Some time ago I wrote an OP brutally criticizing the song Stuck Like Glue by the band Sugarland (now best known around these parts for the disastrous stage collapse that happened right before they were supposed to play at the Indiana State Fair, but I digress.) In this OP, I basically claimed that the song was an annoying piece of shit.
Well, what do you know - today I heard the tail end of it (the last chorus) on the radio while driving in my car, and for some reason, this time I didn’t mind it as much. After listening to it yet again on Youtube, I’ve slightly revised my position on the song.
The melody of the song is pretty good. It’s not great, but it’s catchy.
The way the singer pronounces the word “kid” - like how you would say “he keyed my car” - is annoying as shit.
The stupid rap section at 2:23 is what wrecks the song for me.
In other words: the song would have been a decent song if it weren’t for the stupid rap section, which ruins it. So this is a slightly better verdict than “the song is a total piece of shit.”
I like to think of this song - minus the rap section - as like a meal at Applebee’s. Let’s say it’s a grilled chicken cesear salad or fajitas or something. It’s not outstanding, but it’s okay. If I’m hungry and someone serves it to me, I’m not going to turn it down. (Whereas a song like Jackie Wilson Said by Van Morrison is like a meal at Peter Luger’s, with the most expensive bottle of wine in the restaurant, all paid for by someone else.) Now take the Applebee’s meal that represents the sugarland song, and put a piece of dog shit into it. The dog shit represents the stupid rap section.
I’m not a country guy by any means but the song is very light and catchy. Hits across many age demographics. They seem like the kind of band where a daughter could take her mother and they would have a great time.
The song is so inoffensive to me that I find it strange that it rubs someone the wrong way.
Man, I’ve been getting loosened up all day, and I still can’t abide the rap section. No amount of loosening up is gonna make me change my mind on that. Like I said - the song would be, as you say, “inoffensive” without the rap. But the rap section is offensive to my musical tastes. And I know I’m not alone.
OK, I had nothing better to do tonight, so I gave the song a listen. I had never heard it, or anything else by Sugarland, before.
Jesus fuck, that is an annoying-ass song. The lyrics are inane, the melody sounds like it was written by a Song-o-Matic 3000 set to “Modern Country”, and the singer inexplicably turns Jamaican about halfway through. (I assume that’s what the OP meant by the “rap” section, which IMO is more of a shitty attempt at a reggae section.)
So, to sum up, I have to agree with the OP about the quality of this song, and am glad it doesn’t get play on any of the radio stations I listen to.
By the way, as I was writing this OP, my cat leapt up onto my desk, then leapt onto a shelf, then hooked his claws into the side of my beloved Crash poster and tore a gigantic portion of it so that half of the poster is now hanging down off the wall. If that isn’t a sign of something, I don’t know what is.
I like the song but I am probably prejudiced becaue I saw the video before hearing it the regular way. The video is hilarious and is pretty much doing nothing but making fun of the basic idea of the song so I tend to think of the images in the video first.
I admit - the hyperbole of your analogy made me start to roll my eyes, but I realized that would be unfair since I hadn’t heard the song. I have now. You were generous. This isn’t Applebee’s, with or without the faux-rap section. Applebee’s is better than that. Over-salted, assembly line food, yes, but still enjoyable in some situations. On the food:music spectrum, this is the microwavable cheeseburger at the 24-hour convenience store. There really isn’t even one thing to like about this song, but what really hurts my soul are the comments from fans in the YouTube link that mention it being significant to their relationships.
