Grady Smith got to check out Next in Line by Ned LeDoux which came out today. Also, Carlton Anderson(wrote Where Cowboys are King) released a new single today.
“Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)” by Big & Rich is probably at the top of my list. It’s just so catchy! I’d also include “Hangover Tonight” by Gary Allan and Chris Stapleton.
The DJ played "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)" at my high school prom, and when it came on, my date automatically wanted to go up and dance to it, and she didn't even like country music!
I agree. Just a little bit of random country history. A guy singing about being a small time farmer on his IH and just takin his time doin his job. Just a banger overall
I think Thomas Rhett has made it so big because he seems like a real dude. He's married, he has kids and seems like a nice dude. Most bro country come off as bachelor dudes.
Honestly “Talk About Me” by Toby Keith is a song about a guy who doesn’t just want to listen about this girl’s life and for once talk about himself. Which I think is a fair request
Yeah I disagree with the way he described it. I take the song as the girl is selfish and only talks about herself all the time and he just wants to talk about himself for once
the lyrics even say, "every once in a while I wanna talk about me." He isn't saying that he doesn't want to talk about her at all, just that he sometimes wants to get in a word
I went to an FGL concert and had the time of my life, I can honestly say it was the best concert I’ve been to. It was just a great opportunity to leave my regular life and enjoy some shallow country songs. And their encore song was Meant to Be, the WHOLE stadium was singling along. Such a great vibe!
And he got it so wrong. It's not about cornand whiskey. It's about how life is different out here. We actually want it to rain. When it's windy we can't spray. Off there is no snowpack, there's no water in the ditch. When property taxes go up out comes out of the harvest check.
@@fordtechchris Yeah, it was pretty funny! I heard a brief story years ago about the making of that video. The lady who played his grandma apparently was the personal hairdresser for like a producer or someone working on the set and she was a somewhat last minute cast who was a real good sport about stripping down and jumping in that pool! It was a neat story!
Also, "Brand New Girlfriend" by Steve Holy (1000% had to look that up)... I rarely hear it but I used to listen to it on the bus when I was little. 😂😂 And loved it
In case you need to reference later: 10. Achy-Breaky Heart (Billy Ray Cyrus) 9. Man, I Feel Like a Woman (Shania Twain) 8. Singles You Up (Jordan Davis) 7. Rockin’ the Beer Gut (Trailer Choir) 6. Tailgate (Raelynn) 5. I Wanna Talk About Me (Toby Keith) 4. Cruise (Florida Georgia Line) 3. Don’t Worry About a Thing (Shedaisy) 2. Life Changes (Thomas Rhett) 1. Rain Is a Good Thing (Luke Bryan)
One night in 2009 I was walking down a street in Athens, Greece, feeling a bit out of place until I heard the opening of "Man, I Feel Like a Woman", and I could hear a whole bar full of people singing along. I felt at home.
Mine would be: 10: Craig Morgan: "International Harvester" (It's obnoxious and stupid, but both the composition and technical songwriting is solid here in making this undeniably infectious. Plus, Morgan's voice is dripping with personality and captures the disgruntled vibe he's going for remarkably well while still sounding fun. Plus, the lyrics are descriptive and colorful.) 9: Sugarland: "Stuck Like Glue" (This was widely derided by the country world upon becoming a hit, but I've always liked this. The tempo never slackens, Nettles' vocal is replete with personality and verve throughout, and I can't help but be taken by the carefree tone of this ditty. Stupid? Sure! But it bops.) 8: Tracy Byrd: "Watermelon Crawl" (The production and musicianship, in fairness, already gives this a redeeming quality. But when also paired with lyrics and a vocal tone that is flush with personality, it elevates the stupidity of the lyrics to something euphoric.) 7: Luke Bryan: "Take My Drunk Ass Home" (I have to be among a minority that thinks his "Spring Break" releases are more authentic than his proper studio albums, and this underscores why. Obviously it's an aggressively stupid novelty song, but the song has this understated, organic, accessible charm to it that sounds like it was genuinely written around a campfire on a beachfront and thus has an authenticity and sing-along appeal that I can't help but nod along to.) 6: Billy Currington: "Like My Dog" (In fairness, Billy Currington is likeable among the vast majority of casual country listeners due to his personality and charisma. That said, "Like My Dog" fascinates me in how brutal the lyrics are and how it really goes for the jugular, yet is juxtaposed by a blithe production tone and plenty of traditional instrumentation. Vicious? Oh yeah! But he just pulls it off well here.) 5: Florida Georgia Line: "This Is How We Roll" (Yes: the lyrics are unabashedly stupid. Yes, this sounds unabashedly obnoxious. And yes: Tyler's rapping is a...................thing. Still, there's no denying that the vocal melody and hook is unavoidably sticky and mesmerizing no matter how much you try and resist it. It's by ar one of the catchiest vocal hooks I have EVER heard on 'country' radio over this past decade, if not ever. It's just a well-constructed earworm no matter how you slice it.) 4: Little Big Town: "Pontoon" (This one arguably doesn't fit the criteria because they have usually been a critically-acclaimed quartet over the years with other definitive hits to boot. Still, this track was widely berated upon its release, yet.......................I've never understood why. Joyce's production just has this hazy, slow swayin', smoky vibe that totally complements the laid-back vibe of the track and Fairchild's bluesy vocals, and the lyrics are vocal melody are just impossible to hate even if they're immature.) 3: Cole Swindell: "Chillin' It" (It obviously and hilariously comes across as a porr man's version of "Cruise", but there's just something kind of endearing about this in spite of how banal and corny it is. I think the blissfully oblivious yet warm vibe of Cole Swindell is what most elevates it, but also the infectious voca melody.) 2: Joe Diffie feat. D. Thrash “Girl Ridin’ Shotgun” (This is utterly ridiculous and confounding, yet....................I can't help but cave into the stickiness of this migraine-inducingly stupid song.) 1: Toby Keith: "Red Solo Cup" (Were you really expecting any other song to top my list?) *
@@ragereynolds4374 Like I said, I enjoyed his "Spring Break" EPs more than most of his full-length proper releases because they always sounded more authentic (even if it did get questionable he kept writing and singing songs about Spring Break until he was knocking on forty). Frm here on out, I hope he considers delving into more agrarian themes. His annual "Farm Tour" is obviously something he is extremely proud of. Why not release subsequent EPs delving deeper into this realm?
