Comments on: Toby Keith – American Ride

By: Chuck Eddy

Chuck Eddy — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:07:34 +0000

So is the line about “plasma getting bigger” about, uh, TV sets??? I’m pretty out of it where advances in consumer entertainment technology are concerned, but I just rode my bike past a Big Screen TV store, a year after this song came out, and a lightbulb went off in my head. Line was completely crytpic to me before — figured it had something to do with science trouncing Jesus. If it’s about TV, it’s less despicable.

By: Let’s shake hands and reach across those party lines… « Desperation Tentacles

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:31:50 +0000

[...] like you / Only prettier.” For the first time since I’ve gotten into country music, American Ride aside, I feel like I’m exluded from being part of the audience – pointledly so. The [...]

By: anthony

anthony — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:22:22 +0000

I still maintain this does not rock like a motherfucker

By: Burbal

Burbal — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:18:23 +0000

This song is great…… but I happened to know first hand that the songwriter has webbed feet and I dont think its fair to take cheap shots at handicapped folk. Yall can burn for that for true.

By: jane

jane — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:40:40 +0000

…plus, is it just me or are we supposed to hear the title/chorus as “gotta love this American Right“?

By: Chuck Eddy

Chuck Eddy — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:32:51 +0000

Yeah I can see that — Toby’s probably saying that even if we are frying holes in the ozone, it sure hasn’t made our lives any worse (even if everything else has, which is all part of the ride anyway). Another possible explanation, from George Smith over on ILM’s Rolling Country thread: “It’s OK for country artists to now start acknowledging global warming because O’Reilly has said repeatedly that he believes it, although most of the rest of Fox still calls it a hoax.”

By: Tom Lawrence

Tom Lawrence — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:32:32 +0000

Mind you, “winter getting colder, summer gettin’ warmer” right at the start.

Enh.

By: Tom Lawrence

Tom Lawrence — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:27:30 +0000

I’m with jane dark there: I’m inclined to view that lyric as sceptical of climate change claims.

By: jane dark

jane dark — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:20:21 +0000

Maybe somebody already said, I can’t read all the comments: I think the song’s point about the ozone is that, while everyone says the sky is falling viz global warning and so forth, at the level of what we actually experience, it’s a little hard to credit; the world turns, just as it did yesterday. It’s pretty clear to me that he’s not *accepting* global warming, he’s mocking what he perceives to be environmentalist Chicken Littles. So it actually isn’t any sort of counterpoint to the song’s stance in general.

As it happens, I too think it rocks like a motherfucker. I almost always agree with Chuck on all non-hip-hop-related matters.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:13:10 +0000

^This would take care of most of that pesky “word problem” that has long afflicted this site.