| John the OFM | 30 May 2015 8:06 a.m. PST |
link It sums up everything that is awful about today's country pop music.
The lyrics sound like they were written by a computer, ticking as many boxes as possible.
The most annoying thing is her 300% exaggerated accent.
Why does "fingers" have 3 syllables?
Why does "strings" get pronounced "Strayings"? Exaggerated accents, vapid lyrics, what's to like? George Jones and Dolly Parton never stooped this low. Harrumph y'all! |
| JSchutt | 30 May 2015 10:05 a.m. PST |
Exaggerated southern accents must be infectious! |
Ed Mohrmann  | 30 May 2015 11:53 a.m. PST |
Why in the wide world would anyone confuse the music
of a commercial for *real, gen-u-wine down-home* country
music !?!?!? |
| Winston Smith | 30 May 2015 12:24 p.m. PST |
Miranda Lambert is what passes for a "real" country singer these days. |
| kidbananas | 30 May 2015 1:19 p.m. PST |
At least she is somewhat easy on the eyes. |
 Saginaw | 30 May 2015 1:36 p.m. PST |
Now calm down, John. Here's something to wash out that artificial musical aftertaste: YouTube link And this little lady's "easy on the eyes", too! 
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 20thmaine | 30 May 2015 5:04 p.m. PST |
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| Choctaw | 30 May 2015 5:14 p.m. PST |
Well cowboy, Miranda is a Texan. That is a Texas accent, not a Southern accent. I'm a Texan and she lived about three miles from where I live now. I think her accent is lovely. :) |
 Editor in Chief Bill   | 30 May 2015 6:13 p.m. PST |
I like Miranda, and I like the song.  |
| DsGilbert | 30 May 2015 8:12 p.m. PST |
Funny about Rose Garden, I always thought it was a weird song for a woman to sing. It really sounded like something a man would sing about. Then I found out it was a Joe South song. Made sense then. As to the accent, it has been written that the southern accent didn't arrive until the Civil War when southerners wanted to separate themselves from the north. |
| Sergeant Paper | 30 May 2015 10:19 p.m. PST |
Quoth the OFM, all curmudgeonly,
"Exaggerated accents, vapid lyrics, what's to like?
George Jones and Dolly Parton never stooped this low.
Harrumph y'all!" Tosh! Absolute Rubbish, sir, Dolly's done AT LEAST as bad, without the excuse of a truck ad. And what's a Pennsyltuckian doing whinging about an accent when you've foisted 'haina' on us for lo these many months? Good DAY, sir! |
 Nashville | 31 May 2015 5:31 a.m. PST |
Go out to a bar in Nashville around 10 at night and everyone is drinking beer and talking like this hoping to get a gig. If they spoke like that at 10 in the morning it would be incomprehensible. |
| Who asked this joker | 31 May 2015 12:13 p.m. PST |
But she has roots and wings. What's not to love?  Perhaps you would like one from a living legend. YouTube link If nothing else, you can do what the song prescribes. |
| 20thmaine | 31 May 2015 3:31 p.m. PST |
Maybe you'd prefer some Southern Boys – raising hell (right now!) YouTube link |
| jpattern2 | 31 May 2015 5:24 p.m. PST |
Ms. Lambert is married to Blake Shelton, one of the current kings of the much-despised bro-country, so that should tell you something right there. |
| Ron W DuBray | 01 Jun 2015 8:37 a.m. PST |
I have to agree with you John the OFM the song sounds as plastic/fake/forced as a song can. |
| XRaysVision | 01 Jun 2015 10:37 a.m. PST |
I'm a Texan and it sounds very Texan to me. I don't know if she is a Texan, but it sure sounds like it. As for exaggeration…well I've been to parts of Texas where that would sound positively Yankee to the locals. BTW, Texan is a distinct accent. When I first moved Georgia, the locals all recognized me as Texas immediately. I guess someone who's not a part of the culture can be forgiven for just hearing "Southern"…once. As for the song itself…yep, it's a smarmy advertising song…what did you expect? Look on the bright side--no doubt there will YouTube parodies soon that will be pretty funny. |
| Atomic Floozy | 01 Jun 2015 9:16 p.m. PST |
It's not just Texan, it's East Texan. Has more twang than drawl. West Texas has more drawl, we talk slower, but have hardly any twang. The closer you get to New Mexico, the Texas accent makes subtle shifts toward New Mexican English. |
| XRaysVision | 02 Jun 2015 10:41 a.m. PST |
I don'[t know why Texan is different than Southern. Perhaps Louisiana and Arkansas form some sort of buffer. |
| Choctaw | 02 Jun 2015 11:49 a.m. PST |
XRaysVision,I guess it may depend on which part of the state we're from. I'm from West Texas which has nothing in common with Dixie and the other southern states. I dunno, just a thought. |
| XRaysVision | 02 Jun 2015 12:13 p.m. PST |
Most people have no idea how big our home state is. There is a huge expanse of area between the east and west ends of the state. I agree with you completely; there is no one Texan accent. As one goes from east to west, the accent does, indeed, change from a nasal twang to western drawl. However, even with that, they are still different than Southern as we hear it in the South-eastern states. |
| Choctaw | 03 Jun 2015 9:15 a.m. PST |
Exactly. One of my friends is from Alabama. You can definitely detect a difference in our accents. |
| XRaysVision | 03 Jun 2015 9:43 a.m. PST |
In fact most Texans don't identify themselves as "Southerners". We tend to refer to ourselves as "Texans". Texans will also subdivide themselves into regions. West Texas is far different than East Texas. The Panhandle is far different that South Texas (the "Valley") Then there are those, like myself, who a from Central Texas. In other states, people often refer to counties. In Texas, however, the size of state and number of counties precludes identifying a geographic location by county beyond those immediately surrounding one's own. |
