😂😂😂 I know it's an old comment but I'm never gonna be able to unsee that 😂😂😂 he really does look like someone took all the charm away from Chris Evans 😂😂😂
Music Is Life That's what I was thinking too, when I saw this Sam dude from a distance in this video, I was thinking "when and why did Chris Evans start making awful country music?" He's got more talent, and charisma than that. I also thought, just now, that maybe he's an evil version of Chris Evans, from an alternate universe, where instead of playing one of the best superheroes ever, he decided to become a shitty country artist and further drag down the probably once good name of country music and forsake his career for an awful song about trying to fuck a back road. Either way, it's an awful song.
PK Productions Hick hop is already existing (unfortunately) thing. If you want to witness the abomination yourself, the Jawga Boyz are one of the most popular.
Fun Fact: Because of his accent, when I first heard this song, I thought he was saying driving with my ass closed. It took me six re listens to finally understand what he was saying.
In the Sia song "Cheap Thrills" I kept singing "hit the dumpster" because I thought she was so broke she was dumpster diving. I should have realized that, in typical Sia fashion, she was putting on some mystery accent to force the words to rhyme instead of using different words, and therefore "dance floor" became "dunce fluh", causing me to hear "dumpster".
There's a British expression "face like fifty miles of bad road".....roads are not good metaphors for sexy women, they're used to invoke loneliness, jobs that involve travel, etc.
Filed for divorce at month 5 of pregnancy and withdrew at month 8. Then he made Todd's country-heavy best of 2022 list when the kid was seven months old.
I think more like this review is a perfect example of how not to understand a metaphor despite being explained after the metaphor. Watch this video for a debunk of this. th-cam.com/video/N1g-EIEy6Sw/w-d-xo.html
@@DrZuluGaming We understand it just fine. It's just that it's so easily twistable that it should never pass for a compliment...plus it sucks as a song in all other respects. The beat (lol) is awful, the singing is monotone to the point of sounding like he's half asleep. Yeah, that could support the message of the song, because he's "driving with his eyes closed"...bullshit. Excuse for being lazy.
What continually amazes me about bro-country is the things that they choose as cultural signifiers and how they're not even *remotely* unique to rural America. Roads with curves, dirt roads, blue jeans (optionally ripped) t-shirts, pick-up trucks, bonfires, red solo cups, beer on a Friday .... uh yeah. Urban and suburban America has/does all that stuff. Also, _for the love of god_, "Southside" doesn't mean the American South.
It's because none of them really grew up in rural america, they grew up in some moderately sized city/suburban area, and are just picking random stereotypes of stereotypes to sing about, because that's all they know.
See, now that would be interesting. Could even be successful. Imagine a country artist who basically was the Kendrick Lamar of country: speaking honestly and frankly about the problems that rural (and even suburban) white communities currently face. Shit like the opiate epidemic, jobs leaving for the cities leaving broken, abandoned towns and factories, endemic racism, etc. I'd at least give that a listen.
Rip Steakface: You might enjoy "Big Day in a Small Town" by Brandy Clark. The songwriting of the album is based off of the problems and triumphs that take place in a typical American small town. I know recommendations don't often work out, but I figured I'd mention it if you're interested. Not surprisingly, the album is too intelligent/complex for modern country radio, but there are a lot of good alternative/indie/non-radio country artists making great music. (Jason Isbell, Lydia Loveless, Lori McKenna, etc)
While I vaguely agree... Back roads are often far more curvy. Big roads are often scarily straight. I went through a couple hundred miles of road carved through enormous rock hills recently. Dirt roads are uncommon in suburban areas, and don't exist in urban ones. Blue jeans are absolutely more of a rural than an urban thing. Pick up trucks are pretty rare in cities, unless someone travels out or works certain jobs, whereas they are nigh omnipresent in rural areas. Bonfires don't really happen in suburban or urban areas.
So country is having its "nu metal" moment where suddenly every artist thinks they can rap because they can rhyme a few words and it has progressively less and less to say. Don't worry, a few years, everyone will be sick of it and there will be a backlash. Just like nu metal.
If Sam Hunt can compliment a woman by commenting about how she's like a familiar stretch of road then I can too. "Ahem...baby you're like the stretch of Route 95 North between Providence and Attleboro."
"Girl, your body's unkempt, unreliable, and an accident just waiting to happen. Still, you're there and nobody else is using you at the moment, so let me get on you before I kick rocks." So, I really liked that saying and figured I could come up with a wordier way to say it and impress women, but I got slapped 5 different times when I said it. Oh well, I guess it's back to "Your clothes, my bedroom floor? Let's peep this out."
Seeing the audience in this live performance mouthing along with the lyrics and grooving along with the beat almost makes me think humanity is unsalvageable.
+peterfinnfilms To be fair, even the audience seemed rather bored during Sam Hunt's performance and they looked like they were simply going through the motions rather than genuinely enjoying the song.
