The Road to 'Accidental Racist' Is Paved With LL Cool J and Brad Paisley's Good Intentions

Rembert Browne wrote an article on Grantland that I found pretty interesting. The article, The Road to 'Accidental Racist' Is Paved With LL Cool J and Brad Paisley's Good Intentions, makes the case that a schlocky "Ebony and Ivory" take on race relations with the added horror of looking back at the past not only doesn't help solve anything, it actually makes things worse. Because... Well, it's schlocky.

While I never felt that a song could solve any problems in and of itself, and this song might be difficult to defend, I will say that almost all love songs are trite and schlocky and a good chunk of them make me want to cock punch love for being so wimpy. But then I realize that I am in love with an amazing woman, and no song can impugn what I feel for her, let alone set back the "love" movement by any appreciable amount of time (if it did, Air Supply alone would have us in the 17th century).

I guess I don't see how a song that tries, however ham-fistedly, to unite two disparate artists/cultures/generational ideals, is such a bad thing towards achieving some kind of ideal.

I do expect many members here to agree with the sentiment of the article, however, not only because of the cynicism that runs rampant here at times, but because it is truly a horrific and cringe-worthy tune. I just don't get why anyone would expect more from any song, even a good one.

ever heard the analogy about giving a bandaid to a guy needing heart surgery? this is sort of like giving that guy a kick-me sign instead

See the eleventy billion posts about this topic here: brad paisley, has their ever been an artist w. a v. good voice so ill served by his material ?

Haha, I caught a few verses of this song on "ET" just a few minutes ago and expected to find a lot more than "2 New Answers" on the relevent thread

The Jukebox weighs in

Remember dis joint

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoOp_AH2EWo

I’m gonna palm my face
Momma said “palm your face”

I was just thinking "mama said knock you out" is among the better hit-song titles, I guess I monkey pawed this into existence