Jun 20, 2024
A Timeline of My Interest in Post Malone Going Country
Jun 18, 2024
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More Monday Memes: Zach Bryan, Miranda Lambert, Luke Bryan
Apr 12, 2024
Lost 90s Country Song Was Somehow Too Cheesy to Release
A 90s country ballad based on a silly saying from a popular sitcom? In an era marked by movie-catch-phrase song titles, tunes about sentient hearts, and more goofy dance remixes than you could shake it to the right at, this particular one was somehow deemed too cringe. Why is that?
The tearjerker, written by Craig Wiseman and Gary Loyd was pitched to around 15 different artists, with only 1 cutting the tune. The singer, who can’t be named, but whose name rhymes with Lacey Turd, had hoped to include the song on his 1996 album and release it as a single; they even had single artwork completed.
That’s when higher ups at MCA stepped in and told him and producers that “Did I Do That?” was just too dopey, even for the 90s (and even for an artist who’d later release the gem, “Ten Rounds With Jose Cuervo”). So the song just went into the vaults never to be heard again.
Even Wiseman, who’d go on to become one of the most successful songwriters and music execs in mainstream country is ashamed of “Did I Do That?” “Where’d you even find out about it?” he laughed. “We must’ve had some good weed in the writers’ room that day… a sad song based on a goofy exclamation from a TV dork… it’s even dumber than (Blake Shelton & Trace Adkins’) “Hillbilly Bone” which I am also quite ashamed to have my name associated with”
When asked if the song might ever see the light of day, Wiseman said “There were several lyrics based on other absurd quotes from the show… and on the last chorus, (singer) even sang the hook similarly to Urkel’s delivery… so honestly, I hope whatever vault the tapes were in burned down and then flooded and then the debris was dispersed by straight-line winds to the horizon.”
Wiseman did provide the few following lyrics from the song (to the best of his recollection):
My little sweet potato
With eyes so sad and blue
Baby I’ve got to know
If I’m the one that did that to you
My perfect baby cakes
Laura, why did you go?
Was it my mistakes
That got you feelin’ so low
(Part of chorus)
Did I do that?
Break your heart too many times
You ain’t comin’ back
And all the fault is mine”
Dec 29, 2023
Predicting Mainstream Country in 2024
* Caught up in his trend to collaborate with everyone, Riley Green includes 19 artists on his next single... then forgets to include himself
* Entire Billboard Hot Country Songs chart occupied by Zach Bryan songs for five weeks straight; new rule enacted the next week to counter this results in chart occupied entirely by Morgan Wallen songs
* Oliver Anthony Music banned from Dollar General in Farmville, Virginia for vandalizing a display of Fudge Rounds
* Latest Cole Swindell single proven to be both written and produced by AI; results inconclusive on whether Cole himself is an AI
* Several casual Randy Travis fans experience shock upon hearing "Whisper My Name" for the first time
* Disturbance at Woodlawn Memorial Park in Nashville discovered to be Dobie Gray rolling in his grave after the release of Dustin Lynch's "Chevrolet"
* "You Can't Hide Beautiful" by Aaron Lines officially recognized as the first "boyfriend country" song
* Oliver Anthony Music denies allegations that he is related to Lorenzo Music, the former voice actor for Garfield
* For the first time, Luke Combs gets a single all the way to #1 before it even has a Wikipedia article
* Jason Aldean releases new single "But Some of My Best Friends Are Black"... alongside a cover of Cledus T. Judd's "Illegals"
* Bobby continues to be the only Farce the Music regular who refuses to make jokes about Kane Brown or Maren Morris
* Due to an overflow error, Zach Bryan's next album listed on Spotify as having -27 songs on it
* After the success of "Watermelon Moonshine", Lainey Wilson releases "We Danced Regardless", all the while denying allegations that she is just going to keep copying Deana Carter
* Blake Shelton continues his slide into irrelevance by collaborating with Pitbull... oh wait, he already did that
* At last, the long-awaited return of the Smokin' Armadillos