Quite. Look closely at their faces and they way they move. They're trying _so damn hard_ to smile, and it just isn't working anymore. If they ever wanted to be there... they don't anymore.
englishhedgehog7 My thoughts exactly! 3:45-3:49 That audience is a bunch of white people in their forties awkwardly, and EMBARRASSINGLY, dance-clapping to garbage. I mean have some dignity for yourself and respect for your genre. Do not sing-along, do not dance, do not clap. A good performer is constantly reading their audience, and adjusting the show based on the feedback, so how is Mr. Hunt finally gonna see his shit stinks if you keep humoring him like this?
What are they supposed to do honestly? Shake their heads and look mean the whole time? On national tv, in front of thousands of country music fans, aka their entire audience? They'd look like total assholes.
Good point, maybe everyone is more polite/strategic than I am. Also, when I wrote my first comment, I was drunk. Drunk Isabel isn't the most tactful Isabel.
Isabel Zellmann-Rohrer I agree with you. People could stay seating and clap/sing along. This whole dancing and singing along trend has only started in the last few years, with the American Music Awards and The BET awards being the first really "interactive" crowds. I love country music, but for the last 10-15 years they've been shamelessly ripping off pop and hip hop cliches for their music and video styles. Think about it: take a Luke Bryan/Jason Aldean etc etc "party" song's video. It is basically a hip hop video, just with white girls and trucks instead of mixes of ethnicities and tricked out cars.
Any girl who thinks being compared to a back road is flattering is either really drunk or really brain damaged. I hope I never have to hear this song on the pop charts in my neck of the words
I feel you. As someone from Small Farm Town America, I'm here to confirm that, yeah, a lot of the culture is genuinely like this. I know it sounds like a parody but MANY girls and women out here would be thrilled with this comparison. It plays into this ideal "down-to-earth, working class, easy going, not-like-OTHER-girls" image of a woman that's been elevated to almost saint-like status in the last few decades. To their ears, this is an intimate confession: "I know you as well as I know my favorite part of this sweet little hometown we both love." Cue the panty drop. And I think that's a huge part of why bro country feels kinda off to me: all these songs reel off every down-home cliché in the book (and I can't fault anyone for loving songs that name-check things they value, that's not my point), but the artists are all middle-to-upper class people who are often far-removed from the Identity Nostalgia they sell. It's jarring to hear this "I'm just like you" stuff pushed by rich performers who view Country(tm) as a party theme.
Me: ugh my morning sucks. Maybe TH-cam will cheer me up *sees Todd has uploaded a review for a song by (as my girlfriend out ) Drake leftovers "country singer" Sam Hunt. Video starts with Luke Bryan and bro country slam. Me: day improved. Thank you Todd.
The only good thing I can say about Sam Hunt is "at least his name isn't Mike" and that's not even a musical observation, just a bad joke everyone's made at this point so I really have nothing good to say. Mark's gonna like this one!
As somebody that does love country music I can confirm that country music in the 2010s was unlistenable. In my opinion mainstream country music is pretty much dead, I mostly stick to Texas Country seems to be the only form of Country that doesn't make me embarrassed to listen to it.
I've never liked country at all, but it seems like mainstream country has had so many crossovers that pop and hip hop are pretty much parts of the genre. And another thing, it seems like most of the "country" artists and a lot of the fans aren't even country. They're suburban pretending to be country
The audience in this video looks completely bored too. Like they paid them to look like they're enjoying the song, but they only paid them ten bucks. This looks like ten bucks worth of excitement.
I have a theory: She's a reasonably sensible woman, so she turned him down for six weeks, then finally gave this corn-fed dummy her number hoping he would shut up and leave her the hell alone. Sadly, it didn't work.
"Body Like a Back Road" was co-written by Shane McAnally, one of the few openly gay men in country music. I wonder if all the redneck bros singing along to it in their pickup trucks know that...
every country song ever- I was mowing my lawn with no shirt on and then mah gurl came we got in mah pickup TRUCK and went to the bar with no shoes on and then we got some beer and got us DRUNK some
Crap like this is exactly why I rarely listen to country. I can get better lyrics for the same type sound from modern folk music. You can make fun of Mumford & Sons trademark frantic banjo solos all you want, at least they aren't comparing women's bodies to dirt roads and putting as little effort into their work as possible.
Folk music isn't having an identity crisis and trying to be, as Todd put it, literally anything else. Jokes about banjos and all aside, I love The Builders and the Butchers.
I went to high school in rural Illinois during the transition period of the emo/hardcore trend to Bro Country. It was awful. There was a noticeable drop in the school's IQ when Luke Bryan and Florida Georgia Line appeared. Personalities got shittier and there was an extreme amount of lack of originality. The only good thing was the butts. The girls who could rock a pair of skinny jeans could also give you whiplash in a pair of jean shorts.
it's weird bc country music was about real country men and women singing about there lives and what they went through as kids to now(like rap music) and now it's people who never lived outside a city or done any farm work at all just singing to pander to country people(like how rap artist now are middle class to rich people who never shot a gun or lived in the streets just saying expensive things)
RGS It's not just country. Every genre seems to be promoting only its stupidest and laziest garbage lately. There are plenty of good songs that are barely making a dent on the Billboard charts, but the Chainsmokers are still releasing the same song over and over under different names, Rae Sremmurd and Li'l Uzi Vert are still being permitted to have careers, Linkin Park is now collaborating with a woman who stitches her song lyrics together in post-production, and Ed Sheeran's genuinely good single is being pushed aside by his lame attempt at a sex jam.
