Brad Praisley Accidentally Makes Excuse For Racism In The South With One Awful Song
I wonder what SNL or other parody shows will be able to do with this song, because, honestly it already sounds like a bad awful parody. They already ruined it for Weird Al! But who the hell came up with this horrendously horrible idea!
Country star Brad Paisley teamed up with rapper LL Cool J for that cheesy new song called ‘Accidental Racist’ featured on his new album, and I can’t believe nobody tried to stop them! Over a syrupy country ballad, Paisley crooned for over five minutes, explaining how difficult it is to be a white man in the South who is wearing the confederate flag on his chest, ‘When I put on that t-shirt, the only thing I meant to say is I'm a Skynyrd fan/The red flag on my chest somehow is like the elephant in the corner of the south,’ and trying to apologize for the past ‘I'm just a white man comin' to you from the southland/Tryin' to understand what it's like not to be/I'm proud of where I'm from but not everything we've done/And it ain't like you and me can re-write history/Our generation didn't start this nation.’ Then LL Cool J interrupts the song with a few rap verses, calling him dear Mr. White Man, really? Yes really!
‘Dear Mr. White Man, I wish you understood/What the world is really like when you're livin' in the hood/Just because my pants are saggin' doesn't mean I'm up to no good.’
I got it, the whole racial thing in the south is just due to some big misunderstanding over cliché clothing, Praisley says his flag shirt is misunderstood, Cool J says his hood and sagging pants are misunderstood! It is just about clothes! Except that the flag shirt may have another meaning that apparently goes way over Brad’s head.
The lyrics are badly written and beyond excusable ‘I try to put myself in your shoes and that's a good place to begin / But it ain't like I can walk a mile in someone else's skin’,… this, in particular, will not help his case, if you want to write a song about racial dialogue, a little compassion would help may be?
‘Our generation didn't start this nation / And we're still paying for the mistakes’, Talk about being non apologetic! Poor Brad, he is the one who has suffered the most after all … I could post the whole song, I have cringed at every line, it is all. bad.
What does Praisley really want to say? Does he want to erase history? That whole let’s-forget-everything-by-making-a-country-rap-song concept is so fucked up. Does he want to pretend that white are the victims? What is this South pride is he talking about anyway? This is so simplistic and condescending that the song is beyond redemption, and I would even say quite racist. How did Cool J manage to say, ‘You don't judge my gold chains, I'll forget the iron chains’. I am speechless after this line. He urgently needs some advice from Chuck D.
But at least, the song has the perfect title, I would even have called it the accidental racist idiot.
