{"id":31867,"date":"2021-08-19T13:50:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T08:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/remember-when-alan-jackson-trolled-the-hell-out-of-country-music-with-three-minute-positive-not-too-country-up-tempo-love-song\/"},"modified":"2021-08-19T13:50:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T08:20:57","slug":"remember-when-alan-jackson-trolled-the-hell-out-of-country-music-with-three-minute-positive-not-too-country-up-tempo-love-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/remember-when-alan-jackson-trolled-the-hell-out-of-country-music-with-three-minute-positive-not-too-country-up-tempo-love-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember When Alan Jackson Trolled The Hell Out Of Country Music With \u201cThree Minute Positive Not Too Country Up-Tempo Love Song\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whiskeyriff.com\/tag\/alan-jackson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>Alan Jackson<\/strong><\/a> just might be the greatest troll in country music.<\/p>\n<p>I mean honestly, you have the time he shows up to the ACM Awards in a Hank Williams cutoff, and then <strong>performs with no drumsticks<\/strong> since they told him to use a track.<\/p>\n<p>You have the time he played <strong>George Jones\u2019 \u201cChoices\u201d<\/strong> after the CMA Awards cut George\u2019s time short, the time her recorded <strong>\u201cMurder On Music Row,\u201d<\/strong> and even his latest album boldly asks what the hell happened to country music?<\/p>\n<p>However, many people forget about his hilarious protest of the commercially attractive, watered down, pop country songs that were hoggin\u2019 up the airwaves at the time (and still are today unfortunately).<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThree Minute Positive Not Too Country Up-Tempo Love Song\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Written solely by him for his 2000 album, W<em>hen Somebody Loves You<\/em>, it was a smartass critique on the current state of country radio.<\/p>\n<p>Check out these brilliant lyrics:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s a little bit edgy, but softer than spaghetti<\/em><br \/><em>Weak yet redundantly strong<\/em><br \/><em>It\u2019s a three minute positive not too country up-tempo love song<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You won\u2019t hear four-letter words, just me tellin\u2019 her<\/em><br \/><em>That she\u2019s the every breath I draw<\/em><br \/><em>And how I can\u2019t live without her<\/em><br \/><em>And I could never doubt her<\/em><br \/><em>\u2018Cause she could never do no wrong<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s a way for me to tell her that I love her but it can\u2019t be too long<\/em><br \/><em>There\u2019ll be no drinkin\u2019, no cheatin\u2019, no lyin\u2019, no leavin\u2019<\/em><br \/><em>That stuff it just don\u2019t belong<\/em><br \/><em>In a three minute positive not too county up-tempo love song.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Incredible\u2026 just incredible stuff.<\/p>\n<p>And Alan is still fightin\u2019 the good fight today.<\/p>\n<p>You gotta love it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Three Minute Positive Not Too Country Up-Tempo Love Song\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CvXSPSQs8Jg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Three Minute Positive Not Too Country Up-Tempo Love Song\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CvXSPSQs8Jg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Jackson just might be the greatest troll in country music. I mean honestly, you have the time he shows up to the ACM Awards &#8230; <a title=\"Remember When Alan Jackson Trolled The Hell Out Of Country Music With \u201cThree Minute Positive Not Too Country Up-Tempo Love Song\u201d?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/remember-when-alan-jackson-trolled-the-hell-out-of-country-music-with-three-minute-positive-not-too-country-up-tempo-love-song\/\" aria-label=\"More on Remember When Alan Jackson Trolled The Hell Out Of Country Music With \u201cThree Minute Positive Not Too Country Up-Tempo Love Song\u201d?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":31868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}