Andrew Del Pilar Well actually, Castle on the Hill might be making a comeback. However, Shape of You is the one that's being given all the airplay, and that's just a waste.
Take it from a guy who lived and breathed country both old and new thru most of his life, this is some pandering "I have no respect for you or your intelligence at all!" country.
I honestly can't believe that bro country is still kinda lingering around. "I'm just a good Ole sterotypical southern accent bell bottom country dude that sings constantly about trucks and women and dirt roads and beer although I'm not really country and grew up in a city". Personally, I'm not 90s. However, listening to the 90's and the 00's country, say what you want about those 2 decades, but if you really look back and compare it to now, just look at the more diversity that went in. And say what you want about Rap or Pop today, but at least those are genres that can really capture the modern trends and something that sounds acceptable and more in diversity. Country Music to me just dosen't work as a genre that's supposed to capture just whatever the latest fad is (especially not in 2017), good country music is supposed to be a genre that expresses itself and keeps itself timeless. I can already see us looking back at this decade 20 year's from now cringing about Bro Country. I don't have a problem with bro country persay, it's the singers and the people that sold out. There are artists who try in but look at the many in this decade that have sold out. Blake Shelton, Deirks Bentley, Keith Urban, Toby Keith, Kenney Chesney, Tim McGraw, heck even Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan sold out. Then again, the 2010's have hits, but a lot of it I agree is in a spree of random mess. The point above all is that this song is just a big mess of nothingness. It's dull, boring, uninspired, and comparing a woman's body to a backroad is more offemsive then people realize. Say that to the wrong person and you better hope to god you don't get smacked right across the face. This is one of the worst country song's I've ever heard and It's easily one of the worst song's this year. I have no doubt that this will be a contender on your worst list this year.
Possible meanings of the lyric Body Like a Back Road: - Full of holes...I mean, she has a few you can use, but otherwise....what? - Full of shit...that's certainly not a compliment or romantic - Overgrown...if she's from the 70's, sure - Not used by anybody...a nice way of saying she's not a slut? - There's a better route...he's cheating on her
Todd, in my opinion this might be one of your funniest and entertaining reviews! (and keep in mind i think all of your videos are super funny and great)
Thematically meandering Emphatically pandering I got a tight grip on my demo's balls Say the word "truck," they jizz in their overalls You don't know what land you're in I'm in the land of pandering And I'll be upfront I do what I do 'cause I'm a total fuckin' cunt-ry boy
I have to confess I like bro country, I hadn't noticed the objectivacation of women in the lyrics, probably because half the time instead of listening I was busy staring at the bro's back end and crotchular regions.
Im revisiting old Todd vids and something i find amusing about the back road analogy is that from my experience as a southerner, no body really loves taking them. We just do it when we have to outside of scenarios like mud bogging and stuff
I lime this. Todd is a good music critic and makes good videos. So if the pop charts aren't giving him good material and the top 40 stations aren't playing the top 40 (which, what?) going into more specialized charts is a solid call.
My mom is a country fan and I listen to lyrics in music so all the dude bro country makes me viscerally uncomfortable because I feel like they are drunkenly flirting with me while my mom is oblivious
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This guy looks like someone punched the charm out of Chris Evans
😂😂😂 I know it's an old comment but I'm never gonna be able to unsee that 😂😂😂 he really does look like someone took all the charm away from Chris Evans 😂😂😂
Music Is Life That's what I was thinking too, when I saw this Sam dude from a distance in this video, I was thinking "when and why did Chris Evans start making awful country music?" He's got more talent, and charisma than that. I also thought, just now, that maybe he's an evil version of Chris Evans, from an alternate universe, where instead of playing one of the best superheroes ever, he decided to become a shitty country artist and further drag down the probably once good name of country music and forsake his career for an awful song about trying to fuck a back road. Either way, it's an awful song.
Why didn't we call bro country 'hick hop'
PK Productions Hick hop is already existing (unfortunately) thing. If you want to witness the abomination yourself, the Jawga Boyz are one of the most popular.
PK Productions How about eeekkk hop.
@@augustlilly idk that one Bubba Sparxxx song was pretty good
PK Productions it’s too quality of a pun for this genre
Yee hawp
Fun Fact: Because of his accent, when I first heard this song, I thought he was saying driving with my ass closed. It took me six re listens to finally understand what he was saying.
Fun Fact: A human has the ability to make their voice change. Especially when singing.
In the Sia song "Cheap Thrills" I kept singing "hit the dumpster" because I thought she was so broke she was dumpster diving. I should have realized that, in typical Sia fashion, she was putting on some mystery accent to force the words to rhyme instead of using different words, and therefore "dance floor" became "dunce fluh", causing me to hear "dumpster".
