POP SONG REVIEW: "Am I the Only One" by Aaron Lewis

The guy from Staind has a really unlikely hit with his country song about how you're disrespecting the flag. And believe it or not, it's much worse than you imagine.
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[@briankenney9528]

The phrase "Am I the only one?" Should only be preceded by "Am I original" and followed by "Am I sexual?"

[@missmelissa2303]

Yeeeeeaaaaah

[@Psychoanalytix]

😂

[@DrZuluGaming]

Backstreet's back ALRIGHT!

[@jakewulgar]

“EVERYBODY!”

[@tegantalks9612]

@@jakewulgar YEAH!!!

[@elmonko5068]

Johnny Cash would have kicked the shit out of Aaron Lewis. Not out of any political sense. Just cuz

[@GriffinPilgrim]

Yeah, thought that myself. Though the politics would play a part: Johnny Cash's politics didn't fit easily into boxes. As much as many on the right love him they seem to forget his activism for Native Americans, standing up for prisoners and support for the likes of Bob Dylan. Can't really seeing the MAGA crowd getting behind any of that.

[@Kratescz]

@@GriffinPilgrim And also didn't like Nixon. Johnny had a good head on his shoulders.

[@very025]

It’s my job to reply to 5 year old comments about how someone would beat the shit out of someone else. Please remind me in 5 or 6 years

[@michaeldarling9349]

@@Kratescz Also, Cash hated the Iraq War.

[@rapabsinthe786]

@@GriffinPilgrim Cash performed an anti-Nixon song ("Where is My Truth") when he was invited to the WH in 1970. Found it two weeks ago on someone's "songs to destroy capitalism to" playlist. To be fair, this was around the same time Merle Haggard was invited, who was forced to play "Okie from Muskogee", which 90% of Americans believed was a righteously cynical pro-colonialist song instead of a more down-to-earth critique on land rights, racism, and class disparity. There were legit pro-union songs on the country charts in the mid-60's to early-70's.

[@Estoye]

"You didn't do shit. Your contribution to this proud country is that you made a lot of mopey songs and you opened for Nickelback in 2004. This isn't 'the hands that build America' here." *Chef's kiss*

[@magicrainbowkitties1023]

"You opened for nickleback" is probably the harshest burn anyone could ever give to anyone

[@mmsiphonevinyls1027]

@@magicrainbowkitties1023 yeah i guess if youre not even Nickelback, you only got as far as opening for them thats an all time low 😂

[@thatkidwiththehoodie]

Todd has truly mastered the art of the roast. Straight for the jugular, every time.

[@peateargryfin844]

Imagine being the guy who wants to make a song about how overly emotional the left is, and then casually drop how triggered you are by a 40 year old Bruce Springsteen song.

[@g.u.959]

I find it extremely ironic that *Aaron lewis* is trying to be the “simple country man” yet wears a Rolex with his football jersey

[@andrebrynkus2055]

Something something, screaming about frogs, wearing a Rolex as a symbol of stealing iconography from the rich. - Alex Jones, also Aaron Lewis probably

[@culwin]

Republicans are always lying.

[@greablood1072]

@@culwin I mean yeah

[@TimmyTickle]

@@andrebrynkus2055 Something something George Soros

[@Ghonosyphlaids]

@@mariokarter13 How so? Do you just mean on social issues? In which case, that's not ironic. Or do you mean that 99% of billionaires believe we should tax the rich more? Or do you not understand what tax the rich means?

[@leifroarmoldskred6370]

It's just hilarious how he follows the line "take a bullet for being free" with "screaming what the fuck at my TV" -- that's the kind of juxtaposition you usually only see in _intentional_ parody.

[@esteemedmortal5917]

“You won’t even take a needle for your neighbor, sit your ass down!”

[@noneofyourbusiness4616]

In the Soviet Union, the TV shoot Elvis!

[@morganqorishchi8181]

I feel like a parody version of this song would just be singing this song and winking at the camera.

[@brocka.6479]

I like how he took a few seconds there to stop complaining about his country long enough to tell people complaining about their country to not let the door hit them in the ass on the way out.

[@brandonporter8509]

@@brocka.6479 the funny thing is a lot of us progressives would be happy to go to Europe or Canada if we could afford to but our poverty is what keeps us locked inside this shithole. To the don’t let the door hit you croud: It ain’t as simple as there’s the door, dumbass. Ain’t it funny how the people saying there’s the door leave are the same ones who are the most pissed about the illegal immigration. People who think they literially can walk through that aforementioned door

[@judgesaturn507]

I think we owe Brad Paisley an apology for 'Accidental Racist' because at least that song was trying to have a message AGAINST racism. Aaron Lewis doesn't care.

[@averagecoasterenjoyer]

Agreed

[@the_sky_is_blue_and_so_am_I]

Agreed

[@miticaBEP07]

Aaron Lewis would consider Paisey a weak snowflake leftie who should spend less time apologizing and more time being proud of his fierce southern roots. Let’s not even fathom how he’d deal with LL.

[@InkAndPoet]

All true. That is all true.

[@bluecayser1498]

Yeah I really don’t that song is good but I totally see his sincerity. I feel kinda bad that he got so shit on for that one.

[@ECL28E]

"...another statue comin' down in a town near you" Me, a Chicagoan: Oh no! Please don't tear down the giant mirrored-bean!

[@technounionrepresentative4274]

The only statue near me is this ugly avantgarde statue of a deer, so yeah i wouldn't mind someone taking that down

[@SchlubbyTomHanks]

as a Minneapolan, im pretty sure our city would descend into chaos if the Spoon Bridge and Cherry came down.

[@gelatinouscube2342]

destroy the bean so that anish kapoor has a really bad day

[@rotomfan63]

As someone who lives in VB and spent, still spends, a lot of time in Norfolk, honestly i don't know why any of those mermaids statues would be worth taking down. Their too harmless. Also like you'd be surprised how few confederate anything is here. The military presences brings people from all over the us so it kind of equals it out.(also for reference i'm like, third genish American on my dad's side, they also fled here for what it's worth)

[@caitlinrix294]

The nearest statue to me is the founder of our healthcare system (since he's from the city I live in). I wouldn't want that torn down :/

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

This song sounds like a parody of country music made by somebody who hates country music.

[@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770]

It literally reminds me of the Team America song.

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

@@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 You’re not the only one, if you haven’t finished the video yet.

[@K4RN4GE911]

So, Pandering by Bo Burnham?

[@Jaspertine]

Poe's Law When the real thing is indistinguishable from parody.

[@bigbabado8296]

It's like that "Conservative Rap" post. (Black people be the real racists x34)

[@matthew22carlson]

I love that when he shows how far this song dropped on the billboard chart, right next to it is a song called “Twerkulator.” That’s just perfect.

[@emporbooty]

You say that as if Wolfgang Amadeus "Leck mich im Arsch" Mozart would not have written a chorale about twerking had it been a thing in the 18th century

[@uneek35]

@@heggy_69 Twerkulator rules tho.

[@sasha8345]

@@emporbooty the ultimate catboy shit lover would fit right in on the hits these days

[@inkanddew3820]

@@heggy_69 twerkulator is a goddamn masterpiece

[@Chuck13s]

What’s funny is, city girls SLAPS they deserve to be at LEAST on step above that somg

[@thatissonicK]

When my dad gets sent this song by his boomer friends he replies with a link to this video. Thank you for your service Todd

[@mushroomgiiirl]

thank you to your dad

[@jay7568]

He should have also sent a link to a Springsteen song so they wouldn't forget what good music is

[@itchychalupa2704]

I wish my dad was that cool

[@spadinnerxylaphone2622]

@@jay7568 Spingsteen is an example boomer music I unironically love!

[@Empyre18]

Your dad with an absolute Chad move. ❤️

[@ginoames]

This song sounds like a South Park parody. I really want to hear Cartman sing this.