My guilty pleasure song is any early song by Taylor Swift like Tim McGraw, Teardrops on my Guitar, Picture to Burn, Sparks Fly, Begin Again, and Our Song. I think those songs are the some of the best songs I've ever heard. It was great for the time. And I still listen to them everytime they come on the radio or on my Spotify playlist.
@Allan Mulrian I think it's called Fix a Drink but it's one of my guilty pleasures as well...all my friends hate it but I tell them to f*** off when it comes on lol
“Look What God Gave Her” Thomas Rhett ... I love to listen to it cause it reminds me of my girl and it’s also makes me wanna jam but I’m at the same time... it is literally straight up the definition of Pop music.
Justin Moore's "Bait a Hook" is one that immediately came to mind. I remember I outright hated it when I first heard it, then I watched the music video and hated it some more... until the ending. Justin seems like a pretty decent guy and by the end of the music video, he sort of makes himself look (and sound) like a goofball which I ended up loving. Makes me smile every time I hear it now. Can't wait to hear your thoughts on What You See Is What You Get. It might just be my album of the year.
I would say mine is On My Way To You by Cody Johnson because I didn't care for it at first but it is super catchy! It's not all that poppy or anything either 🤷🏼♀️
You had me throwing up my fist at “Man! I Feel Like A Woman”. I LOVE that song, even if I truthfully can’t relate to it. There’s just somethings out that song that can get a man to just sing along. To this day I don’t know what it is. And I pretty much agree with your list! Btw, “Cowboy Take Me Away” is one of the songs I credit for introducing me to country music. And yes I sing along to that one OUT LOUD. The arrangements and vocal performances on that song are beautiful. Funny story about that song, I played it at work as part of a playlist. My coworker passed me by and heard what I was playing. I’ll never forget what he said. “Dude, you listen to stuff my Grandma listens to.” BEST. COMMENT. EVER!! 😂
I remember after my 6th grade "graduation" My family went to a restaurant/bar to "celebrate." We of course sat at the restaurant side but at the bar it was Karaoke night. You could of course hear the people on "the stage" from the restaurant area. There was a drunk guy that got up and sung the worst rendition of "Man, I feel like a woman" I had ever heard. My cousin just kept roasting him at our table and had me dying laughing.
"She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy", its such a guilty pleasure. Also, "Honkytonk Badonkadonk" is DEFINITELY a guilty pleasure for me omg Also "Goodbye Earl" by the Dixie Chicks is definitely one too. Also for my boyfriend😂😂
In 2005 my son and nephew were 5 and Honky Tonk Badonkadonk was their absolute favorite song on the planet. We must have listened to it 10 thousand times.
Thank you for introducing me to that donkey song. I just rode around my place with that blaring on my phone while riding Zero ( my mule). We both enjoy that song.
"Chrome" by Trace Adkins is my all time favorite guilty pleasure. It's the one of the very few guilty pleasure songs that I never grew embarrassed to listen to.
Great list! Other guilty pleasures I'd add to the mix include "Comin' to Your City" by Big & Rich, "1994" by Jason Aldean, "The Shake" by Neal McCoy, "Giddy On Up" by Laura Bell Bundy, and "Break Up in a Small Town" by Sam Hunt.
I wanna talk about me is low key one of my favorite Toby Keith songs, probably the first song of his I ever heard growing up. No guilt in my pleasure, just a lot of good memories!
Did no one say “Cotton Eye Joe”? Is that because it’s more “country adjacent” then country? To me, it seems many people are “it’s stupid but I like it”
@@mattclark9763 It's not SQUARELY a country song. While it borrows elements, ala the banjo and fiddle playing as well as rural storytelling "left all the land cause of Cotton Eye Joe" it comes with, perhaps an even larger dose of something very outside of country which is Eurotechno or Eurodance. For people like a country purist such as Grady, that's no dice.
David That makes sense, thanks. It sounds like it’s similar to the difference between country music and bluegrass.. maybe? I know a ton of music but I’m not to knowledgeable in all of the classifications
In the Heart of a Woman - BIlly Ray Cyrus Austin -Blake Shelton Jukebox With a Country Song - Doug Stone John Deere Green - Joe Diffie Bubba Shot the Jukebox - Mark Chestnutt You Gonna Kiss Me or Not - Thompson Square How Do You Like Me Now - Toby Keith
I really don't like that song because my high school best friend was OBSESSED with it and played it constantly. I think she even wore out the cassette that it was on.
I'm a Canadian guy, who listens to mostly hard rock, heavy metal.. *BUT* enjoys some Country music especially in the summer time. So my guilty pleasure song has to be Hillbilly Bone by Blake Shelton ft. Trace Adkins.. mainly because in July 2010 when that song was still new-ish, it was the song that reminded me of my first vacation to the United States when I went to see my first NASCAR race in Daytona Beach, Florida. Still one of my favorite weekends of my life, but yeah, that song.. brings me back to a great moment in my life... and the song made sense to me.
