brad paisley, has their ever been an artist w. a v. good voice so ill served by his material ?

He grew on me, too, since my post way upthread from four years ago (mostly thanks to his guitar playing, but once in a while thanks to his songs, too. Has more of a sense of humor than I would have guessed.)

geir otm

Arguably, the three tenors (Pavarotti, Domingo, Carreras) may belong here too.

uh WAHT

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2010/07/brad-paisley-cartoon-captions.html

better than a lot of the winners imo

that first one is pretty good! Second one sounds like it could be a punchline to one of his songs. He might be the dad-jokiest musician ever, and I love him for it.

sexy as hell.

New Yorker profile: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/02/100802fa_fact_sanneh

What I wrote about him in the Voice last year, fwiw (a while after I'd come around to his stuff, or a lot of it anyway):

http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-10-13/music/brad-paisley-is-ready-to-make-nice/

I got Mud on the Tires last month, and the only song that stuck (heh heh) was the one about cigars. He should stick to songs about "stuff" (like "Water"). Otherwise he slips too easily into boilerplate when bored.

Looking at the original premise of this thread, I find it kinda odd. Nobody is into Paisley because of his voice--in country terms it's serviceable but hardly distinctive. He's a good songwriter and a great guitar player who doesn't venture out of his comfort zone. I like the guy and think he could do a lot more were he not into makin' zillions of dollars as a country musician. So you gotta love him because he's a success and modest about it.

No discussion on his latest album?

Is it good? Love "Water".

wtf at this shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=a_qbt1EVuw8

brad paisley: so like i get that the confederate flag is offensive to black people and i'm sympathetic but also i'm proud of where i'm from but i don't want to offend you but we have to realize we can't change the past so i guess just deal with it?
ll cool j: ok i'm going to do the world's worst rap now

Some discussion here: Anticipate Brad Paisley's "Wheelhouse"

one time i was flipping around on tv and i turned to pbs and they were showing a recent steve miller band concert and it was all original steve miller band, all old white guys, except the keyboard player was a younger black guy, and they did they long jammed-out version of "fly like an eagle" with a million solos and weird parts and then they break it down and the keyboard player comes out front and starts doing this rap about "you got to fly like an eagle and you can see/we need to live in peace and harmony" and it still wasn't as bad as ll cool j in that brad paisley song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knVbfhmME1g

"they called it Reconstruction / fixed the buildings, dried some tears"

lol

I am literally beside myself

If you don't judge my gold chains
I'll forget about your iron chains

send this shit to #1 immediately

i plan on using this song to instantly rebut anyone who tries to persuade me there's anything worthwhile going on in "modern country"

you needn't get smug if you haven't heard Ne-Yo and Tim McGraw.

tbh i do think it's a little interesting that paisley's trying to write a nondogmatic, even-handed song about a controversial topic, like just from a songwriting perspective, but otoh there's a reason people don't generally try to do that and also ll cool j is garbage

He's also written a few good songs that touch on being a southern liberal without being as dogmatic and stupid as this one.

brad paisley "ok some people think grits are gross, but i like grits, and they're part of my heritage, but i don't want to offend you when i eat grits, but grits have been around for a long time and we can't turn back history"
ll cool j "is it time for me to do a shitty rap yet? it is? cool."

it's just so weird that this actually got released. like I can see LL, Paisely, producers, label dudes all letting it get as far as a rough mix. or even a final mix. but how nobody at any point puts his foot down and says BRAD. LL. DO YOU WANT TO GO VIRAL WHEN THE ENTIRE WORLD LOLS is beyond me, everybody's got managers and press people, literally nobody had the fortitude to go GUYS. GUYS. DON'T DO THIS

Haven't heard this yet, but did't Paisley do this thing already re: the confederate flag?

