Redneck Be Like

Album: single release only (2021)
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Songfacts®:

  • Having paid tribute to the southern lifestyle on his spring 2021 single "Country Again," Thomas Rhett sings again here of his hometown pride.
  • We are who we are and we're proud of it
    Livin' that small town life
    Redneck, redneck be like


    Valdosta, Georgia, native Thomas Rhett wrote this redneck anthem with Parker Welling, Jordan Reynolds, Josh Miller, and Rhett Akins. He released it on August 6, 2021, a week before the country star kicked off his Center Point Road Tour. Rhett said: "This song is all about summertime and getting a chance to unwind and let loose. We wrote it about the towns where I grew up in Georgia and Tennessee, and honestly every town we live in for the night when we go on tour."
  • In the USA, a "redneck" was originally a withering term used to describe a supposedly ignorant Southerner with a working-class job and socially conservative political views. Rhett uses the term here to describe people who are hard workers that love their family, country, and the rural way of life.

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