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Showing posts with label Dierks Bentley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dierks Bentley. Show all posts
May 11, 2018
Latest Country Promo Pics: Isbell, Dan + Shay, Dierks, etc.
Jan 23, 2018
Jul 17, 2017
Single Review: Dierks Bentley "What The Hell Did I Say"
by Jonny Brick
What do these songs have in common: “Every
Time I Hear That Song”; “Do I Make You Wanna”; “They Don’t Know”; “What the
Hell Did I Say?”
They are all the fourth single released
from a major star’s album which this year is getting vast radio play. The fifth
single from Ripcord, “The Fighter,” will be number one soon for Keith Urban.
Luke Bryan had six number ones from Kill the Lights. This seems too many, but
these voices sell cars and whatever other commercials you guys have over there.
(I remain English, and thus get my country digitally without adverts.)
Thanks to their relatively quick climbs up
the charts, bigger acts like Blake, Billy, Jason and Dierks can cram in more
singles per album cycle that they send to radio. After a song which could be
called “Drunk on a Boat,” a duet with Elle King, and a ballad about his wife,
not to mention a duet with Cole Swindell, Dierks has sent a ploddy song to
radio.
Written by Ross Copperman, Josh Kear, and
Chris Tompkins before they wrote a better one later in the session, this is
typical Dierks. The plot of the song is that poor rich. He drunk-dialled his
lady and attracted her greatly with an answerphone message. Did he ‘say we’d go
shoppin’ or ‘go to Vegas and get married by Elvis’? The idea is funny, the
execution is good but there are problems here.
Dierks wonders whether he
(grammatically-incorrectly) sought to ‘Louis Vuitton her’ or ‘Rodeo Drive her,
slide a Tiffany diamond on her’? Singing nouns in place of verbs is an
irritating trope of contemporary country. It almost makes me Second Amendment
someone. As for the product placement, I’ll bank account the writers. It’s
almost as if words don’t matter on the radio…
The singalong bit comes when Dierks can’t
remember what the hell did he, hell did he, hell did he say. Even Bobby Bones
recoils at the blasphemy, asking his audio producer to bleep out the offensive
word in a mock-serious segment.
The song continues the current Nashville
trend of namechecking a non-country song or act when Dierks mentioned that the
folk in the bar are singing along to Free Bird. He could even sing some of it
onstage when he plays this one on tour; it must be getting a single release
because out on the road it gets a big response. There are worse songs on the
radio after all, and some aren’t even by Dylan Scott.
The production is very muddy and overloaded
on the track, which can be a pro as well as a con, and in particular the solo
in the middle of the track is good. Fun fact: credited on
one of the three acoustic guitars in the song is one Charlie Worsham, whose
recent album contained songs much better than this. Yet radio will go with this
until it hits number one some time around Halloween.
6/10
Labels:
Dierks Bentley,
Dylan Scott,
Jonny Brick,
Keith Urban,
single reviews
May 1, 2017
Monday Morning Memes: Sam Hunt, Dale Watson, Dierks Bentley
Labels:
Chris Lane,
Dale Watson,
Dierks Bentley,
Kane Brown,
memes,
Sam Hunt,
Satire,
WWE
Apr 24, 2017
More Monday Morning Memes: FGL, Ray Wylie, Luke & Dierks
Apr 4, 2017
Honest Billboard Song Feature: Cole Swindell & Kip Moore
Mar 23, 2017
Monty Python and the Holy Grail Country Reaction Gifs
To find an actual country song on country radio...
Hick hop fans just showed up at your hangout spot
When somebody ruins a cookout by playing Luke Bryan
How I feel when I'm in Dollar General
and bro-country is playing over the loudspeakers
A review of ...every... Kane Brown song
You can't wait to see Cole & Dierks
perform "Flatliner" on the ACMs?
Still more country than Sam Hunt...
Mar 2, 2017
What Would Dierks Do?
Labels:
Cole Swindell,
Dierks Bentley,
Flatliner,
Jamey Johnson,
Kris Kristofferson,
memes,
Satire
Feb 16, 2017
Things That Will Probably Never Recover
Labels:
Cole Swindell,
Dierks Bentley,
Flatliner,
memes,
NFL,
Nicolas Cage,
Satire
Jan 10, 2017
Honest Radio Promo Ad: Cole Swindell - Flatliner
Jan 9, 2017
Monday Morning Memes: FGL, Kane Brown, Dale & Ray
Labels:
Dale Watson,
Dierks Bentley,
Florida Georgia Line,
Hank 3,
Kane Brown,
Luke Bryan,
memes,
Ray Benson,
Satire
Oct 21, 2016
The Past Poop of Country Music: June 30, 2008
A ratings system based on poop emojis seems right in our wheelhouse, so
here you go. This is the Mediabase Top 20 country songs from the week Farce the Music came online, June 30, 2008.
Poop is bad. Not-Poop is good. The potential worst rating is 5 poop emojis. The potential best is 5 not-poop emojis. Here's Trailer's opinion of each song. Enjoy! (...?)
The Past Poop Rating of this Mediabase Top 20 is 1 POOP EMOJI (or -1) overall. The best song was Kenny Chesney's "Better as a Memory." The worst was Lost Trailers' "Holler Back," which was a precursor to bro-country. Please read Country Perspective's Current Pulse for a different perspective, more class, and better insight.
Chart from Country Aircheck / Mediabase.
Poop is bad. Not-Poop is good. The potential worst rating is 5 poop emojis. The potential best is 5 not-poop emojis. Here's Trailer's opinion of each song. Enjoy! (...?)
The Past Poop Rating of this Mediabase Top 20 is 1 POOP EMOJI (or -1) overall. The best song was Kenny Chesney's "Better as a Memory." The worst was Lost Trailers' "Holler Back," which was a precursor to bro-country. Please read Country Perspective's Current Pulse for a different perspective, more class, and better insight.
Chart from Country Aircheck / Mediabase.
Jun 3, 2016
Cole Swindell is So Deep
Labels:
Cole Swindell,
Dierks Bentley,
Johnny Cash,
memes,
Satire,
The Boot
May 18, 2016
WWE Country Reaction Gifs 10: RRB, FGL, Luke, Stapleton
Why you should stop listening to Kane Brown
When somebody at the Stapleton show requests "Crash and Burn"
Tryin' to think of something nice to say about Luke Bryan...
When you're three sheets into the wind at the concert by the time
Randy Rogers Band finally plays something off Rollercoaster
When a Florida-Georgia Line fan asks you to apologize
When you 'bout to sing "Cruise" but gotta take a selfie first
When "Somewhere on a Beach" comes on at the Mexican restaurant
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