A lot of these I grew up listening to with my parents such as: Cruise Country Girl Shake it for Me This is My Kinda Knight Rain is a Good Thing And much more, like Sugarland, my favorite duo, they sing my two all time favorite songs: Stuck Like Glue It Happens I LOVE those songs Funnily enough, Rain is a Good Thing is probably the reason I have a higher self esteem than I probably would have as my middle name is pronounced rain, so it kinda made me feel good about myself like he was talking about me
Binging your channel is making this last week of quarantine for me. Country is my first love, and I relate to loving all of these guilty pleasures :) One of my guilty pleasures is Break Up with Him by Old Dominion.
I really liked this. I grew up in the 80/90’s with my dad playing in a cover band 3 nights a week, and almost every night in the summer. So, needless to say country music was everywhere, all the time and shaped a lot of my childhood. Guilty pleasure.... I’d have to give my vote to achey breaky heart
I love Achy Breaky Heart. In ‘94 or so, when I was a kid in 4-H, I sang it at the goat show. No ragerts. It’s still on my 90s Country Playlist, and for good reason.
My guilty pleasure songs are Beachin by Jake Owen, Talk You Out of It by FGL and Butterflies by Kacey Musgraves. I like really chill song that I can just listen to on the beach with with a drink and these three songs fit into that category as much as I hate to admit it
I would say mine is On My Way To You by Cody Johnson because I didn't care for it at first but it is super catchy! It's not all that poppy or anything either 🤷🏼♀️
Dude! Donkey is my Favorite! I do love your videos and listening to your take on things. So impressed you found SheDaisy. I feel like no one ever knows who they are, and I loved them in the day.
I just need to comment on the fact that you mentioned So Weird which gives me all the nostalgia. It's a show I still think about and reference all the time and nobody I talk to ever remembers it. I feel so validated right now!
Okay, not really related to the video topic, but I got excited when you mentioned So Weird! I feel like every time I bring up that show nobody has any idea what I’m talking about.
oh my goodness Raelynn just released a song called “Bra Off” which fits perfectly into this category for me !! You gotta give it a listen!! Makes me laugh while I’m singing every word to it
Her next single is called Keep Up, which fits this even better But back to Bra Off "Breaking up with you is like taking my bra off Feeling free and loose like this T-shirt I got on"
I love all of these! No guilt. Rain is a good a thing was my first country song, I was instantly amused and on board for music that can be about anything
OKKKKK..... I'll admit--- My guilty pleasure???? Has to be the fact that I just discovered Grady and ALL his videos a few days ago & They're great so far!! Sooo is it cheesy of me to make a written list of the songs he talks about??? AND THEN, go thru the comments for more song choices to add to my list, and going & looking up all the ones I either wanna hear again or have never heard at all?? These videos of his are just memories of great songs, stupid songs, stupid songs we love, love songs.... and the list goes on & on & on!!! So I'm now like a teenager, with my notebook out writing down songs I wanna jam to! And, I'm a 51yr old Grandma!!!!! LOL So I may be cheesy but too old to care!!!! Thanks for all the work you do for these song lists Grady, and Thanks to UA-cam!!!! You've given me a new hobby!!!! LOL 🤣🤣🤣
My guilty pleasure song is Eric Church Wrecking Ball. It’s just such a cheesy song,but I’ll be damned if I don’t sing to my hearts content when it comes on
A lot of 90s/early 2000s country is kind of a guilty pleasure for me, since my Mom would always have it on the radio while driving my sister and I to school as kids.
I have watched a handful of videos now and each time I'm blown away at how much I agree!!!! I kinda hate that I didn't think to do this first! But props to you, this is awesome content. Your "Top Ten All Time Favorites Video," specifically the feeling of pride you feel with that boot in Toby Keith's Courtesy Of The Red, White, and Blue, and the reference to the book of Ecclesiastes hooked me! 😂
I fell down the rabbit hole of your channel, and was pleasantly surprised. It's nice to see a guy be able to pick apart songs, but still be able to enjoy them. (Even though Toby Keith hurts my soul, and not in any kind of good way.)
Life Changes is SUCH a guilty pleasure for me I’m still in school and I played that song while talking about country music. My class thinks it’s country and I was like even if you like this song you don’t like country. It really isn’t country
LUKE IS COMING. (I gotta listen a bunch of times first.) Be patient and enjoy these ridiculous songs!
Grady Smith got to check out Next in Line by Ned LeDoux which came out today. Also, Carlton Anderson(wrote Where Cowboys are King) released a new single today.
Review the Old Dominion album too
Could u also do Maddie & taes new album after Luke’s it’s really good 👌🏻
Check out Josh Ward!
And you can put "Look What God Gave Her", "Swayze" by Zac Brown & "Hell Right" by Blake Shelton on that list. Absolute ear cancer...
I gotta throw one out for She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy. It’s so dumb but it’s so funny I can’t help liking it.
Yupp 😂😂
I got this on my Spotify country playlist
I'm with you on that one!😂
I love it because I grew up living on a farm and as a child I thought it was about tractors. XD
Truth. 😂😂
Red Solo Cup is definitely my guilty pleasure
Steven Adams yes!
Steven Adams ain’t no guilt there.
Nothing guilty about that song
No guilt here, I'll fill the red solo cup up to that!
My grandpa loved it lol
“Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)” by Big & Rich is probably at the top of my list. It’s just so catchy!
I’d also include “Hangover Tonight” by Gary Allan and Chris Stapleton.
"Save a Horse" is a great one; I like Big & Rich's music, too!
Big & Rich are highly underrated. They recorded some jams!😂 they’re very entertaining!
No need to feel any shame about save a horse!!
Courtney Kramer give me big and rich any day. They even did a great song about being a survivor of rape.
The DJ played "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)" at my high school prom, and when it came on, my date automatically wanted to go up and dance to it, and she didn't even like country music!
"International Harvester" by Craig Morgan is my biggest guilty pleasure... it's just so bizarre but I know every single word.
