POP SONG REVIEW: "Fancy Like" by Walker Hayes

That Applebee's commercial jingle is an actual hit song. Seriously.
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[@lodovicamancini-pori7672]

Walker Hayes' meticulously groomed look and the TikToks of people in all the nice houses makes me feel like this song is laughing at poor people rather than celebrating them.

[@profaneangel2556]

Yeah. Walker and wife went to a ritzy private school. Jeff sessions son was in her class. They aren't country people from out on the farm or even a trailer. They were beach houses and tennis at the country club. I still can't believe his country music career.

[@deirdre108]

@@profaneangel2556 In the old days this was called “slumming”-rich/privileged people cosplaying as the poor or working class. A famous example is Marie Antoinnette having a shepherd’s cottage built on the grounds of her castle, which she would use to pretend to be a shepherdess. This also is Hayes’ schtick.

[@davidnissim589]

“I write songs for people who do jobs in the towns that I’d never move to.” - Bo Burnham

[@GobotWars]

The bass sounds in the background and vocal delivery make it very clear "new country music is just hip hop for people who are scared of black people" is a quite true statement

[@CatLives9]

Exactly.

[@Sexiraina1993]

No truer words have been spoken.

[@CaptainCJ97]

Damn

[@Piratejackyar]

Country music has always been black music for white people.

[@Redralphred]

That's why, after my whole life, I stopped listening to it. It's a damn accurate statement.

[@LilDeuceDeuce]

I'm shocked that this started out as an actual song and then got picked up by Applebees. I assumed this was a tie-in from the start, like how Jeep hired X-Ambassadors to do Renegades to promote the Jeep Renegade. But I guess it makes sense because a commissioned song would probably only focus on Applebees and not namedrop Wendy's and Natty Light

[@hiimemily]

I'm actually kinda shocked that a song that was literally commissioned for a car commercial sounds a thousand times more like a real song than "Fancy Like". Also, ironically enough, X Ambassadors have never made a song better than their car ad jingle, either before or since.

[@Mentally_Will]

I don't know why it surprised me so much to find out just now that Renegades was indeed a song written just to sell a product.

[@jacobbelyea7945]

@@hiimemily I honestly thought X Ambassadors' new album was surprisingly really good. Like, if it was your first exposure to the band you'd assume they've released music that was at least okay in the past, but no the quality just came completely out of nowhere. Am I alone thinking that?

[@StudioScarecrow]

I hate Renegade so much. "Here's to all these genuine artists, whose footsteps we are pretending to follow, in order to sell cars"

[@Mentally_Will]

@@StudioScarecrow It takes the idea of "soulless art" to its logical conclusion honestly.

[@DiamondAxeStudiosMusic]

"It would be easy for me to just sit here and make horrified faces" You literally don't have a face Todd

[@teamkockroach4080]

love your new content sean

[@Marysajama]

as far as we know

[@pkmnherofan22]

I don’t know he managed to pull a pretty horrified face at the Penius Colada line in Liz Phaire’s Funstyle

[@RenaldyCalixte]

So Todd is secretly the DC Comics superhero The Question who also doesn't have a face.

[@gogreen2496]

It's not a song about actually being lower class and poking fun at how they can't afford "real" fancy things. It's rich people cosplaying that concept. Applebee's might not be "fancy" but if you don't live near a big city, it's still probably one of the places you go to have date night. My family is wealthy and from the south. I garuntee you my cousins are singing this.

[@dandelionwino]

Yeeeeep. And since this comes out at a time when there is a massive wealth gap, it feels like a rich person saying "look how fun it is to be poor. I don't get why you keep whining about 'student debt' and 'tax the rich', you have Applebee's."

[@jacobcrowley1675]

That was my exact thought

[@jacobcrowley1675]

That was my exact thought

[@emilyb5762]

@@dandelionwino this is true, but step 2 is “and then insecure people on the other side of the wealth gap adopt it as part of their spiteful identity.”