[@comixproviderftw_02]

That would be awesome

[@m1k3l1f3]

Well, they do have the "where my country gone?" Song

[@JillLulamoon]

Cartman would probably sing it better honestly

[@Juggler4071]

Holy shit, yes.

[@ChrisTopher-id4mz]

"Minorities at my Waterpark"

[@tunabarrett7384]

I feel like a song about being mad at the liberal youths and then realising oh shit you've become your dad would actually be kinda powerful

[@bificommander7472]

There's something to that. A song that leans into that realization, and the evaluation of what you thought then and what you and your kids think now could work. Probably shouldn't introduce it by wonderi9if you're the only one who has not been brainwashed.

[@heavysystemsinc.]

Only if it was inwardly reflective instead of kneejerk 'ew!' like this song is. If it was about mainting the spirit of a progressive youth despite the body growing weary and tired. That would be a powerful song. Unfortunately, this one ain't it. Or rather fortunately, I don't know if I want this dude's voice anywhere near that subject matter.

[@joshnorman2918]

If there was an ounce of self awareness involved, it would be. Calling this guy a hack is insulting to actual skilled hacks.

[@roguishpaladin]

It would be titled "The Cats in the Four Seasons Landscaping".

[@yltraviole]

Damn, it's tough to be bilingual. There's a song in my native language that something like this, except it's more about reconciliation and I wish I could share it with you. It's from an artist known for being pretty left wing who sings about his complicated relationship with his dad, and how his perspective is shifting now that he's no longer an angry young teen. He's growing up, becoming a parent himself and he realizes all the little ways in which his personality is the same as his dad's. He never wanted to be like him, but he is. He finally understands his father's point of view and loves him more every day because of it, while still having his own political views. It's sweet, powerful. Guaranteed to get some tears from the audience.

[@FelixtheHammer]

"Hide your eyebrow piercings with a camo hat all you want" holy shit that was one of Todd's best roasts to date.

[@bigdaddychemster1201]

My first concert was A Perfect Circle, and I'll never forget Maynard telling us: "Thank you for being here tonight, especially since Staind is in town. You guys all like Staind, right?" Aaron has been a literal joke for twenty years 🤣🤣🤣

[@Sergio-nb4hj]

Quakeeee my man

[@celeritas2-810]

Maynard has got more Edge Lord recently though right

[@acason4]

😆 That’s amazing! I dig all things MJK…

[@ScottFairley]

Someone in 2002 told me all Staind lyrics sound like they were written by a guidance counsellor and that was the day I stopped taking them seriously.

[@blakemeads9225]

@@celeritas2-810Eh. No more than he’s always been.

[@PsychoSocialism]

Todd saying "My parents didnt come here, they FLED here" is actually powerful af

[@wumbojet]

Enough time has passed so maybe I can joke about "wow the shadow realm must be really bad" and not be as insensitive

[@Unsilence409]

powerful especially as one of the very few caveats about Todd's life that is revealed in his videos

[@JillLulamoon]

No proof at all beyond the one photo I've seen of Todd IRL, but I think his parents were Hmong who fled from thier homeland after the US left Southeast Asia. It would match up with Todd's age I think. The Hmong were pretty anti communist and a lot of them helped the US forces fight the communist forces, and after the communists won a lot of them fled after the new Laotion regime basically threatened to genocide them. There's other factors but that's a super simplified description. If not Hmong than probably from that area of Southeast Asia at least.

[@RenaldyCalixte]

​@@wumbojetSo...Yugi and Tea are Todd in the Shadows parents. Is that why Todd likes being in shadows?

[@The_Faceless_No_Name_Stranger]

@@JillLulamoonreally? I thought Todd said that he is Irish descent (Jump Around video)

[@RectPropagation]

"He won't lie to his audience but he _will_ lie to himself." - This line is SO GOOD.

[@Nothingseen]

It's super insightful.

[@personunkown9847]

Sons like what Todd is doing

[@thepoetoffall7820]

Googled my hometown the other day, And was abruptly slapped in the face by that fact.

[@personunkown9847]

@@MunchkinOtterOjo this is so long ago. I think this was about pulling down statues and tod infered that I must mean confederate ones, when in reality there is more sudulty then that. But tod is on the Internet and the liberal line seems to be the one twed by the ILL informed

[@gamerguy425]

He talks about troops sacrifice, yet quit singing along with a Bruce Springsteen song protesting the abuse, the tragedy and abandonment of Vietnam vets?

[@keirgomcginlay2044]

The mindset is that your death and suffering is a glorious sacrafice. Those who die and are maimed should feel honoured that they did so, and those who didn't should grovel at the IDEA of it. Actually helping people involves interacting with the world, rather than a faraway ideal.

[@blackearl7891]

He probably doesn't like it because his dad who was a Vietnam vet liked it, and the dude has major mommy and daddy issues.

[@acason4]

Exactly!

[@KillahMate]

@@keirgomcginlay2044 Damn, that's really succinct and insightful actually. Yeah - the worship of patriotic violence, basically. This is why they'd take a bullet but wouldn't wear a mask - there's nothing glorious or violent about a small gesture of togetherness.

[@Altmetalpunk]

The irony of people who only say they listen to Johnny Cash when they don't realize cash was an anti-capitalist, anti-facist, against the prison system etc.

[@briangrilli307]

Hell, every single one of the highwaymen

[@nukeninmgt1504]

@@KaoticReach1999 Who tf mentioned antifa?

[@Matrim42]

@@KaoticReach1999 Translation: ::loud wet fart noises::

[@GriffinPilgrim]

@@KaoticReach1999 Tell me, did you put even a moment's thought into any kind of connection between that comment and anything in the comment you were responding to? Or do you just have a random right wing nut quote generator or something?

[@GriffinPilgrim]

@@KaoticReach1999 They mentioned Johnny Cash was anti-fascist in a list of various things he was against. You then accused them of "textbook fascism" which for you apparently means "bringing up the well documented opinions of a very famous man." By no sane definition could that be bringing up hypocrisy. But you are right that it doesn't take a lot to understand your point. Because you don't have one. Doesn't take a lot to understand nothing.

[@Jurgan6]

“Kind of an unclear pronoun there.” Yeah, conservatives have a lot of trouble with pronouns these days.

[@Nightflyermike]

Brilliant joke XD

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

"well nobody asked you loonie lefties to bring your pronouns into our sacred American language" - an average MAGA opinion regarding pronouns in 2023

[@eliasmg9144]

Thankfully, adeem the artist can help with this issue in country music

[@katieholland4244]

It's their one joke and they cant even manage to get it right

[@ninjabluefyre3815]

You see, it's not "he doesn't have to shoot you know" it's "he doesn't have to shoot me now". Well I say he DOES have to shoot me now!

[@patrickracer43]

"I'd take a bullet for being free!" The target for this song won't even take a needle for their neighbors

[@hamham_6411]

woefully underrated jab at the target audience

[@MalTramp]

👏👏

[@nejdalej]

@@hamham_6411 aaaayyyyy

[@TristanGames-GOLDENGUNS132]

The vaccine was unpopular in the military before it became mandatory. That was even when they're basically forcing by denying leave.

[@mmsiphonevinyls1027]

@@hamham_6411 i pity that about half of them wont get the joke….

[@TBS_2001]

I haven’t seen Todd this annoyed since anytime he has to even mention something vaguely connected with Chris Brown. It’s such a joy.

[@rayelgatubelo]

Which is interesting, because he was being fair to Aaron Lewis. There was no such leniency with Chris Brown. To be fair, Chris Brown's crime was so heinous and he was so unapologetic about it that he didn't deserve to be taken lightly

[@squigg7107]

It can be so cathartic to watch him go off.

