Artist: Brad Paisley

Por Ana Clara Matta "De boas intenções o inferno está cheio" Algumas coisas ditas pelos nossos antepassados são feitas para serem abandonadas pelas novas gerações. Idéias ultrapassadas disfarçadas de senso comum que não devem ser perpetuadas - elas existiram, elas não deveriam ser esquecidas como parte da história, mas nem mesmo por reverência aos antepassados ou uma educação tradicional seria correto mantê-las como "verdades". Mas algumas máximas antigas são, ainda hoje, válidas. É o caso de "De boas intenções o inferno está cheio". Brad Paisley, guitarrista habilidoso e nome popular do [...]

Filed under: News , Video Comedy Central Get ready for "I'm just a Skynyrd fan" to be everyone's new favorite excuse for being racially or sexually intolerant. Last night, Stephen Colbert and actor Alan Cumming came together to spoof Brad Paisley and LL Cool J's blunder of song, "Accident Racist."

It had to happen at some point: Justin Timberlake 's The 20/20 Experience finally gets knocked off the #1 position in its fourth week on the Billboard 200 by Paramore , whose self-titled, fourth album arrives with 106,000 copies sold. Going in just below Haley Williams and the gang, at #2, is Brad Paisley 's ninth album Wheelhouse (100,000). This leaves Timberlake at #3 (61,000) in the same week that "Mirrors," his "Suit & Tie" follow-up single, finally cracks the Top [...]

Country superstar Brad Paisley has joined George Strait 's 60 For 60 campaign with a new interview video about George's influence on his career. George Strait - 'Love Is Everything'; new single "Give It All We Got Tonight" in the charts Paisley joins stars like Luke Bryan, Lady Antebellum, Eric Church and more in support of George's pending 60th #1 single of his career before his 61st birthday. 60 [...]

When Brad Paisley and LL Cool J talked about their new song "Accidental Racist," they emphasized that it aimed to start a conversation, albeit one that began, "If you don't judge my gold chains, I'll forget the iron chains." On Saturday Night Live 's Weekend Update featuring the newfound collaborators, "LL Cool J" ( Kenan Thompson ) reconsidered those very lines: "Did I say that? Hmm. Kind of sounded different when I said it to my MacBook." The revelation came after "LL" and "Brad Paisley" ( [...]

"Ultimately I can't defend the song, but I can clarify my intentions," LL Cool J said on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno , of Brad Paisley 's controversial "Accidental Racist" and his contributing verse. The hip-hop pioneer went on to say that his lyrics ("If you don't judge my gold chains / I'll forget the iron chains") weren't meant to sound dismissive of U.S. history with slavery - they were meant to start a conversation, as civil as one centered around racial tension could be. "If you gonna have a dialogue [...]

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By now we've all marveled at Brad Paisley and LL Cool J's "Accidental Racist." But as we were considering the song yesterday , we got to thinking about the fact that pretty much every report about it has described Paisley and LL as an "unlikely duo," an "odd couple," or something along those lines. At first glance, of course, they are — a white southern country star and a black MC from New York. But then again, maybe not, because their respective genres have lot more in common than perhaps either realizes. Both sounds started off as the voice of a [...]

To say the least, LL Cool J and Brad Paisley's first collaboration was rather interesting. This one is certainly more upbeat than the last one, and serves as a love track rather than a social commentary. We aren't going to hate on this, but instead serve it up to you all out of curiosity. So, what do you think? Let us know in the comments section below. Authentic drops April 30.

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:: Brad Paisley went on Ellen to explain his head-scratcher of a collaboration with  LL Cool J , "Accidental Racist." (Watch above.) Paisley said the track offers music the chance to "have the conversation," instead of Hollywood or talk radio. (Although, isn't LL part of Hollywood?) For his part, LL sounded pretty earnest when he told Grantland he wanted to be "courageous" and take collaborating artists out of their comfort zone. [ Gossip Cop ] :: Justin Bieber got a new haircut, and it looks a bit like Rihanna [...]

