Songs I Hate By Artists I Love 

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I think Mama’s Broken Heart is one of Miranda’s best songs period and I’ll hear no argument against our Texan country queen.

Hurricane is still one of my favorites from Combs. The melody is just so good.

I don't know if I'd call it hate, but Nobody but You by Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani is the most forgettable song ever. I have listened to it several times, and honestly, when it ends it's like my brain erases it.

I actually went to a Kip concert a couple of years ago and he talked about how he wrote SAAT with his friends as poking fun to the basic country music tropes that were all over the radio and then it unironically became his first major hit

You need more cut scenes because the “you don’t need him” cut was freaking hilarious 🤣🤣🤣

I'll stan ZBB until the day that I die, but every song on The Owl except for Leaving Love Behind was an abomination

You know Grady, embrace the hatred. For one thing, we all love it when you talk about stuff you hate because most of us agree with it, and for another thing, some artists need holding accountable for terrible output. Come to the dark side! 😈

I like the concept of “Dear Today” but I totally get the point about half of it sounding like a demo and the other half sounding like a completed record. I think my least favorite of Luke’s is probably Beer Can. That type of song just doesn’t really do it for me, personally

I'm a diehard Kip fan, and "Something About A Truck" is about my 49th favorite song of his.

100% agree with the Different for Girls pick and have ALWAYS felt that exact way on it😂

Dude, totally didn't expect you to use my answer---- so cool. And, so glad I could help you be Shady Grady---- I always find it funny when he comes out. I mean seriously the whole "Friend Zone" section of this video was hilarious. Also, another one that came to my mind during this was Eric Church's "Kill A Word". Always just thought that song was so strange. But, seriously how could someone hate on "Momma's Broken Heart? " And "Something 'Bout A Truck" was like my jam back in the day so I just can't help but love that song every time it comes on.

I love you Grady. I'm so proud of you for how you've come along as both a journalist and a content creator. Keep up the amazing work.

understood Bad Blood and You Need To Calm Down (love them both as a Swiftie, they're super fun to listen to but they can get old pretty fast) but Miss Americana stung a bit not gonna lie-- still, love this video and hearing about your picks!! you're always so insightful and a blast to listen to, i love hearing you talk about country music and i love your content as a whole, it always makes my day a little better! you're so awesome!!!

Im loving the videos lately!!! So much great stuff! Thank you, you bright up my day :)

A random video of yours popped up in my feed a few months ago and now you’re the reason I’m a country music fan, never touched the genre before! Thank you for making great videos ☺️

you're on a roll with your vids and I am HERE for it!!! Keep going!!!

Grady cranking them out right now. Love the content

Oh my god you referenced “The Green Grass Grew All Around,” I’ve been singing that nonstop lately debating if my nephew is too little to learn it yet.😂 That just made my day. And it is schnockered/schnackered. The o vs a seems debatable but the ch is crucial. 😂

Love this fun little video! I took the challenge to look at one of my favorite artists, Cody Johnson, after some digging the only song I found I don't really care for is Grass Stains. I don't really care for the image/thought of green in places the sun don't shine 🤣

I love Miranda Lambert too, but that song you mentioned I agree! Also she doesn’t need weird vocal effects! She sounds better with less effects!

Grady my man… Higher Wire is one of my favorite Chief songs!! Awesome live too! I am disappointed that you don’t feel the same! All good brother, still a big fan of yours. Love listening to your opinions on country music.

Man, Dear Today is one of my favorites😂. The switch half way through the song is SOO good

Damn. I understand why its not on Spotify anymore, but I still miss Anita. Easily my favorite song by Zach. Theres just something about it that ticks all the boxes for me

Brad Paisley to me was a yee haw or yee naw artist. You have great songs like Waitin' On A Woman, Letter to Me, Two People Fell In Love, and We Danced offset by songs that have me turning the station quickly like Ticks, Online, and I'm Still A Guy.

