. Listening to this, I don't believe for two seconds that he's a "County Boy," it's just so cliche.
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Post by singingsparrow on Dec 3, 2010 17:21:02 GMT -5
This is appalling, regardless if it's a country song, a country-rock hybrid song or a general offering from Aaron Lewis. It gets progressively worse as it goes on too. The reference to the government toward the end would be the absolute nadir. But when you sum it all up by the end, basically Lewis spends way too much time expressing a simple point: Los Angeles, fancier clothes and rock and roll are the devil, but tractors, oversized clothes and jingoism are good. If that wasn't bad enough, the music video only makes it worse. He uses George Jones and Charlie Daniels as though Lewis is saying "Oh, you don't believe I'm country, do you? Well *f* you! I have references to prove I'm countrier than thou! Charlie Daniels and George Jones themselves think I'm countrier as country can be! How do you like that? Yeah, bet you didn't see that coming, *a*-hole!" Fortunately, this isn't going to be a hit on any format. Country radio won't eat this up because in spite of its utmost magnitude of pandering lyrically, it's too acoustic and mellow for a format heavy on lazy beer-drinking anthems and loud-and-proud "Hell yeah, I'm country!" barnburners. Active Rock won't eat this up because while they're more open than ever to country-leaning material (i.e. Hellyeah) they still tend to shy away from overtly country topics on the format, and even there I think this is too sleep-inducing musically. I'm beyond disappointed with Aaron Lewis here. All we need now is his equivalent to Papa Roach's "I Almost Told You That I Loved You" and the transformation from one of the foremost bleeding heart songwriters of this genre in recent memory to another cock-rocking American exceptionalist will be complete! Namaste, Lisping Hibiscus
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Post by Nicholas2.0 on Dec 3, 2010 19:35:01 GMT -5
I see this, and I watched the video, but I might as well be just as confused as before. I mean, based on Godhead, and the half-assed attempt at full-on Country production in that song, I'm just not sure what this is supposed to be.
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Post by Devin on Dec 3, 2010 19:48:50 GMT -5
I see this, and I watched the video, but I might as well be just as confused as before. I mean, based on Godhead, and the half-assed attempt at full-on Country production in that song, I'm just not sure what this is supposed to be. At least it's better and more country that Aaron Lewis' song. Except the Godhead singer sounds WAAAAY out of place lol.
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Post by pen on Dec 3, 2010 19:58:00 GMT -5
I see this, and I watched the video, but I might as well be just as confused as before. I mean, based on Godhead, and the half-assed attempt at full-on Country production in that song, I'm just not sure what this is supposed to be. I actually thought Jason's song was pretty good. Ten times better than Aaron's dickery. I do see what you mean though.
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Post by mcbrearty on Dec 4, 2010 7:45:16 GMT -5
At least when Bon jovi went country it seemed in many ways a natural evolution. They always had that country twang mixed through older songs.
This is the most joyless thing I've heard in a long time.
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Post by halo19 on Dec 4, 2010 17:23:34 GMT -5
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Post by Shadows in the Dark on Dec 9, 2010 9:30:18 GMT -5
Top 50 on Active:
63 50 AARON LEWIS Country Boy 118 45 73 0.399
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Post by HereIsGone on Dec 9, 2010 12:44:40 GMT -5
....????? The hell. This is not country. Heck, the music's reminding me of this a bit (I couldn't remember who did it or most of the lyrics so it was a sheer stroke of luck): www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg-HZd4Lb2Q#t=0m47s
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Post by marv1978 on Dec 9, 2010 14:42:10 GMT -5
At least when Bon jovi went country it seemed in many ways a natural evolution. They always had that country twang mixed through older songs. This is the most joyless thing I've heard in a long time. Bon Jovi made one album that cross over to country from hot ac and ac. The fact Jennifer Nettles helped them on "WSYCGH" helped. But that song is not country lol, Randy Travis, Clint black, Alan Jackson, George jones, Tim McGraw, Garth, George Strait, heck even southern rock like Charlie Daniels or Hank Jr, i see no country in Bon Jovi. Country is coming for these artists like Uncle Kracker, Kid Rock, Sheryl Crow..etc and calling it country and the kids today don't know what country sounds like. Taylor Swift isn't even country according to my Grandpa and grandma who both sing country music for 50 years now and HAVE BEEN TO THE GRAND OL OPRY SEVERAL TIMES AND SEEN CONWAY TWITTY. What's next Aerosmith is country lol...listen to the Alan Jackson classic from the 90's "Gone Country" and think of todays country and you will laugh and really understand what the real country artists think of this watered down pop country lol..I can't make it on rock or pop anymore,now i'm a cowboy yeehaw, NOT! fake sell out
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Post by lockebox on Dec 9, 2010 16:08:05 GMT -5
Top 50 on Active: 63 50 AARON LEWIS Country Boy 118 45 73 0.399
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Post by mcbrearty on Dec 10, 2010 20:12:21 GMT -5
i see no country in Bon Jovi...... Well you must not of heard Whole Lot Of Leavin' or Lost Highway.