[@jlbeeen]

In Canada, Applebee's is seen as overpriced American food. At least that's how I saw it growing up. It was never that popular and we wondered why they're still around where there are similarly priced places you can go that are better. Like Boston Pizza, where I frequently go on dates which at least has a nicer environment to it and some nice drinks (including mocktails).

[@dudewuttheheck]

"vaguely trap bass, just enough to let you know that we're aware of hip hop, but not enough to be good at it" . Lines like these are why I love this channel.

[@barleysixseventwo6665]

Little did we know this was all just a pilot for his new show: “Todds Restaurant Reviews” “Yep, that’s a steak alright” “That is indeed a Lobster and it is in fact Red” “This sandwich definitely tastes like it was made with meat, vegetables, and _some_ bread”

[@jamesrichie7844]

His own version of "It's Food."

[@tjhunter9787]

"Truly the restaurant of all time"

[@afterdinnercreations936]

""Yep... these are fries... wait, what are you doing with that Frosty???"

[@anonameis7818]

It's kinda ironic that the band Florida Georgia Line was nearly pulled apart by supporting opposing candidates.

[@TenApplesforTime]

Considering how Georgia flipped blue while Florida remained red? It's hilarious.

[@Lycaon1765]

@@TenApplesforTime lollll

[@jinxed7915]

On the plus side, if Florida Georgia Line breaks up, it would at least be a benefit to music and humanity.

[@vwestlife]

@@jinxed7915 Now it's no longer an "if". They broke up in September 2022.

[@jinxed7915]

@@vwestlife maybe there truly is some God looking over is.

[@MatteoTomatto]

Country music in the past felt like it was just about real people going through the peaks and valleys in their lives; it felt genuine. Modern country feels like people internalizing stereotypes about the south and playing up to them for attention.

[@schris3]

That's quite the recap of what's happening.

[@maxillebastille9079]

but hip hop did the same and now its more popular than ever

[@Thedjbj2]

Older country music was geared towards people who genuinely lived the country lifestyle, with all the messiness that entails. But as the US becomes more urbanized, that market has shrunk. Modern country music is instead geared in large part to people who live in the suburbs/exurbs and small cities who have embraced the most superficial aspects of the "country" lifestyle, maybe because it gives them and the place they live some sort of identity.

[@Genevieve1023]

@@maxillebastille9079 10 or 15 years ago maybe, but that's not what hip-hop is doing now.

[@BillPeschel]

We went through this in the '70s when it was called "countrypolitan." There were some crossover artists like Johnny Cash, who kept it real while still appealing to a wider audience, while you had Dolly Parton who went both ways ("Jolene" and "9 to 5"). Then you had a lot of country artists who strived for mainstream appeal by putting rock tropes into their songs. Now, they're doing hip-hop and rap (because it's popular), which opens them up to idiots calling them racists and appropriators. And Todd wonders why they feel defensive.

[@amityislandchum]

I first heard this song when I turned on the radio in my car and it was right at the part about ordering food at Wendy's. Naturally, I assumed it was a Wendy's commercial. But then it went right into an Applebee's order, and for a moment, I wondered if Wendy's and Applebee's were part of the same corporation and would be making combo restaurants, like the famed Pizza Hut/Taco Bell/KFC. But then... it kept going... and it slowly dawned on me that *this was an actual song.* I died inside that day.

[@deirdre108]

Applebees and IHOP are part of the same parent company.

[@uglyaniimals]

@@deirdre108 "yeah we fancy like ihop, get some pancakes she eat some bacon, then she make her ass shake"

[@travirushellton6843]

I’m surprised Todd didn’t point out how this guy was clearly trying to rhyme “bangin’” with “maintenance”. Put all the southern twang on it you want dude, those words do not rhyme.

