You always have to love RW singer hypocrisy

[Wetzelbill]

Like last January when Toby Keith, who likes to call himself a "Conservative Democrat", told Newsday that he never ever supported the war in Iraq and that he believes there should be benchmarks. Never mind that the dipshit revitalized his career through major warmongering and blatantly shameless lyrics like "We'll put a boot in your ass."

But now we have Darryl Worley, who wrote probably the dumbest song ever, "Have You Forgotten?" which equates invading Iraq as somehow having something to do with retribution for September 11th. Now Darryl, who just like Keith, revitalized his career by shamelessly playing up hyperpatriotic, RW jingoism, has engaged in the decidedly "unconservative" action of posing for Playgirl. Worley, who must not realize that Playgirl's readers are mostly men which is another issue all together, wants to change his image from a guy who sings serious songs to the free-spirit that he really is.

Ok.

What.

A.

Bunch.

Of.

Hypocritical.

Assholes.

All I can say is, some people have no sense of shame whatsoever.

[tabasco]

1. That is a sickening song.

"Have You Forgotten" there were no Iraqis on those planes and no WMDs, assholes?

[Wetzelbill]

3. Many good people died for ignorance like that

He literally made money and furthered his career off of the lives of people. What a shame.

[tularetom]

2. There's a lot of good country music out there

Why would anybody listen to these fuckwads when you can hear Steve Earle, Robert Earl Keen or Billy Joe Shaver. Not to mention old timers like Merle Haggard.

Patriotic songs are ok but that macho ass kickin stuff is crap.

[Wetzelbill]

4. I grew up on country music

I still like a lot of it, but man, these guys and these bullshit songs are just cringe-inducingly embarrassing. Perpetuating ignorance like that and tapping into anger and patriotism is a cheap way to get a career boost and make a buck.

[Warren DeMontague]

14. I'm not big on "Country" per se, but I've got a Robert Earl Keen tune on my ipod.

Good stuff. Steve Earle I would put in the category of alt-country, like Jay Farrar & Son Volt.

And everybody has to love Willie.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

5. If you have ever spent any time in Nashville...

You would know that the way things work there, the singers rarely get to pick their own songs. The record companiy A&R men and the record producers pick the songs, usually written by record company staff writers and they sing them and that's that. Buck the system and you will be back in Dog's Rectum AL, at your old job, pumping diesel at the Starvin' Marvin, so fast your nose will bleed.

Look at Mindy McCready and her travails of late. She got in a bit of trouble, back in the beginning, and boyee, that was it. The rest of it was acting out because she could not accept that she had been cut off from the Nashville star machine and that was that. The black spot has been put next to her name in Nashville. her only possibility of some kind of redemption is to straighten herself up and get in with Big & Rich and that Nashville Mafia scene.

When I met her, back in 96, on the Seger tour, she was hotter than a pistol, a queen of the Nashville scene and the only woman at the show who was more stunningly beautiful was Emmylou. Everyone was fawning on Mindy.

OMG. Emmylou. She made me stutter and stammer like an anacephalic. Ethereal.

[mitchum]

6. That is why so much of the country singer myth has to be that whole...

"independent, free spirit, make my own way" schtick. Because it is a myth.
From it's very beginnings, the country music industry of Nashville has dictated and controlled the output of its performers far more than any other genre of popular music.

[cynatnite]

9. And two thumbs up to Waylon for changing that...at least a little...

Remember how he started his own label because of that? I miss that guy.

[mitchum]

11. Exactly! The reason that Jennings, Willie Nelson, Buck Owens, Cash...

Harris and a few others are considered to be exceptional...is because they were exceptions to the long running Nashville prefab model.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

12. Trust me when I tell you...

That when it come to the image of any singer or band, it ain't but a steam pile of horseshit foisted upon a gullible record buying public. The ones that try to live the image are the ones that end up in the gutter, rehab, cadging drinks at the newest and hottest rock bar in LA(Hey! Do you know who I used to be??!!) or in the gutter, dead or worse.

The stories I can tell.

[Wetzelbill]

7. yeah but Toby Keith and Darryl Worley wrote those songs

and did a whole lot of speaking out even in the MSM to perpetuate their bullshit. Especially TK. Not everybody in country music were blatantly exploiting 9/11 for career gain like those guys were.

Mindy McCready. I used to have it for her. Her videos would come on, damn I thought she was so hot, haha. I feel bad that she's hit on such hard times. Nobody deserves that terror. I've had family members addicted to painkillers, so I know, firsthand, that she's in a rough spot. Very tragic.

[TwilightGardener]

15. My husband was hot for her too. He doesn't like country music,

but boy, for a while there in the mid-90's he was right there on the couch next to me voluntarily suffering through CMT in case one of her videos came on. And then she married Superman, and then she went away...

[rucky]

8. I guess we'll see exactly what a hypocritical asshole looks like.

In graphic detail.

we'll, I won't, but...

[Swamp Rat]

10. I miss The Man In Black!

:(

[BlooInBloo]

13. Best one ever was that spoof video of the hottie singing about how her crotch turned into a desert.

Anyone got a link to that?