I love that song
I agree. Just a little bit of random country history. A guy singing about being a small time farmer on his IH and just takin his time doin his job. Just a banger overall
I feel no shame over "I wanna talk about me". That song is funny as hell.
Nutrition the video is even funnier 😂
@@tierneylogan5943 100% agree!
Nutrition it is funny and is one of the few songs that I have on iTunes
I love the song, I feel that he kind of missed the point of it
I was about to comment this same comment, this song is a slap
Rocking The Beer Gut is my Dad's ringtone when my mom calls him
Grade A Dad Move tbh
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
it wouldn't be a country guilty pleasure list without florida georgia line
Ryan Urban it’s not guilty it’s you like them. I don’t understand how people hate on them.
Gabby Davis no, as a whole i don't like them. they get hate for single-handedly ruining a genre lol
They're a 4-legged money making machine just like Ol' Red!
I only don’t like them because they’re jerks. I have a friend that’s really involved in Nashville and says they’re total a-holes
Ryan Urban did they really ruin the genre or did they just introduce something new and other artists ruined their idea?
I think Thomas Rhett has made it so big because he seems like a real dude. He's married, he has kids and seems like a nice dude. Most bro country come off as bachelor dudes.
Zack Shell yes I agree!
His dad is Rhett Akins. He was literally born country.
His dad also wrote A LOT of Justin Moore's songs. So, he had an easy way in.
Honestly “Talk About Me” by Toby Keith is a song about a guy who doesn’t just want to listen about this girl’s life and for once talk about himself. Which I think is a fair request
Yeah I disagree with the way he described it. I take the song as the girl is selfish and only talks about herself all the time and he just wants to talk about himself for once
Urban_Nation i have that on my playlist
yeah ive always heard it like.. she comes over and complains and complains and he never really gets a chance to talk about his day.....
the lyrics even say, "every once in a while I wanna talk about me." He isn't saying that he doesn't want to talk about her at all, just that he sometimes wants to get in a word
I went to an FGL concert and had the time of my life, I can honestly say it was the best concert I’ve been to. It was just a great opportunity to leave my regular life and enjoy some shallow country songs. And their encore song was Meant to Be, the WHOLE stadium was singling along. Such a great vibe!
#1 guilty pleasure “Before he cheats” Carrie Underwood all day
Hell no man. That’s not a guilty pleasure, that’s a legit banger.
No guilt there 😛
I DUG my Key inTO the side of his prettylittlesoupedup four wheel drIive
Camden Macek how is that remotely guilty?
same here except i listen to carrie ALL THE TIME! LOL!
RAIN IS A GOOD THING literally got me into country music...I feel honored that it is your top guilty pleasure song.
Dude that song rocks. I don't know why people seem to think that anything "tractor" or "corn field" is stupid.
And he got it so wrong. It's not about cornand whiskey. It's about how life is different out here. We actually want it to rain. When it's windy we can't spray. Off there is no snowpack, there's no water in the ditch. When property taxes go up out comes out of the harvest check.
I love Luke Bryan. But this is one of those songs that it’s like “YES SIRRRR THIS SONG CAME ON”
I love Luke and this song Is just yesss
@@carolinearthmann5397 I was at his concert a few weeks ago in VA and he played this song while it rained out on us folks in the lawn seats...EPIC!
Mr. Mom by Lonestar is up there for me
Dude, YES.
I haven't heard that song in a decade and a half, and it's still in my head. That's gotta count for something
Yesss
@@vlissblisskiss I wish I could say that
I love this song.
Sam Hunt feels like a guilty pleasure over all but I jam to his albums.
Kinfolks is so good
No guilt, I love Sam Hunt. Relatable lyrics, great beat and amazing voice.
I hate Sam hunt normally but Break Up In A Small Town is one of those songs that is ok at certain minutes
Drunk on a plane. Enough said.
I didn't mid this song but the CONSTANT spam from radio runnined it for me
That song's just amazing lol
Oh my goodness yesss!
Haha true. That song has some of the dumbest lyrics ever, but it is still a song I always sing along to it haha.
Hate it!!!!!
Big green tractor, by Jason Aldean had gotta be one.
Hicktown for me
@@ryanvirgens Little Willy Witzel is jackin' up his Bronco....
Granny's gettin lit and going out to bingo...
This
That song was played A LOT in my middle school days. It was always a song the girls would always slow dance to with you if you asked lol
"RED SOLO CUP! I FILL YOU UP! LETS HAVE A PARTAAAAY!"
*PROCEED TO PARTY!*
I love you red solo cup
Your my friend...(lifelong)... Thank you for being my friend.
I love the backup singers 😂
Red Solo Cup, you’re not just a cup.. “GOD NO!” 😂😂😂
@@elizabethadileewyman902 hahaha my favorite line in the song. That song grew on me so much lol
Tequila makes her clothes come off - awful subject, but it's just so catchy!
The Music video is the best... turns out it's grandmas clothes coming off!!!
@@fordtechchris DO NOT RUIN IT FOR ME!!! LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!
N. Ferreira that is a catchy song
N. Ferreira I love that song!! Totally agree
@@fordtechchris Yeah, it was pretty funny! I heard a brief story years ago about the making of that video. The lady who played his grandma apparently was the personal hairdresser for like a producer or someone working on the set and she was a somewhat last minute cast who was a real good sport about stripping down and jumping in that pool! It was a neat story!
I’d really like a mash up video of all your male viewers belting out “Cowboy Take Me Away”
Me too🤣
Karly Schwab honestly I would happily be a part of this vid 😂
I'll be in it but you don't want to hear me sing...
Ryan Virgens haha same but idgaf
I’m in. 🤠
“Big mullet energy” 😂😂😂
“You broke up with me” is a big guilty pleasure of mine
811414182梦见 and that hits me in a time where my girl did break up with me but this song made feel like I didn’t need her
@@dawsonmorrison6093 Haha
It’s such a good song lol
Ticks by Brad Paisley. I’d like to see the other half of your butterfly tattoo!
