Trace Adkins - Songs About Me
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Free Music Review: Don't buy this!!
Hit: 2 Stars
I almost bought this CD. I am a big country fan and I especially like the song 'Songs about me.' What made me put it back was the song 'Arlington.' I am SO sick on country artists trying to cash in on the war and our soliders. As the wife of a solider, it seems anti-American. I hate the song itself. It glorifies dying and makes it seem romantic. For those of us who have to live with the thought everyday trust me it's not romantic. Don't support this!!!Free Music Review: Music for the imbred or those that just have no clue
Hit: 1 Stars
There is so much to say about this album. Unfortunatly nothing good.
To those who are harping on that poor woman who calls Trace and Toby 'exploiters', she is exactly right. There is no glory or honor in an illegal war. People who are in suits are making a lot of money off exploiting the military. Why do I say this? For those who don't know me I am a US Marine and I am on my second tour of Iraq. My own personal opinion is that songs like 'Arlington' make me want to vomit. 90% of the businesse that hang their 'We support the Troops' banners in military towns don't care two cents about us, they just want our money. The same goes with these heart tugging patriotic songs sung by people who have no clue what we go through. All they know about Iraq is coming over here and being treated ike a VIP and having their butts kissed by the brass. If Trace sinerely appreciates the troops fine, but let me give him and all the rest of you some advice. I (and others who serve) are sick of hearing it, because most of it is fake. Don't sing a song and laugh your way to the bank at my expense. Enough of that.
The title track 'Songs about me'? I agree with a fellow reviewer. Trace lost any credibility he had to sing a song like this that was written by someone else. The writer could have gotten Tim McGraw to sing this. This is a paint by numbers tune that has no merit or any form of sincerity. So he sings 'Songs about me' which could have been titled "Written for me" or "Songs about anybody needing a hit". And I'm supposed to beieve this guy believes in a song like Arlington? This is like Stephen King asking Dean Koontz to write his autobiography.
Now let's get to the song that made thi album a success, "Hony Tonk Badonkydonk". The first time I heard this I thought it was Weird Al Yankovic with a cold. When I found out it was a serious song written by a serious(?) country musician, I didn't know whether to laugh or wonder if the guy was on crack. "Got it goin' on like Donkey Kong?" "Whoo-wee slap your grandma"? I find it hard to believe that this song was written, produced, performed, and recorded by adults. This is not country folks, this isn't even white trash trailer music, I don't know what the heck this is. The best way I can describe this is that "Honkytonkbadonkeydonk" is the "Achy-Breaky Heart" of the 21st Century.
Free Music Review: Ready, set, aim and.........
Hit: 1 Stars
So the other day watching on yahoo music videos, I was watching videos from many metal bands, like Cryptopsy, Meshuggah, Nile, Tool, Pantera, and some other bands when all of A sudden a video popped up and there it was, Honky Tonk Badonkadunk and basically after hearing the ear deafer of a song and being hypnotized by the video(ding on the girls though) I started laughing on the fact that this song ripped off a rap saying(dumb saying anyway) and basically sugar coated it as music, country music that is. So a week later, I go to work, and my co worker was playing this album and told me "man, listen to this album, knowing how much I personally hate bad music and proceeds to play Honky Tonk, Bodunkadunk and told me what I thought, first I would have love to get this album proceed to destroy it GooD Charlotte style(read my review on GC to know how) but I told him this song was made only to appeal to the mass of people who like pop and have no clue what a real song is, no structure, no emphasis on musicianship and was made only for the purpose of making it a hit on TV, radio and on the singles chart, and for the hated NOW collection. I really don't care for country music but I do recommend a classic in American Music, Johnny Cash, live In Folsom. PeriodFree Music Review: oh man this is just terrible
Hit: 1 Stars
It's really funny that the title track of "Songs About Me" is written by...somebody else. Lots of artistic merit there, kids.
This is really bad music. All of it. Overly slicky, crappy production, digitized to the nth degree, bad singing, cheesy playing, horredous songs about as far removed from country music as humanly possible. The only thing that qualifies this album/artist as "country" is that it shares the same redneck attitudes with most modern country fans.
This isn't really a direct attack on Trace Adkins: he's just a perfect symbol of the current state of mainstream country music--an artist whose songs are hollow and without value, sold to people who don't know any better under the false pretense that this is the kind of music that speaks to, or for, them. Which is a real tragedy. Country music, when it reaches its highest peaks, is a great and beautiful art form. But this guy and his dozens of behatted and sleeveless bretheren, well, they just make my soul hurt. Selah.
Free Music Review: Looking for the bottom of the barrel? Well this is five feet below that.
Hit: 1 Stars
This album is the death knell of country music. This album has Hank Williams and Johnny Cash not only rolling over in their graves, but spinning like tops. Honky Tonk Badonkadonk? Are you kidding me? Are you serious? Is this some kind of joke or novelty album? No, I am not hallucinating, this is supposed to be taken as a serious album. This album will be scooped up by all the millions of mouth breathers out there who have no idea what country music sounds like. The word Badonkadonk has no place in a country song, EVER. I know they are trying to make country music all hip and cool and appealing to all the clods out there. By tying in country music with a word from hip-hop culture they may win over the hearts and ears of the sub-mental humanoids out there, but any true country fan has got to cringe at this song, album and artist. Seriously folks, draw a line somewhere.