This is so depressing. I grew up listening to him and he was such a huge part of my childhood. it’s so sad

@mysterymyself5795

4 жыл бұрын

Me to man me to

I miss the old county like Clint black and Alan Jackson

I wish Cody Jinks would be on radio

@alexpaige8895

4 жыл бұрын

Same

@lisakay2322

4 жыл бұрын

But he sucks too!!!!!

@loarpotato

4 жыл бұрын

@@lisakay2322 watch it buddy, you messing with the bull when calling him bad 😂

When Zac dropped the f-bomb on an award's show, I knew something was taking a wrong turn. And I knew the album was going to be horrible once a few of the songs got released. I'm done now. It was an awesome run. The things that got me were the meaningful lyrics, the awesome harmonies, and I loved that violin. Farewell, Zac.

@menwithven8114

3 жыл бұрын

Calm down nerd he's an artist they're all fucking weirdos. Garth Brooks changed his fucking name and made an EMO album!!!! He came back and still wrote great music.

I'm still stuck on Free and Highway 20 ride! Love them regardless!

It’s a damn shame. Such great potential and they turn their back on their fans and country music. The Band Perry disappointed me to NO END. Now it’s Zac Brown. At least with Zac Brown you could see it coming. They were doing a lot of reggae type stuff towards the end. The Band Perry just left. Sad.

Zac Brown band sucks now I can't believe this is the guy that gave us highway 20 ride such beautiful instruments on that song I don't know what's going on with him but I hope you get some help for whatever you going through

@corbenbecker2034

4 жыл бұрын

He's going through a mid life crisis and is taking it out on fans and his music.

@justmusic9669

3 жыл бұрын

He is worth listening to again with his new singles

Good for Zac Brown for trying new things; especially without getting your approval first, & actually not giving a flying ph*ck period on anyone questioning his country bonafides by taking a short detour between ZBB albums. (NOTE: I've never considered ZBB traditional country) His collaboration with Kygo resulted in something pretty freakin cool. No not your normal ZBB fare which is why these tracks were released under ZB & Sir Rosevelt. "It Goes On" (from 12 STRONG), "Something About You," and "Hurricane" are great tracks off the latter. Clearly Zac had a lot of fun with "Sunday Finest," which while not my fav and certainly outside Zac's norm, is catchy and fun. The OWL is a fine album from the band also.

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain

Man it’s crazy to see what happened to Zac Brown Band it used to be good wholesome country music like chicken fried to now becoming like the rest of country music now a days a lot pop garbage

Still love "Leaving Love Behind"❤

@bullmoose6253

9 ай бұрын

same here. I think it's a good album. Love all their ZBB, ZB, & Sir Rosevelt's material. Keep it up, Zac!

We lost another one boys

Sometimes musicians feel like they need to switch things up to keep it fresh, like the Eagles used to do, and sometimes they screw it up... I call it the "New Coke" syndrome... when the "Classic Coke" was already the market leader.

I will keep listening to current music i know from Zach Brown band"colder weather and others added with song started"

As he said, "Nothing Good Happens After 2AM"!

*clap* *clap* *clap* Thank you I agree so much lol. Love this.

I am still listening to Chicken Fries! I guess no more gems like this!

My exact sentiments. I thought it was only me thinking exactly what you said. Especially the thing about Luke Bryan. I love Zac Brown but this CD that I paid good money for was not what I expected. Hope the old Zac Brown comes back.

I have the right to remain silent 🤫

As a long time fan who’s been to many ZBB shows and truly appreciates how talented this band is... this is my theory... I think what’s going on with Zac right now is a drug fueled mid life crisis combined with complete ego mania. I think he believes that anything with his name on it will succeed. I also think he has dreams of ZBB being the biggest band ever in every genre. The Owl was his attempt at a big crossover hit and his solo album was going to be such big news that it would hold true to its name - “Controversy” 🤢. After all, there’s no such thing as bad publicity, right...? But in reality... where most of us live... this is what you’ve done Zac: You have 1. NOT gotten the pop/EDM/rap fan base that you’ve sold your soul for. 2. You’ve disgraced your band, arguably the best group of musicians ever compiled in any genre. 3. Last but certainly not least, you’ve completely alienated your core fan base, aka people who spent their hard earned dollars to get you where you are today. And ok... for everybody who’s going to say “they were never strictly a ‘country band’ and never professed to be” - you’re right... but they also have a signature sound, the incredible musicianship and harmonies that made us fall hard and fast the first time we heard them. But The Owl changed all that. You could take some second rate hack musicians and with enough computer magic create what is “The Owl” - or as I affectionately call it “The Bowel”. Short of a complete 180, and Zac and the band saying “The Owl was a mistake and I’m not sure what we were thinking” I don’t think there’s much to salvage of their career. Yes you will always have the blindly loyal who love everything they do, no matter how bad it is. But for the bulk of their fan base, we’re done. Sad, but done. We’ll miss the old ZBB and hope they come back some day. In the meantime at least we have their old songs, before The Bowel...

