Blanco Brown

One Liner: The chameleon child of Mel Tillis doing country, soft rock, blues, and more.

Wikipedia Genre: Country
Home: Atlanta, GA

Poster Position: small Type 
Sunday.

Thoughts:  Dammit.  More of that drum machine/trap/country.  Is this rap?  What am I doing?  His top song, by a ton, is just a pandering line dance track trying to get people on the dance floor to do the things he is requesting.  It blows.  "The Git Up" somehow has 302.8 million streams.

Catchy, I mean, I get what he's up to there.  But it definitely feels like a sell-out move to get TikTok viral videos and club dancing.  Many of his top songs are actually someone else's tune - top track is by Parmalee (and sucks), #3 is by Lee Bryce, #4 is by Nelly, #6 is that terrible Parmalee tune again, #7 is a Diplo tune, #8 is by Leslie Jordan, and #9 is a remix of #2.  

Real name is Bennie Amey III.  He has produced music for Chris Brown, Fergie, and Pitbull (?!?).  And I was correct, he turned "The Git Up" into a TikTok challenge and it was featured in over 100k videos, which pushed the track to #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart.  He has co-written songs with Monica, 2 Chainz, and a bunch of artists I don't recognize.  The only other interesting factoid on his Wikipedia is that he was in a motorcycle accident in August 2020 that broke his wrists, arms, legs, and pelvis.  Holy crap, man.  That is freaking awful.

It looks like he really only has one album - 2019's Honeysuckle & Lightning Bugs, which includes that song up above and then a bunch with a fraction of the streams.  The second-most popular is called "CountryTime," with 5.3 million streams, 

I'm confused by those lyrics.  He's saying "I'm screamin' fuck the blue and red."  And then he's also saying: "I put two gunshots in the air / The people scattered everywhere / But I don't really give a care, nope / Some things in life are just unfair."  So, he doesn't like the cops, and he's a mass shooter?  But he likes bacon and soda pop?  Or he's just insane?  I have read the lyrics a few times and still don't get the message.  Also, his voice definitely does not match his look.  "Don't Love Her" makes me want to die.

Somehow, this is the top comment on that video: "This man can sing and is a story teller , right up there with the greats like  Pride, Cash, Haggard ,Jennings ,Jones , Milsap and David Allen Coe He has an amazing and unique voice all his own.  A mix of old country, blue grass and a splash of hip hop and just a little touch of rock ...just wow....I love his style and him. This man may have just saved country music from the scourge that is pop...no joke."  WTF does that even mean, man?  You are comparing that song to Johnny Cash or Merle Haggard?  A "splash of hip hop?"  Insane person.

The basic idea I am getting from the album is that he is doing hip hop, but throwing in a little slice of country (imagine a banjo line behind the trap beats).  I do not find any pleasure in this and would not go see it.