Beer for my Horses. Waah

[Ratty]

As some people know, I hate music. I never listen to it. EXCEPT for when the clock radio goes off. Then it's usually a scramble to turn it off before I hear too much music. But every once in a great while I hear something interesting and I lie there and listen to it. This morning it was a country western tune. It had some great instrumentals and really interesting harmonies. I never hear lyrics too well but what I could make out sounded fun.

So I look it up on Google using the few words I could catch "beer horses whiskey men" Yeah! So it's Willie nelson and Toby Keith. Isn't Toby Keith the guy who's in those Ford Truck commercials? I also vaguely recollect he's conservative, but that's no surprise in Country Western Music. Then I read the lyrics:

Grandpappy told my pappy, back in my day, son
A man had to answer for the wicked that he done
Take all the rope in Texas
Find a tall oak tree, round up all of them bad boys
Hang them high in the street for all the people to see that

Justice is the one thing you should always find
You got to saddle up your boys
You got to draw a hard line
When the gun smoke settles we’ll sing a victory tune
We’ll all meet back at the local saloon
We’ll raise up our glasses against evil forces
Singing whiskey for my men, beer for my horses

We got too many gangsters doing dirty deeds
We’ve got too much corruption, and crime in the streets
It’s time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground
Send ’em all to their maker and he’ll settle ’em down
You can bet he’ll set ’em down ’cause ...

Waah. I so rarely like any music and this one was really, really catchy. I'm humming it right now. But it's pretty loathsome. The timing of its release is questionable. Is it just me or does it seem like a veiled tribute to Bush and his cowboy hardline attitude? Is it as pro-death penalty as it seems? Or is it an innocent homage to a simpler time when things were black and white and people didn't think much beyond their gut instincts?

[MiddleRiverRefugee]

1. To tell the truth, I find it kind of medieval...

Also, Toby Keith is way overrated.

Willie, on the other hand, I hope he takes any proceeds from this song and contributes 'em to the Kucinich campaign. Wouldn't put it past him..

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Without a doubt...

One of the dumbest, most jingoistic songs ever, written to appeal to those for whom no amount of revenge would ever be sufficient.

A paen to vigilantism. Great. Just what we need. Friggn' brill.

Every time the song comes on the radio at work, my eyes cross and I grit my teeth to keep from throwing the radio out the front window.

On edit: And it ain't country. Hank was country. EmmyLou is country. Dolly is country. Willie is generally country. It's Southern Rock with a little pedal steel and fiddle.

[Ratty]

7. You learn something new everyday on DU

And it ain't country. Hank was country. EmmyLou is country. Dolly is country. Willie is generally country. It's Southern Rock with a little pedal steel and fiddle.

I didn't know that. I always just thought country was country. Actually I think I like Southern Rock (when I like music at all).

[regnaD kciN]

8. From the same mind (?) that brought you...

Justice will be served
And the battle will rage
This big dog will fight
When you rattle his cage
And you’ll be sorry that you messed with
The U.S. of A.
`Cause we`ll put a boot in your ass
It`s the American way

:puke:

[mac56]

3. Yes, yes, and maybe.

Does it seem like a veiled tribute to Bush and his cowboy hardline attitude? Absolutely.

Is it as pro-death penalty as it seems? Definitely (goes with the first answer above).

Or is it an innocent homage to a simpler time when things were black and white and people didn't think much beyond their gut instincts? Probably, but that doesn't negate the first two answers.

Toby Keith is a right-wing assclown, most famous for taking cheap shots at the Dixie Chicks, showing Photoshopped images of them with Saddam during his concerts, and so forth.

I'm sorely disappointed in Willie for his part in this song. He must really need the money.

[regnaD kciN]

9. Now that Toby's popularized vigilante lynch-mobs...

...we'll next see him give us a song in favor of the KKK. Call it "Courtesy of the White, White, and White"...

:evilgrin:

[ArkDem]

4. This is definately the work of the BFEE.

They must have paid off Willie Nelson or held his family hostage.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. I think Big Country Music is scared shitless

about the divisiveness that Shrubya's policies are creating among artists. Part of the "down-home appeal" of the genre is the closeness and support that the artists have always seemed to share....that and the fact that some nobody from nowhere who was pretty average-looking could climb to the top if s/he had the talent and was willing to work hard.

The corporate practice of stomping on anyone who doesn't play their game their way has turned the country music industry into hypocrisy.

[Boudicea]

6. Glad to know why I keep seeing a sign on Music Row

that says beer for my horses.

[MissMarple]

10. Toby Keith was too quick to slam the Dixie Chicks. He's devisive and

after listening to his song, I think it's "What Do You Think Of Me Now?", a post famous fantasy about showing up a girl who wouldn't go out with him in high school, he may be a bit of a misogynist.

[Deja Q]

11. F.U.T.K. (the actual message is better than the subject line)

His philosophy and ass-kissing is very nice and all, but there are plenty of civilized countries around the world who see these actions of Bush's* as being that of a gangster, causing the corruption and crime in the streets.

People like TK, Bush, the Taliban/Al Quaeda, Hussein - ALL of them are dangers to civilized society. Why can't we kill everybody and then not worry about having a society? That seems to be Bush's mantra, if not his ultimate goal.

TK is a DF.