Even known assholes don't come up with concept albums slavering to send our "top guns" after Saddam (sounds like "Satan"), complaining to Lincoln about "nuisance suits," and advocating the freelance murder of miscreants who beat the rap (he claims). Take it as proof that Monday-night football is a rightwing plot. And ask the RIAA why his guns 'n vengeance don't rate a warning sticker. C-
Unleashed [DreamWorks, 2002]With America lighting up one too many places like the Fourth of July, I went back and tried to hate "Courtesy of the Red White and Blue" like I oughta, but it was still too pithy and heartfelt, and the album still gave up a colloquial aptness and easy masculinity I'd overlooked. But obscured by the uproar is a piece of work as immoral as "One in a Million" or "Black Korea"--no, worse. I can forgive duet partner Willie Nelson almost anything, but I'm appalled that he lent his good name to "Beer for My Horses," which not only naturalizes lynching but makes it seem like fun on a Friday night. True, the horses the mob rides evoke Hollywood westerns. Right, there is "too much corruption," though somebody should tell these yokels that "crime in the streets" dropped in the good old days when we had an economy. But the racial coding of the "gangsters" the song sends to their maker needs no explanation. And those "evil forces" who "blow up a building" ain't bomber pilots, now are they? B/E
>>129406897this was the beginning of modern pandering buttcountry. album deserves that grade.
>>129407014the strangest thing to me about Toby Keith is that he did this whole big career with all of these hits and post 9/11 shit, and then died in a tragic way that was kinda sad, even for regular people who hated his music and message, but country music fans didn't lionize him at all. Like, whatsoever. No big tributes or one of his songs re-charts or anything, it was just like, they paid their due respects and then went back to work. It always just seemed so... idunno, irreverent or whatever. Even for trashy rednecks.
>>129407099it's like they were trying to do a right wing inversion of lefty protest folk but forgot that political music is grating and nobody likes it even if you agree with the message. the OP album is every bit as obnoxious as Peter, Paul, and Mary.
>>129406897Everything in America is Bread and Circus to distract for a grandplan of Elites already doing moves. sometimes those grandplans are Good and genuinely benefit humanity in the long run, but other times they are Epstein Island.
>>129407162ur a circus. we'll stick a boot in your ass, it's the american way.
