Kid Rock, "Amen"

Here’s the requisite track bashing I’ve been promising for awhile, I’ve been saving this song for a couple weeks because honestly, it’s probably one of the worst pieces of generic, pretentious refuse that I’ve heard in the last four years of my life.

Seriously, it’s that bad.

I think that this is Kid Rock’s attempt to write an intelligent song with meaningful social commentary; if this is social commentary, then Michael Bay is the new Alfred Hitchcock.

These are some of the most meaningless, cliched lyrics that I’ve ever heard coming out of someone’s mouth, and tossed over a generic guitar chord line. Believe me, that’s saying a lot because I’ve listened to a ridiculous amount of music from the strange-haircut-emo-child movement.

A sampling:


Habitual offenders, scumbag lawyers with agendas
I’ll tell you sometimes people I don’t know what’s worse
Natural disasters or these wolves in sheep clothes pastors
Now God damn it I’m scared to send my children to church
And how can we seek salvation when our nations race relations
Got me feeling guilty of being white
But faith in human nature, our creator and our savior, I’m no saint
But I believe in what is right

If Kid Rock wants some meaningful commentary that’s easy enough to find and still has some relevance, try “Masters of War.”

Don’t let me even start with the music on the song, because the first time that I heard it, I was driving down Virginia’s highway 7, and I couldn’t quite place my finger on who was singing. Even though I couldn’t figure out who was singing, I could predict pretty accurately what he was going to say and do next. The first time the chorus came on, I was like, “did they forget the choir?”

Then the choir came in, and I remembered that it’s incredibly important to have dramatic conclusions to your melodramatic art. You know what, though? Maybe this is what passes for social commentary now days, just a small bit of intelligence makes everyone nod their head, but not enough discourse so that anyone has to change part of their life.

Kid Rock, if you are the new American Jesus, then democracy has proved its capability to bring anything and everything to the absolute lowest level.