![]() ![]() If the couple in this video gets turned on by shadow puppets, I can make my middle finger erect and have it look just like a love bird. How the hell is this considered “country” in any capacity? Talk about “Burnin’ It Down”, I wish the palette of votive candles featured in the stupid lyric video would set fire to the studio that birthed this monstrosity with the masters still in it. “Burnin’ It Down” isn’t for intimate couples, it’s for lonely women to get all lubed up with in anticipation of an intimate encounter with Clyde the battery-powered hammerer. This song is a awkward as a hard on in a Speedo. Mating couples won’t find “Burnin’ It Down” sexy unless they get equally horny for the annual return of the McRib. What does Aldean know about sexy time anyhow? Aldean ain’t got the moves like Jagger, he’s got the moves like Grimmace. “…with you baby layin’ right here naked in my bed.” They should exhume Barry White and make it the sole goal of the international scientific community to revive him for the exclusive purpose of kicking Jason Aldean’s ass for this song. Sorry Jason Aldean, but this song isn’t sexy, it’s creepy. A kitten aimlessly careening across a Korg keyboard in a catnip stupor could make a more compelling composition than this. As Tom Petty would say, “ You put your name on it, but you didn’t do that.” Even the guitar tones have been been so exhaustively massaged by 1’s and 0’s they sound like the warning signals emitted from a Star Wars protocol droid right before it explosively self-destructs. This isn’t a song, this is some guy with a MacBook Pro, a tub of Red Vines, and the cool tingle of cocaine tickling the edge of his nostrils creating an electronic sound bed to send over to Aldean’s studio so he can overlay his Auto-tune’d vocals and call it good. Sexy, taking cues from Jerrod Niemann and entering the EDM space to keep the child support money streaming in.Īs the first single from his upcoming album, “Burnin’ It Down” is a Casiotone piece of impersonal electronic awfulness in which any sign of true human inspiration or involvement has been so antiseptically scrubbed in lieu of animatronic tones and absolutist perfectitudes, the term “soul” has been completely and forever banished from being associated with this robotic piece of misanthropic pap. You can read the Wall Street Journal‘s complete oral history of “Burning Down the House” here.Since Jason Aldean has re-entered the single life after getting caught in a douche-soaked nightclub on the Sunset Strip handling up on some American Idol semifinalist castoff, now he thinks he’s Mr. To get their creative juices going, Chris shouted enthusiastically, ‘Burn down the house! Burn down the house!’ as he played.” “David added rhythm guitar and Jerry bounced between rhythm guitar and keyboards. “At our earliest writing session, Chris and I started this funky groove,” Weymouth added. Before Parliament came on that night, the audience chanted things like, ‘Goddamn, get off your ass and jam’ and ‘Burn down the house! Burn down the house!’ That last one stuck with me.” We loved all kinds of music, especially funk. “As the Talking Heads’ bassist and drummer, Tina and I were responsible for the band’s groove. ![]() “The music’s inspiration began when Tina and I went to Madison Square Garden in February 1979 to see Parliament, Funkadelic, Bootsy Collins and the Brides of Funkenstein,” Frantz told the Journal. ![]() I simply combined aphorisms and nonsequiturs that had an emotional connection.”įrantz and Weymouth recalled where the titular phrase came from, as well as its influence on the music. They aren’t telling a story or signifying anything. As for the rest of the lyrics, there are no hidden meanings. LYRICS BURNIN IT DOWN FREEI envisioned the song as an expression of liberation, to break free from whatever was holding you back. “When I wrote the lyrics in 1982, the title phrase was a metaphor for destroying something safe that entrapped you. “‘Burning Down the House’ wasn’t a song about arson,” Byrne said. In 1983, Talking Heads scored their first Top 10 hit with “Burning Down the House,” and as part of the Wall Street Journal‘s “Anatomy of a Song” series, frontman David Byrne, drummer Chris Frantz, bassist Tina Weymouth and guitarist/keyboardist Jerry Harrison spoke with the publication about its genesis and funky influence. ![]()
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