[@rayelgatubelo]

@@squigg7107 I miss Todd's Twitter

[@vuraxis953]

I don't know if he'll ever top how pissed he got during the bigger picture segment in best of 2020

[@hayaokakizaki4463]

@@rayelgatubelo he beat the princess of pop man

[@acehealer4212]

The line about screaming at his TV made me burst out laughing. It’s a beautiful mental image that really encapsulates what this “conservative dad anger” really looks like.

[@Enevan1968]

Almost 'Old man yells at cloud' 😊

[@nomobobby]

@@Enevan1968 Must've been the first draft.

[@InkAndPoet]

I ruined your 666 likes.

[@Xineal]

"worries about his kids as they try to undo the things HE did" sounds less like he's concerned for his kids and more that he's scared of them deciding they don't want anything to do with whatever legacy he thinks he has.

[@madds5281]

That “I gave them bitches” shirt against his sad and sincere tone is one of the best unintentionally funny things I’ve seen this year

[@theMoporter]

I just want to know what he was giving to the bitches!

[@baileyanderson6824]

@@theMoporter no, that’s the entire sentence. He gives everyone in his family a bitch for Christmas.

[@TheMadwomen]

@@baileyanderson6824 Awww! He gives out puppies! That's so swee- ... Huh? ... What do you mean the shirt doesn't mean dogs?

[@pohpourri2778]

@@theMoporter If you are serious, I was curious so I looked for it. Seems to be a Thomas Jefferson shirt: "I gave them bitches independence. Bitches love independence" Which is funny, because I remember Angelica Schuyler saying, "And when I meet Thomas Jefferson I’mma compel him to include women in the sequel"

[@2112pk]

MORE LIKE "I GAVE THEM BITCHING" AMIRITE?!

[@theboulderboulded5776]

I think the way I’d describe this particular brand of country is “music for people who wear really specific T-Shirts.” You know those ones that say “I’m an American born in July, I eat red meat, go to church, shoot guns and fear god, if that offends you, go someplace else”.

[@the-NightStar]

I think it's just for the braindead, mentally ill psychopaths that wear "TRUMP WON" shirts with no irony.

[@henryb1721]

This is anti-masker country

[@KoBo33451]

Ah yes,the Truck stop souvenir T shirt

[@CandGoods]

Yep, I'm in the suburbs of Minneapolis, and I see these people every time I go grocery shopping

[@qty1315]

"This is America. We eat guns. We fuck terrorists. We stand for Shaggy. We kneel for Shrek. If you don't like it. Leave."

[@fauxrowsdower7610]

“My family didn’t come here, they fled here.” Powerful statement from a more authentic American than this washed up old man who reminds me of all the worst guys I knew from the red state metal scene

[@snorter9783]

Perfect example of the inversion of morality by the left. Nobility and virtue and belonging are conferred through cowardice. You are a more authentic member of a polity by virtue of running away from your old one, and historical members of the polity who were born into and socialized into it are less worthy. Very interesting, thanks.

[@DeoMachina]

@@snorter9783 Americans the kind of people to start wars then complain when families flee them Call refugees cowards all you like, means nothing from somebody that can't grasp basic causation

[@snorter9783]

@@DeoMachina 1. I’m not an American 2. “Americans” don’t start wars, the American state does. The American state then forces Americans to accept the refugees that its imperialism creates instead of rebuilding the countries they destroyed. The clowns masquerading as a left wing in America then proceed to cheerlead for this aspect of American imperialism uncritically. 3. Your comment is not even tangentially related to the observation I made.

[@DeoMachina]

@@snorter9783 Okay so refugees are cowards for being forced out of their homes by the American state, but American citizens are just hapless victims with no agency? That's a clear double standard, if refugees are cowards for not choosing death, why aren't Americans for not forcing their state to cease this trend?

[@roclame123]

@@snorter9783 Quite honestly your argument makes no sense. OP never stated anything about "nobility and virtue". You inferred this from what you believe the values of an American to have, and then swiftly turned OP's comment into a leftist straw man. Not to mention Immigration isn't cowardice. It's a taxing choice that many have to go through in the face of the threats that they may face in their home county. Many immigrate due to these threats being so overwhelming and hard to change, that staying to face them might lead to the loss of their lives or their family. Going back to what OP said in their comment, I personally believe that the point that they were making is that if someone is in the position to flee their country for America, they are much more likely to see the benefits of the country, and as such they are likely to embrace a lot more American ideals, as opposed to someone like Aaron Lewis, who seems to only talk about why they don't like the country that they claim to love.

[@trippwraze1509]

It’s fun to imagine Todd has had that “You’re a Racist” button for over a decade, waiting desperately to pull the trigger.

[@sebastiaan3265]

the absolute irony of him singing "if you don't like it, there's the fucking door" whilst wearing an "impeach biden" cap.

[@technounionrepresentative4274]

Can you get any less self aware?

[@TheAirBear2000]

Or whilst saying literally everything else in the song. Like bro, clearly YOU don't like it!

[@greed0599]

"Impeach biden" Biden's been in office for what, 7 whole months? Love or hate the man, everyone deserves a fair shake at the presidency. I bet they had those hats already coming hot off the press the moment the election was called

[@Kuypers125]

And of course the people demanding Biden be impeached, basically for daring to breath-while-Democrat, bent over backwards to say there was nothing wrong with Trump committing literal treason

[@TheTrainFan9]

If there's one thing that hardcore conservatives mostly share in common, it's a complete and utter lack of awareness of how stupid they're being.

[@svvayhound6536]

"Am I the only one willing to bleed, to take a bullet for being free?" - man who never served in the military

[@Aster_Risk]

It's hilarious because he's a celebrity with money and connections. He doesn't have to put himself in harm's way and if he literally took a bullet he'd probably be able to afford the medical bills.

[@C455C0R3]

Man who supports confederate statues talking about how he would take a bullet for being free Literally no self awareness

[@svvayhound6536]

@@C455C0R3 the man stands for nothing. Just money.

[@svvayhound6536]

@@Aster_Risk funniest shit you'll ever see. I live in AL so I see rich white guys say shit like this all day long but never have served or had to fight for anything really lol. Maybe over the closest parking space to the door at a Top Golf

[@wingracer1614]

@@svvayhound6536 Why do I get the feeling that you sir have seen some shit? Have a thumbs up on me from VA where those statues once lived (and some still do).

[@chrissennfelder7249]

I really hope Lewis' kids start a leftist punk rock band.

[@user-jn1wm3tb8v]

"My father always told me I should take a bullet for freedom Then he died Of asbestos diseases"

[@xangrycatmanx5104]

I could just imagine Zoe Jane Lewis starting a Bikini Kill style band

[@ChaiElemental]

As long as they're better singers than him...

[@ChaiElemental]

​@@Haha-Jim He's pushing way too hard on his larynx and not supporting his notes from his diaphragm, and his timbre is grating. He is, from a technical standpoint, a bad singer.

[@SirLightsOut99]

Bold of you to assume anybody would ever want to have kids with Aaron lewis.

[@InAmOrAtA1983]

I love the "Am I the only one?" question from people who claim they're the "silent majority" that won't shut the fuck up about how offensive it is that everyone thinks their ideals are trash. This song is actually perfect.

[@tsg_frank5829]

It's always the "silent majority" being "silenced" for their beliefs yet they're constantly bitching and moaning about it all day long.

[@aconstantstateofbladerunne5251]

“Take a bullet for freedom.” I’m willing to bet a sizable chunk of the people who bought this song won’t even take a needle for their fellow Americans.

[@Eloraurora]

👏👏👏

[@pinkcupcake4717]

I imagine you're talking about vaccines, but I pictured doing blood donations and it still lined up perfectly.

[@anarchomando7707]

I did but others not so much

[@Lordvoivod]

Came here to say this.

[@AMSOfficial79]

... probably because the Government is attempting to force people to take a needle for their freedom, ya think? I got the vax, but I understand people's trepidation when their leaders tell them get the jab or be locked down. Land of the Free, or land of the compulsory medication?