[@FirefulXD]

I can believe in anything now after hearing fergie rhyme "milkshake" with "factory"

[@juhaniaho6698]

NOT A RHYME

[@aakashbasu3219]

I thought he was saying "solo maining" which is what I do in fighting games

[@realemmcee]

like when Young Thug tried to rhyme "titan" with "card"

[@gequitz]

"This isn't about being poor it's about being basic" Right on the money

[@Ren_NCTzen]

"Fancy Like" sits at the same table as "Body Like a Back-road"

[@jooree7696]

At least Body Like A Back Road can be so-bad-its-good, plus the already bad melody is still 20 times better than the one from Fancy Like

[@vwestlife]

"Body Like a Back Road" was co-written by an openly gay man -- Shane McAnally, one of Nashville's most prolific songwriters. Shane didn't write "Fancy Like", but he did co-produce it. But I wonder what that co-production involved, other than sitting in the corner and trying not to laugh.

[@aegisScale]

@@jooree7696 I can laugh at Body Like a Back Road. In fact, if you were to hear me laughing at Fancy Like, that's actually the sound of my soul leaving my body.

[@TheAlps36]

When Kesha mentioned Waffle House I became convinced this was a commercial for a new mall that was opening outside of Nashville

[@NegaLomie]

Imagine a Waffle House with mall hours. WaHo is for 3 am post-bar crawl munchies.

[@brendanb2982]

The only song that should be used for promoting Waffle House is " Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting ".

[@Patrick_Bateman92]

From a British perspective, I couldn't imagine anyone making a song about going to Nandos or Weatherspoons, I assume Applebee's is the equivalent of these.

[@itzlucaaa6789]

As an American I assume it is too 🤣

[@Speccy94]

I'm imagining Jedward singing about going to Greggs normally and Pret for special occasions.

[@drifter402]

I can imagine grime MCs doing that.

[@durnsidh6483]

In the US, Nandos is fancier than Applebee's, though that's mostly because they're considered "ethnic" and there are fewer Nando's restaurants than Applebee's.

[@SuperJNG18]

Nah, not quite Nando's. Pizza Express?

[@JeremyLeal1695]

Being from Texas, i can safely say that even rural country boys can do better than Applebees.

[@raggedyanne9631]

definitely

[@jojoversus1100]

Texas Roadhouse my dude.

[@jinxed7915]

Seriously. You don't have to go to a proper fancy restaurant to have a nice date night, but you can also do infinitely better than Applebee's. Even just a nice local joint would be more respectable.

[@magicrainbowkitties1023]

90% of people I know would rather go to Taco Bell for a date night than Applebees.

[@JBoy62497]

"one of the guys from Florida-Georgia Line wrote a song about how we all need to come together, and he sang it at Biden's inauguration, and the other guy *refused to join him*." lmao if you tried to put this in a comedy movie script the other writers would say it was too on the nose.

[@Thomasmemoryscentral]

I don't even get why Jason Aldean having anti Biden shirts is considered controversial' isn't Biden a moron that's embarrassing himself?

[@cangrejopendejo4909]

@@Thomasmemoryscentral Right? It was way more socially acceptable (and cringe) to hate on Trump, but Biden's an idiot too 🤷🏻.

[@MrBonethugs4lyfe]

@@Thomasmemoryscentral Biden's doing fine. Right wing hates him cuz he's a leftie, left wing hates him cuz he's not extreme enough. Sounds about right tbh

[@caitlinrobinson6812]

@@Thomasmemoryscentral meh? Most people don't like biden, but can I really say he's that bad of a president? Not really. He's about what I expected. I will still tske him over trump and I don't regret my vote. So no, I wouldn't say that it's a universal opinion.

[@MegaLakona]

@@MrBonethugs4lyfe the Overton window is just really fucked in the US. Any other country Biden would be center right.

[@exhaustedbaking]

To my Texan friend and her family: thanks for taking me to Chillis instead of Applebees for my first US dining experience

[@petsch6787]

"It's about massive insecurity" -Todd, accidentally stumbling on why so many people HATE country music

[@MelMelodyWerner]

*correction: "why so many dipshits who only hear bro country think it's still cool to shit on country music, as if The Highwomen and Yola don't exist."

