# Don't Tell Kid Rock How To Live (feat. Monster Truck) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 24, 2021, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-kid-rock-how-to-live-feat-monster-truck/954838 "2021-11-24T02:03:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Reno\_Nevada\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecc23a/32.png) [@Reno\_Nevada\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reno_Nevada_Jr)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-kid-rock-how-to-live-feat-monster-truck/954838/21 "2021-11-24T21:03:20Z")
> [@DoctorJ](#): > > Weird Al Yankovic has already appeared on Twitter to reassure everyone that he didn’t do this Weird Al hell–did Bruce Springsteen comment on it? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-kid-rock-how-to-live-feat-monster-truck/954838/22 "2021-11-24T21:31:31Z")
> [@Reno\_Nevada\_Jr](#): > > Weird Al hell–did Bruce Springsteen comment on it? Why would he? ---
**Author:** ![Reno\_Nevada\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecc23a/32.png) [@Reno\_Nevada\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reno_Nevada_Jr)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-kid-rock-how-to-live-feat-monster-truck/954838/23 "2021-11-24T23:12:36Z")
In the “song” Kid Rock compares himself favorably to Bruce Springsteen. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-kid-rock-how-to-live-feat-monster-truck/954838/24 "2021-11-24T23:19:27Z")
Oh. I couldn’t make it that far. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-kid-rock-how-to-live-feat-monster-truck/954838/25 "2021-11-24T23:26:25Z")
You guys are intriguating me about this likely piece of crap song. Let me get a few more beers in me, and maybe I’ll click it. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-kid-rock-how-to-live-feat-monster-truck/954838/26 "2021-11-24T23:28:51Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > You guys are intriguating me about this likely piece of crap song. **Let me get a few more beers in me** , and maybe I’ll click it. - Like hell! You’ll suffer through it like the rest of us did. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-kid-rock-how-to-live-feat-monster-truck/954838/27 "2021-11-24T23:30:43Z")
😀 (I’ve already had a few…) ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-kid-rock-how-to-live-feat-monster-truck/954838/28 "2021-11-24T23:56:01Z")
_I’m like Reverend Run or David Lee Roth Like Springsteen, bitch, I’m the motherfuckin’ boss James Dean shit, I’m more like Brad Pitt A little less pretty, but I slang more dick_ The man is a motherfuckin’ _poet_. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-kid-rock-how-to-live-feat-monster-truck/954838/29 "2021-11-24T23:57:52Z")
You know what? Thanks for that, I just wondered what the Springsteen link was. Looks like I’m spared from clicking. I owe you! ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2021, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-kid-rock-how-to-live-feat-monster-truck/954838/30 "2021-11-25T00:08:07Z")
I thought his song “Cowboy” was the worst steaming pile of lyrical shit ever forced out of a redneck sphincter, and I didn’t think it was possible to do any worse than that. But Kid Rock seems to have figured out how to go worse. Some nuggets from Cowboy: > Then I’ma Kid Rock-it up and down ya’ block > With a bottle of scotch and watch lotsa crotch > Buy a yacht with a flag sayin’ “chillin’ the most” > Then rock that bitch up and down the coast > With the top let back and the sunshine shining > (Cowboy) spend all my time at Hollywood and Vine > (Cowboy) riding at night 'cause I sleep all day > (Cowboy) I can smell a pig from a mile away. I mean, how does this shit-for-brains have a career in music? This sounds like a 14-year-old wrote it in shop class while stoned on ditch weed. And yet his new song makes this read like Dylan. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2021, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-kid-rock-how-to-live-feat-monster-truck/954838/31 "2021-11-25T16:12:16Z")
(Millennial looks up from phone to watch video for 5 seconds) …………. (Millennial looks back down at phone) …………. (Millennial mumbles)….”okay boomer” ---
**Author:** ![Tilt-A-Whirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e79b87/32.png) [@Tilt-A-Whirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tilt-A-Whirl)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-kid-rock-how-to-live-feat-monster-truck/954838/32 "2021-11-26T06:29:54Z")
I only listened to this once, so I could be wrong, but at one point I believe he rhymes “fuck” with “fuck” ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-kid-rock-how-to-live-feat-monster-truck/954838/33 "2021-11-26T13:28:37Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Let me get a few more beers in me For full effect they must be Buds, or Bud Lights. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-kid-rock-how-to-live-feat-monster-truck/954838/34 "2021-11-26T13:36:25Z")
He said “beers”. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-kid-rock-how-to-live-feat-monster-truck/954838/35 "2021-11-26T19:58:03Z")
My beers get poured into beer glasses because I’m a beer snob. I understand Mr. Rock’s beers are drunk “out the bottle”. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-kid-rock-how-to-live-feat-monster-truck/954838/36 "2021-11-26T23:00:07Z")
Although not a big hip hop fan, I do like some of the genre and that includes some of Kid Rock’s stuff. But this particular cut has way too many “fuckin’ motherfuckers” for my old ears. And you gotta admit, the line from **Cowboy** , “You’re straight outta Compton, I’m straight out the trailer” is pretty damn clever. ---
**Author:** ![journeyman\_southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@journeyman\_southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/journeyman_southpaw)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2021, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-kid-rock-how-to-live-feat-monster-truck/954838/37 "2021-11-27T00:03:51Z")
This is Monster Truck’s original from a few years ago: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Zdeo-i6uw5g/maxresdefault.jpg "Monster Truck - Don't Tell Me How To Live (Official Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdeo-i6uw5g) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2021, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-kid-rock-how-to-live-feat-monster-truck/954838/38 "2021-11-27T00:16:15Z")
> [@Peanuthead](#): > > And you gotta admit, the line from **Cowboy** , “You’re straight outta Compton, I’m straight out the trailer” is pretty damn clever. His father’s 5600 square foot trailer, that is. > [@](#): > > Kid Rock was born Robert James Ritchie in [Romeo, Michigan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo,_Michigan), on January 17, 1971, the son of Susan and William Ritchie, who owned multiple car dealerships.[[4]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Rock#cite_note-Biography-4)[[5]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Rock#cite_note-Allmusic-5)[[6]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Rock#cite_note-cowboysindians-6) He was raised in his father’s 5,628-square-foot (522.9 m2) home on a 6-acre (2.4-hectare) property,[[4]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Rock#cite_note-Biography-4)[[7]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Rock#cite_note-7) where he regularly helped his family pick apples and care for their horses. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2021, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-kid-rock-how-to-live-feat-monster-truck/954838/39 "2021-11-27T03:52:03Z")
Gee, little Robbie rich boy is a lying piece of shit? Shocked I am. ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2021, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-kid-rock-how-to-live-feat-monster-truck/954838/40 "2021-11-27T04:18:57Z")
> [@Tilt-A-Whirl](#): > > at one point I believe he rhymes “fuck” with “fuck” Hey, it’s his signature move. This is the guy whose biggest hit rhymes “things” with “things” in the chorus. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-kid-rock-how-to-live-feat-monster-truck/954838.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-kid-rock-how-to-live-feat-monster-truck/954838.md?page=3)