Showing posts with label Tim McGraw. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tim McGraw. Show all posts
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Feb 17, 2020
Country Singers With Stretched Heads
[Edit: Am being told this photo has not been altered in any way]
Feb 14, 2020
Tim McGraw Hospitalized After Ingesting a Carb
Tim McGraw suffered a medical scare this week that has him currently recovering at Centennial Hospital in Nashville. The country star was transported by ambulance to the facility Tuesday morning, complaining of dizziness, a distended abdomen, headache, and lethargy.
After a thorough examination, doctors determined that McGraw was suffering from a heretofore unknown condition called “carb shock.” Dr. Herbert O’Neill explained: “When a digestive system that has not been in contact with carbohydrates in a great deal of time is exposed to them, you get what Tim experienced - shortness of breath, pain, puffiness, and more. Mr. McGraw nearly lapsed into a coma but we were able to stabilize him with a protein drip.”
McGraw’s wife, country singer Faith Hill, believes the consumption of the carb was an accident. “I’m not certain, but I think a single piece of one of the kids’ Cap'n Crunch somehow fell from their bowl into Tim’s kale and meatless crumbles omelette,” said a shaken Hill. “He took a bite and immediately looked up at me with a wild, terrified look in his eyes.”
The “Live Like You Were Dying” singer, long known for his strict fitness regime and healthful eating habits, began exhibiting symptoms of carb shock within minutes. EMTs performed a stomach pump at the scene, but the carb had already done its damage.
“Thankfully we got him in here quickly enough to avoid any lasting damage to his health or his ridiculously ripped physique.” Said O’Neill. Doctors expect a full recovery and release by this weekend but caution McGraw not to even so much as glance at a biscuit.
Jan 31, 2020
Worst Country Songs of the 90s
By Bobby Peacock a.k.a. TenPoundHammer
With its cheesy "dog" metaphors beaten into
oblivion (including "throw me a bone" twice) and its off-key shouted
vocals, this one is just painful to listen to. Orville Reddenbacher has made product
less corny than this. (Fun fact: One of the writers of this song has no other
entries on BMI.)
"Black Velvet" by Robin Lee
I actually liked this song until I heard the original by
Alannah Myles. Then I realized that Robin Lee's version is just a cheap karaoke
knockoff with none of Myles' smoldering passion. Why didn't Atlantic Records
just release Myles' version to country radio instead of this version that's
watered down to the point of losing all its flavor?
"Breathe" by Faith Hill
Overwrought, overplayed pop sludge without any flavor,
country or pop. I was never the biggest Faith Hill fan, but this is the point
where she pretty much lost me for good. Literally the only good thing to come
of this was my favorite Cledus T. Judd parody, the absolutely hilarious
"Breath."
"Butterfly Kisses" by Bob Carlisle
Another bombastic, strident CCM entry with an overly
saccharine set of father-daughter lyrics. What makes this even worse is that,
while Carlisle's version is utterly unlistenable, the Raybon brothers somehow
managed to salvage it by the strength of Marty Raybon's voice alone. Can you
believe this is the same guy who wrote "Why'd You Come in Here Lookin'
Like That?"
"Daddy's Little Girl" by Kippi Brannon
Not bombastic, not strident, not CCM, but still overly
saccharine father-daughter lyrics. This song has one of the most disjointed
meter and rhyme schemes imaginable. Even its timeline is off -- it jumps from
little girl to wedding, then back to teenager. At least Kippi had a good
voice, but she just never really managed to match it with anything worthwhile.
"Dancin', Shaggin' on the Boulevard" by
Alabama
Overly repetitive melody that goes nowhere. Verses that are
too damn long. Excessive name-dropping at the expense of a story. The whole
album proved that Alabama can't pull off any soulfulness whatsoever (okay,
"Sad Lookin' Moon" was good). If you want this song done right, just
listen to "Tar Top."
I took "American Boy" by Eddie Rabbitt off this list
because I felt it was sincere enough. This, on the other hand, is just a
clueless right-wing anthem shouting at Saddam without knowing what he's talking
about ("take your poison gas, stick it in your sassafras"?!). I feel
that this laid the ground work for all the MURICA songs that came out after
9/11. It's basically the "Iraq and Roll" of the 1990s, except easier
to find.
"Don't Laugh at Me" by Mark Wills
One of the frontrunners in the late 90s-early noughties
"Chicken Soup for the Soul" movement. Saccharine and manipulative as
all get out, this song did nothing but infuriate me even then with how
over-the-top it was. And I was "a little boy with glasses / the one
they call the geek" at the time it was released.
"Easy as 1, 2, 3" by The Spurs
Never heard of this one, huh? Well, it got to Top 20 in
Canada. Literally the only place you can listen to it is the lead singer's
Soundcloud ( https://soundcloud.com/user-897794179 ). Cheap bar-band sound, clashy and off-key
lead vocals, dopey lyrics, and a husband-and-wife duo that nobody remembers. I
get why CanCon laws exist, but man did they turn up some stinkers now and then.
