Almost hit of the week 7/8/24 - Montgomery Gentry's "Hell Yeah"...
"Hell Yeah" - Montgomery Gentry
from the album My Town (2002)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #45
This week's "robbed hit" comes from the country music duo Montgomery Gentry, whose third album on Columbia Nashville Records, My Town, saw its lead single and title track slip into the top-40 on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 in the autumn of 2002, while the follow-up, "Speed", just missed the mark at #45 while both reaching #5 on the Country Songs airplay list.
The third and final single from the record was back to their boisterous side with "Hell Yeah". Written by Jeffrey Steele and Craig Wiseman, The lyrics spit out a Scrabble board of buzzwords that were getting assimilated into the "redneck culture" canon though with a bit more wordy flourish than most of the ilk in describing a well-weathered old guy at a bar. However that didn't keep from totally cringe lines like "He's proud he took for his right wing stand on Vietnam, says he lost his brother there" which makes absolutely zero sense whatsoever. Of course followed by the name-checking of Johnny Cash, who is far for being the normie they pretend they are. The second verse moves on to a "party girl" who is a business woman supposedly, and we finally get the preview on what would fall into the "MAGA cult" variety, and again they name-check noted leftie Bruce Springsteen. The production is punchy, and at least Troy Gentry gets to sing lead. With the predictable bar video, they made themselves a hat trick from the record...
"Hell Yeah" became the third top-five country radio hit from the My Town album at #4, but stopped a handful of notches short of the top-40 on the Hot 100 in December of 2003.
(3/10)
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