Lyrics include: I know you want that Top Gun/But I just came to have some fun/Uh huh, your mission is impossible/Trying to be the only one/ I can’t be your Tom Cruise. “Swayze,” a ditty from “The Controversy,” drew extreme critical ire and accusations of being flippant and misogynistic.īrown collaborated with Sasha Sirota on the song and thinks people should lighten up. “When people don’t listen to the lyrics or don’t get it … for some people, I guess it went over their heads.” “It’s a girl who is beautiful in her own confidence,” Brown explained. Lyrics include: Gucci bag, stacks on stacks/ Diamonds fill up the champagne glass/ Veyron whip, G5 high/You have class that they just can’t buy/'Cause damn, girl, what you got is God given. While “God Given” opens with a celebration of the superficial, the turn is that what is most attractive is God-given. I’ll dive deep into someone’s music and … I’ll start to realize what’s really good about something.”īrown points to his Max Martin collaboration “God Given” on “The Owl” as an example of a song that people misconstrue. All of those tastes combine into making me who I am. I think my traveling has given me the ability to be open and take in so many different things. “If all they’ve known is to hate things that are foreign to them and to not listen for something that moves them and to be open, they’re (not going to understand). “It’s a matter of what other people have been exposed to,” he said.
In 2016, Brown revealed plans for an EDM group, “Sir Roosevelt.” In 2019, he released the genre-bending “The Owl” with Zac Brown Band then pole-vaulted out of the country format with his solo feat “The Controversy.” Both albums are available now. In 2015, the band’s album “Jekyll & Hyde” included the Chris Cornell collaboration “Heavy Is the Head” that was released in the rock format. “I realize it’s an impossibility.”īrown, who broke through with the country karaoke anthem “Chicken Fried” more than a decade ago, has spent years weaving the influences of outside genres into Zac Brown Band’s music. “I would love for people to really listen and artistically understand my music,” he said. Lately, it’s a feeling with which he’s become quite familiar. Zac Brown is baffled that people get angry when they don’t like his music.
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