You know it’s not too late for Grady to get in his car, turn on his camera, and tell TikTok “DID I JUST WRITE THE SONG OF THE SUMMER????”

You can avoid hearing a song on social media if you never are on social media

I wish I could go back in time about 20 minutes and unhear that Yung Gravy song.

I’d take post Malone and shaboozy over 10,000 hours with Bieber and Dan+ Shay any day of the week country is in a good place rn enjoy it while it lasts

Love that you're neutrally documenting music history as it happens without expressing a polarized opinion. It is easy to swallow and always entertaining!

Zach Top is album of the summer

It’s crazy to think how ‘Payola’ was such a scandal in the 60’s with DJ’s accepting money for songs plays on the radio compared to today where social media influencers are doing the same.

We need a Zach Top album breakdown

Shaboozey is signed to Empire Nashville. Tenille Arts is still signed to Empire. They also promote Randy Houser. They also signed Caroline Jones and Pat Green. Mitch Rossell, Niko Moon, Dalton Torres, Wyatt Flores, Sarah Darling, Willie Jones, Chase Bryan, Adam Hambrick, Cody Hibbard, John Baumann, Ross Cooper, Adam Hood, Tyler Reese Tritt Daughter of Travis Tritt, Hosier is also on Empire Nashville, Noah Hicks, Charley Crockett, Lewis Brice brother of Lee Brice, Tim Montana, CJ Solar, Bobby Bones and many others. Shaboozy also have a lot of songs which some I can tell are traditional country soundish. He is being promoted mainly for country radio.

Glad to see you putting out content again!

Every Morgan Wallen duet just makes me realize how much better his voice is than everyone else

The song of the summer is by Grady Smith and it's called "Whoa, funky immediately"

The wife has been playing "I had some help" on repeat over the past number of days. I know it word for word and have yet to sit down and actually listen to it yet.

Also, with regards to "A Bar Song".............I think the wink, nod and homage to J-Kwon's prior 2000s cult classic "Tipsy" is obvious. He even chants "One to the two to the three to the four!" in one of its lyrics.

Megan Moroney’s indifferent is perfect for summer

Another fact is both songs have hit #1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 for five plus weeks each and #1 on the country charts.

Makes me wonder which other "old school" club hip-hop songs could be turned Country? Outkast - Hey Ya? Shaggy - It Wasn't Me!

As someone who likes multiple genres of music and is more drawn to traditional sounding country music (but I also enjoy some pop country), I love the Post and Morgan Collab. Sure, it’s not super country, but I don’t think it’s too poppy either, but I may be biased because I’m a huge fan of both Post and Morgan Wallen.

Best real country song released lately is No Country For Old Men by Scotty Mccreery. This is what real country used to sound like. So much better than anything else you would hear on radio. The whole Rise And Fall album by Scotty Mccreery is great country music!

A really thoughtful introspective video, love you perspective on song meaning with two voices. You did it again, Grady

I love ‘I had some help’ I’ve been jamming it a ton and i can tell you it will be on all summer! I would also consider it a pop song rather than a country song, but its still a jam! Love ya Grady

8:20 Both songs are by Avicii 😂

Tell Grady Smith to answer my message Chris want back 90s and 2000 and 2010 Country music I take that every day

Said this on the reddit but I might as well say it here, I Had Some Help is EXACTLY what pop country should be. For the longest time it was Brett Young boyrfiend boring. It sucked. But it was also music that would only be played on country stations being given a "pop" label that meant nothing. Not like you heard those songs on a pop playlist. This song is 50/50 both genres. You can't say it's one and not the other. And it'll be put on pop AND country radio. This is the best pop country we've ever got. Cause while I love Golden Hour, it was more chill and relaxed and songwriter-y pop being mixed with country. This is fun upbeat pop being mixed with country, and just feels way more like the 2 genres coming together than Golden Hour did. If this is what pop country is gonna be like, then play it on country radio. I'm so here for this.

