Staind "goes country" and holy hell is it ever awful

I can see him looking at a blank page thinking, "I will now write a song declaring I am everything they accuse Toby Keith of being."

"the old guy" is George Jones! xp

woah, he got *old* ... I just knew that it was somebody famous, I couldn't remember who (should have recognized the voice though).

This thread needs some pictures:

http://images.starpulse.com/pictures/2008/08/13/previews/Staind-CSW-004608.jpg

I bet in interviews now he's all "It was when I played the 9/11 tribute...I knew my calling..."

That would mean this song took nine years to write.

I wouldn't put it past him.

Since when is this country? How is this country music? He has an enviable voice though. I don't think this is the best song I've heard but it's not the worst either.

well for one thing it's called "country boy"

The Vaselines begat Nirvana
Nirvana begat Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam begat Staind

I blame The Vaselines for this song

"the old guy" is George Jones!

the other old guy -- on fiddle and speechifying at the end -- is charlie daniels.

man george :(

that really bums me out...

charlie daniels has always been a hateful shitbag, fuck that guy forever, his band fucking suck ass, dude is the santana of country, what a jack-off

this is pretty much as awful as it gets.

it's not that this is a shitty song, it's that it's barely a song

Hey come on Devil Went Down to Georgia is a classic. Love how stupid people everywhere think the devil with his enhancements and flashy studio help is the better fiddler. Even I rooted for the devil when I was a kid.

yeah but don't get it twisted, don't buy charlie daniels albums, they suck, he had one comedy devil hit that's it. piece of shit

The Vaselines begat Nirvana
Nirvana begat Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam begat Staind

Blame Durst.. I'm pretty sure he discovered them.

OMG that dude at the end of this song is amazing.

chesapeakeseadux
2 hours ago

much better then all the crap about growing up in the country that every one else is singing thses days, at least aaron lewis feels what he sings and not just singing what someone else wrote to make money

This is like some producer threw "A Country Boy Can Survive" by Hank Jr. and "Wanted Dead Or Alive' in some unholy cloning machine.

Never before have I seen anyone so earnestly and lengthily declare themselves an idiot.

― A brownish area with points (chap), Friday, December 10, 2010 2:36 PM (3 hours ago)

^^^ otm

Well, I will buy that Lewis wrote these lyrics himself. they're as trite and on the nose as everything he wrote for Staind.

this is so tuneless. I don't know how any of you even make it past the minute mark

oh man charlie daniels' schtick at the end about how anyone who wants to "change things" has to go through him — two words out of that fat old fuck's mouth and I'm like, okay chuck, let's fuckin do this

to hear how worse it gets as it gets on. You think the guns part is the worst bit then bingo here's the speech.

it's a 'slo-burner'

this is just so crass and pandering... and I each country fan, but if I were, I would be as insulted as if Will Smith's wife decided to start a metal band oh wait

that should be "I'm not a huge country fan"

in fairness, Jada's metal band was nowhere near as bad as this

OMG wtf is this shit about flags

did he just attempt to rhyme "feel" with "blue", followed by "made" with "grave"

bleeeeeeeeoooooooo

I just... this isn't even a song, in some ways? not to get all Geir but there is NO melody, the rhythm is some sort of lumpen flatulent slow-paced nothing, there's a bunch of words hokey phrases strung together in a haphazard way, there's no chorus, there's no structure... it's just... waht

I wasn't watching the video so when I switched tabs to see Lewis stand up from the woods with acoustic guitar in one hand and rifle in the other, the roffles could no longer contain themselves

It doesn't help that an evil part of my brain keeps going "DONUT BITCH, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"

Hahaha

lmbo tbh my favorite part is the photo a few seconds in that flashes up after the lyrics "now i grew up etc...." with 'Me - age 2' written in sharpie for clarification

jeez i didn't even see that every single photo has this shit, nm but lol

He is certainly earnest about his blatant disingenuousness.

Bring back Garth Brooks, I really liked him.

what is it with shit heavy rock/metal bands going country?

And someone please explain why Hank III is so popular with a certain kind of metaller.

usually the only reason they go shit heavy rock/metal is because the country scene didn't want them

if there's more where this came from, may god have mercy on us all.