"Forever Love" by Reba McEntire
Reba tries to get her Celine Dion on and misses big time.
That's really all I can say, because every time I listen to this song, I forget
it again about 10 seconds later.
"Holes in the Floor of Heaven" by Steve
Wariner
Another song with a saccharine metaphor that's easy to,
forgive the pun, poke holes in. If there are holes in the floor of Heaven, does
that mean the angels will be constantly falling through the holes and
crash-landing back on Earth? Why do the writers of these kinds of songs never
think their metaphors through?
"How Do I Live" by LeAnn Rimes or Trisha
Yearwood
Just like any other Diane Warren song, this is just cliché
after cliché. How do I live, how do I breathe, I can't go on without you, blah
blah blah, I've heard this exact song 600 times before. Unlike "Butterfly
Kisses" above, I feel that neither singer is able to rescue the material
in any way and both versions just come across as flat and dull.
"I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" by Mark
Chesnutt
The one exception to the Diane Warren rule is "I Don't
Want to Miss a Thing" by Aerosmith, because come on, it's freaking
Aerosmith. But giving a hard-rock song to a honky-tonker like Mark Chesnutt is
one of the most mismatched cover songs this side of the Oak Ridge Boys doing
"Seven Nation Army." Chesnutt sounds uncomfortable and heavily Auto-Tuned,
and just plain doesn't work. And to his credit, he admits this was a mistake.
My 2000s list has a lot of Martina-bashing, I know. This one
I hate for the opposite reasons: her twee, childish lisp (supposedly based off
how the demo singer sang it) is unbearably cutesy, and actually makes me wish
this song had been a belt-fest for a change. Also, if your hook is just
"baby, I love you", you might wanna try just a little harder.
"I Will Stand by You" by Corbin/Hanner
Corbin/Hanner's "Work Song" is one of my favorite
lost treasures of the 90s. But this is just a syrupy and uninspired pop love
ballad that sounds like a very, very poor-man's Bryan Adams. I guess I should
have expected some cheese from one of the guys who wrote "Lord, I Hope
This Day Is Good", but man was this ever a letdown after something so
enjoyable as "Work Song."
"It's Your Love" by Tim McGraw featuring
Faith Hill
Yet another cheesy, boring, cliché love ballad the likes of which
propagated in this era. As the song that celebrated their marriage, I never
understood why it was just a backing vocal and not a full-fledged duet. That at
least might have given it some dynamic, but instead it just feels dull, with no
spark whatsoever in the lyrics or performance.
"Kiss the Girl" by Little Texas
I like The Little Mermaid. I like the songs from The
Little Mermaid. I even like Little Texas. But doing such a lifeless and
dull take on such a colorful and catchy song? No thanks. I suppose it could
have been worse: they could have tried to mimic Sebastian the crab's accent...
"Love Can Build a Bridge" by The Judds
That cheesy, overwrought metaphor (walk all the way across
the desert to give someone a crumb of bread) sets the bombastic and hyperbolic
overtones for the rest of the song. (Also, how do you "whisper love so
loudly"? After a certain volume level, it's not whispering anymore.)
Didn't we leave this kind of overly cheery feelgood cheese back in the 70s?
"Mama's Little Baby Loves Me" by Sawyer Brown
Sawyer Brown at their most insipid. Take the obvious mama's
little baby/daddy's little girl tropes and do nothing with them except
establish that mama's little baby loves you. (Also, danger/saving is not a
rhyme.) I gotta give credit where credit is due: I thank god that Mac McAnally
discovered these guys and salvaged them.
Damn it, Bob Carlisle, I didn't want you to be on here twice.
But yeah, he came up with this doofy joke of a song full of good ol' boy tropes.
Daddy works the farm, Mama works the Dairy Queen, the narrator wears a Stetson
and kissed Mary Lou Macadoo behind the barn. Oh, and let's not forget that
pitiful hook, "I'm a redneck son of a redneck son." Just another one
of the dregs of the "hat act" era.
"Romeo" by Dolly Parton and Friends
Not one, but four women slobbering hornily over Billy Ray
Cyrus. How did Kathy Mattea, Pam Tillis, and Mary Chapin Carpenter -- three
women who rarely if ever went for the cheese factor -- get roped into this? It's
actually quite hilarious in how God-awful it is.
"Somebody Slap Me" by John Anderson
A runner-up to Miss Oklahoma who likes chili and does her own
plumbing, huh? Could you get any more cartoonishly corny? This was the last
single written by the legendary Bob McDill, and the last top-40 hit for John
Anderson to date. What a way for both to go out.
Ray Stevens is one of my childhood favorites. But this is
just flat-out offensive: it uses the Oriental riff, women singing "ah
so", and the "Japanese mix up L's and R's" pronunciation to
drive home an over-the-top message about the influx of Japanese content in the
US in the early 90s. It all seems too straightforward to be satirical, and
judging from his political material in the 21st century, I fear there may
actually be a racist old man under the comedic exterior.