I was a junior in high school when that song came out and I loved it! It was like "the song" of my senior year!
I feel like most Brad Paisley songs could be on this list: Alcohol, Online, Celebrity. They're all so stupid, but so awesome at the same time.
That's not a guilty pleasure that's a solid song. The spanish version is good too.
@@blaisemacpherson7637 I NEED to listen to the Spanish version! 🙏
@@mandymorgan3346 just sent you down the tex Mex rabbit hole lol good stuff
I’ve been listening to Luke Combs all day
Nathan Hansen That ain’t a guilty pleasure though
Your Friendly Neighborhood Smark his album dropped today though
I love his new album
So what about it that it dropped today sounds like you hate him
Same here
Aw naw by Chris Young is my guilty pleasure
Absolutely. Love playing that in the car with the windows down
At least Chris has an amazing voice. But yeah this is definitely on my list
man i don’t even have it as a guilt pleasure i proudly like this song lol
Maddie and Tae- Girl in a Country Song is easily a guilty pleasure song that only plays when I’m alone in my car lol
Also, "Brand New Girlfriend" by Steve Holy (1000% had to look that up)... I rarely hear it but I used to listen to it on the bus when I was little. 😂😂 And loved it
Forgot all about that one but yesss! It used to be my jam too!! Now I gotta go listen to it lol
THANK GOD for UA-cam!!! 😂
In case you need to reference later:
10. Achy-Breaky Heart (Billy Ray Cyrus)
9. Man, I Feel Like a Woman (Shania Twain)
8. Singles You Up (Jordan Davis)
7. Rockin’ the Beer Gut (Trailer Choir)
6. Tailgate (Raelynn)
5. I Wanna Talk About Me (Toby Keith)
4. Cruise (Florida Georgia Line)
3. Don’t Worry About a Thing (Shedaisy)
2. Life Changes (Thomas Rhett)
1. Rain Is a Good Thing (Luke Bryan)
I feel like we all secretly have Florida Georgia Line songs in our playlists but we just don’t talk about it.
Dude this is how we roll is secretly a bop
True... love their song “grow old with me”
I 100% agree lmao
Yeah, I don't even like country that much but I still have holy and simple in my playlist
I have like 20 of there songs on my playlist, but I have never played them when I’m around people
Boys round here by Blake Shelton. I love Blake but this song is something else
so true.... I might laugh about the lyrics but i STILL sing along... every time.
One night in 2009 I was walking down a street in Athens, Greece, feeling a bit out of place until I heard the opening of "Man, I Feel Like a Woman", and I could hear a whole bar full of people singing along. I felt at home.
I'm thinking it was highly rated in the all time sexy songs..
Mine would be:
10: Craig Morgan: "International Harvester" (It's obnoxious and stupid, but both the composition and technical songwriting is solid here in making this undeniably infectious. Plus, Morgan's voice is dripping with personality and captures the disgruntled vibe he's going for remarkably well while still sounding fun. Plus, the lyrics are descriptive and colorful.)
9: Sugarland: "Stuck Like Glue" (This was widely derided by the country world upon becoming a hit, but I've always liked this. The tempo never slackens, Nettles' vocal is replete with personality and verve throughout, and I can't help but be taken by the carefree tone of this ditty. Stupid? Sure! But it bops.)
8: Tracy Byrd: "Watermelon Crawl" (The production and musicianship, in fairness, already gives this a redeeming quality. But when also paired with lyrics and a vocal tone that is flush with personality, it elevates the stupidity of the lyrics to something euphoric.)
7: Luke Bryan: "Take My Drunk Ass Home" (I have to be among a minority that thinks his "Spring Break" releases are more authentic than his proper studio albums, and this underscores why. Obviously it's an aggressively stupid novelty song, but the song has this understated, organic, accessible charm to it that sounds like it was genuinely written around a campfire on a beachfront and thus has an authenticity and sing-along appeal that I can't help but nod along to.)
6: Billy Currington: "Like My Dog" (In fairness, Billy Currington is likeable among the vast majority of casual country listeners due to his personality and charisma. That said, "Like My Dog" fascinates me in how brutal the lyrics are and how it really goes for the jugular, yet is juxtaposed by a blithe production tone and plenty of traditional instrumentation. Vicious? Oh yeah! But he just pulls it off well here.)
5: Florida Georgia Line: "This Is How We Roll" (Yes: the lyrics are unabashedly stupid. Yes, this sounds unabashedly obnoxious. And yes: Tyler's rapping is a...................thing. Still, there's no denying that the vocal melody and hook is unavoidably sticky and mesmerizing no matter how much you try and resist it. It's by ar one of the catchiest vocal hooks I have EVER heard on 'country' radio over this past decade, if not ever. It's just a well-constructed earworm no matter how you slice it.)
4: Little Big Town: "Pontoon" (This one arguably doesn't fit the criteria because they have usually been a critically-acclaimed quartet over the years with other definitive hits to boot. Still, this track was widely berated upon its release, yet.......................I've never understood why. Joyce's production just has this hazy, slow swayin', smoky vibe that totally complements the laid-back vibe of the track and Fairchild's bluesy vocals, and the lyrics are vocal melody are just impossible to hate even if they're immature.)
3: Cole Swindell: "Chillin' It" (It obviously and hilariously comes across as a porr man's version of "Cruise", but there's just something kind of endearing about this in spite of how banal and corny it is. I think the blissfully oblivious yet warm vibe of Cole Swindell is what most elevates it, but also the infectious voca melody.)
2: Joe Diffie feat. D. Thrash “Girl Ridin’ Shotgun” (This is utterly ridiculous and confounding, yet....................I can't help but cave into the stickiness of this migraine-inducingly stupid song.)
