![]() With new lyrics about driving down dirt roads and spending summer nights staring at the stars, the song's narrator tries to convince his lost love - who gave up her life in the country for the big city filled with bright lights and endless opportunity - that country life isn't all beers and trucks. What emerged was "Beer Beer, Truck Truck," in which Birge takes Chambers' jesting chorus and turns it into a genuinely sweet ballad. People made it clear they wanted to hear a full song. He posted a stitch of him singing the new version in December 2020, and it quickly took off. That same day, Birge wrote a melody for the chorus and added a few more lines. "And even though she is kind of doing it in jest - that 'beer beer, truck truck' hook she did off the top - I feel like that could be something that could burn in your brain and be a big country hook, so I kind of took it and ran with it." "We always say that the best country songs are the ones that get stuck in your head, that are easy to remember, that you can sing back after one ," he says. To Birge, Chambers' TikTok parody poking fun at the genre his life revolves around had all the ingredients for a bonafide country hit. "But my second reaction was kind of like, 'OK, it'd be fun to take this as a challenge and see if I can write a legitimate song using her hook up at the top.' " "My first reaction was like, 'Yeah, she makes a really good point,' " he says. "But if you do something that catches fire on TikTok, you can get in front of a million people instantly, and so that kind of piqued my interest."īirge found Chambers' video in the country music hashtag, one of the first places he went after he made his account. "As musicians, we go grind it out and play to 100 or 1,000 or a couple of thousand people a night," he says. Until February of this year, Birge was one half of the country duo Waterloo Revival, but was unsatisfied with its level of success at that point, he was having more luck writing for other artists and was considering ending his singing career y’all blow this up I may have to finish it and release it, should we write the whole thing □ #countrymusic #country #originalsong ♬ original sound - George Birge When country artist George Birge, one of the 5.6 million viewers, first saw the video, he was at a crossroads in his career. The video went viral it currently has 1.8 million likes, over 67,000 shares, and 27,000-plus comments - many of which were polarized, either praising Chambers for her humor and cultural insight or criticizing her for what they thought was an unfair reduction of the genre. As for her female country artist? Yeah, she killed her cheating husband. In October 2020, she posted a video of herself depicting a male country artist, singing the lyrics "beer beer, truck truck, girls in tight jeans," with the caption "men in country music," above her head. "And then women's country is like revenge songs on their cheating husbands."Ĭhambers, a music teacher with a popular TikTok account where she posts educational and social justice related content, decided to poke fun at this stereotype. "A lot of men's country is 'the beers' and 'the trucks' and that kind of thing," Erynn Chambers says. ![]() Blake and his boys keep it country by drinking ice cold beers while "runnin' them red dirt roads out, kicking up  ♬ original sound - Rynn In " Boys 'Round Here," Blake Shelton sings about how he and his friends aren't like your normal guys who listen to The Beatles or do the Dougie. "I destroyed everything he loved - and then I killed him" "Beer Beer, Truck Truck" is not the first song to spring from TikTok to the radio, but here's how it all came together over the last 10 months. It was one of the top 10 most added new singles for country radio on the day it was sent to stations last week. Birge added a melody and a few more lyrics, and a coy tagline: "if this blows up ill finish the song and release it."īirge was right on both accounts: His TikTok did blow up, and the full version of the song, which he released in June, is currently a minor hit. ![]() He was stitching a video posted by fellow TikToker Erynn Chambers, in which she satirizes the difference in subject matter that men and women in mainstream country music typically sing about. "Could be a hit," country artist George Birge says with a shrug and a smile at the end of a TikTok video from last year.
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