Camouflage:

Well, the stars and bars offend some folks
And I guess I see why
But nowadays there's still a way
To show your Southern pride

The only thing as patriotic
As the old red, white and blue
It's green and gray and black
And brown and tan all rolled into ....

man I don't remember that Camoflauge verse

that one isn't bad!

that one = "Camouflage"

the fact that "Accidental Racist" starts with:

To the guy who waited on me
At the Starbucks down on Main
I hope you understand

is the most amazing thing

yeah I was like "ooh this is gonna be good"

Holy shit this song.

To the guy who gave stinkeye
for my stars and bars tattoo
I'm now inspired to share in song
a different point of view

gave me stinkeye dammit, numbers count

"but how nobody at any point puts his foot down and says BRAD. LL. DO YOU WANT TO GO VIRAL WHEN THE ENTIRE WORLD LOLS is beyond me"

they probably stopped there and were like YES, OF COURSE.

"We're still paying for the mistakes that a bunch of folks made long before we came."

Oh wah. WAH. Shut up. SHUT UP.

what the actual fuck??

haha i peeped this song title/feature credit on the tracklist of his album like a month ago and had been rubbing my hands in anticipation ever since

"We're still paying for the mistakes that a bunch of folks made long before we came."

Guilty! Of! Being! White!

oh my god LL Cool J what on earth are you doing?????

"The relationship between the Mason-Dixon needs some fixin'" - lmao i hear this like "punk rock girl" by the dead milkmen

did not expect this to be a 6 minute power ballad

Worse than the KRS-One rap on Too Much Joy's "Good Kill"

ll is ready to forget those iron chains, v charitable imo

"The relationship between the Mason-Dixon needs some fixin'" - lmao i hear this like "punk rock girl" by the dead milkmen

hahaha YES

mason dixon needs some non-phixion

glad brad paisley and ll cool j are finally starting that honest conversation about race we have been afraid to have

oh I thought this thread was revived to discuss how "Perfect Storm" sucks.

Continuing to be the king of amateur cover art:

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/tasteofcountry.com/files/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-03-at-5.36.54-PM.png

still can't get over his career downturn album literally featuring him about to belly flop on the cover

Social media was undecided on whether his dig at country music's predominantly white stars (and predominantly white fan base) was funny or racist.

I really hope to see a sentence open with "Social media was decided on..." someday.

lol

He should put out another shut up and play your guitar album.

Speaking of which, occurred to me that I never listened to his last one or the most recent one. Am I missing anything? I sort of think I have as much by this guy as I need.

It's better than his last. I still listen to "You Shouldn't Have To" and "Shattered Glass."

It's like he's on the fast path to late-era Prince, from "hey, check this out!!" to "hey, this isn't that bad" to "hmm, I liked the last one better" to "ho hum, another record with one or two worthwhile tracks."

Occurred to me that I still haven't bothered with his last two, and that we are also probably due a new one. It's too bad he's such a huge star, because I'd love someone to cut his budget in half.

Brad Paisely, where is the song to unify us all right now?

Like all fading stars, he's taken to TV.

I heard him guest hosting some comedy show on satellite radio.

Apparently his Netflix comedy special, which was released today, features bestiality and incest jokes.

On this one year anniversary of the invasion, I'm reminded of the ways we are all so similar.
Here is the first song available from my new project. This is "Same Here". Featuring Pres. Volodymyr Zelenskyy (@ZelenskyyUa)https://t.co/oWdVc8e7dv pic.twitter.com/AsivvDponb

— Brad Paisley (@BradPaisley) February 24, 2023

The comments are, predictably, a shit-show. He's well past his A-list days, but this still strikes me as a pretty gutsy thing for someone in the current country industry to put out. I'm sure John Rich will be screaming about it by the end of the day...

As the sun rises and sets, this grifter is using Paisley's song with Zelensky to push his own invented persecution narrative: pic.twitter.com/E0mDxSTOLR

— Country Universe (@CountryUniverse) February 25, 2023

... And I was right. Neat-o.

Arguably, the three tenors (Pavarotti, Domingo, Carreras) may belong here too.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:46 PM bookmarkflaglink

uh WAHT

― HI DERE, Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:52 PM bookmarkflaglink