1: Toby Keith: "Red Solo Cup" (Were you really expecting any other song to top my list?)
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MARACAIBA Very good choices!! 👍🏼
Drunk Ass Home was my first thought. It's his countriest sounding song since his first album. And its dumb, but it's also fun and I like it
Red Solo Cup and Stuck Like Glue. 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢 I won’t listen to either one of them.
I injured my vocal chords yelling "on my international harvester." no shame
@@ragereynolds4374 Like I said, I enjoyed his "Spring Break" EPs more than most of his full-length proper releases because they always sounded more authentic (even if it did get questionable he kept writing and singing songs about Spring Break until he was knocking on forty).
Frm here on out, I hope he considers delving into more agrarian themes. His annual "Farm Tour" is obviously something he is extremely proud of. Why not release subsequent EPs delving deeper into this realm?
My guilty pleasure song is any early song by Taylor Swift like Tim McGraw, Teardrops on my Guitar, Picture to Burn, Sparks Fly, Begin Again, and Our Song. I think those songs are the some of the best songs I've ever heard. It was great for the time. And I still listen to them everytime they come on the radio or on my Spotify playlist.
Brantley Gilbert has some really good songs... I'll see myself out
I agree....also finds the door.
I love him 🤷🏻♀️ I gave up guilt for Lent
Agreed. Welp let's all bail lol
No @JonathanTate Brantley Gilbert is amazing so is Truck Yeah
Rain is a Good Thing was the first country song I ever heard on the radio. I was seven. I still haven’t stopped jamming to it secretly by myself.
Buy me a boat by Chris Janson! I love that song and belt it out every time I hear it. The lyrics make me laugh out loud.
@Allan Mulrian I think it's called Fix a Drink but it's one of my guilty pleasures as well...all my friends hate it but I tell them to f*** off when it comes on lol
I really like chris janson and to me his music is underrated. I think grady should do a review on his new album Real Friends
Chrispy841 I totally agree with you. Surprising that he doesn’t get more radio play.
I agree
For me, it's completely the opposite...Like a lot of Chris Janson's music, HATE Buy Me a Boat
I still love “Pickin’ Wild Flowers” and “XXL” by Keith Anderson
Hillarey Borgfeld man so many songs from the early to mid 00’s fits this category
YES!!😂😂😂
Oh hell no Pickin Wild Flowers is NOT guilty pleasure. It’s a good song period.
XXL... damn I'd forgotten about that song.
“Look What God Gave Her” Thomas Rhett ... I love to listen to it cause it reminds me of my girl and it’s also makes me wanna jam but I’m at the same time... it is literally straight up the definition of Pop music.
Trace adkins ’ladies love country boys’. I hate that i think its hilarious 😂
Karin WHAT that’s a goodie lol
This is for all you sophisticated ladies out there😂
Great one!!
Chicks Dig It by Chris Cagle, so dumb so good.
Aww, I miss Cagle!
just good. no guilt
John Wolfgang lol yes! My dad’s jam 😂
Love that song!!!
Nothing guilty about cagle
Justin Moore's "Bait a Hook" is one that immediately came to mind. I remember I outright hated it when I first heard it, then I watched the music video and hated it some more... until the ending. Justin seems like a pretty decent guy and by the end of the music video, he sort of makes himself look (and sound) like a goofball which I ended up loving. Makes me smile every time I hear it now. Can't wait to hear your thoughts on What You See Is What You Get. It might just be my album of the year.
I would say mine is On My Way To You by Cody Johnson because I didn't care for it at first but it is super catchy! It's not all that poppy or anything either 🤷🏼♀️
Justin Moore’s Back that thing up is even more so
Oh my god yes. I remember thinking “you know this is probably sleazy. But oh my GOD I love this song.”
@@LaineMann Haha. Oh yeah. The intro alone gets me groovin'. It's a blunt, rowdy song and I love it.
You had me throwing up my fist at “Man! I Feel Like A Woman”. I LOVE that song, even if I truthfully can’t relate to it. There’s just somethings out that song that can get a man to just sing along. To this day I don’t know what it is. And I pretty much agree with your list! Btw, “Cowboy Take Me Away” is one of the songs I credit for introducing me to country music. And yes I sing along to that one OUT LOUD. The arrangements and vocal performances on that song are beautiful. Funny story about that song, I played it at work as part of a playlist. My coworker passed me by and heard what I was playing. I’ll never forget what he said. “Dude, you listen to stuff my Grandma listens to.” BEST. COMMENT. EVER!! 😂
That song just rocks whether you're a man, a woman, or an adorable sea otter.
Grandma had kick ass taste in music
A guilty pleasure song for me is 100% "Save a horse, ride a cowboy" by Big and Rich😂😂😂
Beer for my horse's-Toby Keith, Willie Nelson lol
Willie Nelson Joker Card on this
Thats a straight up great song.
Don't be guilty about this one at all
“Pens make words
Words make songs
Songs uhhhhh feel romantic so my baby’s in a thong.”
Okay Grady 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
A timeless lyric
Grady Smith adding this to my guilty pleasures list lol
Killed me! I laughed way harder than I should have! 😂🤣
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I remember after my 6th grade "graduation" My family went to a restaurant/bar to "celebrate." We of course sat at the restaurant side but at the bar it was Karaoke night. You could of course hear the people on "the stage" from the restaurant area.
There was a drunk guy that got up and sung the worst rendition of "Man, I feel like a woman" I had ever heard. My cousin just kept roasting him at our table and had me dying laughing.
I'd be so embarrassed if I were to witness that! Oh my gosh!
Chattahoochee by Alan Jackson is my guilty pleasure country song
Kailin Jones ain’t no guilt in that one
same! hahha
Ain’t no guilt from Alan Jackson brother. My favorite country artist of all time.