[@maxillebastille9079]

@@MelMelodyWerner seriously, its like only listening to mainstream rap

[@zab416]

Yeah that is pretty insightful. I haven't listened to bluegrass in a long time, but when I went through a phase, it seemed like a lot about "creeks and dogs and mountains are cool" but without much at all of the "suck it, city slickers" in mainstream country.

[@stephenwilliams163]

That country insecurity is one of the ways that people with more wealth and privelage than a feudal lord justify their own victim mentality and persecution complex.

[@d3rrick10493]

@@MelMelodyWerner maybe some people just hate the music itself. I don't like the instrumentals, I don't like their accents, and I don't relate to the music because I was born and raised in a city on the upper east coast. I hate country because it makes me feel nothing because I can't relate to it. Doesn't make it bad, I don't hate people who enjoy it, just isn't for me, because it wasn't made for me. 🤷‍♂️

[@naomiwashburn358]

From age 5 to age 14, I lived in a shithole small town in Wyoming, and I can tell you you are absolutely correct about the insecurity of small town people. It was even worse in some of the small towns I visited in Texas. I think a lot of them are aware that their communities suck (I sure knew mine did, lol), but they, for whatever reason, want to stay, so they have to somehow justify that to others, but also to themselves. It's also a tactic to try and keep young people from leaving, by trying to convince them that that dumb old big city life isn't all it's cracked up to be. I fucking hated it, lol.

[@louschwick7301]

"for whatever reason" money Also, it's just ... hard to move

[@phastinemoon]

Do they WANT to stay? Or do they HAVE TO stay, because they’re too poor to move?

[@typacsk]

Which town? I'm up by Lovell XD

[@moonlily1]

I seem to recall George Carlin having some commentary about the supposed superiority of small towns and their residents and their love of shit talking people from the city, something along the lines of how they stay in their puny towns because they'd never make it the city because they're too weak, so they say the cities and their people suck in order to overcompensate. Different lifestyles suit different people and that's okay, big cities, suburbs, rural areas all have their merits. Live wherever you feel you thrive and that's cool, but don't be self righteous about it. Small town dwellers aren't kinder or more moral or more "real" than people who live in larger towns. Urbanites can be patronizing towards those they perceive as less cultured because their town doesn't have an art gallery, but small town people have their own version of snobbery.

[@benl8070]

Gonna be honest, I thought the Applebees marketing people hired someone to write that as a jingle. It never once crossed my mind that this was supposedly a song someone would put on the radio.

[@JoshuaFagan]

Not the worst thing about the song, but how is a Vespa not fancy? When I think of stylish, even European, luxury, a Vespa is one of the first things that comes to mind. Even Luca got this right.

[@jeevithrai7994]

My dad used to have a Vespa back in the day and he didn't have much then, so I never thought of Vespa as particularly luxurious.

[@billyweed835]

In lots of states in the South, if you get caught for a DUI, you can still drive scooters, Vespa included.

[@o8thmsmunchieman]

Another insightful review from THE MAN! One thing to note; as a man from the south, the "Vespa" lyric refers to any scooter at all. In Alabama, we refer to many things by a colloquial term that is used by a major brand name. ERGO, Vespa are scooters, Cokes are soda and Jeeps are any 4wd vehicle. He's insufferable, but he's on brand.

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

The idea of a person calling any type of soda a “coke” fills me with a very peculiar dread.

[@zaxxya7883]

Walker Hayes has the same singing cadence and tone as the Imagine Dragons guy. That's why Todd hates it Thank you for coming to my ToddTalk

[@melanieg.9092]

oh my god thats exactly it...

[@davidshinn766]

Not even close

[@zimpenfish]

It's basically "Thunder" with twangy music and different lyrics.

[@matthewbrotman2907]

At least Reynolds projects. This guy is sleepwalking.

