May 14, 2019
Lee Brice - Drinking Class
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Lee Brice - Drinking Class
neat @punx-n0t-dead
I have to listen to this stupid song 2-3 times a day, and I am now compelled to shout into the void about why it’s currently my most hated song on the playlist (though Just Gettin’ Started remains a strong contender).
If it was just another dumb party song about how “me and the boys like to get wild” or whatever, that’d be one thing. If it was just a lazy rehash of “proud to be blue collar” cliches, that’d be another. And if it was just an inappropriately somber-toned song about how great something is, well it’d be a mess, but it’d also still be another thing. The problem is that it combines the three into this weird affectation about working hard and boozing your weekends away constitutes a social class. Like it’s a major part of defining who you are.
For one thing, there’s really nothing that makes blue collar drinking more special than white collar drinking, or any other kind of drinking. Nothing’s stopping anyone from being a loud, never-give-an-inch asshole to blow off steam from working for the Man. Hell, someone with a normal 9-to-5 has more time to do so than any shift worker. Besides, making what and why you drink a major part of your identity is actually a red flag that you have a problem.
As long as there has been country music, there’ve been songs about working hard that varied from pride in the work to lamenting one’s station, but it’s the first time I’ve heard the pieces of both coopted to make an incredibly lazy goddamn party song.
YMMV, but I’ve done the whole “ridiculous hours spent in blue collar work sandwiched by boozed up weekends” thing. It gets old. There comes a point a few years later when you realize that all it’s done is made you fatter and more tired. There’s nothing quite like doing the math at the end to find “oh hey, I spend 5 days a week in a job I hate, and the hangovers mean my weekends aren’t so great either. My life kinda sucks.”
Besides, how much pride can you really have in a job if it drives you to intoxication every weekend?
Go hard when the goings tough
I'm a member of a blue collar crowd
Drinking Class - Lee Brice
Right now I am listening to:
Drinking Class by Lee Brice, on Amazon Echo http://amzn.to/1V2WeBm