Oh great, my high school in on a CMT music video.

[was_peacemaker]

A local country music star has made it to the big time. I remember him when he was a kid playing little league. He was a few years younger than me. Needless to say he opened for Florida Georgia Line and his video of the "hometown" has popped up on CMT this last week. The song is not very honest about the place. The little town he is from and were we went to high school is smacked between three larger cities.

In his video he would have you believe its a down home kind of place with lots of country boys and tractors and stuff. In reality its got a lot of yuppies, old money with former residences of Garth Brooks and some NASCAR driver on the north end of down. Everything else is suburbia. Less redneck more soccer mom. Also there ain't no young white dudes around here plowing and picking tobacco. Our Spanish speaking friends do that. I could go in to it further, but its kind of weird seeing how the town is portrayed. Another guy who was in his graduating class went one to write a song for Beyonce Knowles. I think his name was the 9th Wonder.

Anyway I am sure some of you have seen this if you watch CMT. Right at 16 seconds who will see a water tower and to the left of it the old football stadium I used to smoke cigs in during games or just cutting class.

[Goodman]

Anyway I am sure some of you have seen this if you watch CMT. Right at 16 seconds who will see a water tower and to the left of it the old football stadium I used to smoke cigs in during games or just cutting class.

Kind cool that once he had a song that would sell he used the old hometown to back it up

[was_peacemaker]

Kind cool that once he had a song that would sell he used the old hometown to back it up

Yeah got to give him credit there. One thing that does aggravate me is that in Carolina's you can write a cookie cutter country music video about you're hometown, chicks, beer, dirt roads and the people love you. Write a good hard rock or metal song with good lyrics and more complex work and these people look at you like they are confused.

[Goodman]

Yeah got to give him credit there. One thing that does aggravate me is that in Carolina's you can write a cookie cutter country music video about you're hometown, chicks, beer, dirt roads and the people love you. Write a good hard rock or metal song with good lyrics and more complex work and these people look at you like they are confused.

Just like most people want a hamburger, not a wine-matched meal.
Yeah it sucks, but there's a lot of heathens out there. The trick is finding the intersection between your art and their feel-good zone.

[skorpion]

Damn, ol' boy likes his extreme v-neck shirts and hair product.

[LAGC]

Damn, ol' boy likes his extreme v-neck shirts and hair product.

"Metrosexual" was the word that first came to mind.

[was_peacemaker]

Damn, ol' boy likes his extreme v-neck shirts and hair product.

Yeah you know farm boys driving tractors wear that much hair product. LOL!

Trust me, no one in his "hometown"...even the females use that much product. Most of the women in his hometown do not look like that video portrays. Sure there are some hot ones, but most are...well had a few kids and a bag or two of Cheetos. LOL So I wonder how many of them in that video are actresses.

[was_peacemaker]

"Metrosexual" was the word that first came to mind.

That is what Nashville likes to do these days. Its not the Nashville of Johnny Cash and Hank Sr. anymore.