Here's a new question from the email sack. Heh heh, I said sack.
Skip in North Carolina wants to know: "Should I put some research time in before and during writing songs involving politics or history?"
JR: Hell no, Skippy. What you learned in vocational school ought to be plenty 'nough knowledge for you to drop on the country listener. If I wanna write something about Rick Nixon, I don't bother studying up on Watercase... who gives a shit? Jane Countryfan just wants to nod her head to a mid to up-tempo catchy tune and have her preferably conservative beliefs supported bro, not think. You want to do a song about the current economic crisis or the BP leak? Just write it, throw in something about a bastard stocktraderman...or a dirty stinkin' petroleum-man; don't waste valuable drinking time with fact finding and that sort of stuff. Just Wiki it if you must. Write on homie.
*Not actually written by John Rich.
Based on what gets radio play, I think "Mr. Rich" may be right that "Jane Country fan just wants to nod her head...,not think." I still listen to country radio but I'm kinda embarrassed to admit that I do. I know country was never exactly intellectual or even particularly intelligent, and so this is nothing new. George Jones isn't exactly music for the thinking man; his music is dumb just like Rich and Aldean. But lately the stupidity from Rich and his friends on the radio gets to me. I probably shouldn't listen to country anymore, but its a hard habit to break.
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