He’s been in the game for two decades, and Kenny Chesney is none too pleased with the way women are viewed on the top country hits of today.
The legendary crooner told Billboard magazine that male country singers need to stop turning ladies into pieces of meat.
“Over the last several years, it seems like anytime anybody sings about a woman, she’s in cutoff jeans, drinking and on a tailgate—they objectify the hell out of them.”
“Twenty years ago, I might have written a song like that—I probably did. But I’m at a point where I want to say something different about women.”
Furthermore, Chesney isn’t all that keen on the trend of singers turning into talent competition judges (i.e. Blake Shelton and Keith Urban)- “I’m not knocking anybody that does it, but I just don’t ever see myself doing it. Can you imagine Tom Petty being a judge on American Idol?”
Photo Credit: Austin Hargrave for Billboard
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