@@candice_ecidnac "dunce fluh"
I literally came down to see if anyone knew what he said because to me it sounded like "driving with my asshole" or "this asshole"
@@fb39371 "Hey Fry! Look! I'm steering the ship with my ass!"
I thought he was saying "Driving with my a** holes" and it was really upsetting me.
I knew I wasn’t the only one who heard that!
Marian Librarian It really does sound like he's saying that.
Oh no i hear it
me too!!!
Same, especially because "back road" has been used to refer to anal.
There's a British expression "face like fifty miles of bad road".....roads are not good metaphors for sexy women, they're used to invoke loneliness, jobs that involve travel, etc.
That's also an old expression here in the US. I've heard my Grandad use it, and he learned it from Loony Toons, which started in the 30s.
"I could speak in mandarin, you'd still know I'm panderin..."
"I walk and talk like a field hand
But, the boots im wearin' cost 3 grand!"
Seriously, this is the greatest diss track of all time. He literally buried an entire genre, in their style. Amazing work by Bo
@@slapshot6ful I write songs about riding tractors from the comfort of a private jet
Is every country song legally required to have the phrase "Blue Jeans" in it?
Yes.
Thomas Whalen wait does in hell I’ll be in good company have a part about blue jeans? I feel like it does and im not remembering it
It can't legally be called Country unless it comes from the Blue Jeans region of France
"A dirt road, a cold beer, a blue jeans, a red pickup..."
I love how, even in 2020, they still sing about hearing their favorite song on the radio. You know music is on demand now right?
I heard this song once and honestly thought he was saying "body like a BACKHOE" and now I can't decide which one is worse.
Backroad is worse. A backroad is cheap, dirty, and lumpy. A backhoe is a kickass robot giraffe.
At least "backhoe" can be a dirty play on words.
I heard body like a backhoe too. That was the funniest moment of my day.
R J same
There's actually a parody song called that on TH-cam :P
Backroad Like a Body would be a more interesting song
Backroad Made of Bodies would be a more interesting song
That's some outlaw country sounding stuff.
How is body on a backroad more down to earth? Genuine question
lmao werent u talking about it being more genuine tho? i was just wondering how?
MistaMista thats the death metal cover of this BS song
“If they divorce this will be the first thing she mentions.” - Well turns out they’re getting divorced.
...well? *Was* it the first thing she mentioned?#
@@MikeMozzaro I really hope it is.
apparently they cancelled the divorce
Filed for divorce at month 5 of pregnancy and withdrew at month 8. Then he made Todd's country-heavy best of 2022 list when the kid was seven months old.
@@calmbbaer that was a rollercoaster of a ride.
This song is the perfect example of losing the metaphor before the music even starts.
I think more like this review is a perfect example of how not to understand a metaphor despite being explained after the metaphor.
Watch this video for a debunk of this. th-cam.com/video/N1g-EIEy6Sw/w-d-xo.html
@@DrZuluGaming We understand it just fine. It's just that it's so easily twistable that it should never pass for a compliment...plus it sucks as a song in all other respects. The beat (lol) is awful, the singing is monotone to the point of sounding like he's half asleep. Yeah, that could support the message of the song, because he's "driving with his eyes closed"...bullshit. Excuse for being lazy.
@@Brax1982 credit for self awareness- he mightve typed it up with his eyes closed with minimum edits.
@@DrZuluGaming You can't "debunk" a review. Idiot.
"body like the way home" might have sounded more insightful in the same syllable count.
Or if you want to keep the general sound of the sentence, some thing like "body like way back home" or "body like (the) road back home"
Or maybe "Body Like Coming Home", saying that he finds comfort and peace with her
You can always tell when a singer has gotten too used to autotune when they sing WAY too flat live.... That was painful to watch!
You want to see someone who sounds way worse performing live than on a recording? Watch Selena Gomez.
What continually amazes me about bro-country is the things that they choose as cultural signifiers and how they're not even *remotely* unique to rural America. Roads with curves, dirt roads, blue jeans (optionally ripped) t-shirts, pick-up trucks, bonfires, red solo cups, beer on a Friday .... uh yeah. Urban and suburban America has/does all that stuff. Also, _for the love of god_, "Southside" doesn't mean the American South.
That's why it's popular. Why cut off prospective fans by getting too specific?
It's because none of them really grew up in rural america, they grew up in some moderately sized city/suburban area, and are just picking random stereotypes of stereotypes to sing about, because that's all they know.
See, now that would be interesting. Could even be successful. Imagine a country artist who basically was the Kendrick Lamar of country: speaking honestly and frankly about the problems that rural (and even suburban) white communities currently face. Shit like the opiate epidemic, jobs leaving for the cities leaving broken, abandoned towns and factories, endemic racism, etc. I'd at least give that a listen.
