Country's Novelty

Trace Adkins' "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" is obviously the strangest song to almost (#2) top the Country charts in years. A weird twist on the rap genre that loves their booty, this ode to Country backsides is pure novelty. Of course it's pure novelty. Country music singers have always done these types of one-off's, that never get airplay again. Haggard did a buddy song with Clint Eastwood that went to #1 in 1980. That's just the way Music City works. Adkins has had a moment or two on the charts. But this weird concoction is not one of them. And while Country purists howl, music fans just laugh it off.