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Post by Bingo on May 30, 2009 16:55:07 GMT -8
This is a list of songs in which the singer takes a swipe at a town. The Chicks' "Lubbock Or Leave It" is rated third (and they use the ACL performance video to illustrate it) www.avclub.com/articles/****-this-town-18-kissoff-songs-to-cities,2088/ Edit: I see the link won't work - mainly because the four letter word has been replaced by four stars. If you want to read the article, you'll need to paste in the whole address, and reinstate the f word in your browser address window...or better still, here's a TinyURL which should worktiny.cc/q9jhUPerhaps not surprisingly, Robbie Fulks "F**k This Town" is rated first. (I remember in an interview , Robbie said he didn't regret writing it - but if he'd known it would be mentioned in every interview and he'd always be defined by it, maybe he'd have thought twice) Some of the words may be of interest to critics of commercial Pop-Country (but some may also find them annoying - which is often the case with Robbie's satire) "Hey, this ain't Country-Western It's just soft-rock feminist crap And I thought they'd struck bottom, Back in the days of Ronnie Milsap Now they can't stop the flood of a**holes, There ain't a big enough "ASCAP" Sure, I like old Tim Carroll, and BR5-49 But Nashville don't need that noise, No, Nashville'll do just fine As long as there's a moron market And a fa**ot in a hat to sign"At least the Chicks didn't slam the door that hard!
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Post by peppermintpatti on May 30, 2009 19:33:15 GMT -8
Very cool and interesting list. I don't like the homophobia and anti-woman lyrics of Fulks song, the others on the list were pretty badass. Especially Tina's "Nutbush City Limits."
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Post by Bingo on May 30, 2009 20:32:46 GMT -8
Yes, Robbie Fulks has been criticised for that type of lyric, like Eminem and others. It's hard to know to what extent such singers hold the sentiments they express, or to what extent they're singing in character - their defenders usually argue that they're putting into song sentiments that reflect attitudes common among the people they're caricaturing, and, as such, it's a valid expression of folk art. As I said, though, listeners do often find them annoying, and sometimes argue that they're more likely to incite or perpetuate those attitudes.
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Post by peppermintpatti on May 30, 2009 22:20:08 GMT -8
I understand where your coming from Bingo. It just seemed like the sterotypical backwoods country mentality that so many country artists try to break.
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Post by Tony on May 31, 2009 6:03:39 GMT -8
Interesting stuff Bingo!
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Post by b@@b on May 31, 2009 11:48:57 GMT -8
Interesting article. (actually, the copy/paste trick didn't go to well either, untill I just pasted "18-kiss-off-songs-to-cities" into a search box. )
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