This song owns. Maybe you haters should go back to Russia.

i can't believe this isn't a joke?

this is the most inefficient song i've ever heard

he needs like 28 lines to describe two flags everyone's seen before

FLAG IN MY YARD

IT'S GOT RED STRIPES

BUT SOME STRIPES ARE WHITE

THERE'S A BLUE PART

YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN

AND STARS

AND THEN THERE'S THIS OTHER FLAG

haaaaaaaaaa

lol

this shit makes lee greenwood sound like the coup

What is that flag with dont tread on me? not seen that before

um are you an American

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsden_flag

No
xp

jvfd1730
3 days ago
Real musicians sing and play whatever they damn well want because they can pull anything off, exhibit A Aaron Lewis singing a song of who really is. A country boy myself I immediately relate to what he is saying, it dont matter what you put on your body or what you say, as long as its who you are your still being yourself. And that is how i can relate to this song. Sing it brotha!! Great song!

guys... its just about being true 2 urself... all u sneering cityboy liberals cant understand what its like bein a fat country boy in cutthroat hollywood.... alll tho;se slick empty suits tried 2 make him into something he isnt, bue he tsayed true to what he is!!!! now he murders deer

the Metallica flag

dude's pre-staind band will bring a tear to your eye:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WNlwk4wpuc&feature=related

Staind "goes reggaeton" and holy hell is it ever delightful! xxp

god street wine

this guy's whole career = when keeping it real goes wrong

hahaha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfD-E9hKCWM

A stunning return to form.

http://deadspin.com/world-series-national-anthem-botched-by-that-asshole-fr-1651071056

I hate his music with all my soul but that seemed like an honest mistake.

"shitty noise band Staind"

I'm waiting for the Staind / Merzbow collaborative 10".

i mean sure it's an honest mistake but that's the point. singing the national anthem at a major sporting event is the most scrutinized 2 minutes in any musical performer's career. not every version is gonna be great, but if you flub the words you get no sympathy, you knew people would be watching you like a hawk.

Particularly if you've made criticized someone else for messing up the lyrics.

Wtf I shouldn't post when I'm half asleep

Jurgen Van Gulchthro @swarthyvillain · Sep 22
KERRY: I love Hobostink, Mushroomdead, um, all those fellows
(boos)
BUSH: I own vinyl of Staind's rare EP "Pissed at Memories"
(cheers)

All I can say is I'm sorry and ask for the Nation's forgiveness. My nerves got the best of me and I am completely torn up about what happened. America is the greatest country in the world. The Star-Spangled Banner means so much to so many, including myself. I hope everyone can understand the intensity of the situation and my true intent of this performance. I hope that the Nation, Major League Baseball and the many fans of our national pastime can forgive me.

"Sure."

"I meant all of my music."

"Fuck you."

Does he mean Steeler Nation?

Oh, Staind can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we Staind at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright Stainds thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we Staind were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's Staind glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was Staind there.
Oh, say does that Staind-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the Staind?

http://www.soundslikenashville.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Aaron-Lewis-11.jpg

It has been a while, hasn't it.

Hadn’t heard news of this guy since around 2002, so wasn’t aware he’s a huge asshole: https://variety.com/2019/music/news/stainds-aaron-lewis-on-his-solo-country-act-and-political-correctness-1203188656/

well that wins the award for link i'll least likely click on for the year, congrats morrisp

Good call — it’s worse than you think.

morrisp, here is some more evidence of his assholery. I had forgotten about this thread so I posted it over in best Fred Durst shoutout in Staind's "Outside"

Good call — it’s worse than you think.

i just read it and this is overhyping it. he seems like a pretty dull & ignorant guy but we already knew that and the things he says here are pretty cookie-cutter.

I’m never prepared for “P-c-h-nt-s” bullshit

it's vile, for sure.

2014: "All I can say is I'm sorry and ask for the Nation's forgiveness."