[@The116thDoctor]

"it's not a song about loving america, it's a song about hating a subsection of america" this succinctly states all my frustration with the fake performative "patriotism" from conservatives

[@SeanStrife]

And what's sad is these chuds have not only ruined the term "patriot", but also the American Flag itself.

[@notaninquisitor7274]

It is nationalism. The nation is a social construct defined by those excluded from the in-group. Patriotism is about accepting your country for what it is and taking pride in the good while trying to correct the bad. Nationalism does not care about any of that, just shitting on out-groups.

[@peterhamel2927]

Bullseye! Perfectly put.

[@MyNamesRevenge]

@@ploppill34 Well when you really get down to it, conservatism is inherently anti-patriotic because it encourages societal regression and feeding into harmful misinformation rather than taking the steps forward necessary to improve the lives of everyone in any given country so yes, all conservatives are fake, performative "patriots".

[@wvu05]

Indeed. I still remember the "real America parts of the country" remarks by Sarah Palin in 2008. I've lived in rural America, the suburbs, and America's fifth largest city. They are real parts of the country. The biggest irony of all is that America wouldn't have existed without the cities leading the charge, especially northern cities, because the south had the highest proportion of British sympathizers.

[@caffeineandmemes]

I love the shots of his live performance where they pan over the audience and it looks like all of those people are mildly enjoying it. No one's tapping their foot to the beat, no one's bobbing their head to the tune. They look like they're sitting in church, listening politely to the youth pastor sing a song he wrote about Jesus while thinking about what they're going to have for lunch later

[@jamesidk1575]

The thing about Aaron Lewis that makes me mad is how he's apparently super comfortable with being a country singer from New England but still puts on a faux Southern Accent lmao.

[@eileennguyen842]

I sometimes feel this way about Shania Twain. She's from Canada and lives in Switzerland? Stop pretending to be southern.

[@hithedragon7842]

I was thinking the same thing

[@notpsicoh2107]

In fairness, EVERY country singer that gets played on the radio puts on that faux accent, and has for fcking decades now and I'm sick of it and I hate it

[@RenaldyCalixte]

​@@eileennguyen842 Louisana State University Football Coach Brian Kelly is from the Northeast (I think he's from Massachusetts) but speaks with a phony Southern accent to pander to people in Louisana. Smh 🤦‍♂️.

[@royalfrost1]

"Am I the only one not brainwashed?" Said Aaron Lewis in a song that uncritically parrots every Conservative Facebook post ever made in the past several years.

[@GalaxyPolar]

IKR?!? This shits scary to listen to. It's like reverse psychology 4D chess leveled manipulation and propaganda brainwashing. "We're not the brainwashed ones YOU guys are!" They all say in unison.

[@raggletaggle8827]

Literally, he's just the US version of Laurence Fox singing 'There's something in the water blah blah blah woke people bad'

[@TwighlightLugia]

Y'know for a guy whose most successful output was an album called "Break the Cycle" he sure is doing a bang-up job at perpetuating it

[@brandonw6139]

Right. So different from the liberal sheep

[@royalfrost1]

@@brandonw6139 Go on Brandon, turn your sarcastic reply into a full thought and prove how much smarter you are than the brainwashed masses.

[@OpreRoma]

The fucking irony that Aaron Lewis claimed Rage Against The Machine as an influence on Staind

[@pazoni]

living proof that "progressing toward the right wing as you age" is correct

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

I wish I could find the guy who Tweeted at Tom Morello saying how he didn't like how political he was becoming lately. The guy claimed to be a Rage fan but somehow never noticed what ANY of the songs are about. It seems a lot of people think "Fuck you; I won't do what you tell me" is directed at their moms or something.

[@firefly4f4]

More proof that many people just don't understand what machine they were raging against. And completely miss the line about some of those that arm forces being the same as those who burn crosses.

[@jacklandismusic]

Tom Morello would have a fucking field day dismantling this guy’s politics

[@Aleph3575]

@@BiggieTrismegistus ADoseofBuckley did an entire video about how fucking dumb people have to be to not notice how leftist Rage HAS ALWAYS BEEN. Then again, these are probably the same people who think Donald Trump is like Jesus reincarnated fighting a devil worshiping cult of pedophiles that control the world (Qanon). So it isn't like we're dealing with sentient life forms here. There's some amazing videos of hard right wingers dancing to that song while carrying Blue Lives Matter flags.

[@joeyclemenza7339]

its incredible... this man happened to build a poser career in two separate genres, separated by 20 years. that doesn't happen often

[@user-nw1je1ur6t]

When you put it like that, its a bit impressive

[@RenaldyCalixte]

Machine Gun Kelly: Hello I'm right here. I did that too.

[@morganqorishchi8181]

A whole ass year later and "screaming WTF at my TV" makes me laugh just as much as the first time. It's just such an uncool line it's inherently funny.

[@mcj88]

Indeed, it's a very funny and extremely revealing self-own.

[@mmsiphonevinyls1027]

If id heard this for the first time, thanks to lines like that, if you told me its a South Park parody of this kind of song Id believe it.

[@tracyl8939]

Thats the closest to a So Bad its Good Line

[@lucymorrison]

@@tracyl8939no its just so bad its bad

[@thatkidwiththehoodie]

@@lucymorrisonSo bad it’s interesting, perhaps? It’s a shitass line and nothing close to a flex, but it sure tells you a lot about the guy. It’s useful, if nothing else.

[@findtheeyes]

Aaron Lewis: We're not communicating enough. There's too much division. Also Aaron Lewis: Anyone who disagrees with me must've been brainwashed! Yeah, dude, I can't imagine where all that division comes from. It's such a mystery. >_> I will give him this though, that line about Springsteen is comedy gold. Unintentionally so, yes, but still.

[@annelorraine9529]

@@rectoplasmic4630 problem is he’s not questioning if he has been brainwashed. He thinks he’s the *only* person that hasn’t been brainwashed which is prime thinking of someone that isn’t critical of themselves or their information circles

[@findtheeyes]

@@rectoplasmic4630 My point was that he doesn't get to complain about division and lack of communication when his reaction to disagreement is to insult and use love-or-leave-it rhetoric. That helps nothing and only exacerbates the issue. Not to mention the fact that he's a massive hypocrite, because he's apparently just fine with indoctrination as long as it aligns with his beliefs. If he wants to close his ears to any opposing view, he's allowed to, but doing so immediately shuts down the communication he claims to want. Then again, that's me giving him the benefit of the doubt that by "communication" he means "finding common ground and understanding" or some such, but if the song is any indication, that's probably not the case.

[@jacobhoskins3433]

@@rectoplasmic4630 you’re falling into the same pattern of using “brainwashed” for “thing I disagree with”

[@everychannel1025]

@@jacobhoskins3433 Thats what libtards do

[@jacobhoskins3433]

@@everychannel1025 Sure, a learned guy like you totally isn't making a massive, ignorant generalization...

[@dronesaur4328]

Also, kinda miss the days when country music used to about uplifting stuff, like running from the cops or murdering your boss.

[@juhaniaho6698]

Or shooting a man in Reno just to see what dying looks like.

[@kvltizt]

*Fancy Like plays loudly nearby*

[@LadyTylerBioRodriguez]

Christ this stuff makes the Carter Family look like full on Marxists. Yeah you know I do prefer the classics of Country, because even at there worst they weren't as insufferable as Aaron Lewis.

[@ThePi314Man]

Ah, a fellow Johnny Cash fan

[@GonzoCiosain]

"After 29 long years of working in this shop, with Oney standing over me..."

[@monstergirlinc8707]

conservatives will be like "liberals hate america!" while flying the flag of a country that lost against america in a war.

[@codynoth4183]

The fact liberals continue to cry about this point shows that they have no real fucking idea what the civil war was about and will parrot "muh slavery!" because they can't actively think for themselves and realize it was about states rights, not slavery.