I can also say that Shaboozy being on Beyonce's Cowboy Carter was a HUGE help in getting his own music promoted...when you have Queen Bey as your cosign you know you're going places Loving both I Had Some Help and Bar Song (Tipsy) I definitely know these are gonna be huge songs this summer and with Post in particular I'm glad he's finally going country after all his country covers and just embracing and adoration of the genre in the past couple of years

Only a few seconds in but you can't really call this the country music moment if 99% of the crossover hits are BARELY country music

I Had Some Help is an absolute banger.

Yay for Shaboozey!❤❤❤❤

I want country to be idolized in society, not pop-country. I don’t want country to be uncool, cause it hasn’t reached cool status. We get interlopers misrepresenting what country is to a mass audience, causing them to backlash and never give folks like Sierra Farrell and Top a real chance.

I already hate i had some help, it comes on the radio every 30mins

I'm *guessing* that noise is a steel/slide guitar with an octave pedal on it

Are you going to go over Scotty McCreery's new album, Rise and Fall in the future?

Glad i watched this to learn about Yung Gravy dropping a country song 😂

I try to avoid songs written by committee. Unfortunately, a lot of country songs are written that way. I avoided country for a long long time because of it. Now, I'm very particular about the country music I like. If the list of songwriters for a song is longer than my shopping list, I probably won't listen to it. Those type of songs lack integrity for me. Give me a lesser-known artist or (gasp!) musician (!!!) who writes and performs their own music. I'm a rebel.

You’re telling me Morgan Wallen has trouble taking accountability for his own actions? Who would of thought

A’int No Love In Oklahoma is my song of the summer

Little Big Town - Summer Fever & James Otto - Groovy Little Summer Song are still my jams :)

I find it hard to enjoy any country that is promoted on TikTok. Paying money for vanity is about the most un-country thing you can do.

I’m very traditional and like “country” music however I can definitely acknowledge tipsy kinda hits and is fun to listen to. Don’t love the Morgan wallen one as much.

appreciate Grady's ability to kinda breakdown lyrics and see patterns... not something i "see" myself so i always like to hear your thoughts

Six songwriters just give me 1 Dean Dillon

Funny… listened to an hour & half interview with Yung Gravy, & still didn’t know what he did.

Always love hearing your opinion Grady!

A Bar song goes crazy it’s definitely in contention for country song of the summer

I have a feeling Silverada’s new album is absolutely going to slap this summer

2024 will go down as the year country truly died.

Tbh I prefer "I Had Some Help" over "A Bar Song", they're both great songs too

I'm actually excited for some of the pop coming into country music if they do it right. Just by that song alone Post Malone has the right mix into it that Cowboy Carter lacks.

Dead at the slight dig “like the viewers of this channel” 🤣

Young gravy song was clearly rap. True country has gone away

i really hope zac brown band releases an album this year

2:21 i think that sound is on ERNEST’S new album too so the whole song just gave me a ton of ERN vibes which is great

Both are on my summer playlsit. epic listern when driving down the road in the sun

Lainey's new song hit today and Luke Combs Twisters song will be on Thursday.

Really wanna hear your take on Post's song he played at the ACMs, Never Love You Again.

Please cover charley crocketts new album. Its really good

Pour me a drink with Blake Shelton is even more awesome Posty sounds more country Than a lot of "country singers" nowadays and we hear his fun and passion of music 😊 He's a country natural, I am a country fan for years now and I've been waiting for this moment ! 🤠

Regarding Post Malone collaborating with Morgan Wallen rather than someone like a Tyler Childers, folks like Childers and Sturgill serve a very specific role in the music ecosystem and that’s your favorite artist’s favorite artist. The big stars will listen to them, rep their merch, go to a few shows and maybe take a picture with them backstage, but they’ll never do anything substantial with them over another top star like Morgan. They or really the labels are content on keep your favorite artist’s favorite artist exactly in their place

I hate that I love ‘I had some help’ so much lol guilty pleasure song for sure

Post’s song is just disappointing to me. It’s not the worst thing ever, the clementine song is objectively worse. But when you talk about how much you love Tyler Childers and colter wall, perform with Dwight Yoakam, Brad Paisley. And this is the result, meh. Hope there’s better material. It’s not terrible, but perhaps that would’ve been more interesting

Thank you, Grady! You are my go-to for what new songs / artist I need to watch for!

