While he definitely wasn’t the first to use autotune, he was one of the first to use that heavily stylized autotune that later became popular. Can hear it on the aptly named Only God Knows Why.
Everyone is jumping on the bandwagon of calling his music trash. Much like people did with Nickelback. I don’t like him or his music, but it’s not terrible.
People hate Nickelback because it’s fun. People hate kid rock because his music sucks. The only good song he has is a duet with Sheryl Crow that is over 20 years old. His only halfway decent song since is 18 years old and is just sweet home Alabama mixed with werewolves of London. The only original song he has that made anyone pay attention to him has gibberish for a chorus. Nickelback sells out arenas and this dude can’t even get enough people to go to a concert to actually have one. There is no comparison.
The only song of his I know I’ve heard was his debut song from almost 30 years ago. Was it actually titled Kid Rock or am I misremembering b/c that’s also the only part of the song I can still hear in my head?
Everyone’s just telling you he sucks, but he was actually quite popular back in the day. I loved his music in high school but grew out of it as an adult.
He was considered innovative in that he tried to bring rap and hip hop conventions into rock music: especially spoken work lyrics, sampling, collaborations, a distinct persona (“redneck pimp” - yes, really, etc.
Spoken word by itself became a whole subgenre in the late 90s/early 2000s: Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit followed by POD, Linkin Park, Papa Roach, etc. This subgenre as a whole has aged rather poorly, with even the better bands like Linkin Park being a bit hard to listen to now IMO. However, spoken word sections have persisted in rock and this is perhaps his strongest influence.
What really grew me out of his music was realizing that the stuff I liked was mainly stuff he’d sampled, and what I actually liked was the originals. For example, I liked American Badass until I heard Sad But True and realized he took a great song and made it mediocre.
If you’re really interested, listen to Bawitaba and Cowboy as his two big hits. If you want to hear his sampling, Only God Knows Why, American Badass, and All Summer Long should all be recognizable. But again, he very much is a relic of a genre that itself has aged poorly, so don’t expect to actually enjoy it all that much.
Can anyone comment on the quality of his music?
I’d rather not listen to it myself to find out. Someone must have accidentally tuned in at some point?
I only know Bawtidaba. It’s like if You took Limp Bizkits Rollin, removed the interesting guitars and left the stupid lyrics.
Yeah at least they had Wes Borland who’s actually pretty talented
While he definitely wasn’t the first to use autotune, he was one of the first to use that heavily stylized autotune that later became popular. Can hear it on the aptly named Only God Knows Why.
Kinda says it all.
He doesn’t even know his own songs, he has to lip sync them
Everyone is jumping on the bandwagon of calling his music trash. Much like people did with Nickelback. I don’t like him or his music, but it’s not terrible.
People hate Nickelback because it’s fun. People hate kid rock because his music sucks. The only good song he has is a duet with Sheryl Crow that is over 20 years old. His only halfway decent song since is 18 years old and is just sweet home Alabama mixed with werewolves of London. The only original song he has that made anyone pay attention to him has gibberish for a chorus. Nickelback sells out arenas and this dude can’t even get enough people to go to a concert to actually have one. There is no comparison.
I’d argue Kid Rock has two good albums " Only God Knows Why" and “Cocky”.
But yeah, his music sucks now and he’s a twat.
Also I saw a shirt at the last concert I was at that said " Nickleback, fan or liar? " and thought that was hilarious.
Cowboy.
"Young ladies, young ladies, I like ‘em underage / Some say that’s statutory, but I say it’s mandatory.”
Not terrible? Lol
Ok, that’s terrible. Not like I memorized the lyrics to all his music. Just going off what’s I’ve heard over the years.
Nickelback is Beethoven compared to that loser.
I don’t like Nickelback.
The only song of his I know I’ve heard was his debut song from almost 30 years ago. Was it actually titled Kid Rock or am I misremembering b/c that’s also the only part of the song I can still hear in my head?
You probably also heard the Warren Zevon song he stole and changed with tacky lyrics.
Rap rock, if you like Korn or Limp Bizkit it was a somewhat lamer version of that.
how is Korn even remotely like rap rock??
Ok not the best example, I should have said Rage Against the Machine. Korn is mainly nu-metal except for songs like Wicked.
Everyone’s just telling you he sucks, but he was actually quite popular back in the day. I loved his music in high school but grew out of it as an adult.
He was considered innovative in that he tried to bring rap and hip hop conventions into rock music: especially spoken work lyrics, sampling, collaborations, a distinct persona (“redneck pimp” - yes, really, etc.
Spoken word by itself became a whole subgenre in the late 90s/early 2000s: Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit followed by POD, Linkin Park, Papa Roach, etc. This subgenre as a whole has aged rather poorly, with even the better bands like Linkin Park being a bit hard to listen to now IMO. However, spoken word sections have persisted in rock and this is perhaps his strongest influence.
What really grew me out of his music was realizing that the stuff I liked was mainly stuff he’d sampled, and what I actually liked was the originals. For example, I liked American Badass until I heard Sad But True and realized he took a great song and made it mediocre.
If you’re really interested, listen to Bawitaba and Cowboy as his two big hits. If you want to hear his sampling, Only God Knows Why, American Badass, and All Summer Long should all be recognizable. But again, he very much is a relic of a genre that itself has aged poorly, so don’t expect to actually enjoy it all that much.
Actually, strike that, just watch the American Badass music video.
It has:
It’s basically the Kid Rockiest Kid Rock song.
Thank you, extremely comprehensive reply. I will actually check it out.
Ta