The 4Q song Morgan Wallen

[NighthawkVol]

Apparently, we’re keeping that godawful cheese ball The Way I Talk song as our 4Q song, since they played it in Atlanta.

My question is, if they HAVE to use the chair-thrower for the 4Q song, wouldn’t Tennessee Fan make sense? Since, you know, it’s actually about the Vols?

Who do we call about this?

 

[kcvols1]

Nobody because it’s awesome like it is.

This guy!

 

[NighthawkVol]

Nobody because it’s awesome like it is.

This guy!

It’s goofy as hell. Typical pandering modern formulaic lowest common denominator “country” music for people with no taste.

But moreover, it has nothing to do with Tennessee or getting fired up. It’s about having an accent. Yeah…awesome.

 

[Coy53175]

Apparently, we’re keeping that godawful cheese ball The Way I Talk song as our 4Q song, since they played it in Atlanta.

My question is, if they HAVE to use the chair-thrower for the 4Q song, wouldn’t Tennessee Fan make sense? Since, you know, it’s actually about the Vols?

Who do we call about this?

Reported, demoted, banned, and VOL removed from your handle

 

[Stoerner Fumbles]

Apparently, we’re keeping that godawful cheese ball The Way I Talk song as our 4Q song, since they played it in Atlanta.

My question is, if they HAVE to use the chair-thrower for the 4Q song, wouldn’t Tennessee Fan make sense? Since, you know, it’s actually about the Vols?

Who do we call about this?

It’s an embarrassment

 

[GAVol]

Apparently, we’re keeping that godawful cheese ball The Way I Talk song as our 4Q song, since they played it in Atlanta.

My question is, if they HAVE to use the chair-thrower for the 4Q song, wouldn’t Tennessee Fan make sense? Since, you know, it’s actually about the Vols?

Who do we call about this?

I don’t know, but it’s a special kind of awful.

 

[NighthawkVol]

It’s an embarrassment

Exactly. Let’s just advertise how tacky and lacking in taste we are.

Also, why do we HAVE to have a 4Q song? Florida started it with Tom Petty because it works for them. He’s from the area. “I Won’t Back Down” is a great proclamation for the 4Q. It’s their tradition. Let them have it and stop trying to mimic it. It’s like Kentucky trying to copy our checkerboard…pathetic.

But instead of a great rock artist, we’ve got some goofball wannabe country hip hop phony prancing around popping his shirt and bragging about talking with a country accent to the mouth breathing masses who think it’s something pithy because they too passed the 6th grade.

 

[NighthawkVol]

Reported, demoted, banned, and VOL removed from your handle

Because I’m a Vol, I prefer we not embarrass our university with that crap. If inbreeding had a sound, it would be a Morgan Wallen song.

 

[strongj81]

I hate it! Has to be something better

 

[marcusluvsvols]

Because I’m a Vol, I prefer we not embarrass our university with that crap. If inbreeding had a sound, it would be a Morgan Wallen song.

I cant stand him because the "best" song he ever put out is a cover of Jason Isbells "Cover me up". The original Isbell version is orders of magnitude better ...you know, because he wrote it. Hes also an extremely gifted guitar player that has a signature series of Fender guitars.

** Sadly, Isbell is also dbag in real life whose political views are somewhere Left of Lenin and he never shuts up about them. Not a good guy IMO. He is a great songwriter and guitar player though.

 

[TAF]

Where’s ALL the “Copperhead Road Line Dancing Ladies” on HERE??!!
they’ll have their panties in a wad just with the MENTION of MW…


BTW…Morgan Wallen is a Knoxville area boy who has done BEYOND GOOD in the music biz…

y’all ALWAYS act like he did to your girl what he did to that “Houndstooth Blonde”…



PLUS… I DIG this Ditty…

 

[casual-observer]

I hate it! Has to be something better

Just wait. Some gobshite will suggest Copperhead Road, ugh.

 

[Hairy Vols]

It’s goofy as hell. Typical pandering modern formulaic lowest common denominator “country” music for people with no taste.

But moreover, it has nothing to do with Tennessee or getting fired up. It’s about having an accent. Yeah…awesome.

That is not unique to Morgan Wallen or “modern country.” That is mainstream music in general and has been since the late 70s. It is an industry first and art second. Labels and corporations have been building acts for decades across every genre. The only reason people think one type of mainstream music is “better” than another is nostalgia. Rock. Pop. Rap. Country. Once it goes big label the formula is always the same with repeatable hooks broad appeal and market tested themes.


Saying this one song is some special case of “pandering” ignores how the machine works. Corporations are not trying to make high art for a small crowd. They are trying to fill stadiums and sell merch. That is what created your favorite classic rock playlists and the golden era country records too. It is all part of the same system. The only difference is if you are old enough to remember when it felt new. Whatever songs you would choose would be no different or they would be so obscure nobody could relate. So get off the high horse.