[@nicholassimon1419]

😂 yes! “This generation is all snowflakes because of participation trophy culture” - *flies a flag that is literally a participation trophy for a war they lost*

[@Gutslinger]

And who lost?.. The democrats. Lol How compassionate and inclusive of them to be waving the flag of the democrat party, in acknowledgment that they are part of the America and it's history.

[@Gutslinger]

Marxists on the other hand, are who this song is about.. Not liberals. Learn the difference.

[@its_stultus]

@@Gutslinger to be fair the parties did switch ideologies for some fuckin reason so what we now call democrats used to be republicans and what we now call republicans used to be democrats

[@satansgotmilk]

My dad listens to a lot of bitter "fuck the left" music like this and you perfectly described what bothers me so much about this stuff. I can listen to music I don't agree with, I'm a pretty feminist woman but there sexist songs I will admit I like because they're well made but these bitter conservative country ballads are just not good. They all sound less like a song and more like a whinny 10 year old throwing a fit because his mom wouldn't buy him the newest console. Political music can be good, if you're gonna whine about the left and be racist at the very least make it pleasant to listen too.

[@LadyTylerBioRodriguez]

Fully agree. At least when Tammy Wynette sang about standing by your man she was actually a talented singer. If she sounded like this, well she would be just a minor footnote on Wikipedia at best.

[@OriginalFluffy978]

Tell your dad he's an awful person.

[@TheNoSuchThingPodcast]

Yeah, like “free loving man”

[@ltbq]

there's a great spotify playlist called 'misogyny but it slaps' which is just this

[@RenaldyCalixte]

​@@ltbqJay Z "Girls, Girls, Girls" "Big Pimpin" Beyonce "Girls Run the World" "Formation"

[@chicagoakland]

Todd: "Have you heard of Aaron Lewis?" Me: "It's been a while."

[@ecoRfan]

You win best comment

[@submortimer]

No matter how many likes this comment gets, it will still be underrated.

[@viiperrtechnician]

Adding: "Not a thing I can remember"

[@ruok6506]

I guess there's a reason i've never heard of Aaron Lewis

[@bdp8102]

those 2 seconds Todd showed from the "It's been a while" video are literally everything I remembered from this dude. Not even the whole song.

[@Diana-mu7pc]

I like the retroactive canon that Todd has had a "you're a racist" button since 2009. That's just a fun bit to keep in mind when I rewatch old Todd episodes from now on.

[@annamidkiff2460]

It is kinda shocking he didn't use it at the end of "Talk Dirty" tho

[@sbel6626]

@@annamidkiff2460 like accidental racist too

[@nomobobby]

@@nateds7326 Yeah I don't see it. Brad in 2011 Is still "playing dumb" about wearing a Confederate Flag T-shirt, giving whiny not apolgies for wearing the damn thing while *LL Cool is bending over backwards trying to explain why/ show where the Stars and Bars hurt him. Only one makes it sound more naive and out of touch but neither is funny, especially since plenty of people uninronically buy into "Hertiage not hate" even after you explain when why, and how the statues and "Lost Cause" myths were built. *edit: opps, thats what I get for not rewatching first

[@jimmymelendez1836]

@@nateds7326 Huh?

[@lunember95]

@@nomobobby slight correction: it was LL Cool J who featured alongside Paisley on that song, not Jay-Z

[@Ri-Val]

"If you're from fucking Vermont and you're mad about statue removal, there's really only one plausible reason" entirely true

[@JamesRoyceDawson]

If he's the guitar equivalent of a keyboard warrior, does that make him a guitar hero?

[@mushroomgiiirl]

THIS COMMENT IS FUCKING GOLD

[@bobmfthomp]

Guitar zero perhaps

[@soneil7745]

I don't know, people playing Guitar Hero have a good time.

[@kaiyotee2475]

I thought the same, nice.

[@apollo5251994]

I certainly ain’t calling him no Guitar Warrior, those can actually put up a fight. Ever seen Total Distortion?

[@TheHatwolf]

I never expected Todd to verbally burn a man to the ground, but ... wow. In 20 mins he basicly stripped Aaron Lewis from all fantasies of being a self-proclaimed patriot, to being a sad, confused aging man, with nothing better to do, than yelling at his TV and getting angry at nothing.

[@Hotmanlion12]

@@SLagonia Really? When did he do that?

[@Hotmanlion12]

@@hallucinatedovens8414 Seeing as he made his money making awful music, I’d honestly rather be poor.

[@ACETYGRA]

But then again its not like it was hard for Todd to read him to filth!

[@michaeldebellis4202]

@@rectoplasmic4630 I’m so sick of this both sides are valid bullshit. There are plenty of issues where both sides have valid points but racism and fascism and people trying to overthrow elections by violence and then claiming to be patriots don’t have “good people on both sides”. They have rational people on one side and selfish, stupid, racist people on the other and if you think 50% of Todd’s audience are in the racist camp you don’t have a grasp on the intelligence of his audience.

[@warbossbonesmasha3751]

@@hallucinatedovens8414 If you can’t make an argument other than hah he’s rich and your not your argument has the foundation of wet cardboard

[@AM19925]

singing in drony nu-metal vocals with a fake southern twang stapled on while playing a song about how country isn't just for southerners. there's so much going on here

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

Yeah, it’s pretty funny for him to sanctify about all that while everybody knows that’s not what his actual voice sounds like.

[@hitthegoat]

The most hilarious part of this song is when he said "screaming what the fuck at my TV" without realizing, at all, that the reason he's screaming what the fuck at his TV is because he's being lied to by whatever right wing nonsense he watches

[@mmsiphonevinyls1027]

Thats a good point. Makes me wonder how far right he must be, if Fox News and the like still makes him scream WTF at his TV 😂

[@Ralphanthonybianscomusic]

Did Tom McDonald really rhyme the word “seizures” with “feelings”??

[@RenaldyCalixte]

Tom McDonald is an average at best rapper that panders to internet trolls and whiny young conservatives who live in a bubble.

[@323guiltyspark]

Even if it did rhyme, it's so offbeat that it wouldn't even qualify as a bar.

[@Monique.Marceline]

Imagine being the type to “own the libs” for being “crybaby snowflakes” & then you get triggered by a Bruce Springsteen song

[@TheBrettAbides]

Aaron Lewis has always been the biggest crybaby ever.

[@icravedeath.1200]

Springsteen slaps.

[@evanbrehm2309]

Especially when you remember Springsteen made an entire album about 9/11 and it’s affects on the American people, which is damn sure full of a lot more genuine patriotism and love of country than Aaron Lewis (and every other whiny ass “real Murican”) has ever put into their jingoistic crap.

[@fugithegreat]

In my personal experiences with people I know, almost everyone who jeers at snowflakes and trigger warnings are the most sensitive crybabies when it comes to themselves. Even if it's only a perceived slight or threat, like how white culture is under attack. Meanwhile, when someone expresses an actual problem, they have zero empathy. It's like the majority of the older generation were raised to be narcissists and sociopaths.

[@TheAdrift]

@@fugithegreat "it's like the majority of the older generation were raised to be narcissists" that's exactly what happened. The arc of the world bent to the baby boomers, and the ones that really leaned into that became the conservative population you see today. Additionally, so much of right-wingers' behavior makes perfect sense in the context of narcissism--this song, for example, is projection. Right-wing people like Aaron Lewis see left-wing people talking about shit like not being killed by the police, taking action on climate change, and depressed wages/rising housing costs impeding people from being able to put a roof over their head--pretty big, important shit, some of which is about OTHER PEOPLE besides themselves! But the stuff right-wingers complain about is, like... the fact that NOT EVERYONE is Christian, or flag-burning, or poorly-made Jim Crow statues being taken down. The left wants systemic issues to be solved, but the right just wants YOU, yes you, to shut up and go to church. So they (subconsciously, probably) think "all the stuff leftists argue about has exactly the same weight as the stuff I argue about," and so they call out non-petty issues as petty, rather than admit to themselves that they just want to control others, which is why they care so deeply about what YOUR religion is, what YOU do with your body, how you spend YOUR time, etc.