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Post by marv1978 on Dec 14, 2010 13:55:55 GMT -5
i see no country in Bon Jovi...... Well you must not of heard Whole Lot Of Leavin' or Lost Highway. actually i have and it's not country. ask a musician what the difference between country and rock is, they are not even the same time signatures lol. so i could probably take the guitars out of a nickelback song in the mix and add a little steel guitar and sell it to you as country lol. sometimes rock artists make songs that have country influences on them but they are not country songs. Maybe country rock or some hybrid but not country! sorry..i am from a family that loves its country music and i'm one of the only rockers in it and no one thinks Bon Jovi is country!
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Post by marv1978 on Dec 14, 2010 13:58:28 GMT -5
Well you must not of heard Whole Lot Of Leavin' or Lost Highway. actually i have and it's not country. ask a musician what the difference between country and rock is, they are not even the same time signatures lol. so i could probably take the guitars out of a nickelback song in the mix and add a little steel guitar and sell it to you as country lol. sometimes rock artists make songs that have country influences on them but they are not country songs. Maybe country rock or some hybrid but not country! sorry..i am from a family that loves its country music and i'm one of the only rockers in it and no one thinks Bon Jovi is country! oh and the only thing Country about Aaron Lewis is the title " Country' Boy lmao!~ however he does wine enough to have a tear in his beer ;)
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Post by mcbrearty on Dec 15, 2010 13:16:05 GMT -5
Well you must not of heard Whole Lot Of Leavin' or Lost Highway. actually i have and it's not country. ask a musician what the difference between country and rock is, they are not even the same time signatures lol. so i could probably take the guitars out of a nickelback song in the mix and add a little steel guitar and sell it to you as country lol. sometimes rock artists make songs that have country influences on them but they are not country songs. Maybe country rock or some hybrid but not country! sorry..i am from a family that loves its country music and i'm one of the only rockers in it and no one thinks Bon Jovi is country! Well our opinions on what is and isn't country are very different. I didn't say that those Bon jovi songs were without rock elements, but to me they lean very heavily into a country sound.
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Post by marv1978 on Dec 15, 2010 13:35:48 GMT -5
actually i have and it's not country. ask a musician what the difference between country and rock is, they are not even the same time signatures lol. so i could probably take the guitars out of a nickelback song in the mix and add a little steel guitar and sell it to you as country lol. sometimes rock artists make songs that have country influences on them but they are not country songs. Maybe country rock or some hybrid but not country! sorry..i am from a family that loves its country music and i'm one of the only rockers in it and no one thinks Bon Jovi is country! Well our opinions on what is and isn't country are very different. I didn't say that those Bon jovi songs were without rock elements, but to me they lean very heavily into a country sound. ok i respect your opinion :0 but out of curiosity would you say the 2 Bon Jovi songs u are talking particuarly about are more along the lines of fitting in on hot ac with rob thomas, taylor swift and john mayer or beside george strait, tim mcgraw and reba?
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Post by mcbrearty on Dec 15, 2010 17:07:25 GMT -5
I dunno, kinda a mix of Tim McGraw with the typical Bon Jovi elements.
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Post by marv1978 on Dec 15, 2010 19:58:49 GMT -5
I dunno, kinda a mix of Tim McGraw with the typical Bon Jovi elements. i guess i can see that! i 4get that country has really changed since the days of garth, randy, alan and strait
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