Apr 17, 2024
Civil War Movie Country Memes
This is How We Troll
Top 10 Biggest Jerks in Heartland Rock
10. John Cafferty
Named his band The Beaver Brown Band. Tricked millions of 1980s casual radio listeners into thinking he was Bruce Springsteen.
4. Ryan Culwell
Backstage rider far more extravagant and demanding than everyone on this list, despite him being the least well known. Pretends to be Americana when it suits him. Likes to watch those zip popping videos at full volume in the doctor’s office waiting room.
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*His inclusion isn't due to that viral video yesterday which was used for nefarious political purposes. He was in the right in that instance.
Apr 16, 2024
Pick Your Ernest
To be fair, Ernest is better than most on the mainstream chart. But he's also pretty awful at times.
Idea by Craig Toney
Sexy Time
6 New AI Illustrated Country Songs
Titles at the end.
Garth Brooks "Friends in Low Places"
Reba "Fancy"
Patsy Cline “I Fall to Pieces”
Vince Gill “Go Rest High on that Mountain”
Zach Bryan “Something in the Orange”
Toby Keith “I Love This Bar”
Apr 15, 2024
More Monday Memes: Keith Urban, George Strait, Snoop Dogg
Zero Percent
Monday Morning Memes: Morgan Wallen, Music Snobbery, Jamey Johnson
Apr 14, 2024
Apr 12, 2024
Celebrity Encounters
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”