I'm sure this has been covered since you can't throw a rock in here without hitting a thread about country music. But, I thought I'd throw this in here since I thought it was funny/strange.

Bucky Covington, who was a gangly looking country singer on American Idol a few years ago, released a song called A Different World which is currently the #1 song on CMT.

Anyway, the lyrics harken back fondly to the good old days when kids ate lead-based paints, pregnant women chain smoked and got drunk, and people didn't wear seat belts (can you imagine?).

Anyway here they are, weird tune, but I kind of like it anyway -

We were born to mothers who smoked and drank
Our cribs were covered in lead-based paint
No childproof lids
No seatbelts in cars
Rode bikes with no helmets
and still here we are
Still here we are

We got daddy's belt when we misbehaved
Had three TV channels you got up to change
No video games and no satellite
All we had were friends and they were outside
Playing outside

It was a different life
When we were boys and girls
Not just a different time
It was a different world

School always started the same everyday
the pledge of allegiance, then someone would pray
not every kid made the team when they tried
We got disappointed but that was alright

We turned out alright

It was a different life
When we were boys and girls
Not just a different time
It was a different world

No bottled water
We'd drink from a garden hose
And every Sunday,
All the stores were closed.

It was a different life
When we were boys and girls
Not just a different time
It was a different world

It was a different life
When we were boys and girls
Not just a different time
It was a different world

It was a different world

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You know me like that.

So Bucky's like 60?
I'm 37 and barely remember TV's without a remote.

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“Mmmm. Move over, eggs. Bacon just got a new best friend - fudge.”

Sounds to me like an artist finally used their own stereotype for profit.

Oh, wait... rap has done that for years. Nevermind.

On the first TV I remember, we had to change the channel with needle-nosed pliers. Being the youngest, I was the remote.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

I'll add a verse:

We had three chevrolets parked in the front yard
Two on cinder blocks with the hood popped up
Daddy's always fixin to fix'em all up
But he's always drunk, though the county's dry

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“Mmmm. Move over, eggs. Bacon just got a new best friend - fudge.”