[@rosslangager8812]

The only thing I know about Aaron Lewis' despised dad now is that he told his dumbass son not to join the army because he'd been there and he knew it sucked. Aaron Lewis' Dad: 1 Aaron Lewis: 0

[@annamidkiff2460]

The interesting thing is that Springsteen has a similar story. He and his dad would fight and his dad would tell him "You'll get drafted and the military will sort you out." Well, Bruce did get drafted, but didn't pass the physical. When he came home and told his dad that the military hadn't taken him, his dad said, "Good."

[@TheLowBrassDude]

According to Wikipedia, his parents were also hippies.

[@kurks001]

What if his father was actually a perfectly nice gentleman and not letting his son enlist was the only reason Aaron resents him?

[@myflyisopen.8732]

Aaron's father should have beat him more. His sounds would have been better.

[@brendanb2982]

@@TheLowBrassDude Wait, so what does that make the whole " becoming my old man " thing? Maybe his parents were neolibs idk

[@dr.loomis4221]

Am I the only one who hates when people ask "Am I the only one?" when they know damn well they're not?

[@Sleepgarden]

a world of 7 billion+ people, you sure are "the only one" aaron lewis. what a bonehead.

[@2-d_in_a_bag]

no, aaron, you're not the only one. we just wish you were.

[@2-d_in_a_bag]

@Dandyman (Splatoon 2 Hundered) yeah... pretty gross, innit?

[@mygroinisonfire]

This unpacked a surprising amount about Aaron Lewis as a musician and a person way more than I anticipated. Honestly one of your best videos next to your Chris Brown video.

[@Schlagageul]

Which one?

[@mygroinisonfire]

@@Schlagageul I THINK the song was called "Turn up the Music" or something like that, but it's the one where he GOES OFF on Chris Brown

[@wespapes2054]

@@mygroinisonfire you are correct. It was forever ago.

[@Schlagageul]

@@mygroinisonfire I just watched it and yeah, that's the one! Great video.

[@mygroinisonfire]

@@hallucinatedovens8414 nah, there's definitely enough information out there and in Aaron's lyrics that lead to the conclusions Todd made.

[@leifeday]

This might be the first time that Todd is reviewing a song I've literally never heard of

[@KevinContreras2013]

It’s best to not

[@whenfatkillsfat803]

I never heard of Timothy until his review.

[@ChocoDoeEyes]

I stopped listening to the radio so this is common for me lol

[@BlakeGeometrio]

Same and I was happier before I found out that it existed.

[@njujuznem6554]

I'm quite glad country music hasn't spread outside of America.

[@joedatius]

it is far beyond ironic that this song is preaching "if you dont like it then leave" during a song about HATING AMERICA AND NOT LIKING IT.

[@johnpaulsylvester3727]

I wanna hear Aaron call himself “outlaw country” while wearing the thin-blue-line hat…

[@mrcnub]

I think what Todd said about Arrested Development and Snoop Dogg applies pretty well here. If you make people choose between you and Springsteen, you lose.

[@teethcoat4274]

What did Todd say about Arrested Development and Snoop Dogg? Also what episode?

[@comicfire]

@@teethcoat4274 it was in the Zingalamaduni Trainwreckords episode

[@teethcoat4274]

@@comicfire Tyvm, have a great day!

[@kanemccarthy1979]

@@teethcoat4274 "if it's you vs snoopdog. You lose, everytime."

[@oninineone]

I'm LOVING the "I hate everything here but if YOU don't like anything in this country, there's the door" shit. I can actually physically taste the hypocrisy and I wanna spread that shit on toast.

[@anthonydeadman]

Sounds like a bitter thing to spread on your toast. You'd have a better time spreading mayo on there than to ever spread this toxic poison onto it.

[@Kylea1979]

@@anthonydeadman Or literal shit.

[@anthonydeadman]

@@Kylea1979 Nah that'd be just as inedible. Not to mention it'd be such a waste of good toast.

[@thrownstair]

I love my country, and part of that entails having fantasies of running over half the country’s population with my Hilux.

[@IDoABitOfTrollin]

No that would be your daily amount of salt in a bite dude

[@c.m.9369]

Yeah, the "am I turning into my old man" kind of made me stop the first time around. Because I thought the game actually had a self-reflective edge to it. In the sense of: "Oh... am I just angry at everything and think the kids are ruining society because... well, that's what happens to old people all the time? Am I just turning into a grumpy guy and it's not the world around me that is to blame?" But NOPE! And the entire Statue thing... I just get it! I really don't! I'm from Europe and I just imagine how it would look if Germany had about half of the country that still wanted to have statues honoring Hitler and his Third Reich around, because... well, we shouldn't erase our heritage, right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ What is this? Seriously?

[@maxillebastille9079]

actually Germany has a bust of Hitler in a museum. oh and its like Todd said, most conservatives don't like the statues but its just that the left want them down. kinda like how many liberals casted doubt on the vaccine just because it was under trump.

[@gaiusoctavius6107]

Its the double standard. Mustafa Ataturk slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Christians for their faith, and there are statutes of him ALL over Turkey. Why aren't we pressuring them to take them down?

[@jmhaces]

He was so close to the realization, but got sidetracked by Fox News B.S.

[@peggyclark279]

When Aaron Lewis asks: “Am I the only one who quits singin' along every time they play a Springsteen song?” The answer is Yes. You are the only one.

[@RenaldyCalixte]

I wish Todd said this in his video.

[@trevorstevenson4038]

The only problem with Born in the USA is that it is the same keyboard riff, repeated constantly through the entire song.

[@samanteater]

This line implies that he still STARTS singing along to Springsteen and then stops at some point. I like to imagine he keeps forgetting that he's supposed to hate it until halfway through and then he's like "oh GODDAMMIT NOT AGAIN"

[@Merricat_likesu]

The reason I bought Darrius Rucker as a country artist and never Aaron Lewis is because Rucker doesn’t sound like Hootie and the Blowfish, whereas Lewis just sounds Staind again

[@Hiccuple]

Rucker has a great voice. Lewis sounds a garbage bag being punched.

[@williampusey8266]

Yeah, Aaron might have switched out the electric guitar for a steel guitar but he's still doing the sadboi nu-metal vocals.

[@steviecopeland]

Hootie were always a little country-adjacent. You can hear it in songs like Only Want To Be With You. He transitioned well as a singer-songwriter. Lewis didn't, clearly.

[@blazicgd]

Also because Darius is actually talented

[@kylehegedus5498]

And Darius seems like a nice guy.

[@WilliamMaranciMashups]

his music is a reminder that not all of massachusetts is left-leaning

[@ddjsoyenby]

me: oh boy i love staind i won....... *hears this* COME ON!

[@warlordofbritannia]

Of course not - my 92-year-old grandmother lives here Her political views are basically what you think they are Edit: Oh hey, you’re that guy from high school - I’m Troy, I was a year behind you, not sure if you’d really remember me ‘cause we didn’t really mix in the same circles

[@katmd03]

Born and raised New Englander. My extended family can attest to this

[@WilliamMaranciMashups]

@@warlordofbritannia i remember you! what's up?

[@mr.itchywrath]

More like that not everyone from Massachusetts is a good person.

[@supertimerip]

The Virgin Aaron Lewis vs The Chad Bruce Springsteen

[@ThotdFan127]

Let's face it, Springsteen is a giga-chad by this point. The fact he can somewhat piss on conservative values and they still toss him their money is something else.

[@lizardbytheriver1567]

Aaron Lewis is so upset about Confederate Statues coming down but he lives in Vermont, a UNION State. Take pride that your state helped crush the Confederacy.