"Little Bit of Everything" - Keith Urban (the first Keith song I disliked before Ripcord, Graffiti U, Speed of Now) "Tip of My Tongue" - Kenny Chesney "Don't Ya" - Brett Eldredge "What She Wants Tonight" - Luke Bryan "You Time" - Scotty McCreery "Hometown Girl" - Josh Turner "Rumor" - Lee Brice

Absolutely rolling at the Bad Blood to Joe Rogan cut 😂

“Cop Car” by Sam Hunt on his acoustic album (Between the Pines) is absolutely BEAUTIFUL, but on the Montevallo album, it’s wayyyyy too produced and sounds horrendous

I wanna see a video of country songs that are significantly enhanced by their music videos…like Whiskey Lullaby or Wait in the Truck

Okay first of all, “kidz bop song” made me actually lol, and that never happens when I say lol. I’ve always disliked that song as well put couldn’t put my finger on what I hated about it so much. But you nailed it 😂 also, the song “hurricane” by Luke Combs literally made stop listening to the radio once and for all. They played it soooooo much and it was sooooo boring and just blah 🫢

For me, forever after all by Luke combs is still a great song but I'd be my pick for a song I don't like by an artist I love just because it got so overplayed and I was just tired of it

I love Higher Wire by Church. Just the bluesy sound is top notch👌🏻👌🏻

I totally vibe to "I Hope She's Drinking Tonight," it's lively and fun sounding, but yeah, it gets awkward if you think about it too long. 😂

I also agree with the person who brought up Friend Zone by Danielle Bradbery. That isn’t a very good song, but she does have a great voice and some good songs like Girls In My Hometown and Laying Low. I’d say my favorite stuff of hers are her live/acoustic performances. Her covers of No Air with Jimmie Allen and Tin Man which she did as part of her “Stairwell Sessions” on her YT channel, Shallow which was also done with Jimmie, and A Broken Wing and The Climb which she did on the Bobby Bones Show are just a few of my favorites

Something I wanna say about Luke Combs "Hurricane" I don't ever go out of my way to listen to it on Spotify. But that song in person at a concert is really good. I don't know what they do different at the concert but it sounds a little better. Something with the guitars I maybe a bit more prominent. Im not sure.

Truck Yeah always holds a special place in my heart. It was playing on the radio right around the time I got my first car, which was a truck. So when everyone started asking what I named my truck, I decided to name it Tim in honor of Tim McGraw and his godawful song. Then the universe blessed me by having me get a new truck right when Eric Church released Heart & Soul, and his song Bad Mother Trucker earned my new truck the name of Eric. So I feel like the truck pun songs should stay lol

I love the Ernest popping up at ‘buy her flowers’ 😅

I’m not a country music listener but I love this channel. I subscribed.

7500 OBO - Tim McGraw The Joint - Eric Church (I love Higher Wire and Jenny though lol) Pink Sunglasses - Miranda Lambert Jason Aldean’s whole “double album” Macon/Georgia pretty much. Definitely agree on a decent amount of the ones in this video though.

The song “Talk to me right” by Cody Johnson goes against every other song he’s ever released. All his other songs talk about how you should hold on to a good thing, but this one throws that all out in place for a guy why takes his ring off and sleeps with a girl while his wife and two kids are at home without him. It’s just so NOT the Cody I came to love!

Dear Today grew so much on me, i agree that id want to see a fully produced version

This might be the shadiest Grady video I've ever seen! Also, we seriously need some Shady Grady merch 👀

I will echo your sentiments on “Hurricane” by Luke Combs. I’ll be honest, my introduction to Luke was “When it Rains, it Pours”. It was reminiscent of the music I fell in love with Country music, but yet had a modern feel. When I found out it was not his debut, I took a listen to “Hurricane” and just didn’t get it. At all. I’d go as far as to say that it is my absolute least favorite song of his and am baffled that it was what put him on the map. Great video yet again!

Holy effing shit!! Higher Wire is my all-time favorite Eric Church song! I’m obsessed with that song probably because it was sonic departure for him. Everything about that song gives me chills - the bebop backing vocals, the sliding guitar, his powerful vocal delivery.

A lot of these songs are some of my favorites (High Beams, Bad Blood, Hurricane) but that is the beauty of this we're all entitled to different opinions!

Burning it down by Jason Aldean needs to be here plus red solo cup by Toby Keith

I love somethin bout a truck but I am dying at the comparison to the green grass grows all around. Because it’s so true and ive been trying to figure out what song it reminds me of for 10 years

Mr. Kenny Chesney's awful "she think's my tractor's sexy" haha

Higher Wire is probably one of my favorite Church songs. For me, it’s his mainstream stuff that gets way overplayed on the radio. Homeboy comes to mind.

!!!! I've never felt so negative about a song from an artist I absolutely love like I had with Different For Girls. Just the way how it groups 2 types of coping with gender never sat well with me. But what made me really throw this song out the window was hearing ppl say how "real" and "powerful" it is... I'm sorry, have you HEARD Quarterback by Kira Isabella?! I know it was 2 year earlier but that song has fucking stuck with me for so long.

