"No Charge" is merely one in a litany of awful, family values down home country dirges.
Try "Corn Fed", which is a lot newer.
The country music industry, more than any other section of the entertainment business, demands songs constantly. There are just SO many bands and artists who don't write their own material or who need cloned versions of someone else's hit.
They're even plundering stuff off the internet. Anyone receive that email recently which listed all the stuff we used to do as kids but which is off limits to kids today? Drinking from the tap, not wearing helmets when riding bikes, getting belted by our dads, setting fire to public buildings, etc?
Well some country artist (and ex American Idol finalist, so he's riddled with musical integrity) ripped it off totally and made it into a song. His name is Bucky Covington, and the lyrics go:
We were born to mothers who smoked and drank
Our cribs were covered in lead-based paint
No childproof lids
No seatbelts in cars
Rode bikes with no helmets
and still here we are
Still here we are
We got daddy's belt when we misbehaved
Had three TV channels you got up to change
No video games and no satellite
All we had were friends and they were outside
Playing outside
School always started the same everyday
the pledge of allegiance, then someone would pray
not every kid made the team when they tried
We got disappointed but that was alright
We turned out alright
It was a different life
When we were boys and girls
Not just a different time
It was a different world
No bottled water
We'd drink from a garden hose
And every Sunday,
All the stores were closed.
Look, I wouldn't mind so much, but Covington is only 30 years old. By the time he was 10, Oliver North was destroying files and lying to congress about the Contra affair. Different world? Exactly the same bloody world, cretin.
Except for the fact that you couldn't blatantly rip your ideas off the internet 30 years ago.