Rip Steakface: You might enjoy "Big Day in a Small Town" by Brandy Clark. The songwriting of the album is based off of the problems and triumphs that take place in a typical American small town. I know recommendations don't often work out, but I figured I'd mention it if you're interested. Not surprisingly, the album is too intelligent/complex for modern country radio, but there are a lot of good alternative/indie/non-radio country artists making great music. (Jason Isbell, Lydia Loveless, Lori McKenna, etc)
While I vaguely agree...
Back roads are often far more curvy. Big roads are often scarily straight. I went through a couple hundred miles of road carved through enormous rock hills recently.
Dirt roads are uncommon in suburban areas, and don't exist in urban ones.
Blue jeans are absolutely more of a rural than an urban thing.
Pick up trucks are pretty rare in cities, unless someone travels out or works certain jobs, whereas they are nigh omnipresent in rural areas.
Bonfires don't really happen in suburban or urban areas.
Body like a backboard when I miss a free throw, I got a spasm in the back of my hand.
So it's beat up, old, twists in weird places, and is covered in gravel?
Methinks this body might just be a corpse.
lol your back roads actually have something on them? lucky.
TheHeroOfTomorrow also very dusty
And random animals crossing it form time to time
And some of the holes may have cobwebs
Pandering by Bo Burnham anyone?
It's a fucking scarecrow again!
I was hoping Todd use that song when he was describing the dullness of country now. I'm disappointed
Say the word truck. They jizz in their overalls.
"No shoes. No shirt. No jews. You didn't hear that."
Cam Caffin good girl in a straw hat with her arms out in a cornfield...that is a scarecrow
I'm from New Jersey and now I'm insanely tempted to use "body like the New Jersey Turnpike" in a song
Fun fact: a New Jersey Turnpike is a cocktail made by draining the bar mat into a glass.
smelly lady xD
That girl's body is the New Jersey Turnpike and I'm the cigarettes thrown out of cars
You could have like and turnpike rhyme
It sounds like drunk Springsteen tbh
"Your Body is like the new Jersey turn pike, And I've paid the toll"
and it takes its toll
Never heard of this, thought it was one hit wonderland for a second
Pizza Dog it was a top 10 hit, it is just outside the top 20 right now.
I don't live in the US so that might be why I'm unfamiliar. Still a shitty song though
Well, it might be in the near future...
Billboardguy1 I live in the middle of America.... he is not a big deal
You're luckier than most of us.
The words 'body' and 'back road' should never appear together in the title of a love song. I'm getting flashbacks to Adam Levine as sexy Leatherface.
Man, "Body Like A Back Road" would be an incredibly rude thing to play for someone with scoliosis
“Now it’s devolved into just lists of things”
This is so accurate. Once you notice it, you can’t not notice it.
"Body like a back road, driving with my assholes"?
I swear that's what the lyrics sounds like to me.
Septicor back roads are usually muddy, this song isn't secretly about anal is it?
That's exactly what I thought he was singing until the end when Todd's comments made clear that it was "eyes closed"!
That's not just what the lyrics sound like. That's what the lyrics ARE. Nothing in the world can prove that they are anything else.
Driving like an Asshole is what I usually here. 15 in a 30 agrees with the previous misheard lyric
Septicor Hey Fry, check it out. I'm steering with my ass
That's the coolest thing I ever saw!
So country is having its "nu metal" moment where suddenly every artist thinks they can rap because they can rhyme a few words and it has progressively less and less to say. Don't worry, a few years, everyone will be sick of it and there will be a backlash. Just like nu metal.
I mean... nu metal has basically evolved INTO a branch of country at this point, so why the fuck not?
Sean Strife really?
Kid Rock, but without the rock
Except Nu Metal was actually good. It was just ruined by Limp Bizkit and Puddle of Mudd overplay.
A few years later... Nope, nothing has changed yet.
“I get the feeling his lips move when he reads” is the sickest burn
If Sam Hunt can compliment a woman by commenting about how she's like a familiar stretch of road then I can too. "Ahem...baby you're like the stretch of Route 95 North between Providence and Attleboro."
112steinway That's a perfect pick up line!
Perfect! The ladies of Boston will fall for you 100%
I’m already wet
"Baby you're like Alligator Alley during construction hours"
Baby you're like the road to my apartment, used up, full of holes, and I'm on it every day.
This guy sounds like The Chainsmokers of Country. A bored singer with a terrible song, yet it's catchy enough that becomes a hit. >.
Cody Smith The Chainsmokers are like Simon and Garfunkel compared to this guy.
Cody Smith The tune for the chorus is pretty similar to closer
ChicagoDomer2596 The Chainsmokers are like this guy compared to Simon and Garfunkel.
Cody Smith no silly have you heard of Florida Georgia Line?
Charles Spencer Blancas This is also true.
"Girl, your body's unkempt, unreliable, and an accident just waiting to happen. Still, you're there and nobody else is using you at the moment, so let me get on you before I kick rocks." So, I really liked that saying and figured I could come up with a wordier way to say it and impress women, but I got slapped 5 different times when I said it. Oh well, I guess it's back to "Your clothes, my bedroom floor? Let's peep this out."