[@jinxed7915]

The same irritating way they place unnecessary emphasis on every 3rd or 4th syllable. Great, I'm never going to unhear that

[@vietimports]

true old school country music, from musicians who lived through actual struggles like the great depression, was not defensive about being country. modern country is SUPER defensive because 99% of the country singers have never stepped foot on a farm

[@gentlemandemon]

It's so odd how little confidence country has in itself that it's gotta steal hip hop's delivery and cadence. And that's no even counting the songs that have drum machines in them

[@alexanderguerrero347]

I mean music genres steals from each other all the time. It’s sort of how music works

[@gentlemandemon]

@@alexanderguerrero347 sure, but it's odd for a genre to just pretend to be another genre

[@PhantomKing88]

Is anyone gonna mention the fact that the melody is "The Hokey Pokey"?

[@daishoryujin95]

You dip your French fries in, you dip your French fries out…

[@ozivass1773]

Yeh it does to, i heard that song and i was like “………………….. that has the same tone as the hokey pokey 🤨 it’s really swingy aswell like was he singing that song while swinging at the swing or something”

[@GolumTR]

I think that the I’m From The ‘Country’ As It Were trend in country music is part of country’s not very successful attempts to bring on hip hop ideas. The same way Outkast represents Atlanta or Wu Tang represents Shaolin Land, country music will represent The ‘Country’. The obvious problem is that - despite its rhetoric - country music is for atomized suburban consumers with no meaningful local pride. Even this guy can’t drop the name of a mid-tier local restaurant because anything local would break the illusion that he is at the abstract locationless The ‘Country’.

[@Nanthecowdog]

I think there’s local pride. Just not in the mainstream. You ask an indie or a Red Dirt country fan who you think reps Oklahoma best and they’re gonna tell you Turnpike Troubadors.

[@GolumTR]

@@Nanthecowdog Only homan I know is Jabee from OKC. He’s a good guy.

[@pacificostudios]

You put your finger on it. Like yeah, the best part about living in "The Country" for real is knowing where all the NON-brand places are. Like that restaurant in Sandstone, MN where everything on the menu is a "Burger" -- from Hamburger to Fish Burger to Pizza Burger to Turkey Burger -- they got it all, between two halves of a bun.

[@leftofthedial1378]

The spiritual successor to Todd’s “Carry Out” review. The real ones remember.

[@mysteriiis]

Ba ba ba ba ba....I'm humpin it!

[@armoredguardian6145]

@@mysteriiis "...........Mayonnaise, everywhere."

[@eggmug562]

Mmmmmm burger

[@Glassandcandy]

This isn’t a country song. This is hip hop for an audience that’s scared of black people. A way to capitalize on trendy and innovative genre conventions from black musicians, repackage and sanitize them for the “all live matter” crowd. You know it- I know it- there’s no reason to tip toe around it. That is exactly what this is

[@countof3everybodyOD]

I mostly agree. Country has been dead for years. It’s had a few death rattles over the past couple decades but it’s over Johnny

[@ambriaashley3383]

Yup!

[@jirky015]

"This is hip hop for an audience that’s scared of black people." I think thats an unbelievably cynical and shallow thought while being completely untrue. There are lots of valid criticisms of this song, but that is not one.

[@thatkidwiththehoodie]

@@jirky015 it’s hip hop by people who don’t know a damn thing about hip hop but figure ‘that weird new-fangled black people music can’t be that hard to make, right?’

[@jirky015]

@@thatkidwiththehoodie Ok, sure. It's one reason the song is lame as fuck. But this isn't a racial thing; it's a class thing. This is not white people rapping about black culture. This white people rapping about white people culture. As someone pointed out very intuitively, what this really is, is upper class people larping as middle and lower class people.

[@morganqorishchi8181]

This is not a country song. This is an ad. This was designed to be picked up and used in ads. That's why it's about things that aren't particularly country - ads don't zero in on narrow demographics. It may not have been an ad Applebee's commissioned, but it still is what it is.

[@paullaing5921]

Hey, Cobie Smulders broke my heart with her song, "Sandcastles In The Sand", I won't have a bad word said about her music.

