03.14.11
He’s a Believer
Ted Nugent released a digital single today, a download aimed at increasing membership to his mailing list. It’s a reasonable trade.
Now for the bad news.
It’s called “I Still Believe.” Ted has made the song to tell us he still believes in the American dream and that we are not in decline. Or at least he’s not in decline.
Unfortunately, lyric fail.
Here’s a sample:
I pursue life
I pursue my happiness
I’m so damn alive
I’m so in love with this
Geezus.
When the bridge hits, Nugent inexplicably shifts to referring to himself in the third person:
He believes
He still believes it
He believes in America
I’m going out on a limb here in thinking Nugent did it this way because he couldn’t find any female backing singers to deliver it inexpensively enough.
Music and riff: B
Message hindered by too high school-ish (or Tea Party) clumsy way with words: C-
If you want it, go to his website. A couple extra points taken off for bad web delivery which shoves the mp3 file at you in some browsers as I_Still_Believe.htm. Which, of course, won’t work until you rename the extent back to what it should actually be.
Oof.