As much as I love Eric Church, he does miss every so often and when he misses he misses big

Nice video! I agree with your midland take! It’s definitely a skippable one on the latest record

Luke's song i wish would go away the most is easily the new one on the radio, The Kind Of Love We Make

Grady posting while i’m in school? Gotta do what I gotta do.

Love your take, Grady, although I love the voices of Dierks and Elle King together on Different for Girls (but yes, agree that the premise is (mostly) false). 🤣 That's Country Bro by Toby Keith was a letdown after waiting for new music (kinda' like Billy Currington's entire Intuition album in 2021. Ugh!). I agree - Miranda Lambert's Mama's Broken is kickass in my view, but I have always hated Little Red Wagon and wondered how that could have been such a 'hit' song.

Loving the shady content! Please give us more hot takes and shade. This is a tangent but one of the most painful live performances is Alan Jackson, George Strait, Dierks Bently and Brad Paisley singing Country Boy together. It was so bad and I probably need therapy to unsee it. The song itself is playful and delivers a well-mannered country man as a bad boy dont-need-no-wing-man, flying solo, getting all the ladies sort of vibe. But that performance had all 4 of the big stars playing alpha and fighting over the narrative, making the song and the performance kind of petty and unpalatable. None of the innuendo was coming across as playful, but just really creepy.

love the editing and Shady Grady, keep up the good work man

Definitely adding “snackered” to my vocabulary 😂 also I love smokin and drinkin. The song and the activity.

I get what you're saying and it's true some ladies get wasted to get over a guy but some of us don't. I don't drink. It does take me awhile to let go and I'm more of a loner so I have plenty of alone time to think. I spend a lot of time at home reading, painting, cleaning and listening to music. My nights I spend on the beach taking photos while listening to music and I love it that way. I like to think maybe he's talking about all of us ladies that are not the typical of today's times and not in their 20's. Never heard it before so now I'm going to give it a listen.

I might be the biggest Turnpike Troubadour fan out there but I normally skip “Something to Hold on To”. Not that it’s necessarily bad but it’s sandwiched between The Housefire and Winding Stair Mountain Blues which both cast a large shadow over it

I love this editing style!

My understanding of Different for Girls makes a lot more sense with the music video, since the guy tries to do what the song says except he doesn't actually get any better by the end, where the girl talks with her friends and lets herself grief the relationship and she goes out drinking happily by the end. So to me it sounded more like a dry irony, like they know what they are saying isn't true; like it often is a bit different for girls but that doesn't mean its better for guys. I still see you're point, if you don't think that break-up reactions are different for girls and guys then even ironically it doesn't make sense.

I can’t believe people don’t like Yin Yang girl, I love that song. Chorus rocks out

I didn't see your IG post, or I might have commented. But if you ever do a part 2, here are my "picks" of songs I don't care for from artists I like &/or love: Keith Urban- "Blue Ain't Your Color"; Luke Bryan- "All My Friends Say"; Tracy Lawrance- "Find Out Who Your Friends Are"; Toby Keith- "Red Solo Cup"; (going old school here) Willie Nelson- "On The Road Again"; Dierks Bentley- "What Was I Thinking" + "Free And Easy"; Zach Brown Band- "Chicken Fried". I'm sure there are more but I can't think of any other songs or artists 'off the top of my head' right now. And, quick question: how/why do you not like Taylor's "You Need To Calm Down"? That one has a pretty great message: just treat other people with basic human decency no matter if your opinions/lifestyles are different.

Over You - Miranda Lambert Sing Along and the whole Sound and Fury album - Sturgill ME - Taylor

The face layover of the chicks saying “you don’t need him!”💀💀💀💀

For me “Hurricane” was just very relatable to me being in college. It’s just about trying to move on from someone but once you see them again somewhere you just instantly regressing back to falling back for them

My favorite song by Luke combs is probably "1,2, many" Also I noticed when you mentioned hix tape 2, you played something from the song Granger Smith is on but please that isn't his best and can you please review some of his songs as well as Earl Dibbles Jr😉 Some of my Favorite songs by granger are "Thats Why I Love Dirt Roads", "Buy A Boy A Baseball", "Heros", "6 String Stories" and "They Were There", and my favorite Earl Dibbles songs are " 'Merica", "Don't Tread On Me", "Diesel", and "Chevys, Hemis, Yotas, and Fords"

I think ever lovin hand is definitely a strange song, but it’s really well written and has that classic Tyler childers bluegrass sound so imo it’s a good song. It’s just so different from his hits like feathered Indians, whitehouse road, nose on the grindstone, lady May etc. I don’t think Tyler has bad songs, certainly some that are better than others, but no bad songs per se. Especially not compared to the songs in this video lmao

I have to agree with you on “Hurricane”, it’s one of Luke’s most popular songs but I just don’t feel it at all.