[@amberhernandez]

Maria Hill from SHIELD has a music career?

[@munjee2]

@@amberhernandez I feel like this os a joke but just to be clear, she does not have a music career

[@amberhernandez]

@@munjee2 I know; it's just a near-identical name lmao

[@mista414]

Todd should release an album of piano covers of his favorite (or least favorite but improved by a new arrangement perhaps) tracks he's reviewed. They always sound so good. Plus in the streaming era, it could totally be 25 tracks, each like 2 minutes long and it'd be fine.

[@deirdresheridan7775]

Nothing makes me more grateful to be an American living in Europe than when Todd checks in on country music

[@wadekemmsies7180]

Country music deserves this. It deserves every little bit of this. It's been so far up it's ass for the longest time and I'm so happy country fans have to hear this all the time

[@sweetsnejinka9411]

I really like this perspective

[@caesarorzell600]

As someone who works at a Wendy's, whenever someone just orders fries and Frosties, I immediately get concerned.

[@justacouplapaninis4986]

Have you never tried it yourself?

[@cookiemocher388]

You're no fun

[@demilung]

I love that steak review. "That's a steak alright"

[@xxsosbrigadexx12]

Heard this song by chance on the radio and once the lyrics became clear to me, I knew instantly: Todd's going to review this someday. Thanks for proving me right ayyy

[@rct3isepic]

I never realized how much this song sounds like the Hokey Pokey on piano

[@ZbJeeBies]

kesha's look w the dark lip liner gives me goosebumps in the uneasy kind of way :/

[@sammanthaneys1444]

"Country Stuff" sounds like a song that Peter Griffin would make. 😂

[@Justin9700]

Dipping Wendy’s fries in your Frosty is so common that I can’t believe Todd was shocked by it. It’s just a salty and sweet combo. It’s really good.

[@charliethasnail]

I can’t imagine this song getting big anywhere outside of America

[@hardcoremagicalgirl]

I wanna hear Todd's thoughts on Kacey Musgraves. She's very much an outlier in country music but beautiful breath of fresh air to a genre.

[@Nakia11798]

I like the few songs I've heard by her. She's almost like a breath of fresh air in a genre full of insecure obnoxious men and a sprinkle of women.

[@tomuchcamoflauge]

I would love an episode on breadwinner.

[@captainayaaya28]

Just listen to Golden Hour two days ago and I absolutely love it! Country Pop/Chill Pop perfection! Anyway as for Todd he put High Horse as an honorable mention for his 2018(?) best list so it’s safe to say he likes her, or at least that song.

[@artemiswolf4508]

I wanna clarify that this song didn’t just come from tiktok… it came from straight tiktok, a curse land of horrors nobody should dare enter, and it fits right in.

[@nejdalej]

This song is like a very well constructed McMansion, except it's made to look like a shack. A McShack, if you will.

[@matthewdhewlett]

I used to work for a Vespa dealer. Yeah, they're the high-end scoots. Brand new Vespa with all the options can reach $7k. A year-old Moto Guzzi was the same price.

[@douglasjgallup]

I love how if you’re a country musician you have to go to Nashville - a cosmopolitan city with a metro population of two million - to further your career. Nashville is, itself, pretty “bougie” nowadays.

[@maxhydekyle2425]

Cobi Smulders had the greatest song of all time! I'm not even kidding btw. Let's Go to the Mall was a bop.

[@andrewollmann304]

“My girl is bangin’/She’s so low-maintenance (pronounced “MAYN-iss)” .....where is the “Not a Rhyme” button, Todd?! This one was served up for you on a silver platter.

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

Or at least a paper one.

[@taylorgabbey2371]

Holy shit, this song is so much worse than I thought it was. I never get past "My girl is bangin'" before changing the station. I just always assumed it was regular bad

[@YMasterS]

I disagree, boring is exactly what I'd call that. It has no energy, it sounds like a drone, and the subject matter is so inane that my ears don't even want to put effort into deciphering the lyrics. Dull and mildly obnoxious is exactly how I'd describe it.

