If you’re not paying attention, this debut song by Maddie and Tae sounds like every other pop country song on the radio today. But if you listen closely, it’s a searing indictment of “bro country.” You know bro country–the fact that every country song on the radio is sung by a scruffy guy in a ball cap about how he’s looking a hot girl. And every music video provides an unnamed blonde who shakes her sugar until she’s lucky enough to get called up into the cab of the truck of her beer guzzling Romeo.

As Maddie and Tae sing:


Conway and George Strait
Never did it this way
Back in the old days

We ain’t a cliche
That ain’t no way
To treat a lady

If you’ve heard it before, listen again. Your head will be nodding the whole way through.