Alright y’all. This is a hate post.
First of all, Aaron Lewis has a new single out, called “Country Boy.” He might as well have called it “Well I Guess That Whole Angsty Scene Really Is Gone So Here’s Me Trying To Act Country (Like I Have Been All My Life, You Guys)” GAAAASSP <
My story with Aaron Lewis started a long time ago when a good friend introduced me to the song “Raw” by a band called Staind. For those of you who aren’t familiar, Staind were the original angsty rock band, which was a slight yet certain departure from emo rock. I guess these guys just had lower voices and weren’t as skinny
Staind did fairly well for themselves in their time, but eventually everyone (or was it just me) that they wrote the same song and hook over and over, and then everyone got tired of making angsty faces all the time.
After three or four albums (plus that “Outside” single with Fred Durst that I absolutely hated), Staind was over. Perhaps it was then that Aaron decided to see if there was any angst left in America. He had already hit the bummed out mid-westerners with his first band, so why not go country. I can’t stand this song! It’s pathetic and typical attempt at a country song–alright not like I know a lot of those, but it brings nothing new to the table.
Also, it’s called “I’m still country”?? So what does that make Staind, a practical joke?
“I’m still country y’all. Just like I always was. Staind was just a truck I built with my bare hands to take me to my country career all these years later.”
-Aaron Lewis
I wonder what all of those angsty kids (adults?) who have been missing their favorite band must think of this. Surely working class angsty music fans from ten years ago didn’t take much a liking to that there country music.
Anyway here’s the song.