This just sounds to me like a really poorly constructed euphemism for anal sex.
because it is.
Seeing the audience in this live performance mouthing along with the lyrics and grooving along with the beat almost makes me think humanity is unsalvageable.
peterfinnfilms "almost"?
Your optimism disgusts me.
+peterfinnfilms To be fair, even the audience seemed rather bored during Sam Hunt's performance and they looked like they were simply going through the motions rather than genuinely enjoying the song.
Quite. Look closely at their faces and they way they move. They're trying _so damn hard_ to smile, and it just isn't working anymore. If they ever wanted to be there... they don't anymore.
I think I saw one of the Florida Georgia Line guys groovin out like this was his jam. fitting.
And the Trump presidency didn't do that already? You're a more hopeful soul than I...
I know it's not nice to judge people, but I hate everyone in the audience for that performance
Same.
englishhedgehog7 My thoughts exactly! 3:45-3:49 That audience is a bunch of white people in their forties awkwardly, and EMBARRASSINGLY, dance-clapping to garbage. I mean have some dignity for yourself and respect for your genre.
Do not sing-along, do not dance, do not clap. A good performer is constantly reading their audience, and adjusting the show based on the feedback, so how is Mr. Hunt finally gonna see his shit stinks if you keep humoring him like this?
What are they supposed to do honestly? Shake their heads and look mean the whole time? On national tv, in front of thousands of country music fans, aka their entire audience? They'd look like total assholes.
Good point, maybe everyone is more polite/strategic than I am. Also, when I wrote my first comment, I was drunk.
Drunk Isabel isn't the most tactful Isabel.
Isabel Zellmann-Rohrer I agree with you. People could stay seating and clap/sing along. This whole dancing and singing along trend has only started in the last few years, with the American Music Awards and The BET awards being the first really "interactive" crowds. I love country music, but for the last 10-15 years they've been shamelessly ripping off pop and hip hop cliches for their music and video styles.
Think about it: take a Luke Bryan/Jason Aldean etc etc "party" song's video. It is basically a hip hop video, just with white girls and trucks instead of mixes of ethnicities and tricked out cars.
"Who wrote this?"
When Todd asked that, my brain went immediately to Pat "Hefty Bag" Monahan from Train.
🤣
A body like a backroad would be an extremely long and also have horrible skeletal deformities.
As someone who spent years living in the country, winding along back roads, if somebody tried to "compliment" me like this I'd shove him in the mud.
I'm noticing a lot of dents in that wall there. Either one too many takes or that damn screaming baby found him again
Screaming baby?
R Ree It was in one of his earlier videos.
This just in, Sam Hunt’s wife has filed for divorce.
Came back here after reading that. Being subjected to his output of songs it's not really a shock that he cheated.
Any girl who thinks being compared to a back road is flattering is either really drunk or really brain damaged. I hope I never have to hear this song on the pop charts in my neck of the words
I feel you. As someone from Small Farm Town America, I'm here to confirm that, yeah, a lot of the culture is genuinely like this. I know it sounds like a parody but MANY girls and women out here would be thrilled with this comparison. It plays into this ideal "down-to-earth, working class, easy going, not-like-OTHER-girls" image of a woman that's been elevated to almost saint-like status in the last few decades. To their ears, this is an intimate confession: "I know you as well as I know my favorite part of this sweet little hometown we both love." Cue the panty drop.
And I think that's a huge part of why bro country feels kinda off to me: all these songs reel off every down-home cliché in the book (and I can't fault anyone for loving songs that name-check things they value, that's not my point), but the artists are all middle-to-upper class people who are often far-removed from the Identity Nostalgia they sell. It's jarring to hear this "I'm just like you" stuff pushed by rich performers who view Country(tm) as a party theme.
The absolute best song to encapsulate everything wrong with bro/stadium country is "Pandering" by Bo Burnham.
That song is incredible, especially the key change in the final chorus 😂
Me: ugh my morning sucks. Maybe TH-cam will cheer me up
*sees Todd has uploaded a review for a song by (as my girlfriend out ) Drake leftovers "country singer" Sam Hunt. Video starts with Luke Bryan and bro country slam.
Me: day improved. Thank you Todd.
Todd In The Shadows is how I find out about new music, to be honest.
Lol, I've always thought this song had a really insulting title.
The only good thing I can say about Sam Hunt is "at least his name isn't Mike" and that's not even a musical observation, just a bad joke everyone's made at this point so I really have nothing good to say.
Mark's gonna like this one!
"I get the feeling his lips move when he reads." Bold of you to assume he reads, Todd.
"prostitutes like Pitbull" I don't know why but that made me laugh so hard xD
As somebody that does love country music I can confirm that country music in the 2010s was unlistenable. In my opinion mainstream country music is pretty much dead, I mostly stick to Texas Country seems to be the only form of Country that doesn't make me embarrassed to listen to it.
I've never liked country at all, but it seems like mainstream country has had so many crossovers that pop and hip hop are pretty much parts of the genre. And another thing, it seems like most of the "country" artists and a lot of the fans aren't even country. They're suburban pretending to be country
This song is what country haters think all country music is.
