Farce the Music

Jul 5, 2012

When Lil' Wayne is mentioned in the first line of a "country" song, you know it's a trucked up situation. Sure, country music has been using the "almost cursing, but not" gimmick for a few years now: Sugarland's "It Happens" and Blake Shelton's "Some Beach" spring to mind. I suppose this is the trucking logical furthest step in that progression. Still, it's pretty Ram® disconcerting that it's come to this.

The guitars on "Truck Yeah" are jacked up as a son of a trailer hitch. The lyrics are smother ducking full of hip-hop slang. Subject matter-wise (trucks, clubs, partying), if any new ground is broken here, I'll kiss your brass. The musical hook would be better described as dam.. I mean, darned (whoops, almost said a naughty word!) annoying, rather than catchy.

So basically, all we've got here is a pop country rocker (leaning towards the latter, obviously) whose ONLY brother plucking selling point is that it's built around almost saying a curse word. Boy, it takes a big ol' pair of vest nickels to write something like that, huh? No, not really. Pop music has had songs about trucking around and getting spit-faced for years, country's just catching up, in "edge" if not subject matter. Unless you're a Clearchannel chum muzzler, you can't be happy with where this genre is headed.

"Truck Yeah" is a piece of grit, and if you don't agree with this review, you better duck my kick!