[@RenaldyCalixte]

Massachusetts a neighboring state to Vermont was the 1st US state to have black US troops lead by a white officer in active combat during a war. That war was the US Civil War. Some Vermont residents at the time supported this decision whereas other US state such as Maryland thought it was terrible to have a unit with black men led by a white officer.

[@holzmann-]

Did you know Abraham Lincoln was from Kentucky, a SOUTHERN state?

[@dascommissar5264]

The way he follows up the “red white and blue” with confederate statues makes me think he longs for the stars n’ bars more than the Stars and Stripes.

[@AnIdiotsLantern]

Accidental racist not so accidental after all

[@anarchomando7707]

@Perverted Alchemist I prefer him try to resurrect Woody or Seeger At the very least he might get new support in unions

[@inciaradible7144]

@Perverted Alchemist My thoughts exactly; pretty sure he's trying to allude to Toby Keith to make people think his song is better than it actually is-don't get me wrong, I hate Toby Keith's bowel movement with a passion, but it *is* a better song.

[@freeparking301]

I love how all the interview clips are in conservative safe spaces. God forbid he gets a difficult question that makes him think. He might have to go home and write a shitty song about it.

[@Eloraurora]

And yet they're the ones who whine about safe spaces and trigger warnings. Cue the Alanis.

[@tedculbertson6320]

@Perverted Alchemist And if you are challenged, run away. That's what Ben Shapiro did on the BBC.

[@SaltpeterTaffy]

@Perverted Alchemist That's EVERYONE'S modus operandi now. The public face of the entire country is one big embarrassment.

[@anarchomando7707]

@@tedculbertson6320 what did you not see Steven Crowder v Sam cedar

[@RoguSpanish]

Well to be fair, it's very likely that just nobody else has any interest in interviewing a washed up former nu-metal hack who started pretending to be country to pander to the redhats and wrote a new song crying about confederate monuments being removed. Only Faux News would jump on that.

[@tsarbutterfly663]

"If you don't like America, there's the door!...but I support the Confederacy who was literally against the US. I'm also going to proceed to complain about America for three minutes, but it's only okay when I do it."

[@asdfghjk1576]

He’s also literally wearing an “impeach Biden” hat omg

[@garboil]

I love this video, as usual Todd nails it. Favorite line “like every card carrying member of the left, I also hate the left” Totally accurate. I feel seen.

[@Bruhlie]

I just looked this dude up on Wikipedia, and the first thing I see is that he has a section labeled “incidents.” I have never seen that before. I have seen “controversies” and “legal issues” and stuff like that, but I have never seen such an ominous section on a person’s Wikipedia article before.

[@waycnf7229]

Going to some dude's wikipedia page, and you see a category called "Home Dungeon"

[@shinobisauren]

Tbf as much as I disagree with everything he has to say in this song, the actual "incidents" mentioned under that section are him scolding men for groping a crowdsurfing female fan and him stopping a show slightly early after getting yelled at by the audience which are significantly less worrying incidents than a lot of controversies and legal issues sections for other artists. Might as well give him flak for things he does or songs he writes he does actually deserve flak for.

[@trashpacker4500]

@@shinobisauren damn that’s actually pretty cool of him. what an asshole.

[@yawbyss981]

Fancy seeing you here, especially right after you just uploaded

[@manboy4720]

the aaron lewis incident. 500+ dead.

[@Force-hiddenmasquerade]

This guy reminds me of my own dad. He grew up listening to AC/DC, Depeche Mode, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, a bunch of other New Wave artists…. And he watches Fox News religiously Dude grew up listening to shit that conservatives hated and now the cognitive dissonance is as strong as his arthritis

[@Filmation77]

It's like he really didn't GET it. It's like cops who listen to the song "Who Are You" by The Who....but it goes over their heads

[@teethcoat4274]

Same. I honestly don't know how my dad listens to Fox News and thinks, "Yes, this is all reasonable." I honestly don't know of a news station in America that actually is reliable, but my dad doesn't even live in America, he doesn't even HAVE to watch an American news program, and yet he chooses to listen to fucking Fox of all things 🤦‍♂️.

[@GalaxyPolar]

@@Filmation77 None of them did because they've all been indoctrinated by the conservative over zelous cult propaganda this country spews out. Sure they "listened to radical music to look cool" back in the days, but as teens, those mfers didn't understand the real messages behind those songs nor did they care to. It was just "cool ppl music" back then to them. Then over thre course of their 20's & 30's they've been whipped into submission by their conservative peers, conservative family, conservative media, evangelical religion, some formed addictions and turned to "born again Christianity" cultism, and they lost the progressive messages they were given when younger as a result. Mis-translating their past as just as conservative as they are now.

[@kittykittybangbang9367]

I think Innuendo Studios said it best himself in his gamergate video, that predominantly young angry white men are prone to falling in that types of stuff.

[@timcosgrove707]

“It’s really remarkable how little the conservative line has changed” That’s kinda what they’re going for, Todd.

[@CaladonianQueen]

While Todd has had his savage moments in the past it was a real treat to see him in full icy, measured verbal assassin mode. Even his butter-wouldn't-melt smile in the thumbnail is gold.

[@josephcharpak4533]

'Did he deserve better?" "No" Wait, wrong series 😀

[@the-NightStar]

Well, considering that the song clearly shows Aaron as regretting never having the chance to take a builet for America, I think he does deserve better. I say let this man live out his dream. Especially one so beneficial to the rest of us.

[@arthurtaylor725]

"am I the only guy who gives a shit and worries about his kids" no Aaron, the Black parents who want to take down the statues of men who wanted to enslave their kids very much do give a shit and worry about their kids, that's kinda the whole point

[@annamidkiff2460]

I'm really curious how much time Aaron Lewis spends worrying that a cop is going to shoot his son.

[@annamidkiff2460]

I also wonder if there is a white artist who understands the unique fears black parents have about their children! Oh wait... "If an officer ever stops you, promise me you'll always be polite, And that you'll never ever run away Promise mama you'll keep your hands in sight."

[@Copperhell144]

​@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick Yeah, no. Don't dare say Trump's policies are similar to Obama's, or that Biden's are similar to Trump's. I get that we're super disappointed that Obama wasn't radically different enough from Bush Jr., but its time to move on.

[@Copperhell144]

@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick The approach of the federal government to the coronavirus itself changed, the withdrawal from WHO was stopped, the border wall construction was stopped (thank fuck), the US rejoined the Paris agreement, Trump's travel ban was reversed along with his plan for stricter immigration enforcement... Biden kept to more of his promises than Trump, which is a low bar, but also still a difference. Once again, don't dare act like everything is still the same. 64 executive orders in the first 100 days doesn't amount to a simple "nothing".

[@Copperhell144]

​@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick The Delta variant originated in India, not the US, so the mask mandate in US has nothing to do with whether it "even exists". Returning to zero from negative is a step forward, per the definition of stepping forward. Not to mention that "return to zero" Biden is clearly better and different from "plummet down to negative" Trump, when you're claiming they're the same. Funny of you to say that you're "not diluted enough into thinking the Democratic and the Republican Party are the same" when the whole origin of this chat was you claiming exactly that. It's clear at this point that you are just biased.

[@walmorcarvalho2512]

Not only this guy's song, but his entire carreer shift is a perfect embodiment of that Samuel Johnson quote: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel". The only thing he wants is to get famous and rich. He tried by riding the Nu-metal bandwagon, and when it led him to nowhere he jumped out and into the Country one. And when THAT was also leading nowhere he went all-in on the braindead, Ultra-conservative audience that's willing to spend big on anything as long as it has a MAGA hat on top of it. Looks like it worked, but i don't see it going much past his 15 minutes of fame

[@nicholasflanders9814]

This is a South Park joke turned real

[@danzilla3]

If "Twerkulator" manages to overtake this, that will be at least one sign in favor of a loving god.