Wassup Grady. Love the videos ❤❤❤

I heard a sneak peak of Post Malone's song about a month ago, bought the song, yes I buy music still, When it became available on the 11th.

His newest unreleased song is more country than all the current country singers.

Grady needs to do a video entitled, "What has happened to the female country artist?" On the Top 40 this week, there are only 5 female artists & their songs seem to take a much longer time to get into the top 10/20 if they even get there. Lainey Wilson is amazing but she's winning these awards almost by default because there's not any strong competition.

My only major issue with pop artists coming into the genre, is making it more difficult for country musicians to actually make a dent in the market

Gotta say one way or another it’s Morgan Wallen. Cowgirls hitting radio is major. I would say it’s going to be I Had Some Help. Crazy amount of radio play already and it’s smashing Spotify records

I’m so happy shaboozey gettin recognition. Been following him for a while and glad to see em get his moment. Check out Let It Burn by him as well

I've had Russell Dickersons Good Day to Have Great Day and Shaboozeys Let it Burn on a loop for the last week an a half, and i'm not ashamed to admit it.

Noooo, I want country music to be cool ! Finally, French TV and radio talk nicely about the genre. I feel less alone and misunderstood...

The country song of the summer will be "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" but it really should be I had some help.

I adore the Shaboozey song as someone who loves country and is familiar with the original song. I would rather listen to it than the original Tipsy! Much more fun.

None of the songs mentioned on this video near the beginning are country

Comparing this to lumineers is criminal

First time hearing Shaboozey....but then again, I don't have any social media. Interesting song. Thanks for the insight

Zac Brown Band - Tie Up

I also wondered about that post-chorus melody on I Had Some Help and I think it's doubled synth and electric guitar. Maybe it's crazy but Derek Wells has that telecaster he has with the lap steel pickup in the bridge and if I had to guess that's what he's playing on this one, at least at that part. I know there's also pedal on the track too but the pick sound on that part makes me think it's electric idk.

The “post-mortum” statement felt like a blatant Taylor Swift reference

Only in country music could a major star throw a chair off a bar balcony then proceed to collab with a multi-genre star and make a huge hit without time stopping in between.

For the Post and Morgan song, I much prefer the snippet version of the song. It had Post’s raspiness that paired well with Morgan’s - instead it felt a little too processed and flattened. Lost a lot of its soul and didn’t hit as hard, which some ppl are agreeing with on Post’s post (lol) for the song’s release

Have you guys ever heard Jonathan Coulton's cover of Baby Got Back? Or any similar 'ironic' rendition from that era? That's what A Bar Song (Tipsy) reminds me of.

Just clicked and i came to say you HAVE to speak on Wyatt Flores

A bar song slaps. His song vegas is also very good.

I Had Some Help is an amazing song, but it sounds like Morgan Wrote the entire thing and just let Post sing it as a “welcome to country music” kind of gesture

Shaboozey!!!! 🤩 🔥

Could even add the upcoming Luke Combs song from Twisters, Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma

I’m sorry but that Shaboozy song is not getting old for me, I can hear it so many times but the catchiness and simplicity and drinking song nature of it makes it hard to get tired of

Gotta add Bulletproof by Nate Smith

While I don’t like slot of the pop stuff something about post going country seems like it will work given some of his more country covers of other songs

A bar song sounds more country than I had some help by a mile

Wouldn't sleep on the new Luke Combs song which will also be in what could the biggest summer blockbuster

A posty and koe wetzel track would slap. They are both texans after all

Isn’t it time for a single/album round up???

Great takes Grady

Hey Grady just wondering if you have had a chance to listen to Scotty’s new album ? I love it

I'll listen to Sierra Ferrell's new album this summer instead of all of these contenders.

I am over all of these "interpolation" songs. But, Ashley Gorley and rewriting the past are running it lately.

It's annoying how catchy the Shaboozie song is. I love it and im not ashamed. I COMPLETEY agree with you on how obnoxious the marketing for this song was tho.

I love grady

Yaye more grady