Chattahoochie is basically an anthem lol
@@ajsmalaisemopargarage2073 Hell yeah!
“Life Changes” isn’t a guilty pleasure! It’s just a pleasure!
Life changes is a horrible song! WTF?
I’m really surprised no one else has mentioned “trashy women” by Confederate Railroad
I’ve always enjoyed that song.
No guilt required. That song is awesome.
Matthew Demanche no guilt with that wtf
Oooh, good pick!
It is especially hilarious to watch the video. I love that song
"She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy", its such a guilty pleasure. Also, "Honkytonk Badonkadonk" is DEFINITELY a guilty pleasure for me omg
Also "Goodbye Earl" by the Dixie Chicks is definitely one too. Also for my boyfriend😂😂
Rubee Verno lol yes goodbye earl! They sound so happy but it’s about murder 😂😂
She Thinks My Tractors Sexy!!
My mother and sisters would always sing goodbye earl to me damn near deliberately. I was just a child when it was released.
In 2005 my son and nephew were 5 and Honky Tonk Badonkadonk was their absolute favorite song on the planet. We must have listened to it 10 thousand times.
Makes me happy to see so many closet FGL fans. I love listening to them, maybe i should be ashamed 😂. My favorite fgl songs are smile and good good
Thank you for introducing me to that donkey song. I just rode around my place with that blaring on my phone while riding Zero ( my mule). We both enjoy that song.
At this point I think everyone is here to see that snippet of luke bryan dancing in every video.
And damn can the boy move! Just that clip in this video made me immediately think of Luke auditioning for Magic Mike !!!
Yes
Man I Feel Like a Woman is the GOAT guilty pleasure song if you’re a dude who loves country music
"Chrome" by Trace Adkins is my all time favorite guilty pleasure. It's the one of the very few guilty pleasure songs that I never grew embarrassed to listen to.
Trace Adkins has some terrible songs but they are all bangers
Jake Pridgeon brown chicken brown cow is awful but it slaps
Rain is a good thing? Damn I love that song so much! I belt it every time it comes on!
John Deer Green, Pickup Man, and Bubba Shot the Jukebox are my top 3
Austin Levins no love for Joe Diffie, huh?
Excellent choices
I love Joe Diffie, but I've never been crazy about "John Deere Green" (The last one is Mark Chesnutt)
Joe Diffie may you Rest In Peace.
I have zero guilt with John Deere Green and Pickup Man, I freaking love those songs
Im just saying, Marry Me by Thomas Rhett is probably one of his best songs ever
YES
Great list! Other guilty pleasures I'd add to the mix include "Comin' to Your City" by Big & Rich, "1994" by Jason Aldean, "The Shake" by Neal McCoy, "Giddy On Up" by Laura Bell Bundy, and "Break Up in a Small Town" by Sam Hunt.
Giddy On Up and Break Up In A Small Town are my guilty pleasures too
Giddy on Up is a very catchy song and the video was um interesting
I wanna talk about me is low key one of my favorite Toby Keith songs, probably the first song of his I ever heard growing up. No guilt in my pleasure, just a lot of good memories!
Did no one say “Cotton Eye Joe”?
Is that because it’s more “country adjacent” then country?
To me, it seems many people are “it’s stupid but I like it”
Don't care about country adjacent that's my jam, if it plays I dance badly
What does country adjacent mean?
@@mattclark9763 It's not SQUARELY a country song. While it borrows elements, ala the banjo and fiddle playing as well as rural storytelling "left all the land cause of Cotton Eye Joe" it comes with, perhaps an even larger dose of something very outside of country which is Eurotechno or Eurodance. For people like a country purist such as Grady, that's no dice.
David
That makes sense, thanks. It sounds like it’s similar to the difference between country music and bluegrass.. maybe? I know a ton of music but I’m not to knowledgeable in all of the classifications
It’s my funeral song
Glad you mentioned Trailer Choir! Love those guys! Have written a bunch of songs with them!
"Meant to Be" is 1000% my guilty pleasure song
In the Heart of a Woman - BIlly Ray Cyrus
Austin -Blake Shelton
Jukebox With a Country Song - Doug Stone
John Deere Green - Joe Diffie
Bubba Shot the Jukebox - Mark Chestnutt
You Gonna Kiss Me or Not - Thompson Square
How Do You Like Me Now - Toby Keith
I have always had a secret love for Achy Breaky Heart. The lyrics are more clever than the credit they're given.
I really don't like that song because my high school best friend was OBSESSED with it and played it constantly. I think she even wore out the cassette that it was on.
“I wanna talk about me” was one of my favorite songs when I was little and it still brings a smile to my face because it’s so comical.
I'm going to county "Old Town Road" as my guilty pleasure.
I'm a Canadian guy, who listens to mostly hard rock, heavy metal.. *BUT* enjoys some Country music especially in the summer time. So my guilty pleasure song has to be Hillbilly Bone by Blake Shelton ft. Trace Adkins.. mainly because in July 2010 when that song was still new-ish, it was the song that reminded me of my first vacation to the United States when I went to see my first NASCAR race in Daytona Beach, Florida. Still one of my favorite weekends of my life, but yeah, that song.. brings me back to a great moment in my life... and the song made sense to me.
A lot of these I grew up listening to with my parents such as:
Cruise
Country Girl Shake it for Me
This is My Kinda Knight
Rain is a Good Thing
And much more, like Sugarland, my favorite duo, they sing my two all time favorite songs:
Stuck Like Glue
It Happens
I LOVE those songs
Funnily enough, Rain is a Good Thing is probably the reason I have a higher self esteem than I probably would have as my middle name is pronounced rain, so it kinda made me feel good about myself like he was talking about me
I grew up on Luke Bryan and I still haven't stopped listening to him
Binging your channel is making this last week of quarantine for me. Country is my first love, and I relate to loving all of these guilty pleasures :) One of my guilty pleasures is Break Up with Him by Old Dominion.
