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re: The pendulum has swung from D.A.R.E to this for school kids

Posted on 6/1/19 at 8:37 am to
Posted by Jake_LaMotta
Coral Gables
Member since Sep 2017
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Posted on 6/1/19 at 8:37 am to
A Homosexual black cowboy?
Posted by touchdownjeebus
Member since Sep 2010
25961 posts
Posted on 6/1/19 at 8:43 am to
I’m not a fan of the song, but the kid who wrote it is pretty great, well at least that’s what it appears. His twitter feed has 0 negativity and it is filled with him wanting to help make things better. I think he is genuinely a decent kid, so I’m really happy he has capitalized off of his 15 minutes.
Posted by baybeefeetz
Member since Sep 2009
32568 posts
Posted on 6/1/19 at 12:00 pm to
Maybe I’m wrong. Google it.
Posted by BunkieWrench
Katy
Member since Nov 2008
5672 posts
Posted on 6/1/19 at 1:24 pm to
Who is that?

What are they singing?



Never mind. I actually don't care.
Posted by AgCoug
Houston
Member since Jan 2014
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Posted on 6/1/19 at 1:26 pm to
The kids seem to love it. Why is this a big deal?
Posted by Obtuse1
Westside Bodymore Yo
Member since Sep 2016
30005 posts
Posted on 6/1/19 at 1:30 pm to
Kudos for the effort, I won't even try to tear down something created out of honesty.

I laughed when I read the first quatrain because I didn't even get that Vietnam rhymed with nail salon.

I heard it in a twangy country on top a single acoustic like something that would have been in a third chapter of Full Metal Jacket when they got stateside.

It does put a spotlight on what Old Town Road does so well and that is the hook. The thing that makes a song an earwig across genres is that hook in the chorus that just keeps boring into your brain even when you don't want it to.
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
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Posted on 6/1/19 at 1:53 pm to
It wasn’t even effort really. It was a fun story that just flowed and then I got silly with it.


And the hook is where it’s at. Old town road does it brilliantly because it’s so accessible. It taps into that older country sound, that head Bobbing beat that could literally be any genre.

It’s simple and inelegant and doesn’t even make sense but it works. Primarily because it doesn’t try to be anything.

It has no soul or syncope but entices nonetheless
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