[@FracturedEclipse]

Every time I hear this song, I "fancy like" punching a hole in the wall.

[@PogieJoe]

For someone who loves country, your country reviews are always so brutal. Not that I'm complaining!

[@ImJustSayin2014]

Todd 2020: “Country is good again!” Todd 2021: “Nevermind, it’s bad” Todd 2022: “It’s good again!” Todd 2023: “Nevermind.”

[@swagmund_freud6669]

I've found it. My least favourite song of all time. Thank you Todd. Holy shit this song hurts me.

[@jeremyusreevu237]

If this is your least favorite song of all time, you have not listened to enough music.

[@susan-meaaz4879]

TikTok is kind of like ringtone music back in the day! The best of the song boiled down to a sound bite !

[@Anna_shorts162]

I watched this, I watched the actual video.. and then I went and watched Timber again which is a much better utilization of Ke$ha in a rap and country-themed number.

[@j.d.t.5761]

Guess what got a Grammy nomination?!!

[@professordetective807]

The one time a music video made me envious was, funnily, Taylor Swift's 'You Need to Calm Down'. I wouldn't mind living on the Pastel Trailer Park of the LGBTQ+ Stars. As long as they've got a grocery store, post office, and broadband.

[@quintonchurch4064]

I had two normal-seeming coworkers express surprise that I didn't like this song. I find the sentiments expressed in this video comforting.

[@SurgingSpecs]

“normal-seeming”

[@bossnnot5020]

This song really feels exactly like the person described in Pulp's Common People. That smug tone of being happy to go somewhere as 'low-class' as an applebees feels very similar to the girl from Common People.

[@PENGUINGIRL1210]

As someone who grew up with family who lived in the country, I can confirm the massive insecurity complex is a big part of being “country.”

[@keeneboy7700]

My mom's favorite movie was National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. She would probably un-ironically love this song and play it with the same level of frequency she played the Freddie and the Cruisers soundtrack or Wynonna Judd. Miss you mom. But also sorta glad you can't torture me with this.

[@troppmann]

Thanks Todd, for demonstrating what a dog bowl looked like; I'd completely forgotten. I've been feeding my pooch out a shoe for the last two weeks.

[@crumble_cat]

A literal ad getting this popular is still horrifying, regardless of the intentions behind it.

[@jennarose8729]

I was so hoping you would review this song, Todd. Loved your commentary on it. Great video like always 😁

[@jonathannaughton8554]

Has no one else noticed that this song is basically the Hokey Pokey?

[@zaccds]

Glad I'm not the only one thinking that. I can't think of the course without it turning into the Hokey Pokey.

[@averyeml]

I started listening to a Spotify playlist of 90s/early 00s country after a trip to Cotton Patch Cafe, and forgot JUST HOW MUCH I loved country music as a kid. I forgot how much of my childhood was spent listening to it. Tried listening to the decent country station in the area because it reignited my interest, and WOOF it didn’t pan out. A lot of it was too poppy while still trying to be “I run my old Chevy through the fields of my farm” and the rest was just… bland? Hard to describe.

[@TortoiseMaximus]

One of my favorites of your pop reviews in a while

[@queenofhearts17]

my favorite part of this video is that the phrase "a hot date to applebee's" has been a running gag for me and my friends for a decade. i also didn't realize this was a real song and not just a jingle.

[@React2Quick]

The line between actual song and commercial jingle has been blurred quite a lot.

[@08mlascelles]

Todd literally made me reevaluate country music (it was literally my “C word” as a musician/music lover) but I began to respect a lot of country music, particularly lyrically. Songs like this artistically stunted abomination are the epitome of pandering (Bo Burnham reference intended). Heartfelt country songwriting can really hit me despite not being my thing musically, this is just devoid of any creativity or passion.

[@profaneangel2556]

Trust me, walker is not a simple man chewing on straw. He and his wife went to a gross, ritzy private school. I knew his wife. They weren''t driving a tractor to school. Laney (wife) was in the same grade as Jeff session's kid. They were complete country club. Hypocrites.