@policyguy3103

4 жыл бұрын

I'm going to call the album "The Bowel" from now on. Hilarious. Unfortunately, it fits the album all too well.

@guitargirl9714

4 жыл бұрын

Policy Guy Sadly... it does, particularly the lower portion of the GI tract. Lol...

@johnforjustice2350

4 жыл бұрын

Cocaine powerful drug.

@HCM1986

4 жыл бұрын

Zac been as asshole since day one. Right before ‘Chicken Fried’ hit the scene real big, ZBB played the Blindhorse in Greenville,SC and I witnessed him throwing a hissy fit that there wasn’t much turn out with the crowd. I also heard him make fun of the kind of crowd that was there. He thought everyone was beneath him. I’ve been around my fair share of artists and his behavior that night made lose respect for him. He’s always been a douchebag but he’s now letting everyone see him for what he is,... a Grade A asshole. He’s been lucky to made it as far as he did in country music,...I should say he’s lucky he has a dad that financially helped support him.

@johnforjustice2350

4 жыл бұрын

Hayley Miller I seen the ZBB about same time 2008 NorFolk VA. Chicken Fried was just coming out. Was a small stage in a park. The stage that is a trailer and you drive it a away so really small. I didn’t see him or anyone throw a fit. But they had an incredible sound I was impressed and thought to myself now there is band that is about the music and musicians. Not sure what happened.

The Owl is the Taylor Swifting of the Zac Brown band. My god, one track has a snap-track on it. Hope they will get their sound back.

He's just like everyone else

I use to love their music.... now it just sucks!

I seriously think he's lost his mind, and what's up with him flipping the bird on the cover of his new solo album?!

@haroldkloran4323

4 жыл бұрын

That's his index finger !

@brendaisajiw3417

4 жыл бұрын

@@haroldkloran4323 So true! Lol.

@alissacarter2191

4 жыл бұрын

It kind of looks like it's his middle finger though and I feel like that was intentional...

His personal life reflected into his music, downward spiral, drastic change and pulling away, them he got divorced. Very sad.

I still love zen brown band there awesome I like them when I was in high school and middle school 🏫

You're criticizing something you don't understand! I GET IT COMPLETELY!! AND OMG these are some of his FUN MOMENTS!!

It’s too bad really. Cuz Zach brown band was one of my top 3 favourite live shows before this new stuff released. I doubt I’d ever go see him again

what the heck is going on with country music!? it aint country so call it pop/soft rock but it aint country and it aint rock!!

@maryjackson615

4 жыл бұрын

IT IS COUNTRY MUSIC EVERY DAY... JUST ZAC IS THE ONE NOT SINGING OR STAYING A COUNTRY ARTIST NOW A DAY'S; THAT'S WHY I LISTEN TO BLAKE SHELTON ❣️ YEAH 😊 JENNIFER NETTLES, KEITH URBAN, CARRIE UNDERSTOOD, CHRIS STAPLETON, AND MANY MORE!!! COUNTRY MUSIC WILL ALWAYS BE, JUST LISTEN TO THE RIGHT COUNTRY ARTISTS; WOO HOO 😆 I LOVE COUNTRY MUSIC😍☺️💯💖🙋🎸🎺🎷🎤🎶💃❤️

@sarahmurabito9391

4 жыл бұрын

Mary Jackson amen! #GodsCountry

Lets face it the Zac Brown band has gone rock bottom can not stand listening to him or them any more.

Time for a new "THE BAND".

Maybe he’s done trying to get more oldschool sounding stuff played on country radio and is trying a new format? Maybe the thinking is, “if we have to make pop to get played, let’s just make pop”.

Also I just listened to his "Swayze" song after this video. I can't even recognize his voice anymore.

