Country TwitterFAIL: Nov. '17

*Foul language below*

The Crud Report: November '17

CMAs Memes: Luke, Carrie, Brad, Garth

2017 CMA Awards TwitterFAIL

Let's get the political stuff out of the way first. For context for these first four bad tweets, Brad & Carrie have clearly joked about former President Obama before, so maybe folks should chill.

And now, some apolitical CMA TwitterFAILs:

Whoops.... Nathan was joking. Sorry for lumping him in here...

2017 CMA Awards Drinking Game

*Don't really play this. If you do, however, do so in moderation.*

Single Review: Brad Paisley " Last Time for Everything"

by Jonny Brick

He’s just the best at his job. Brad’s album Love and War is full of reliable tunes, at least four of which are potential Songs of the Year. This isn’t one of them, but it is his current single at radio. After Today (which is one of them), he takes the theme ‘what can’t we do anymore?’ and wraps a lovely melody around it. Notable in the arrangement is the sound of the snare drum, which thwacks away on beats 2 and 4, and the way the fellow male voices wrap around Brad’s.

The chorus goes ‘Last call, last chance/ Last song, last dance’, which is pretty anthemic. Of the ‘everythings’ Brad laments the last time of doing is cutting off a mullet, hearing Little Jimmy Dickens at the Opry and Prince singing Purple Rai-iiiin, using a fake ID, introducing your ‘fiancee’ rather than your wife (or ex-fiancee if the wedding doesn’t take place…There’s a song in that, Brad) and eating ‘biscuits and gravy at your momma’s house’.

Like Brad’s best tunes it’s about time, moments and life. Brad and his mates in the writer’s room have a knack of melding the familiar and the abstract. There really has been nobody better (and I include the likes of Shane McAnally and Brandy Clark here) at boiling down the human condition in a country tune that you can hum and boogie to.

8 out of 10

Farce Madness: The "Delete" 8

In the Sour 16, most of the matches were decisive. The closest match was Sam Hunt's "upset" of Florida Georgia Line/Luke Bryan by 4%. Here are the results from the 16.

Junk Drawer Region
Any Kane Brown Song 75%
Danielle Bradbery "Friend Zone" 25%

Paisley/Cool J "Accidental Racist" 64%
The Band Perry "Live Forever" 36%

Oldies Region
Donna Fargo "Funny Face" 54%
"Butterfly Kisses" 46%

"Achy Breaky Heart" 55%
"She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy" 54%

Meat & Potatoes Region
"Country Girl (Shake It For Me)" 77%
ZBB "Beautiful Drug" 23%

Rascal Flatts "Bob That Head" 73%
Big & Rich "Comin' to Your City" 27%

Bro-Country Region
LB "That's My Kind of Night" 57%
Jason Aldean "1994" 43%

FGL + Luke "This is How We Roll" 48%
Sam Hunt "Body Like a Back Road" 52%

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Here are today's matchups in the "Delete" 16. Voting will take place on Twitter this afternoon.

"Delete" 8

Junk Drawer
4. Any Kane Brown Song
6. Brad Paisley - Accidental Racist w/LL Cool J

Bro-Country
1. Luke Bryan - That’s My Kind of Night
11. Sam Hunt - Body Like a Back Road

Oldies
1. Donna Fargo - Funny Face
2. Billy Ray Cyrus - Achy Breaky Heart

Meat & Potatoes
1. Luke Bryan - Country Girl (Shake It For Me)
6. Rascal Flatts - Bob That Head

TwitterWIN: January '17