 

[swchandler1988]

That is not unique to Morgan Wallen or “modern country.” That is mainstream music in general and has been since the late 70s. It is an industry first and art second. Labels and corporations have been building acts for decades across every genre. The only reason people think one type of mainstream music is “better” than another is nostalgia. Rock. Pop. Rap. Country. Once it goes big label the formula is always the same with repeatable hooks broad appeal and market tested themes.


Saying this one song is some special case of “pandering” ignores how the machine works. Corporations are not trying to make high art for a small crowd. They are trying to fill stadiums and sell merch. That is what created your favorite classic rock playlists and the golden era country records too. It is all part of the same system. The only difference is if you are old enough to remember when it felt new. Whatever songs you would choose would be no different or they would be so obscure nobody could relate. So get off the high horse.

Bingo

 

[kiddiedoc]

Or, you could just have fun at a football game. MW is very popular with the college-aged crowd (as well as a lot of older folks, apparently). Other teams use "Friends in Low Places." As far as I know, this song is ours. People sing and have a good time when it plays, so why are y'all so upset?

 

[jtencer]

I’m generally pretty tolerant of people having different tastes in music, but Nashville country is just completely unappealing to me. It might as well be AI generated for how unoriginal it is. If I never heard another of his songs in my life, it would be too soon.

 

[Titans4Vols]

Always going to be someone crying about the music, regardless of what is chosen, such is the reality of choosing things that depend on personal taste for enjoyment. Not sure why you think they'd care anymore about your complaint than the complaints they've got about any other song they've ever used in their history.

 

[volfan2024]

I’m ok with it l guess , only because it says Tennessee Vols that song 8 years old he’s selling out the Lynx in London now and he has a lot better songs than that thing. More popular today also. Maybe love you more than my hometown it’s a lot better song.

 

[NATHAN05]

What about Cooperhead Rd?

 

[Carl Pickens]

Apparently, we’re keeping that godawful cheese ball The Way I Talk song as our 4Q song, since they played it in Atlanta.

My question is, if they HAVE to use the chair-thrower for the 4Q song, wouldn’t Tennessee Fan make sense? Since, you know, it’s actually about the Vols?

Who do we call about this?

I don’t know, but that song is putrid .

 

[vols 30]

I’m generally pretty tolerant of people having different tastes in music, but Nashville country is just completely unappealing to me. It might as well be AI generated for how unoriginal it is. If I never heard another of his songs in my life, it would be too soon.

I couldn't tell you anything about country music the last 25 years. Morgan, Luke, Jimbob, Gomer. They all sound the same to me.

 

[37620VOL]

Thank God it's not 'Living on a Prayer'

 

[Carl Pickens]

Or, you could just have fun at a football game. MW is very popular with the college-aged crowd (as well as a lot of older folks, apparently). Other teams use "Friends in Low Places." As far as I know, this song is ours. People sing and have a good time when it plays, so why are y'all so upset?

Every time I get in the car with my wife and daughters I have to listen to MW, Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift. All three of them get me all worked up like Pop Goes the Weasel

 

[OHvol40]

That is not unique to Morgan Wallen or “modern country.” That is mainstream music in general and has been since the late 70s. It is an industry first and art second. Labels and corporations have been building acts for decades across every genre. The only reason people think one type of mainstream music is “better” than another is nostalgia. Rock. Pop. Rap. Country. Once it goes big label the formula is always the same with repeatable hooks broad appeal and market tested themes.


Saying this one song is some special case of “pandering” ignores how the machine works. Corporations are not trying to make high art for a small crowd. They are trying to fill stadiums and sell merch. That is what created your favorite classic rock playlists and the golden era country records too. It is all part of the same system. The only difference is if you are old enough to remember when it felt new. Whatever songs you would choose would be no different or they would be so obscure nobody could relate. So get off the high horse.

Meh, not a lot of nuance in this opinion. Comparing the music industry of the late 70s to the music industry today is not apples-to-apples like you make it sound. Sure, big music labels existed then, but artist discovery was more organic, as was freedom of expression. It started to change dramatically in the mid-late 90s with the advent of the Internet. I agree with some of your analysis, but not all.

 

[Hairy Vols]

I couldn't tell you anything about country music the last 25 years. Morgan, Luke, Jimbob, Gomer. They all sound the same to me.

Country music has always had that sameness to it since at least the 50s. The sound is built around the same core instruments like guitar fiddle steel guitar and banjo. When every song starts with that same foundation it is going to feel familiar no matter what decade you pick.


The structure of the songs has never really changed either. Verse chorus verse with simple chord progressions you can hum along to. That is why a Hank Williams track from the 50s and a George Strait track from the 80s hit your ear in almost the same way.


On top of that the tradition of country is to echo what came before. Every era writes about the same themes small towns heartbreak faith drinking and family. Artists are not trying to reinvent the wheel they are trying to show they belong to the lineage.


The industry just reinforces that. Nashville (yes even old school Nashville aka Country Hollywood) has always pushed what sells and once a style works everyone copies it. That is how you got the “Nashville Sound” of the 60s the outlaw wave of the 70s the stadium ready country of the 90s and now the bro country era. Within each wave the songs all follow the same formula because that is what labels demand.