Toby Keith has been honoured with four prizes at the Academy of Country Music awards. Toby Keith , Classic Or Dud?

I love I Love This Bar, whatta melody on the chorus.

i'm not happy about this

stealing the young girls' hearts

for a while he was a Democrat. RIP.

Wow what a surprise he turns out to be a shithead who could have seen it coming

musician who makes bombastic songs for republicans turns out to support bombastic republican president

like, I'm sure it was fun for the people playing 20-dimensional music critic chess with this guy's not-remotely-murky politics (if you qualify as a celebrity, which if you're a musician giving an interview in a major publication you qualify as in this metaphor, the political views you claim in an interview are whichever views will best "activate" and/or placate the fans) but come on

for a while he was a Democrat

Hey, remember Zell Miller?

well, I never gave a shit about his politics, which were obvious from about 1998 onwards. But he still made good records until 2006 so

Hey, remember Zell Miller?

― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱),

and George Wallace

Toby Keith is a gigantic cock.

― HI DERE, Monday, May 21, 2007 2:07 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I still stand by this.

also, he looks like bathing offends him

They don't call them the Great Unwashed for nothing.

i wanna talk about me & as good as i once was are all-time songs and it's hard for me to reconcile the cleverness and self-awareness of them with someone who'd agree to play for fucking donald trump, and actually this is one of the awfulest things about people like trump, or marine le pen, or other shit-stirring know-nothing populist nativist dickbags, is they end up appealing to some otherwise fine, funny, decent, interesting people who unfortunately have been culturally isolated enough to not think very deeply about what they're getting into and suddenly before you know it they're posting racist facebook memes

he still made good records until 2006 so

this. plus a handful of really good singles for four or five years after that.

they end up appealing to some otherwise fine, funny, decent, interesting people who unfortunately have been culturally isolated enough to not think very deeply about what they're getting into

i don't think toby keith is culturally isolated, and i assume he does think about what he's getting into. i also assume, based on keith and assorted others who said yes to this gig, that not having had a hit in several years makes it either a) easier to say yes or b) harder to say no, or both.

he also wrote a song about kicking terrorists in the ass with your boot

toby keith also played the RNC, it didn't come out of nowhere (he said he "would have played the DNC if they offeredd" but that's kind of like me saying that I'd accept $1 million from trump if he offered: so unlikely a possibility as to be moot)

he also wrote a song about kicking terrorists in the ass with your boot

the one time i saw him live, about 10 years ago, he was great for the 80-ish minutes of his regular set, then he came back for the encore and the entire arena, not just him, turned into a red, white and blue kick-terrorists-in-the-ass-vote-republican-and-be-christian rally. it was legitimately scary. but those 80 minutes were still great.

he also wrote a song about kicking terrorists in the ass with your boot

i kinda liked this song o_O

no you're right he doesn't really have the same excuses that say my jackass father-in-law does

it's not as poignant as Alan Jackson's

he also wrote a song about kicking terrorists in the ass with your boot

May very well be Trump's secret ISIS plan.

"Beer for My Horses" just went by the radio and, wow, I can't believe any station would play this in 2020. Also, wtf, there was a movie??

Yeah, used to hear this on the radio all the time (back when I lived in a red state small town) and always did a double take at the lyrics. The awful thing is the chorus is kinda catchy so when I hear it on the radio I sometimes catch myself humming it later that day.

NEWS: Amid impeachment effort, Trump is giving medals to @tobykeith and @RickySkaggs — national medal of the arts, several sources tell me

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 13, 2021

RIP

if I speak

“A Little Too Late” “As Good As I Once Was” “Just Talking About Tonight” all classics imo

what????

Yeah, he had a run of good to excellent albums in the mid '00s. I'd add "Somewhere Else," "I Love This Bar," and about a dozen others to PK's list.

Requisite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyIwRoPr728

damn the taliban finally got him, sending love & light

no reason in particular. pic.twitter.com/Ycs9zqdTf1

— lieutenant winslow (@lt_winslow) February 6, 2024

Have they started leaving flowers at all the I Love This Bar & Grill locations?

when I turned 21 and started going out the song that would play nonstop is "I Love This Bar", like every local place would have someone playing it 3x a night, one of the few songs I still actively hate, though perhaps "Red Solo Cup" is actually worse, perhaps because he was 50 years old when he wrote it, not to be ageist but if you're that old you should not be at those sorts of parties you giant fuckin weirdo

rest in peace

My aunt brought out red solo cups for our Noche Buena party in December. We were sitting outdoors.

"I Love This Bar" is great.

I would argue with you Alf but I will show some respect for the recently deceased

When exactly did this racist asshole earn any respect?

Some of us who write about country music loved the stuff he released between 1999-2006. We gotta deal with garbage like "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue" and "Beer For Your Horses" the same way we gotta deal with "Okie From Muskogee" and "Fightin' Side of Me." But Toby Keith is responsible for the hesitation about assessing Toby Keith. I haven't listened to his last few albums, but it wouldn't surprise me if the white trash with money ethos he celebrated and in 2016 and 2020 implicitly empowered hadn't disfigured his songs. Keith had too much talent for it to happen. Or maybe the newer songs do get disfigured in the same way fascism shrivels whatever it touches, including the earlier material I've praised. Either way I wouldn't have bothered even if he'd rejected Donald Trump.

“I Wanna Talk About Me” is an awesome song

I think I have Tim H to thank for introducing me to “As Good As I Once Was” which is on the very top shelf of unimpeachably satisfying country
songs

You’re welcome Tracer. Alfred OTM - White Trash With Money was where I delicately alighted from Toby’s truck but the string of LPs beforehand are really good with disgusting moments (and as with all such things everyone has their own bar for where the gross stuff gets too much).

i love that bar

I've always loved ILM's double standard with modern country vs indie like omg Pitchfork didn't start their Sleater Kinney review with a land acknowledgement vs Toby Keith advocating for murdering people in the Midwest or Morgan Wallen said the n word sure sucks but whaddya gonna do?

mideast obv

are the same posters dismissing the S-K review the same ones praising Toby Keith?

actually, Keith's lynching song did advocate murdering Americans.

I think Springsteen's Nebraska was advocating for murder in the midwest

Some of us who write about country music loved the stuff he released between 1999-2006. We gotta deal with garbage like "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue" and "Beer For Your Horses" the same way we gotta deal with "Okie From Muskogee" and "Fightin' Side of Me."

Are you sure you get "Okie From Muskogee"?

are you sure you do?

i'd say it's more like a weak cheer tbh