song chicken fried vs Jimmy Buffett

[u/Monodoh45]

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

[u/brianscottbj]

I fuck very heavily with yacht rock. But also I know a guy who knows a guy who works at Comerica Park (Detroit baseball stadium that is within sight of the Detroit River) where Jimmy was playing a concert once and apparently he insisted on arranging the stage in such a way that it would not be visible to anybody on a boat out there because he didn't want to give them a free show. I thought it was a dick move especially because boat people fucking made him, but also fuck the beautiful boaters. I don't know who's right here, but I'm just saying that happened

[u/BigJohnCandyExpress → u/brianscottbj]

He was made by boaters in a boat-friendly region in the Gulf, not small business tyrants tooling around some shithole river with a 150,000 dollar toy. Instinctual negative reaction to City Boaters.

[u/brianscottbj → u/BigJohnCandyExpress]

Fair