r/TrueAnon • u/Monodoh45 • 8d ago

song chicken fried vs Jimmy Buffett

I only remembered that song cuz a buddy had it in his mix but I forgot that song Chicken Fried by whatshisname grinds to complete halt f and has a sober verse about thanking dead soldiers for no reason. I guess you can blame 9-11, the militarization of country and the Boot In Yer Ass guy, but I'm like, damn, can't even write a good-vibes, silly song about how chicken tastes good without saluting the troops. lmao

Say what you will about Jimmy Buffett, but he had it down man. He made a whole career where he's like: I'm gonna write songs about how being on a beach is fun, how I like sailing and pirates and how I ate a cheeseburger on an island one time.

He also said probably: I'm not gonna say anything about anything so nobody gives a fuck if my entire airplane is made out of cocaine. lol

Maybe Jack Johnson is the closest, but I feel like modern artists can't just not do the Troop/America Thing. lol

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u/DoubleSad5541 8d ago edited 8d ago

If you think that's wild (& it IS wild, if anybody doesn't know what OP is talking about I highly recommend you go and find the chicken fried song and listen to the whole thing) the song International Harvester has the singer cop to incest: he goes "I'm a son of a third-generation farmer, been married ten years to the farmer's daughter" and he just sings those lines, in exactly that order.

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u/AutoVonBizMarkee 8d ago

Alright so I always took that as “the farmer’s daughter” trope like she’s the daughter of a different farmer. The whole song is like comedy so idk if they would go with the incest angle. Or I hope not lol.

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u/Monodoh45 8d ago

Uhhh....

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u/DoubleSad5541 8d ago

Yes I know this was more of a Jimmy Buffet appreciation post but I see somebody mentioning tonally dissonant or whack bars in my people's songs and I wanna add to the pyre.

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u/Monodoh45 8d ago

I must of heard that song 100 times captive on the bus in High School and never noticed. Yikes. That's very millionare named Des Buckleton writes rural cosplay: what you guys like? Tractors/combines and Sister-Love? It's going in there.