@kaitlynf7166

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah....that song is just so absolutely terrible, it’s sad

@cornpopwasagoodguy9870

4 жыл бұрын

@@kaitlynf7166 He made Patrick Swayze turn over in his grave with that one.

Zac do you. :)

Zac Brown needs to update his band and go back to the roots of the band.

I’ll agree about the tailgate Daisy Duke junk but the rest of his statements seem to be a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

I met Zac once before he hit it big. My neighbor was room mates with him in college and invited him to come over and play while we watched The Ga Bulldawgs football stomp Florida. At that point in time he was a humble man and easy to like. I wish him well.. I truly doubt what you have said on this video means anything to him period. Thanks for sharing though, as I have wondered myself..

Via con dios!

@lisamh9037

4 жыл бұрын

Great one.

Its ashame what drugs will do to someone. Zac was unfortunately a flash in the pan and it is over.

Love some Luke

Maybe he simply doesn't want to be pigeonholed and categorized. Good for him!

It is a shame that Zac and the band grew, and are not a country band. To bad the fans did not grow with their tastes too.

It's like a country music equivalent to one of those pop star meltdowns...

I still enjoy both album for not being country but I much prefer them doing their traditional sound and only a little experimentation. I will say there are still some good songs on the bands new album like Me and the Boys in the Band, shoofly pie, and leaving Love Behind. Also on his solo album the song Always and Never is a really nice paino ballad with some pedal steel in the background. And for the people saying this is because of drugs or a mid life crisis, just stop. You literally can't make assumptions off some songs and his experimentation. I know he had the divorce and that sucks but if there's some actual news that he is going through some stuff the best thing to do is to support him while he's going through it and hope for the best.

@bullmoose6253

9 ай бұрын

HURRICANCE off of the Sir Rosevelt record is great too.

I haven't heard it,and don't care to. I've been a country fan for many, many years, but I don't tune in much anymore, been seeing to much shift away from real country music in recent years. Some people just want to use country for a stepping stone to where they maybe really want to be. I think I'll just try to support people who still believe in what country was and is supposed to be!!

Ya just can't please em' all!

He lost the REAL writers of the songs he was loved for.

@musicmaniac2657

Жыл бұрын

Nobody like Wyatte and Levi.

What happened to him? It boils down to three words: cocaine and divorce.

@rob1248996

4 жыл бұрын

@ADJ30168 Jews?

Next thing you know Luke Combs will be on Dancing With The Stars.

@b2b545

4 жыл бұрын

it's inevitable, I bet a million dollars

@sarahmurabito9391

4 жыл бұрын

not kane? i mean the guy has got moves

He's from roanoke va that says it all..

@KelleyeTroup

4 жыл бұрын

He is Georgia Born, has never lived outside the state.

I understand that artists grow & evolve over time, but this is regression, not PROgression! Both albums suck big time. I'll take "Jekyll & Hyde" era ZBB than this trash.

@drewskininenine9141

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

Him knocking Luke Bryan for talegates in the moonlight and daisy dukes he needs to take lessons from luke..wtf Zac you lost it..

It's called exploring different music why is that so hard for everyone to understand

Subkhanallah Amazing

It's ok if his music isn't necessarily country, it's not ok if his music is garbage.

When Zac Brown dropped a certain word on an award show they lost me as a fan. I don’t listen to them anymore!! I will change the stations!!!

@kyliepollert8341

4 жыл бұрын

That was at the CMT Awards in June.

@meizallicanbe

4 жыл бұрын

Whaaaat??? And, what word was that? As much as I love ZBB.....I never knew that

@kyliepollert8341

4 жыл бұрын

@@meizallicanbe The F bomb. He said when they won Group Video of the Year, "You can tell all the haters to f*** off!"

@debbiesmitherman9295

4 жыл бұрын

Me too as well.

@sarahmurabito9391

4 жыл бұрын

Kylie Pollert the 2018 show was better. i'll name the dogs won

Know that it's overrrrrrrrrrrr

I love his old stuff and I’m still a fan of him for that but his new songs are just so bad and yeah I agree with him wholeheartedly on what he said about Luke Bryan but time has proven him a hypocrite

Zack is smoking that hemp rope again.He will get help when he has a reality check ?

I loved ZBB's album "The Foundation" with songs like "Jolene" and "Sick Em on a Chicken", as well as their next two albums, but I began to lose respect for them and all other newer Country artists after about 2013. I enjoy lots of different music; the only thing I can't stand is Rap and Techno, and that's where Country is at now. The new ZBB song is a good example of this.