[@YouCantDeleteDenzelL]

"Screaming 'what the fuck' at my TV" made me nearly die laughing. He sounds like he just learned to swear for the first time.

[@12Tecpatl]

i almost spat my drink out, that caught me so off guard, what a massive baby

[@mattm4437]

Also - he's literally bragging about being so insecure he screams at a TV screen when he sees something he doesn't like. lol

[@cannibalisticrequiem]

That line just made me think of sports fans, many of whom are conservative, cussing at their TVs when they don't agree with something the referee/umpire did or said or don't like something one of the players did, and I started cackling. 🤣

[@antibishonen]

I thought it's about the election, but the big reveal shows utter disappointment

[@the-NightStar]

I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised if the particular "what the fuck" he speaks of in that lyric was during a tv news story broadcast about a Dr. Suess book being taken out of a library or a college student having gender reassignment surgery, and not something that any sane person WOULD associate this lyric to, like yet another cop pushing his knee into a black woman's throat until she can't breathe during a random traffic stop. Something tells me, he doesn't care about that.

[@Blackwidow391]

Todd: as a card carrying member of the left i also hate leftists ah my people

[@weezersthebluealbum9479]

19:01 If there was any doubt on his racism, the fact it showed he was performing on Candace Owens' show gives him a racism badge of honour (or rather dishonour).

[@RockedNet]

I can't stress enough how absolutely awful Aaron Lewis has become live and how he actually is pandering to his live audiences, especially with the clothes he wears on stage. I do think he targets and panders quite a bit NOW. Edit: Yes, he IS a racist 100%.

[@ericdraven_9481]

Nice to see you on here Luke. 😂😂

[@Aster_Risk]

I appreciate you for pointing out just how terrible he is.

[@SeanStrife]

I guess this is the long-awaited 15th shade of Divorced Dad Rock.

[@ThierryRocksTV]

Been watching your Regretting the Past videos since 2016!

[@wolverineminer]

As a moody self-loathing sadboy in the 2000s-2010s I fucking loved Staind. Hearing that Aaron Lewis is like this doesn't really surprise me but it makes me sad.

[@Septicor]

It's the musical equivalent of that Tucker Carlson photoshoot of him dressing up in simple rural folk. Faker than a $3 bill.

[@lizzybethnj617]

Tucker Carlson was dressed up as Al from Home Improvement

[@DaveBob96]

Alexa, play Counterfeit by Limp Bizkit

[@TheTrainFan9]

Tucker Carlson, heir to the Swanson frozen dinner company, painting himself as the conservative everyman when he is the most pampered asshole around will never cease to amaze me. Unfortunately most of his viewer base is either too stupid or too stubborn to truly understand how hard they've been conned.

[@anarchomando7707]

@@TheTrainFan9 yeah you don't remember seeing that photo

[@elltell1990]

He needs a Montana Man to straighten him out

[@danieltobin4498]

I’m not saying Aaron Lewis is a bad guy. I’m saying he’s worse, he’s a fascist

[@Wyatt98919]

Cope

[@sophie_drachen]

​@@Wyatt98919 I won't cope with it. I'm sure he's been brainwashed by whatever right-wing media he's been watching; cough, cough Fox News. I never liked Staind, I just found them too whiny. Get over it, your dad didn't want you to serve in the army because he did and witnessed a lot of people getting limbs blown off and traumatised by seeing dead bodies and killing people.

[@leileyaravencroft]

I have to say this: “Take a bullet for your freedom” My man actually used this sentence in a lyric while there are people being shot by not just every day people but by those who’s slogan is “To serve and protect”. That is almost some kind of sick joke. Edit: Todd, you aren’t the only one who heard “Wherever You Go” at the beginning. I heard it too.

[@mmsiphonevinyls1027]

I think we all heard it. Then a lot of us also started singing bits of Someone You Loved during the chorus 😂

[@annakellyvee]

HOnestly shocked that he didn't rhyme "am I the only one?" with "something something Qanon"

[@EpicBeard815]

"Do you know who Aaron Lewis is?" I remember hearing that name, but...IT'S BEEN A WHIIIIIIIILE

[@nobodyatallvallejo3672]

Nice! 😂

[@possiblyblittz6273]

I love reading the newest comments on this video. So many people don’t even hide their racism, ignorance, and bigotry. Love and hate it

[@senorsnout4417]

"We need to stop being divided. We're not talking enough. United we stand, divided we fall." Translation: Agree with me 100%, or you're the problem.

[@rebeccat.6134]

"Am I the Only One" is the textbook opening of any bad-faith argument.

[@personunkown9847]

Todd is the one misrepresenting things, hard to watch

[@cjermevpg6372]

@@personunkown9847 What is he misrepresenting?

[@mssnadie]

He should have topped it with a "all my racist say HEEEEEO All my whinny parents say HOOOOOOAAAA

[@timg2727]

@@personunkown9847 you're going to have to be more specific than that, unless you're just trolling and trying to start shit (which you definitely are).

[@warlockboy3864]

@@personunkown9847 like all people who think like you, you need to *elaborate* on what you are saying. Instead of saying vague statements, try saying "Todd is misrepresenting his lyrics because (insert reason), and he (insert reason) so therefore he did not understand the meaning". You see it wasn't so bad to actually come up with an argument instead of going "he's wrong, grrrrr"

[@WolframHeart]

As a huge Springsteen fan I love that Todd’s breaking point is the diss on the Boss.

[@EpicB]

I don't care about Springsteen all that much but I still can't diss him at all.

[@schris3]

@@EpicB I never cared for his music, but as Todd said, he's a real American.

[@freezypnc948]

That final line was merciless. I felt that in my core.

[@heathercalun4919]

It worries me that Todd predicts this album will never gain any real success, and Conservatives will still go to Bruce Springsteen concerts. Cus we all know what happens when Todd makes a prediction...

[@diegoizaguirre3452]

@@heathercalun4919 let’s us all pray that it end up like the Taylor swift prediction because that was spot on!

[@spadinnerxylaphone2622]

Todd defending Springsteen is what I needed today.

[@BDSMaestro]

I have two jobs to pay off my medical debt, and can’t go to family events. I’m sick of republicans saying I’m “free.” I can’t even celebrate Christmas without two separate bosses permission.

[@InnuendoStudios]

I'm wondering if he still follows his old lyrical pattern: "blah blah blah in my head, blah blah blah should have said."

[@bigfatrockstar4991]

So Maroon 5 is now ripping off Aaron Lewis’s lyrical pattern? Interesting

[@BlakeGeometrio]

Hey, it's Innuendo Studios!

[@thenamelessghuleh]

His lyrics are as bland and pointless as the man himself. That’s the one impressive feature of Lewis’s music. Congratulations?

[@christopherlundgren1700]

When's that video about The Whackness comin out? ;)

[@RogueError617]

Great to see you here!

[@dcp104]

"Of course you don't like Springsteen. He makes good music, and your entire life is a testament to how much you hate good music." Lmao, holy shit.

[@JekyViews]

Saaaaaaaavage. I love it.

[@akschmidt2085]

🔥

[@eastsidereviews727]

Could've ended the video right there.

[@tracys4161]

Springsteen stopped making good music about 25 years ago. He was GREAT before that.

[@ROZWBRAZEL]

@@tracys4161 even if you do believe this, that's still miles ahead of Aaron Lewis

[@kw9172]

Sweet Home Alabama is actually written tounge in cheek. It is a parody of southern attitudes, complete with faux Neil Young callout. He got a chuckle out of it. The irony was lost on the audience, though:)

[@scottanno8861]

It was also lost on Neil Young who took it personally at first lol

[@mathewhutchins2539]

Racism aside…this song is simultaneously overly melodramatic and completely devoid of vulnerability.