Remember our response to the Washington Post?
Well here's another reminder that it's not just Stephen Colbert fans creating viral content online:
Brad fuckin Paisley, hosting a green screen video contest. Alongside his insightful video for "Online", Paisley moves to the front of the pack of the internet-savvy country stars. There are some really weird replies to the video challenge, and clearly, Brad has invigorated the country fans who *get* the internet, as the Post might say.
So, I'm appointing him the Blog For My Horses Contemporary Country Ambassador to The Internet. Just because country music might just be the last genre of music to sell CDs, have a popular broadcast awards show, and actually have hits on the radio, doesn't mean that it's not an internet-friendly genre, and Mr. Paisley is the man to prove it.
Don't fuck it up, Brad! And good luck tonight at the CMTs. Twitter that shit, if you can.
Showing posts with label Brad Paisley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brad Paisley. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
Its almost here!!! CMT Music Awards preview part # 1
Shit ya'll. It kinda snuck up on us, but the biggest country event of the year is upon us. The CMT Music Awards are fucking tomorrow! Can't believe I didn't know that until yesterday and I'm freaking out a bit as I'm feeling a bit out of the loop as to what's hot now in country. (I'm still playing catch up, I'm almost up to 2008.) Figured this is a good chance to catch up on the nominees and find out what the hell is going on. I must say though, not too plussed on the night's host, Bill Engvall. Was Foxworthy or Larry the Cable guy not available? I think it would be sweet if Toby Keith hosted it, but he's always nominated so I understand the conflict of interests.
Your host, Bill Engvall
Ok. I'm sorta psyched on the host, I spoke too soon before. Nascar jokes, poop jokes, Walmart jokes, Skymall jokes. I'm not above any of this.
First off, I think Tyler B. would be happy to know that "Chicken Fried" was nominated for "group video" of the year. I'm pulling for it, but the alarmingly metrosexual Rascal Flatts is up for two nommies as well out of the 4 videos up for the award. Seems like their video for "Everyday" is the one to beat with nominations in multiple categories.
So the chorus for this one is "everyday you save my life", and true to country form there's a scene with an EMT, white people adopting a chinese boy, pulling a guy out of the way of a bus. Everytime someone's life is literally saved, one of the bros in the band creepily walks by the scene. Not sure I'm getting the symbolism. Next!
Trace Adkins is up for a few awards too. Embracing a softer side lately, this is a song about the kids growing up too fast.
Not nearly as awesome as his song "Marry For Money" which is way funnier, tastefully stealing a page from the Toby Keith playbook. Like Rascall Flatts "Everyday" this video is kind of a bummer too. Maybe even more so that they're playing down Trace's 3 foot long ponytail in this vid...next.
Phew. I can always count on Brad Paisley to bring the energy level up. This vid is solid. "Waitin' On A Woman" is a just a song/video about just that. I'm so sick of women taking their sweetass time, making me late and waiting and shit.
Brad gets to show off his acting chops again, sitting on a bench with an old dude (Matlock?). Talking about how in the end women are worth waiting for. Christ. Women, god bless them.
Tomorrow the preview continues.
Your host, Bill Engvall
Ok. I'm sorta psyched on the host, I spoke too soon before. Nascar jokes, poop jokes, Walmart jokes, Skymall jokes. I'm not above any of this.
First off, I think Tyler B. would be happy to know that "Chicken Fried" was nominated for "group video" of the year. I'm pulling for it, but the alarmingly metrosexual Rascal Flatts is up for two nommies as well out of the 4 videos up for the award. Seems like their video for "Everyday" is the one to beat with nominations in multiple categories.
So the chorus for this one is "everyday you save my life", and true to country form there's a scene with an EMT, white people adopting a chinese boy, pulling a guy out of the way of a bus. Everytime someone's life is literally saved, one of the bros in the band creepily walks by the scene. Not sure I'm getting the symbolism. Next!
Trace Adkins is up for a few awards too. Embracing a softer side lately, this is a song about the kids growing up too fast.
Not nearly as awesome as his song "Marry For Money" which is way funnier, tastefully stealing a page from the Toby Keith playbook. Like Rascall Flatts "Everyday" this video is kind of a bummer too. Maybe even more so that they're playing down Trace's 3 foot long ponytail in this vid...next.
Phew. I can always count on Brad Paisley to bring the energy level up. This vid is solid. "Waitin' On A Woman" is a just a song/video about just that. I'm so sick of women taking their sweetass time, making me late and waiting and shit.
Brad gets to show off his acting chops again, sitting on a bench with an old dude (Matlock?). Talking about how in the end women are worth waiting for. Christ. Women, god bless them.
Tomorrow the preview continues.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Dude is into ex-patriate WWI literature, I guess.
I'm dropping an exception to the rule posted in yesterday's Rodney Adkins post: sometimes contemporary country moves out of the generally awesome literal lyric to attempt experimental poetry, and sometimes, the results are exceptional.
Most of the time "I" in a contry song will refer directly to the singer, or a more kick-ass version of the singer: like Garth Brooks, where he's always the sad-sexy cowboy with a heart of gold and a woman waiting somewhere for him at home. That's some poignant shit, Garth!
In his hit song 'Alcohol', Brad Paisley sings AS alcohol, going from metaphor to some real anthropomorphic shit, breaking down the notable actions of alcohol, which include:
- Making white people dance
- Getting people pregnant
- Speeches by the best man at a wedding
- Making Hemingway write the way he did
Indeed, in the second verse, Paisley (as alcohol) credits himself for making 'Hemingway write the way he did', hitting the cross-section of fans who watch Nascar and ponder the narrator's anguish in 'The Sun Also Rises'. Truly cutting, Mr. Paisley. I'm really hoping he takes on other high modernists, like the way overrated Ezra Pound. Fingers crossed.
Also: note that the video again loves breaking this shit down lyrically -- dude with lampshade, check. Pregnant lady, check. Thanks for making this one easy on us, Brad! Embedding disabled, click the screenshot to head to the link.
also -- Brad is actually a pretty stellar Merle Haggard-style guitar player, if you listen between the sweet-assed verses. He rips it up between his working-class insights, and 'Alcohol' is better off for it.
Most of the time "I" in a contry song will refer directly to the singer, or a more kick-ass version of the singer: like Garth Brooks, where he's always the sad-sexy cowboy with a heart of gold and a woman waiting somewhere for him at home. That's some poignant shit, Garth!
In his hit song 'Alcohol', Brad Paisley sings AS alcohol, going from metaphor to some real anthropomorphic shit, breaking down the notable actions of alcohol, which include:
- Making white people dance
- Getting people pregnant
- Speeches by the best man at a wedding
- Making Hemingway write the way he did
Indeed, in the second verse, Paisley (as alcohol) credits himself for making 'Hemingway write the way he did', hitting the cross-section of fans who watch Nascar and ponder the narrator's anguish in 'The Sun Also Rises'. Truly cutting, Mr. Paisley. I'm really hoping he takes on other high modernists, like the way overrated Ezra Pound. Fingers crossed.
Also: note that the video again loves breaking this shit down lyrically -- dude with lampshade, check. Pregnant lady, check. Thanks for making this one easy on us, Brad! Embedding disabled, click the screenshot to head to the link.
also -- Brad is actually a pretty stellar Merle Haggard-style guitar player, if you listen between the sweet-assed verses. He rips it up between his working-class insights, and 'Alcohol' is better off for it.
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