“I get the feeling that his lips move when he reads.” 🤣🤣🤣
The audience in this video looks completely bored too. Like they paid them to look like they're enjoying the song, but they only paid them ten bucks. This looks like ten bucks worth of excitement.
Is it wrong that I first read the title, "Body by a Back Road?" That would be a really disturbing title.
SOMEBODY CALL “WEIRD” AL!!!
@@kylehegedus5498 Actually would be a better song. Probably because it would be by Nick Cave.
@@kylehegedus5498 Actually would be a better song. Probably because it would be by Nick Cave.
probably a johnny cash b-side
If Sam and this girl go back so far then why did it take 6 weeks to get her number?
I have a theory: She's a reasonably sensible woman, so she turned him down for six weeks, then finally gave this corn-fed dummy her number hoping he would shut up and leave her the hell alone. Sadly, it didn't work.
Hip-hop: "I gotta make money and get out of the ghetto"
Country (now): "I like being from a poor-town"
"Body Like a Back Road" was co-written by Shane McAnally, one of the few openly gay men in country music. I wonder if all the redneck bros singing along to it in their pickup trucks know that...
A gay guy named Shane McAnally.... ironic
body like a pot hole driving with my eyes closed trying to wreck my truck just as fast as I can
Theme of Tods reviews this year "I dont get it"
Please do a One Hit Wonderland for "What is Love" by Haddaway!
GameStation3 OMG DO THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
9:35 "Body like the New Jersey Turnpike" is my favorite Bruce Springsteen song.
Baby, you're like I-90. Always under construction.
you made me spit almond milk out my nose
every country song ever-
I was mowing my lawn
with no shirt on
and then mah gurl came
we got in mah pickup TRUCK
and went to the bar
with no shoes on
and then we got some beer
and got us DRUNK some
And than my girlfriend die or left me and I miss her
I fucking hate how accurate how that is.
@@SeanStrife I'm embarrassed you found this that was so long ago lmao
MY GIRL LEFT ME FOR MY TRUCK
Actually, Todd, many people do indeed *_do_** the road*. How else do you think road markings are made?
WaffleCat Oh God
WaffleCat my dad pees on the state line backroad after hooters
Fun fact: When you use Shazam while a person is vomiting in a Waffle House parking lot, this is what comes up.
...wait, WHAT?!
I'm 2 minutes in and this is already a really good analysis.
'I'm not gonna tell a girl she's like the new jersey turnpike' lol
The dude that sang this is now on Todd's Best of 2022 list.
Ridin' over divots in night; remindin' me of cellulite. Gearing down for pin turns and switchbacks is like tracin' all your stretch marks.
Crap like this is exactly why I rarely listen to country. I can get better lyrics for the same type sound from modern folk music. You can make fun of Mumford & Sons trademark frantic banjo solos all you want, at least they aren't comparing women's bodies to dirt roads and putting as little effort into their work as possible.
Folk music isn't having an identity crisis and trying to be, as Todd put it, literally anything else. Jokes about banjos and all aside, I love The Builders and the Butchers.
I went to high school in rural Illinois during the transition period of the emo/hardcore trend to Bro Country. It was awful. There was a noticeable drop in the school's IQ when Luke Bryan and Florida Georgia Line appeared. Personalities got shittier and there was an extreme amount of lack of originality. The only good thing was the butts. The girls who could rock a pair of skinny jeans could also give you whiplash in a pair of jean shorts.
it's weird bc country music was about real country men and women singing about there lives and what they went through as kids to now(like rap music) and now it's people who never lived outside a city or done any farm work at all just singing to pander to country people(like how rap artist now are middle class to rich people who never shot a gun or lived in the streets just saying expensive things)
Riddle me this, batman. How is a body like a backroad?
that Paul McCartney joke had me laughing my ass off
Can't wait for the follow up "Ass Like a Dump Truck."
Kind of insulting that this is the most popular (probably the ONLY popular) country hit song right now.
RGS It's not just country. Every genre seems to be promoting only its stupidest and laziest garbage lately. There are plenty of good songs that are barely making a dent on the Billboard charts, but the Chainsmokers are still releasing the same song over and over under different names, Rae Sremmurd and Li'l Uzi Vert are still being permitted to have careers, Linkin Park is now collaborating with a woman who stitches her song lyrics together in post-production, and Ed Sheeran's genuinely good single is being pushed aside by his lame attempt at a sex jam.
cyanmanta What's the name of his song that's not getting attention?
Andrew Del Pilar Well actually, Castle on the Hill might be making a comeback. However, Shape of You is the one that's being given all the airplay, and that's just a waste.
...And now, in 2018, we have "Meant To Be" to take its place. Oh joy.
Take it from a guy who lived and breathed country both old and new thru most of his life, this is some pandering "I have no respect for you or your intelligence at all!" country.
If a song has anything like "Body Like a___", chances are it'll suck. Looking at you, Don't Tell Em'.