Dirt Road Anthem by Jason Aldean. Can’t help but sing every single word.
Just a great song!
Colt Ford wrote it..
one of my favorite songs from him is amarillo sky besides dirt road anthem.
I really liked this. I grew up in the 80/90’s with my dad playing in a cover band 3 nights a week, and almost every night in the summer. So, needless to say country music was everywhere, all the time and shaped a lot of my childhood. Guilty pleasure.... I’d have to give my vote to achey breaky heart
I love Achy Breaky Heart. In ‘94 or so, when I was a kid in 4-H, I sang it at the goat show. No ragerts. It’s still on my 90s Country Playlist, and for good reason.
My guilty pleasure songs are Beachin by Jake Owen, Talk You Out of It by FGL and Butterflies by Kacey Musgraves. I like really chill song that I can just listen to on the beach with with a drink and these three songs fit into that category as much as I hate to admit it
I would say mine is On My Way To You by Cody Johnson because I didn't care for it at first but it is super catchy! It's not all that poppy or anything either 🤷🏼♀️
Butterflies is a great song, definitely a guilty pleasure!
As soon as I saw the title for this video I *KNEW* that cruise was gonna be on here
I laughed out loud at number 1! That song's been a joke in my family for years. Great content Grady!
Dude! Donkey is my Favorite! I do love your videos and listening to your take on things. So impressed you found SheDaisy. I feel like no one ever knows who they are, and I loved them in the day.
FGL is my fav group in music and I’m not guilty about it
Be a lot cooler if you did
Lucas Ham they used to be great but talk you out of it is awful, it’s a pop song. They just want to sing about their wives now.
Lucas Ham get ready to hear an extremely loud rap track instead of them in concert, makes it really worth the 300$ :)
Like a fish doesnt know it lives in water.....
I'd already lost Whamaggedon on Dec 1, but didn't expect "Last Christmas" to pop up in the ads for one of Grady's videos.
Shirt goals! That’s thing is awesome Grady. Props!
I just need to comment on the fact that you mentioned So Weird which gives me all the nostalgia. It's a show I still think about and reference all the time and nobody I talk to ever remembers it. I feel so validated right now!
I really like “Talk you out of it” by FGL a lot
William Patton The Rnb vibes in that song get me any time
Okay, not really related to the video topic, but I got excited when you mentioned So Weird! I feel like every time I bring up that show nobody has any idea what I’m talking about.
oh my goodness Raelynn just released a song called “Bra Off” which fits perfectly into this category for me !! You gotta give it a listen!! Makes me laugh while I’m singing every word to it
My mom loves it sing each word while I sit weirdly laughing
Her next single is called Keep Up, which fits this even better
But back to Bra Off
"Breaking up with you is like taking my bra off
Feeling free and loose like this T-shirt I got on"
I love all of these! No guilt. Rain is a good a thing was my first country song, I was instantly amused and on board for music that can be about anything
Dang it I just got “if he ever singles you up” out of my head.
OKKKKK..... I'll admit--- My guilty pleasure???? Has to be the fact that I just discovered Grady and ALL his videos a few days ago & They're great so far!! Sooo is it cheesy of me to make a written list of the songs he talks about??? AND THEN, go thru the comments for more song choices to add to my list, and going & looking up all the ones I either wanna hear again or have never heard at all?? These videos of his are just memories of great songs, stupid songs, stupid songs we love, love songs.... and the list goes on & on & on!!! So I'm now like a teenager, with my notebook out writing down songs I wanna jam to! And, I'm a 51yr old Grandma!!!!! LOL
So I may be cheesy but too old to care!!!! Thanks for all the work you do for these song lists Grady, and Thanks to UA-cam!!!! You've given me a new hobby!!!! LOL 🤣🤣🤣
My guilty pleasure song is Eric Church Wrecking Ball. It’s just such a cheesy song,but I’ll be damned if I don’t sing to my hearts content when it comes on
A lot of 90s/early 2000s country is kind of a guilty pleasure for me, since my Mom would always have it on the radio while driving my sister and I to school as kids.
I love belting out "Cowboy Take Me Away"🤣🤣🤣 Such a guilty pleasure because I can't really relate and it's kinda feminine but catchy as hell.
I have watched a handful of videos now and each time I'm blown away at how much I agree!!!! I kinda hate that I didn't think to do this first! But props to you, this is awesome content. Your "Top Ten All Time Favorites Video," specifically the feeling of pride you feel with that boot in Toby Keith's Courtesy Of The Red, White, and Blue, and the reference to the book of Ecclesiastes hooked me! 😂
My top three are:
1) "Swingin' by John Anderson
2) "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy" by Kenny Chesney
3) "Trashy Women" by Confederate Railroad
Cowboystormchaser nothing to be guilty about all three are awesome songs by amazing artists
I fell down the rabbit hole of your channel, and was pleasantly surprised. It's nice to see a guy be able to pick apart songs, but still be able to enjoy them. (Even though Toby Keith hurts my soul, and not in any kind of good way.)
“Make me wanna” by Thomas Rhett
Life Changes is SUCH a guilty pleasure for me
I’m still in school and I played that song while talking about country music. My class thinks it’s country and I was like even if you like this song you don’t like country. It really isn’t country
Swing - Trace Adkins 🤷🏻♀️
I can’t help it it’s soo bad but still soo good
Most Pop Country is a "guilty" pleasure for me. Whether it's considered good or not it is music that is quite a pleasure for my ears
Sure we all have our “guilty pleasure” songs. But something we can ALL agree on is how bad the scott brothers are!
J H omg there actually the WORST out there
Grady! I love that you randomly mentioned ‘So Weird’ I watched that show growing up and remember that episode with SheDaisy.