Defend the Indefensable-Billy Ray Cyrus.. Achy Breaky Heart

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dont shoot my heart
my achy breaky heart
with a 22 and a hollow tip
cause if you shoot my heart
my achy breaky heart
it might blow up and kill this man...whooooo....

― startrekman, Monday, 2 May 2005 03:52 (twenty years ago)

Uh... the dance craze it spawned is certainly better than the Macarena... and it made for a great punchline on the South Park episode "You Got Fucked In the Ass."

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 2 May 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)

it makes idiots all over the world happy every day by giving them a punchline for tired mullet/line dancing jokes.

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 2 May 2005 04:06 (twenty years ago)

It disappointed my grandparents when he played the rodeo and didn't perform it!
Or maybe I'm thinking of someone else. Can you imagine a Billy Ray show without Achy Breaky Heart?

― WillS, Monday, 2 May 2005 04:13 (twenty years ago)

It didn't give me cancer.

At least, not for the first hundred listens. After that it gets a bit hazy and I started losing consciousness a lot andjWEYWWPIJQ#^#)*UHNIGBVC@$#

― Telephonething, Monday, 2 May 2005 04:18 (twenty years ago)

Can you imagine a Billy Ray show ~~without Achy Breaky Heart~~?

― The Father of Honky-Crunk (Matt Chesnut), Monday, 2 May 2005 04:19 (twenty years ago)

As long as he does "Under The Hood", I'd be happy.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 2 May 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

He was pretty funny in Mulholland Drive.

Still doesn't excuse the damn song, though.

― Telephonething, Monday, 2 May 2005 04:42 (twenty years ago)

it props up the cable TV economy as a cornerstone of all of VH1's "awesomely bad" lists.

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 2 May 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

it has silly lyrics and was more successful than it probably deserved to be, so now message board chumps have something to pretend was way worse than it is for the purpose of making snide remaks about.

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 2 May 2005 04:57 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't there a thread on this before? It's a great song, really catchy and funny. But "Animaniacs" did a wicked parody of him and it: "Don't tell my head, my empty hollow head . . . "

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 2 May 2005 05:01 (twenty years ago)

I gotta give it up for any song that can stick to this degree. "Achy Breaky Heart" is like the plague for anyone with OCD tendencies. How many times have you been cleaning your apartment or whatever and this piece of shit pops in your head?

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 2 May 2005 05:03 (twenty years ago)

get one lobotomy

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 2 May 2005 05:11 (twenty years ago)

i like this song. i don't think billy ray wrote it tho, right?

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

written by don van tress. whoever he is, he's probably still living large and laughing his ass off.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

Even if I could forgive Billy Ray Cyrus for "The Achy Breaky Song" (which I can't), He would still deserve 5,000,000 lashes with flaming barbed wire when he gets to hell for the 'follow-up single' called "Busy Man" (If you've never heard it, its a lazy peice of hackwork that steals the storyline from "Cats in the Cradle" and tacks it clumsily on a ripoff of "Better Man"; It just goes to show that Billy Ray Cyrus only had one song in him...and even that one was utter ass.)

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Monday, 2 May 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Not one-tenth as bad as it's currently being made out to be. See also: Starship, "We Built This City".

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Monday, 2 May 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

I don't think the song itself -- a workaday stupid C&W song -- was the irritant, but rather it was the singer that was annoying. Billy Ray Cyrus could've sung anything and it would've been irritating -- especially if sporting his crazy country mullet and that scary JOHN 3:16 shirt.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 2 May 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

I thought I heard that it was written for Alabama, but they didn't want it. So some Barnum figured that if they got some sexy hic to sing it and invented a dance it could be a hit.

I remember a story about a little crippled girl who wanted to get out of her wheelchair so she could do the achy breaky. Other than that, she couldn't give a shit about walking.

So, another pop-culture swindle - I gotta give it credit for taking the money of millions of stupid assholes. I wish I could think of some way to get morons to give me money.

Also, I knew Billy Ray's cousin. (She was also Tom T Hall's neice - I don't know how Billy & Tom are related...) She said Billy had a huge ego. So giving the family someone to brag about = classic, even if he is a total douche.

― diedre mousedropping (Dave225), Monday, 2 May 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

the best thing about the song is that the ATF / American Government, in all their creative wisdom, decided to blast this song on repeat on loudspeakers to try to drive the Branch Davidians out of their Waco compound. It didn't work, so eventually they resorted to set the people on fire, but I like the idea that there are popular pop songs that are actually used as torture devices.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 2 May 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

.. I mean, because Tom T Hall wasn't no good no more fer bragggin rights.

― diedre mousedropping (Dave225), Monday, 2 May 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

Witnessing Billy Ray's uproarious dramatic turn in Mulholland Drive almost had me forgiving him for bestowing such heinousness upon the world - almost.

― Steve Gertz (sgertz), Monday, 2 May 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

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