Caz as todd has said brfore at least the r kelly song had some self awareness
'Your Body Is A Wonderland'? :]
"Body like a back road" sounds like a really weird way to call somebody flat chested
Rain drop
Drop top
Todd is hot
Deebo Molina you can't see him
Trey Greenewald shhh.....
Deebo Molina ... reviewing a country song
Deebo Molina don't you have to say hot twice?
Deebo Molina DEAD. DEAD. DEAD. THAT MEME IS DEAD.
3:33 Most violent reaction I've seen from Todd EVER!
I honestly can't believe that bro country is still kinda lingering around. "I'm just a good Ole sterotypical southern accent bell bottom country dude that sings constantly about trucks and women and dirt roads and beer although I'm not really country and grew up in a city".
Personally, I'm not 90s. However, listening to the 90's and the 00's country, say what you want about those 2 decades, but if you really look back and compare it to now, just look at the more diversity that went in. And say what you want about Rap or Pop today, but at least those are genres that can really capture the modern trends and something that sounds acceptable and more in diversity. Country Music to me just dosen't work as a genre that's supposed to capture just whatever the latest fad is (especially not in 2017), good country music is supposed to be a genre that expresses itself and keeps itself timeless. I can already see us looking back at this decade 20 year's from now cringing about Bro Country.
I don't have a problem with bro country persay, it's the singers and the people that sold out. There are artists who try in but look at the many in this decade that have sold out. Blake Shelton, Deirks Bentley, Keith Urban, Toby Keith, Kenney Chesney, Tim McGraw, heck even Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan sold out. Then again, the 2010's have hits, but a lot of it I agree is in a spree of random mess.
The point above all is that this song is just a big mess of nothingness. It's dull, boring, uninspired, and comparing a woman's body to a backroad is more offemsive then people realize. Say that to the wrong person and you better hope to god you don't get smacked right across the face. This is one of the worst country song's I've ever heard and It's easily one of the worst song's this year. I have no doubt that this will be a contender on your worst list this year.
Todd's got me thinking. If her body's like the New Jersey Turnpike, does that mean it's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive?
Possible meanings of the lyric Body Like a Back Road:
- Full of holes...I mean, she has a few you can use, but otherwise....what?
- Full of shit...that's certainly not a compliment or romantic
- Overgrown...if she's from the 70's, sure
- Not used by anybody...a nice way of saying she's not a slut?
- There's a better route...he's cheating on her
Says "Must have never driven in Boston."
Shows a map of Birmingham.
What?????
To Southerners, backroad = familiar & homely = good
Todd, in my opinion this might be one of your funniest and entertaining reviews! (and keep in mind i think all of your videos are super funny and great)
so STOKED for Todd to get into some pop country.
Your wish has been granted! Meant To Be is #7 on the charts right now.
Country music was real when every singer claimed to have shot at least one person
8:12 A dirt road
A cold beer
Blue jeans
A red pickup
Thematically meandering
Emphatically pandering
I got a tight grip on my demo's balls
Say the word "truck," they jizz in their overalls
You don't know what land you're in
I'm in the land of pandering
And I'll be upfront
I do what I do 'cause I'm a total fuckin' cunt-ry boy
Hear that subtle mandolin
That's textbook pandering!
I'm not the only one who noticed, at 11:18, that the map is not of Boston, but of Birmingham, England?
"Prescription pill addiction," YES, you went there haha
“Jason Derulo doesnt ask Luke Bryan to do a song with him, Even he’s not that uncool”
You talking bout Jason or Luke?
I have to confess I like bro country, I hadn't noticed the objectivacation of women in the lyrics, probably because half the time instead of listening I was busy staring at the bro's back end and crotchular regions.
Here after it was announced that those two ended up divorcing lmfao
Body like a back road: now closed, pick a alternate route
This is one of my absolute favourites of Todd's reviews.
"I get the feeling his lips move when he reads"
One of the best insults ever.
Im revisiting old Todd vids and something i find amusing about the back road analogy is that from my experience as a southerner, no body really loves taking them. We just do it when we have to outside of scenarios like mud bogging and stuff
Trust us, no country fans like Sam Hunt
I know I don’t!
I lime this. Todd is a good music critic and makes good videos. So if the pop charts aren't giving him good material and the top 40 stations aren't playing the top 40 (which, what?) going into more specialized charts is a solid call.
What's your point? THIS song is way high on the pop charts, is played on the top 40 stations. This is not going into a "more specialized chart".
Body like a backroad, that all my family n friends rode. That should been in the song too
7:18 "A rural noun, simple adjective"
1:53 I still get an unintentional laugh out of that Luke Bryan song.
"I got that real good, feel good stuff. Up under the seat of my big black jacked-up truck..."
@@nagisashiota2867 Sounds like music ain't payin' the bills for ol' Luke Bryan, so he's having to sell meth out of his truck.
My mom is a country fan and I listen to lyrics in music so all the dude bro country makes me viscerally uncomfortable because I feel like they are drunkenly flirting with me while my mom is oblivious