@markynsaibasandarsondiengd2298

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed brother.

@cornpopwasagoodguy9870

4 жыл бұрын

@Chiefs Kingdom Some of the 90s and early-00s Country songs do bring back good childhood memories for me; but other than that, I mainly listen to 80s and older now.

Sounds like to me he wants some haters and he's shonuff found some. I never got chicken fried...just me but you got to give this guy some love he doesn't give a shit what you and I think He is happy doing his thang.. If you don't like the crap he's puttn out you aint gotta smell it! Damn

Loved ZBB. Don’t like this new album. Haven’t heard the solo yet. This is funny however, because he dogged Luke Bryan. (Well I’m typing this as I watch.) The narrator just talked about the Luke Bryan deal. I like Luke because he’s a standup guy and he’s more country-rooted than most country artists now. His music is a mix of course. But it’s definitely not as poppy as ZBB now.

I'm guessing: 1- Brain tumor 2- Really bad drugs

@sarahmurabito9391

4 жыл бұрын

rob1248996 either way dear god don't let this happen to blake

@corbenbecker2034

4 жыл бұрын

It was his recent divorce and him trying to explore new music.

@rob1248996

4 жыл бұрын

@@sarahmurabito9391 Who or what is Blake?

What in the hell is wrong with Zac?

Not homegrown anymore?

Maybe he just wanted to try something new?

@jaydenbecker2757

4 жыл бұрын

I understand wanting to try something new but he went from warm family man to pathetic misogynist.

I think Zac sold out. He used to do music that resonated where he was from and what southerners thought and felt as a region. It's almost like he's trying to be somebody he's not. His band had so much talent and I believe could have been one of the greatest country bands of all time instead of just having a few hits. Id total love to see them get back to their basics.

I did like that song with Chris Cornell though...heavy is the head

Ok. It doesn’t work!

I have a secret don’t even guess it or else😡😡💔💔

C'mon it's his natural progression as an artist... With your mindset of disdain how does Hootie get away with crossing over?

Sounds like he's gone by the way of a lot of artists and I am saddened I Love Chicken Fried but this new direction they are going they've gotten so lost

LISTEN UP I’m gonna teach you a little somethin about music. To all of you saying “tHiS iSnT rEaL ZaC bRoWn MuSiC”, you don’t get it. If you’re a true Zac Brown and music fan, you’ll know that Zac is way too talented to be limited to just a “country singer”. I understand that YOU might JUST like country music, but you’re not a true artist if you aren’t experimenting with new sounds and new ways of creating. Zac is sick of being pigeon holed by stubborn fans who just want the same old stuff. Open your minds a little bit, you’re pissin me off

Its called DRUGS

@coreyelowe

4 жыл бұрын

Don’t blame the drugs

I think he sucks now ever since he left his wife and kids! Got no use for him at all...

@kathleenlewis2134

4 жыл бұрын

Marty Coomber When did that happen?

@lunatik5194

4 жыл бұрын

He left his wife? Didn't he have like 7 kids?

@kyliepollert8341

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. Zac and his wife divorced last October; they had 4 daughters and 1 son

@brendaisajiw3417

4 жыл бұрын

Marty-Who said he left his wife? It seems the split was amicable. They both said so.

@martycoomber7897

4 жыл бұрын

@@kyliepollert8341 your right.

They’re so versatile and ahead of the norm that you all can’t see it. The Owl is amazing. GTFO

I tend to have a more nuanced view on this: people hate on him now for “not being country anymore”, well, ZBB have rarely been 100% country. What the new record fails at, though, it’s just the outstanding musicianship and harmonies they’d been singular at in the crossover country music category. The Owl is rather simplistic harmonically, largely void of instrumental technique prowess, and made to sound way too radio-friendly for its own good. That all.

I don't mind either album, seems by some of these judgy comments I am in the minority. People did the same with Taylor Swift, can a person not make more than one style of music?

Well we're all talking about it, and as the saying goes any publicity is good publicity. Zac Brown has always been musically diverse. Hes done reggae and rap, blues and pop even back in the earlier days. It's not my cup of tea but why is it such a bad thing that he explores different areas of creativity? I still support the man and his band and I still think they're some of the most talented artists today and way better than Luke Bryan! Haters gonna hate. And as far as that Swayze song, as bad as it is I bet you cant listen to it without singing the hook in your head long after you turned it off lol

I agree with you so so so much. He has just lost it. He is the one that has changed and needs to be OUT of country.

