*****Produced by Thomas Rhett, Jesse Frasure & Lindsay Rimes September 29, 2015 @ 5:39 pm. He comes across as a wide-eyed goober who is too slow to understand he’s become Music Row’s ultimate tool. They’ve got their dirt road song, pop song, R&B song, their duet (which by the way in this one continues to beat on the dead horse trend in country right now of using the element of “Fire”, and it has a recycled melody as well), they’ve got their song they claim should be a wedding song, maybe a couple safe back-ups that the artist would normally cut incase people don’t buy the BS, and so on. Thomas Rhett - Tangled Up Album Lyrics; 1. She hates new country but is very into pop music. It’s tied together. 3. Alvin and the Chipmunks covered the album's third track, "South Side", for their 2015 film and soundtrack Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip. The good news is TR can now afford to buy a T-shirt without holes in it (see album art below September 29, 2015 @ As far as comments go, generally people are a lot more likely to report on something when they don’t like it as opposed to when they do. 6:33 pm. September 28, 2015 @ September 28, 2015 @ 7:11 pm. However, I have to admit that his music is catchy. I listened through at least portions of every track on this album. How do you think country traditionalists felt when country gained more rock and roll influences. I should have given you an example as well. ‘Print, package, & ship!’ What a clown. A writer described it to me as each progression is a small miracle. September 29, 2015 @ Tori Kelly. 9. 8:03 pm. He made it because it’s who he is. 8:10 am. My point was that the dynamite for the demolition of the genre was set long before Rhett signed on to the wrecking crew . Thomas Rhett released his sophomore album, Tangled Up, in September 2015, and since that time it has sold close to 500,000 copies and spawned No. As for the greater issue and its impact on mainstream country music, which I think is what we should really be talking about here because I think the implications are that serious, and Trigger talked about it a lot already too, is that I think this is going to be the next successful young buck album that is going to change the landscape and that everybody is going to try to copycat and try to sound like. C. Stapleton does have a very wide range of writing credits (and background vocals) on every possible sort of thing (and yes, including some Rhett songs). NASHVILLE, TN – Multi-CMA nominee THOMAS RHETT heightens the success of his PLATINUM certified sophomore album’s “retro, soul-inspired danceable mix of arena-sized tunes and hooky melodies” (Associated Press) with the upcoming release of TANGLED UP DELUXE (The Valory Music Co.), available on October 28. If he”™d gone with the above title, the cover could have shown him flipping off Hank or burning a Merle Haggard album”¦but I digress.”, You have just proved these thoughts correct by putting his quotes about his music here–you are right by calling his attitude toward the destruction of country music and all that it stands for “sport and amusement.”, Mule the pistolero “Are we headed down hill like snowball headed for Hell?”. Reba McEntire, Hillary Scott, Chris Tomlin & Keith Urban) - Single. So, it’s always nice to discover someone with the same opinion! Benjamin Beard Required fields are marked *, Notify me of follow-up comments via e-mail. It’s definitely not Roger Dean or Hipgnosis doing this stuff. "[4] Billboard also picked up on the disco influence, noting that songs in the album, such as "Tangled", "sound as Saturday Night Fever’d as anything recorded by a male country star in decades", but wondered whether "country radio will fully embrace their Nashville disco or ignore it. If you don’t believe me, go look up videos of him playing acoustically for some radio stations, he explains every song and plays his guitar with a blues scale in most songs and his voice is the most original I’ve heard. Die a Happy Man Lyrics: 7. Playing with Fire Lyrics: 12. That video is further proof that he is totally lacking in originality. Trig thats spot on when discussing the new album. Mariana Baptista People tend to belly ache on what to call this; Country Pop, as opposed to Modern Country, whose latter classification more accurately represents the music of someone like Jon Pardi, who tends to play something fresh while relying on root sounds. This many be the only time Nigel Farage ever gets quoted on a country music blog, but to steal the UKIP leader’s phrase, Thomas Rhett has all the charisma of a damp rag (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqovTGjYjM4). Take Sam Hunt, his last 3 singles have gone Platinum. 1:59 am. All around the world shake your south side, Like Memphis, Tennessee, got in bed with CDB 6:14 am. She writes it under a blog name which I forget but always provides the facts. Instead, Tangled Up is a jubilant, Southern-steeped mish-mash of every imaginable type of party music. lisa 2. September 28, 2015 @ It has a flow to it. DimM September 30, 2015 @ I think we are going to start seeing a lot of albums follow this new template/laundry list for a country album track listing much like Kill The Lights did. 5:51 am. Tangled Up is the second studio album by American country music singer Thomas Rhett.It was released on September 25, 2015, via Valory Music Group. He submits all of the songs that he writes to them. I’d rather listen to crash and burn than that horrid ‘gonna know we were here’ hard rock mess or the idiotic vapid and goofy sexual innuendo called ‘just getting started’. I just hate how, nowadays, when people ask me what kind of music I play; I have to tell them Alternative Country/ Honky Tonk music because the industry insists on classifying albums like “Tangled Up” as a country record. Maybe if he”™d named it that, he could have thought of something for a cover, instead of leaving this to the fans in lieu of actually employing any creativity, self-expression, and/or brain power himself. Copyright 2020 | MH Edition lite WordPress Theme by MH Themes. I wouldn’t give him the satisfaction when so many others built the weapons , charted the course that made them catalysts…way back to Keith Urban’s take on ” country music ” lyrics and instrumentation ( a banjo in a bad rock band )…Faith Hill’s STUPID ‘ This Kiss’ ……the over-the-top fan/industry worship of Ms. Swift’s ‘country ‘ lyrics ( ??? ) September 28, 2015 @ I don’t know. 0, THOMAS RHETT ELEVATES RED-HOT SOPHOMORE ALBUM WITH UPCOMING RELEASE OF In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Though some of it was very enjoyable it did seem like he was trying to do an island theme in parts of the album. Nadia Lockheart ****Produced by Thomas Rhett, Jesse Frasure & Jaren Johnston Six String Richie Keith Urban, Faith Hill, and Taylor Swift, while they did release a few clunkers now and then, certainly are not culpable for this state of affairs. September 28, 2015 @ Genre is Very fickle and more diverse than just 15-20yr old girls. Single Girl Lyrics: 10. 3) he introduced R&B and electronic elements in country music and a lot of artists tried to emulate him (that’s why we have Sam Hunt, Old Dominion, Thomas Rhett, Chase Rice, Luke Bryan, Cole Swindell, Jake Owen polluting country radio). They push it (also the other writers on the cuts their teams also do). That 9:57 am. 12:24 pm, It doesn’t surprise me that this album is not very good. I expect better than “Southside.”. Cash the check. September 29, 2015 @ October 1, 2015 @ Are they literally only in for the money? While I know there touring together and there’s a duet on Brett’s album. September 29, 2015 @ I thought he was referring to another city. The circle is in perilous danger of snapping in half from the reckless abandon and selfish aims of today’s stars, and the pieces being carelessly tossed in the mud—cast aside like some forgotten trinkets in a mad obsession with today and the here and now. Chuck October 1, 2015 @ maybe because: September 30, 2015 @ I rate this below “Illinois,” and above “Kill The Lights.”. "[5], Tangled Up debuted on the Billboard 200 at No. Die a Happy Man Lyrics: 7. Robert S I don’t know why some people are saying “Die A Happy Man” is a country song, no it is not, its a complete rip off and copy of “When I Was Your Man” by Bruno Mars.