Jan 21, 2020
Carl Outlaw, Real Country Fan, Reviews Tim McGraw’s “Way Down”
I don’t know what to say about this one. Mostly because I didn’t listen to it. The day I listen to a Tom McGraw song is the day I neuter myself with a spork. He’s pretty much Luke Bryan’s dad. Their’s no difference between them accept one of them is tan and skinny and the other one wears leggings. Or so I’ve heard - I never heard one note of a Luke Bryan song either.
Tom McGraw did a rap song with Nelly one time so you know he’s a wannabe loser. Country plus rap equals crap, in case you forgot. He also did a song about wearing buffalo underwear. What the f*** man? I don’t want to think about some dude in his underpants. The only good thing Tom McGraw ever did in his life is Faith Hill.
Now, this song. I read the lyrics and it’s pretty much just a geography lesson. He just says a state and then some crap that state is known for. Your and idiot if you learn anything from this song because its just stuff every body already knows. Impress me if your gonna list southern shit. Talk about Hot Stuff Eddie Gilbert and talk about Bucksnort, TN and talk about fried chicken gizzards. Nobody wants to here the four thousandth song with Big-D (I bet Tom likes [removed by editor]) and Ole Miss and grandma.
Tom McGraw and his buddy Chesney are the god fathers of bro-country and this song just proves it. Just naming a bunch of country shit and having hip-hop beats. If this is a country song, Jeffrey Epstein killed himself.
And don’t get me started on the chorus. Get this its just “way down.” That’s it but he sings it over and over until you want to drive to Tom’s house and slap him so hard that stupid shiny hat flies into his foyer. Their’s a rapper in this song to. It’s like McGraw thought to himself “what can I do to piss off Carl Outlaw so much he has to go back on blood pressure meds?” Well, good job Tom.
In closing, I’ll just say kiss every square inch of my ass, Tom McGraw, and you owe me 39 dollars for the Cardizem.
Jan 16, 2020
Pulp Fiction Country Reaction Gifs
*foul language warning*
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When "Take Me Back to Tulsa" comes on
If he's a Kane Brown fan, the answer is no
When somebody asks if I've heard Tyler Childers' music
Insert your own problematic joke about some male pop-country singer being a chick:
When you find out your friend owns the first three Rascal Flatts albums
♫ ♬ Tell St Peter at the Golden Gate
That you hate to make him wait
But you just gotta have another cigarette ♫ ♬
I was told this country radio station would be playing "Only the best country"
If you play that new Tim McGraw song around me
Tim McGraw's 15 Cringiest Lyrics
I know he didn't write these, but he picked all of the songs to record,
so there must be an issue with his discernment.
They all gather 'round my teepee
Late at night tryin' to catch a peek at me
In nothin' but my buffalo briefs
I got 'em standin' in line
“Indian Outlaw”
Farmer Johnson's daughters just pulled up in a Jeep
Man he knows how to grow 'em if ya know what I mean
"Down on the Farm"
Then you
Flipped the switch on my dumaflache
Played my piano like Liberace
"You Turn Me On"
She sits quietly there
Like water in a jar
"She's My Kind of Rain"
Back when a hoe was a hoe
Coke was a coke
And crack's what you were doing
When you were cracking jokes
Back when a screw was a screw
The wind was all that blew
And when you said I'm down with that
Well it meant you had the flu
"Back When"
I hope you both choke on a pickle
Man that would tickle me to death
"Do You Want Fries With That?"
Everybody say "Ha Ha Ha, Ha Ha Ha"
My friends are always giving me
Watches, hats, and wine
"Last Dollar (Fly Away)"
I spent fifteen hundred dollars on your damn dog's collar
Put new spinners on your Escalade
"It's a Business Doing Pleasure With You"
She ordered us a drink
It was a purple kind of pink
She said it’s got a shot of a little bit of everything
Mellow yellow umbrella for a fella like me
"Felt Good on My Lips"
Chillin' in the back room
Hangin' with my whole crew
Sippin' on a cold brew, hey now!
"Truck Yeah"
Truck Yeah
Wanna get it jacked up yeah
Let's crank it on up yeah
"Truck Yeah"
I'm in a mexicoma
My my my my my my mexicoma
"Mexicoma"
That girl, she's a party all-nighter,
A little "Funky Cold Medina," little "Strawberry Wine"-er,
That girl, she's a love gunslinger, neon jägerbomb country-okie singer
"Lookin' For That Girl"
That girl she's a sugar sweet drive-by
Hold my dreams in her blue jeans, oh my
"Lookin' For That Girl"
I'm talkin' way outside with the crickets and the dogs and the ye'haws, and the grandmas
Come on, y'all know what I'm talking about
Put your mouth to the spout where the gospel comes out
Way down, way down, way down, way down, way down, way down, way down
"Way Down"
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