fit well with "cruise (nelly remix)"
― da croupier, Monday, 9 March 2015 19:23 (nine years ago) link
i don't understand the boyband connection
― dyl, Monday, 9 March 2015 19:25 (nine years ago) link
strip away the banjos toppings and I LOVE SWAMPS lyrics and you've basically got "Larger Than Life"
― da croupier, Monday, 9 March 2015 19:28 (nine years ago) link
hmm yeah i guess so, i always think of the gentler boyband songs when i think of boybands i suppose
forgot to mention that i also really don't like "that's my kind of night"
― dyl, Monday, 9 March 2015 19:32 (nine years ago) link
well luke's got gentler songs too. but more broadly my point is that it was some late-'90s/early-'00s pop business, the logical progression after darius rucker
― da croupier, Monday, 9 March 2015 19:33 (nine years ago) link
(and to further it along, i don't think it's a coincidence that "hick-hop" is came 15 years after eminem)
― da croupier, Monday, 9 March 2015 19:35 (nine years ago) link
A lot more hard rock guitar than Backstreet had on these kind of songs though
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Monday, 9 March 2015 19:47 (nine years ago) link
I get the Rucker comparison -- basically a good time dude who talks about partying more than he actually parties and doesn't want to piss anyone off. That's why he's crossed over while Brantley Gilbert and Dierks Bentley haven't. I don't dislike him but other than "Buzzkill" and "Drunk on You" he's a flat EKG reading for me.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 March 2015 19:48 (nine years ago) link
yes and references to trucks
xpost arrrggggh omg guys basically i'm just saying whatever was pop in the sticks is fair-game for country 15 years later. hootie got inducted into the club, then cute boys humping the air, eminem, etc
― da croupier, Monday, 9 March 2015 19:50 (nine years ago) link
I've actually liked Rucker's country material more than Bryan's.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 March 2015 19:50 (nine years ago) link
"Drink a Beer" is ridiculous but I generally like his songs, love "All My Friends Say" a lot and I think his borrowings from R&B and hip hop are more "progressive" than duetting with LL Cool J
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 9 March 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link
yeah personally i love the weird sort of paradox in country where saying "hey didn't we all blast the marshall mathers lp in high school" gets you labeled a "progressive"
― da croupier, Monday, 9 March 2015 19:59 (nine years ago) link
ha i saw this dude two nights ago at a country festival here, def thought he was basically boyband hooks x bryan adams. none of his stuff was actively amazing (though after florida georgia line it was so welcome), the hookier and more uptempo the better. that "drink a beer" song made me want to cringe into a ball though, absolutely abysmal
― lex pretend, Monday, 9 March 2015 21:12 (nine years ago) link
here is the only thing Luke Bryan has ever done that I have enjoyed:
http://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/see-luke-bryan-slap-fan-at-charlie-daniels-concert-w453237
― ¶ (DJP), Thursday, 1 December 2016 19:50 (seven years ago) link
Ha. tight pants...
― curmudgeon, Friday, 2 December 2016 14:45 (seven years ago) link
his dedication to spring break is really inspiring― J0rdan S., Monday, March 9, 2015 12:13 PM (two years ago)
― J0rdan S., Monday, March 9, 2015 12:13 PM (two years ago)
this is so good
― alpine static, Monday, 18 December 2017 08:12 (six years ago) link