I was nervous about your pick for Miranda Lambert haha, but I totally agree!! I often forget that song ever existed.

Sober Side of Sorry by Zach Bryan sounds like so many other songs I just can't get into it. I hope Zach Bryan never changes, but I do hope he learns a few more chords. Haha, Higher Wire actually grew on me. Some of It was the one I hated and of course it became the single. Different for Girls is so bad from a female Dierks fan. I was like bro you have no idea how much bourbon I drink.

Drunk On A Plane - Dierks Bentley cannot stand that song.

Grady talking about friend zone has me laughing out loud

I agree with evrrything except Hurricane. I know its nothing special but it sparked my love for Luke’s music.

Justin Moore's debut single Back That Thang Up, Jon Pardi's Up All Night, Kenny Chesney's Come Over, Aaron Watson's Unwanted Man, Reba McEntire's If I were A Boy.

I’m SHOCKED to see Lori on this list AT ALL. Happy People is not her normal sad song, but it is SUCH a Lori song!

Red Solo Cup by Toby Keith. Had to drive with the radio off for the first few months after that song came out cause that’s all Country Radio would play. I will ALWAYS change the station when I hear it!

I don’t know why but I do love truck yeah, like it’s just about a love for trucks and lifted trucks, it may not be super country but it is a pretty good sounding song that’s fun to listen to, for me at least

The kids bop edit has me DYING 😂

You should do Songs you love by artists you didn’t know sang the song

"King of Saturday Night" sounds like a Brooks & Dunn song with Kix Brooks on lead vocals

@Grady Smith, I hope when you have time you can go check out Thomas Mac and Cooper Alan, they are two great country artist, and Cooper is even making his grand ole open debut on September 21. These two artist are the real deal, at least I think so. Probably going to be the best you have heard in a while.

Weird one but Oklahoma stars by turnpike troubadours. Without that a Long way from your heart album would not have any skips. Since that might be my favorite album ever, I hate that there is one song that I am always skipping.

I agree with a lot of yours!! The kids bop😂 Carrie Underwood's Ghost Story for sure

Corn Star by Craig Morgan-does not align with songs like That’s What I Love About Sundays 😂

Somethin bout a truck is one of the best songs ever written. It’s super fkn fun.

I'm the one that suggested Details haha! I've loved everything he's done (I even think Summer Forever is some of his best) and Idk what happened. I wonder what happened in those 4 years that caused such a shift

Please review the new Whiskey Myers album ‘Tornillo’ !!! Love your content.

Miss Americana and The Heartbreak Prince did not deserve that slander.

Different for Girls came out when I was going through a break up, and it read like a to-do list of all the things I was planning on doing.

So about those lyrics in Higher Wire, Benedictine and Chartreuse are referring to the alcoholic spirits (as you can see when the next line refers to Appalachian moonshine).

My Jaw dropped when you said Hurricane that’s my favorite Luke song

I woould say Kelsea B's The Other Girl. Mann, she was trying soooo hard to breakin in country and pop radio at the same time like The Bones or Meant To Be. It was tooooo poppy for country radio and thank god it tanked so hard 😂

I would love to see your take on some of Lee Kernaghan, Adam Brand and The Wolfe Brothers' songs. They're big in Australia and it would be interesting to see an American view on their work.

Juliana Calm Down by the Chicks is one that immediately comes to mind. Love pretty much all their other stuff though!

I'm a massive Eric Church fan and too be honest I've never liked Drink in my Hand.

Morgan Wallen: If I know Me (Maroon 5esque pop song) Luke Combs: Beautiful Crazy (Generic love song) Eric Church: Drink in my Hand (weird two loud snare hits that throw the beat of the chorus off) FGL: Beer:30/New Truck (I do not have to explain) Josh Turner: Hometown Girl (Creepy)

I have always despised "Stuck Like Glue" by Sugarland. The "wicka walka" backdrop to it makes my teeth hurt, and I don't like how Jennifer tries to do a sort of ska/reggae vocal. I know alot people think its cute and catchy but this is one song, when it comes on, that makes me change the channel.

The worst country songs of all time for me are 1. Body like a back road - Sam Hunt 2. 4x4 - Hardy 3. Drunk - Elle King/Miranda Lambert 4. Mamas broken hearts - Miranda Lambert The worst artiest that hate listening to are 1. Sam Hunt 2. Thomas Rhett 3. Hardy