Many great artists have had to make abject apologies to the country, although they were mainly in Stalinist Russia and it was Shostakovich and Prokofiev, not the bloke from Staind

And speaking of Russia...

https://www.nme.com/news/music/stainds-aaron-lewis-on-ukraine-maybe-we-should-listen-to-what-vladimir-putin-is-saying-3187630

i'll always have a soft spot for Staind because they were my first opening band at my first concert (Korn in 2000 lol)

there’s a lotta crazy stuff in this video but none of it comes close to the absolute insanity of having 4 monitor wedges for a solo acoustic show https://t.co/uFMEEgdHbD

— eve6 ha (@Eve6) March 21, 2022

he released a song where he tells an anecdote about yelling at his television.

something tells me he's pretty comfortable with the sound of his own voice.

He actually did manage to make at least one good country album(haven't heard any before or since, and recent videos have me in no hurry to catch up)---from Rolling Country 2016, with eventual curmudgeon pushback, forcing me to improve:

Aaron Lewis, Sinner: title and theme song doesn't give us the devilish details, nor does Lewis's voice (though common-man robust and expressive, like the production) project the shadow of dark thangs you shouldn't ask about (so he gets a bit upstaged when Willie Nelson shows up occasionally on this track, although with an somewhat messed-up voice, alarmingly enough after two good albums this year: can go fast at that age). And Lewis is unwise enough to ask for even more comparison with Chris Stapleton by covering "Whiskey and You", this soon after the original release, too. Oh well, this album turns out to be all about a self-destructive man, after all, and about how there's more than one way to figure the damage.
Not that he can't enjoy it, and doesn't have a sense of humor, like "That Ain't Country" is not the usual tiresome sermon, and he does have a point, complaining about "good times and happy endings", at least, I'd like to think, if they're fake, but he (the guy in the song anyway) does seem to be a stubborn cuss, who wants it to be all bar-breath miserabilism all the time--then again he gets so happy with his Christmas misery list ( of tropes as sung by his hee-ros) that it starts to sound (well kind of) like "Twistin' The Night Away."
Also, there is kind of a perhaps accidentally pre-emptive strike/parody/answer song (re xpost Maren Morris on country as church), "Sunday Every Saturday Night", in which "whiskey fills the cracks in my soul...the preacher calls "Last Round"...Jesus says, "Son, you'll be alright", for a little while, o' course. It is whiskey and wry, close enough (and not too close) to deadpan to get banned, so far.
There are several a little too crisply articulate and well-balanced for convincing desperation---again, considering his handy, familiar vocal skills and their limits---but others tilt toward chaos or inchoate just enough---- the guy in "Mama" laments being "pieces glued together" instead of scattered, and it unsettles me every time---he may be the guy (or a forerunner, John the Baptist) of the self-made, outward success in "Lost and Lonely", who is also a Richard Cory in the making, "an albatross around my own neck", hoping his wife (or maybe the other, previous woman) can hold everything together 'til he gets back, and they can "get back to where we started so long ago, before my demons took over"---a long-distance trucker with a speed habit (among other problems)? A serial killer? Surely something more like the former--"He sounded so normal, Officer."
"I Lost It All" is a very tuneful, graceful, soulful (not over- or undersung) blurt, and his 13-year-old daughter Zoe gets to rush the beat but not over- or undersing "Travelin' Soldier", yay.

"Lewis is unwise enough to ask for even more comparison with Chris Stapleton"
hmmmm. Almost stopped reading your post there.
― curmudgeon
He gets wiser pretty soon.
― dow,
Perhaps its me, but wasn't sure from your lyrics-heavy description whether you liked the record, or not
― curmudgeon
I liked the *sound* right away---he recently closed out some late night talk show, you know how they usually put the musical artists right at the end, and I was shuffling by, getting ready for bed, but he caught my attention, held it, and I perked up enough to go google his album title (no idea of the Staind connection, had completely forgotten about them. Liked the sound of the stream right away too: Lewis's voice (though common-man robust and expressive, like the production) quite tasty high generic neurotic grooves, for the most part. I've come to like a few tracks more, a few less than I did early on, but it's worth checking out (especially on free Spotify, but might buy a nice-priced copy for somewhat spooky traveling companion, to keep me on my toes). I was also glad to find something sustaining yet plainer than much of my recent subtext-laden listening fare, something with yer more basic ups and downs.
― dow