There's an old episode of The Golden Girls in which Blanche is trying to gain membership into the United Daughters of the Confederacy. While doing research on her family tree, Dorothy discovers that one of Blanche's ancestors was Jewish (surname: Feldman), which would immediately bar her from getting into the group. Laughter and a few vaguely offensive jokes about Jews ensue. Dorothy and the show go to great lengths to highlight the lunacy of Blanche's wanting to be a part of such an exclusionary group, but neither so much as broaches the idea of just [...]

Going to Coachella? You’re a Loser and Part of the Problem and Probably Fat , an essay currently making the usual social media rounds, amused me. Still a bit punch-drunk from the 24 hours I logged at the three-day Middle of the Map festival, I'm sympathetic to the sentiment expressed in the cynical screed. The truth, however, is that I relish excess. I embrace the novel opportunity to take in performances by honky tonk, punk and hip hop acts within a single hour. Putting up with chatty Cathys and drunk Daves who [...]

I was out on the town yesterday celebrating the glorious Chicago weather (and thank goodness, because it's already gross out today), so I did not hear about Brad Paisley and LL Cool J's weird " Accidental Racist " duet until this morning, and now I hate everyone. Accidents happen to everyone. I accidentally spilled coffee all over my shirt just a minute ago. I have a hard time, however, trying to figure out exactly how one would manage to be racist on accident. Here are a few possible scenarios: 1. You have Tourette's Syndrome, and randomly [...]

If this resembles a big summertime blockbuster film, the concept behind it is to blow up outside your comfort zone while also thoroughly embodying it; change without changing too much. 2009's American Saturday Night, as personal and domestic-focused as much of it was, contained in its Obama-referencing single and elsewhere some indication that Brad Paisley was interested in what was going on in the world, politically and culturally. On his ninth studio album Wheelhouse, Paisley twice voices the perspective of a man who's not that interested in changing the world. On the love song "The Mona Lisa", he explains [...]

So, people went nuts today online about the new Brad Paisley/LL Cool J collaboration "Accidental Racist." I was flying and didn't get to listen to it until quite late in the day. I hadn't intended on commenting, but now I have to. I've seen a lot of criticism of the song, both for its social commentary and for its creative qualities, but I'd like to focus in on what the song is really saying at its heart. It portrays white Brad Paisley walking into a Starbucks and then apologizing to the barista (not sure if he's [...]

I think it was a poor song. I think the sentiments relayed are relatable to a whole lot of people . I feel if Brad Paisley is being genuine, it's brave of him to sing such a song considering his constituents. There are a few lines that are very powerful. I think LL Cool J's verse was wack but still it expressed some real issues. This type of song is in no way new. I think seeing as we're in this made up 'post-racial' Amerika this song is regarded as tremendously terrible not because of how bad it is songwise [...]

Dude.. uh.. what? Brad Paisley basically setting back race relations 100 years. These lyrics are insane. It's basically Brad Paisley saying it's time for black people to move on from slavery. Like, "enough is enough" or some shit. If LL Cool J wasn't on this song it would be a white pride anthem, straight up. Actually even though LL Cool J is on it.. it's still pretty much a white pride anthem. LL totally coons himself out... ("Dear Mr. White Man..." is how he begins his verse) he goes into how as [...]

I don’t remember when or where I saw it, but I remember reading the song title “Accidental Racist,” by Brad Paisley featuring LL Cool J and wondering if country western [...]

Holy shit guys. Tim McGraw and LL Cool J did what Nelly and Tim McGraw wanted to but could never achieve. We're finally post-racial! THE WORLD IS FIXED! THANK YOU BRAD PAISLEY. THANK YOU LADIES LOVE COOL JAMES. Wow. Did you think you would live long enough to see this happen? "Accidental Racist" is on Paisley's April 9 album "Wheelhouse." Brad will also be on LL's forthcoming "Authentic" (LOL Really?) album. As a Southerner with kind of racist/bigoted family members, I get the idea of the song... and talking about this stuff SAFELY in a COUNTRY song can [...]

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