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Rascal Flatts
Rascal Flatts - Still Feels Good
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Proving that nice guys do indeed finish first, Rascal
Flatts fought off all challengers with their fourth
record, Me and My Gang, turning it into the
biggest-selling album of 2006 that wasn't High
School Musical. Me and My Gang wasn't a smash
hit because it was risky; it was a smash hit because
it was friendly, appealing to as broad an audience
as possible, the very qualities that Rascal Flatts
has turned into a badge of honor during the course
of their immensely successful but low-key career.
Few bands have had such success without quite
being noticed: the trio is so cheerfully average, they
never seem like stars, nor do they seem
recognizable even after regular CMT rotation and
stacks of rewards. Such near-anonymity works for
the band and helps give their music a universal
appeal, and if that approach has been resoundingly
popular, well, why mess with success? Rascal Flatts
nearly acknowledges as much with the title to their
2007 follow-up to Me and My Gang, Still Feels
Good. After all, if the formula ain't broken, why
bother messing with it? And the band doesn't mess
with it at all, unless the very vague rap of "Bob That
Head" -- more Toby Keith's "Let's Talk About Us"
than Cowboy Troy -- could be counted, for even the
Jamie Foxx cameo on "She Goes All the Way"
slides by relatively unnoticed. Foxx's inexplicable
presence is the most overt signal that Still Feels
Good is more pop than country, a criticism leveled
against Rascal Flatts for some time now, and one
they keep shrugging off because they do adult pop
quite well.
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Flatts fought off all challengers with their fourth
record, Me and My Gang, turning it into the
biggest-selling album of 2006 that wasn't High
School Musical. Me and My Gang wasn't a smash
hit because it was risky; it was a smash hit because
it was friendly, appealing to as broad an audience
as possible, the very qualities that Rascal Flatts
has turned into a badge of honor during the course
of their immensely successful but low-key career.
Few bands have had such success without quite
being noticed: the trio is so cheerfully average, they
never seem like stars, nor do they seem
recognizable even after regular CMT rotation and
stacks of rewards. Such near-anonymity works for
the band and helps give their music a universal
appeal, and if that approach has been resoundingly
popular, well, why mess with success? Rascal Flatts
nearly acknowledges as much with the title to their
2007 follow-up to Me and My Gang, Still Feels
Good. After all, if the formula ain't broken, why
bother messing with it? And the band doesn't mess
with it at all, unless the very vague rap of "Bob That
Head" -- more Toby Keith's "Let's Talk About Us"
than Cowboy Troy -- could be counted, for even the
Jamie Foxx cameo on "She Goes All the Way"
slides by relatively unnoticed. Foxx's inexplicable
presence is the most overt signal that Still Feels
Good is more pop than country, a criticism leveled
against Rascal Flatts for some time now, and one
they keep shrugging off because they do adult pop
quite well.
Read More....
Rascal Flatts -
Still Feels Good
Still Feels Good