Honky-Tonk Toxic
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It's a Toxic Tuesday! Break out the antacids - and get ready to get queasy!
Anyone who pays a little attention to my rantings would already know I abhor most of that phony, processed thing called New Country Music. You don't need to be a musicologist to realize that, in most cases, it's a lame, crass imitation of the fresh, heartfelt, and crafty L.A. country-rock sound developed in the early '70s by the Byrds, Poco, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Linda Ronstadt, and especially, the Eagles.
Although most of the originators' '70s tracks hold up nicely, the style can seem like a quaint throwback befitting the programming on a classic-rock radio station - where you still hear some of these artists on a regular basis. But the Nashville "brains" behind New Country "update" the genre with sing-song melodies and banal, chauvinistic and/or jingoistic sentiments to appeal to its core audience of actual and wannabe rednecks. And nobody does it dumber or more lowbrow than self-styled hick hunk and big-hat/no-cattle poster boy Trace Adkins.
Perhaps the nadir of Adkins' mercenary coarseness is his appropriation of a hip-hop slang term for a well-endowed female's hind-quarters-in-motion: "badonkadonk." The onomatopoetic word may have first hit the Zeitgeist via the 2001 song "Fatty Girl" by rapper Keith Murray, but it really went mainstream in 2002, courtesy of the lyrics to Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott's #2 hit "Work It." The irony of someone who's an idol of rednecks copping African-American argot for commercial purposes should not be lost on anyone.
Thus, the abomination "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" - released by Adkins as a single in 2005. It was a crossover success, reaching #2 on the Hot Country Songs chart, and making it into the pop Top 40. No underestimating the taste of the American public…
So welcome to Toxic Country! Give a listen, if you have the stones - or peep the video (different take/remix, same ol' crap), if you have an even stronger constitution.
Comments (21)
I'll have you know that, out of morbid curiosity more than anything, I stopped listening to Cocteau Twins to watch the video.
I'd like that 0:54 of my life back please.
Dale: Morbid Curiosity Tuesday! It's a new theme day!
sweet jesus, and I thought i hated this song the first time I heard it. His vocals coming out of my speakers..........must kill my computer
Geezus, I wonder what those women had to do to get into that video? lol What hideous song.
Rawk: Please don't kill the messenger...uh, computer. It knows not what we do.
August: I'm not calling this song misogynous, but every time it plays anywhere, Oprah gets cramps.
Ahahahahaha! I'd actually seen the vid before somewhere but not sure where. Probably someone posted it in the comments on someone's post here on mog as a joke I'm sure(at least I hope it was a joke).
The joke's on us?
I think it's on Trace actually. . . .
I watched the wretched thing on MOG at some point in the past. It must not have been tagged as such because it doesn't come up in a search (in this case, trolling for the terrible). I don't wish to repeat the experience. Once burned...
dermahrk: Can't say I blame ya. And lest anyone think I hate country music in general, the truth is that I love many of the legends of the genre as well as contemporary Country & Western artists such as Alison Krauss, Lyle Lovett, Willie Nelson, Iris DeMent, Dwight Yoakam, Emmylou Harris, etc, It's just the bogus, puerile, over-produced, faux folksy, assembly-line, M.O.R. garbage that I hate - in other words, most of the baloney that sells big in the hinterlands and wins CMA awards. If I had my way, Big & Rich would be much smaller and poorer - and "American Idol" would never have existed so Carrie Underwood would never have had a career.
I think that Toxic Tuesday just reached barf-worthy levels. I do believe that congratulations are in order.
I feel DIRTY for listening to that.
Feeling & being dirty are the same for you da Pumah, isn't it? hee hee!
Ever since I stopped licking my fur {oh be nice} to avoid hairballs..... :)
haha!
Just what I feared. (Hoped?) The toxicity has turned normally upright citizens (ha!) down 'n' dirty. I'd apologize, but what good would it do?
Leave it to I Left Something Turned On At Home Trace Adkins to sing this.Enjoyed Da Listen.Love it.Your Mog Bro.~(;Yrral Mallik AKA Larry Killam of Facebook group Songwriters 770 members and growing;)
Well, all righty, Larry! Nice to have ya on board!
Hey, watch who you're calling upright citizens Mike! That's no way to treat a fur licker or me either @;P No apology necessary!
Sensitive eyes and ears like mine must be averted from this toxic dump. I'll just go watch Generation Kill and get some real misogyny.
August: Just found out that it's "Treat a Fur-Licker to Lunch Week," so get treating!
Jonh: Feel the hate. Compelling but unpleasant, isn't it?
Noice find, haha!