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For the primary time since nation legend Keith Whitley’s tragic and premature loss of life in 1989, I’m really glad he’s now not with us. If there’s any solace and luxury in the truth that Whitley succumbed to alcohol poisoning on the age of 34, it’s that he’s now not round to personally witness the sacrilege and horror that’s Morgan Wallen’s colossal goat fucking of Keith’s traditional tune “Miami, My Amy.”
Whenever you thought Morgan Wallen couldn’t outdo himself any extra in insulting large swaths of the American inhabitants after moronically shouting the ‘N’ phrase into the chilly Nashville evening, he is available in heavy with the worst tune of his profession or anybody else’s, and maybe the worst to ever grace the “nation music” canon. You’re out on this tune faster that Wallen’s Irish goodbye on Saturday Night time Reside.
I’d relatively get brained by a flying deck chair from 4 tales up than be subjected to a different nanosecond of Morgan Wallen’s “Miami.” Classes 5 hurricanes with retired names and devoted Wikipedia pages have inflicted much less catastrophic harm and resulted in fewer submit traumatic stress diagnoses than what “Miami” has wrought in 48 hours after its launch. This tune is such a catastrophe, it’s seen from Area.
And naturally “Miami” comes with NINE songwriters, although this consists of the sainted Corridor of Famers Hank Cochran and Dean Dillon, together with Royce Porter who wrote the unique “Miami, My Amy” tune. However one thing tells me that Hank Cochran, Dean Dillon, and Keith Whitley by no means envisioned shitty lure beats, and an electronically-generated refrain line of Oompa Loompas screeching out “Miiiaammmeeee…” again and again once they wrote the tune initially.
“However Trig! Morgan Wallen’s new album album has 37 songs! There’s some good things there too! Did you hear ‘The Vendor’ with Ernest ?!? It’s tremendous conventional!”
Yeah yeah. Perhaps I’ll get round to reviewing the entire album, although I’d relatively clear a public commode with my tongue. However even Morgan Wallen knew this tune was going to be thought of a canine by precise nation followers.
Wallen known as “Miami” a “Keith Whitley flip,” and stated “it’s extra of a Rap model” himself on the Theo Vonn podcast. Then when being interviewed by Kelleigh Bannen for Apple, Wallen stated,
“I already know I’m gonna get crucified for that tune, however I don’t know… it’s enjoyable, and I loved it, and me and the boys writing it had fun writing it. In my very own manner, I’m not gonna do a Keith Whitley cowl, in all probability. I don’t really feel proper doing that… that is my very own manner of paying my respect. And if that offends folks, I don’t actually care, however I’m gonna assume it is going to.”
So if you’re going to get crucified for this tune and assume it’s going to offend Keith Whitley followers, why within the hell even launch it? How is that “paying respects”? What’s the level of this rattling observe? Even Morgan Wallen’s famously sycophantic followers are being like, “Nah bro, not feeling this one.” But he’s additionally stated he may launch a hip-hop remix of this hip-hop tune. So he’s going to double down on it?
Songs like “Miami” are the explanation these 37-song albums are so silly. 12 hours after the discharge, and Wallen’s new album I’m The Drawback was already the most-streamed album in all of nation music in 2025 on Spotify resulting from all of the tracks. It’s additionally already the worst album of 2025 resulting from tracks like “Miami.” Trim the fats for God’s sake. Simply since you file a tune doesn’t imply it’s a must to launch it. Learn the room, and depart the rubbish on the reducing home ground.
Heretofore, Morgan Wallen’s rap sheet was a succession of victimless crimes. Now, girls and gents, we have now one more homicide on Music Row.
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