10 Rock Songs That Have NOT Aged Well
1. Don't Tell Me How To Live - Kid Rock (2021)
This song only came out in November 2021 but already it feels staler then the leftovers of your Christmas dinner. It's not that Kid Rock is saying anything particularly outrageous or offensive, it's the fact he thinks he is.
Half the lyrics are ripped off from Tom MacDonald's tracks Snowflake and Straight White Male - tracks that appeal to the kind of paranoia reserved for the Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol Building.
Like MacDonald, Kid Rock tries to embody the voice of reason in a society that seems confused and conflicted about political correctness. Although MacDonald's tracks are riddled with conflicting ideas and offensively simplistic conclusions, he does at least do a half decent job of writing lyrics that have an impact - even if it's a negative one.
Rock, on the other hand, seems like he's scraped off the top layer of filth from a deep pool of murky ideas in an attempt to seem edgy. Sadly, for the fallen king of country-rap, he only succeeds in sounding like an out of touch pensioner, protesting things he doesn't understand.
The song is littered with references that might make sense to folks who were coming up in the '80s or '90s. To a modern audience, referencing Milli Vanilli because it rhymes with silly isn't going to score him any points for being 'relevant'. This track is a fitting sign-off to the sh*t-show that was 2021.