@henryakyeah8421

4 жыл бұрын

Wake up zack

@henryakyeah8421

4 жыл бұрын

I agree also he need to bounce back to those days

100% agree, I really enjoyed old zac brown albums, but this new stuff is TRASH..

Record Company contract deal shit........

It's because weak artists chase money... Real artists stand up for what they believe in, check out Jon Pardi's REAL country album, Heartache Medication.

@sarahmurabito9391

4 жыл бұрын

Unscripted by Louis Santana is the opening track a single?

@unscriptedbylouissantana633

4 жыл бұрын

@@sarahmurabito9391 I'm not sure which opening track you may be speaking about,

@sarahmurabito9391

4 жыл бұрын

Unscripted by Louis Santana old hat

@unscriptedbylouissantana633

4 жыл бұрын

@@sarahmurabito9391 no, but depending on the streaming service you have you can definitely listen to it. Personally I use Tidal.👍

Ya know what really gets me about u supposed fans??...when hes good and at the very top of his game u love him and praise him for being so damn good!!... but the moment he started slipping not falling completely yet just barely slipping u criticize him for how awful and bad he sounds....whatever happened to uplifting someone when they were down and still showing them support and letting them know that everything will be ok with whatever they are going through??...what the hell has happened to that?? What happened to the place that we use to call America? Where people rise and fall but we didn't give up on them.. we were right there to catch them as they fail and and we helped pick them back up? That's what America use to be that's what we were built on!!!....and now all people do is judge the hell out of someone!!..I'm honestly ashamed to be apart of America where I was born and raised for 40 years, this whole place has gone to hell and still is going to hell!! Lord have mercy on all people including myself that has judge someone more then once in our lives!!!

Musician's block! Time to take a backseat and stay off stage for a bit and unwind from it for a bit. Gotta find his roots again. He has lost it for now. Still like him but the new stuff is just not good.

I listened to the song Swayze and folks I will say I'm not a fan. It's an awful song. I'm a lady and I don't like the words in it. Sorry his kids have to hear such harsh words in a song. It makes me sad he has gone to this point in his career. He is a good singer but now he has found himself slipping away from his fans. People are going to be disappointed with this song. I love Patrick Swayze. I felt this song was talking down on Patrick. Women like to be respected I don't like the B. Word. Shame.

WTF..... What happened to him? 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

It's so sad to see this country legend release such cringe-worthy material. I hope one day he can get back on track! Also, am I the only one who wants a currently good country singer to write a song about Zac Brown and how he went from making great country music, to calling out Luke Bryan's tailgate single (whilst still making good music), and then to making what is essentially pop, AND FINALLY to making legit pop?

I think Zack Brown has lost his way, I used to really like him.

Did the Illuminati get to him?

I mean, I understand not wanting to remain in the country format... country has turned to shit in general. But I deeply miss the days of Who Knows and Sweet Annie :(

Why cant Zac buy a sports car or get married and then divorced 30 days later to a beautiful 22 yr old Asian women to deal with his "mid life crisis" then ruin his music. I am thinking Zac is finding this reaction to his latest album as amusing and doesn't really care. Reminds me of Chris Gaines or Garth Brooks or whatever that was about.

Nope, I have no idea what Zac is sounding like nowadays, but his remarks about Luke Bryan are on point.

This is nothing out of the ordinary after divorce people change it's kind of like a midlife crisis the husband Zac Brown is gone the single Zac Brown Bachelor Zac Brown is the new Zac Brown like midlife crisis they pass he might come back someday or spiral out of control in go all downhill?

@sarahmurabito9391

4 жыл бұрын

Nathan Pierce blake didn't

Still the best live band around. Respect for branching out and trying new things but overall "The Owl" isn't my my preferred taste. I do really like "Leaving Love Behind" and "Me and the Boys In the Band"

Who carez ? Let Him be.

@MattOBuck

4 жыл бұрын

I believe the fans who lifted him to country music stardom care to the degree in which to call him out. Hopefully he rediscovers his roots!

Maybe the country music scene is saturated with formulaic rubbish? He might be trying to find a new voice outside of that.

their new album is not good. its unlistenable

He only gets bettter

This album is a disgrace.