[@NekoJesusPie]

This song has huge children’s party vibes. Achy breaks heart again.

[@vitalepitts]

Todd you really are unbelievably consistent with banger content

[@HeatWill]

Something about this song that actually makes me laugh a little is that my rural hometown is about a hours drive away from the nearest Wendy's or Applebee's. So both of those restaurants sort of were "fancy" to me, as a kid at least, because it was a whole outing to even get to them. I actually didn't ever step foot into an Applebee's until my prom night dressed the "fanciest" I've probably ever been dressed.

[@suckdings]

Seeing this video hit soon after Pat Finnerty's review of the same song makes me dream of a collab between the two of you.

[@thisbreadisfine]

As someone who doesn't like modern country, living in deep south tennessee is hell right now

[@nickgavis0305]

The fries in the frostys is fire though

[@MrTerrorFace]

There's actually a song that sounds similar to this: Taylor Swift's London Boy. They have very similar structures and melodies to the verses.

[@soulslaveone]

vespas arent just mopeds. The biggest one is 300cc`s AND the body is made of metal and has no frame. Its also incredibly good looking:)

[@_saturniidae]

kali uchis being there when you mention the best music… god tier tastes todd

[@hippo3672]

Fries dipped in a frosty are goated. I will die on this hill.

[@robynsmith6815]

You know, Lorde said it a lot better and she was seventeen. And this is…a forty-year-old man.

[@InchonDM]

"We're not jealous of you, damnit, you're jealous of us!" As a nerd, I'd like to welcome Country to the same place Nerdery was at in 200-goddamn-6. Yes, I did put "Geeks in Love" on your stereo, and yes, that is Superglue all over the controls and the door locks.

[@alannahfisherman1321]

From my traveling experience, most rural towns opperate on their own local eat outs.

[@mlgmcdonaldsland7063]

Fries dipped in your frosty is underrated. The salt mixed with the sweet is 👌

[@6li8storm40]

I somehow missed this review. Based on the short clip shown, this song actually manages to sound worse and lower energy live! How did he do that? Yes! You commented on the fact that his daughter was the one dancing with him. That was…uncomfortable.

[@lyndjo]

French fries dipped in ANY milkshake is incredible. You’re missing out if you don’t try it.

[@EpicGamerWinXD69]

Just realised this came out after manually checking your channel! Thanks KZbin for not notifying me!

[@EeveeFromAlmia]

I could have sworn this song came out in 2015

[@taylorcatalana1783]

Mentioning the insecurity of country music really hit the nail on the head.

[@jacksampsonforever]

I realize I DO know a song about growing up in a rural area that isn't defensive and bitter. But, it's not a COUNTRY song. "Small Town" by John Mellencamp. It's a positive, heartfelt message with NO axe to grind against "city folk".

[@emirvmendoza]

6:00 McDonald's in the Philippines (McDo) tried an ad campaign of dipping fries in chocolate sundaes. Doesn't come across as gross, but that may be because the ad was about nostalgia. Everyone loves nostalgia.

[@GoonManGuy]

Best way I could explain the experience of eating fries in ice cream would be comparing it to eating a hot cookie with salted caramel ice cream. Warm + Cold + Sweet + Salty. All four come together to make a very pleasant taste experience.

[@AdaptiveReasoning]

I heard this song on the radio last week and my first thought was: This'll make Todd review a newer song.

[@joshuajaworsky5367]

“This doesn’t seem like a good use of your kesha”

[@thisisnancybot]

As someone who’s not into country music (or Applebee’s) I had never heard this song before watching this, but within an hour of watching this video, I went to pick up take out and it was playing over the speakers at the restaurant. So thanks for preparing me?

[@bigdrippy4104]

walker hayes is the first dude ive heard of that has 2 last names instead of a first and last name

[@milescredible8148]

This song makes me think that bro country hasn't died, it just evolved.