Comments on: Review: Brad Paisley, “American Saturday Night”

By: Sheep

Sheep — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:30:17 +0000

I love this song.

I don’t think this is supposed to be about an “American” Saturday night. I just think it’s supposed to be a fun, bouncy tune, with several different cultures “forming” one American Saturday night.

Keep up the good work, Brad!

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:28:56 +0000

…no.

By: Soul Miners Daughter

Soul Miners Daughter — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:21:34 +0000

Man! This guy is overrated!

By: C

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:18:00 +0000

I love Everybody’s Here as well.
I hope it will be the next single.

By: Leeann Ward

Leeann Ward — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:36:19 +0000

Good call, Kevin.:)

By: Kevin John Coyne

Kevin John Coyne — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:09:57 +0000

Am I the only one who sees this as an entertaining derivative of the Oak Ridge Boys’ “American Made”?

By: Cutting The Treacle

Cutting The Treacle — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:58:52 +0000

I’m only saying they’re similar if Paisley’s sung list of a bunch of things having foreign adjectives (German, Spanish, French, etc.) is an attempted poke at American consumerism. If so, then Toby did that more cleverly and succinctly with “Plasma gettin bigger, Jesus gettin smaller”. Otherwise, I basically agree: we aren’t close to agreeing on this song. And I’m cool with that too.

By: Leeann Ward

Leeann Ward — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:33:12 +0000

I can see we won’t even be close to agreeing if you think “American Ride” is either similar or better than “American Saturday Night.” I’m both not surprised and cool with that though.

By: Cutting The Treacle

Cutting The Treacle — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:08:56 +0000

There is virtually nothing in this song that has anything to with melting pots. Brazilian leather boots, German cars, the Beatles, Canadian bacon pizza, bottles of Corona and Amstel (Light!), Italian ices, Margaritas, French kisses, Spanish moss . . . it’s a list song.

I think Brad Paisley is frequently pretentious, and this is a pretentious song. He wants us to think he has something insightful but he just doesn’t. It reminds me of that bit Mike Meyers used to do as Linda Richman: “Topic for conversation – ‘American Saturday Night’ is neither about America, nor Saturdays nor Nights”.

And his only somewhat good line (“usually it washes up on our shores”) hasn’t been true for a very long time. It’s been ages (9/11 and Chinese goods excepted) since anything significant has been washing up on our shores from elsewhere. If anything is true, it’s that whatever we do will wash up on shores elsewhere (thus, Taylor Swift accepts her American Music Awards backstage at Wembley).

I think there are lots of good songs that are about American Saturday Nights or which feel like they could be (Chattahoochee, Night Moves, Down At the Twist and Shout) but this is not one of them.

The only other thing I think BP could be aiming for is an ironic take down of America and its consumption-frenzied culture. But Toby Keith already did that. And better.

In closing (and aren’t you all glad for that?), BP is getting to be a little Lonestar-ish for me: formulaic to the point of disinterest.

By: Leeann Ward

Leeann Ward — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:18:44 +0000

I think you’re overlooking the point of the song, Treacle. It’s representing a melting pot. It’s not supposed to be a list of things exclusive to America. In fact, the opposite is the objective.