"Smashville" song to debut at Preds-Sharks game Wednesday

Lame. Bring back the first one from this year.

I have no worders to describe, how BAD this is.

I just pulled this up on my phone since it was blocked at work and I just hope they don’t use this in the arena very often.

It seems like we keep the crummy viedeos for a whole year, yet axe the best ones we make after 1/4th of the season… I don’t like this news.

Well, it isn’t “Run This Town” or “All We Do Is Win,” two inspired choices this season.

But I’m pretty sure that there’s more than that in the city. I’m sure there are also Country artists that would love a chance to a song for the Preds that don’t sound like CMT Top 10 stereotypes.

And they are seriously playing this as part of the intro video? Hideous.

This is terrible.

Separate from the issue of this song, why is it that so many Predators fans react instinctively against any country music associated with the team? Personally, I’m allergic to country, but it only makes sense to tap into what is probably the most famous aspect of the city. It’s like many folks expect the team to consciously avoid playing country music no matter what.

And for those who think country music has nothing to do with hockey, the western half of Canada disagrees.

…but I think that it’s time for something new. There’s so much talent here that I can’t imagine we couldn’t get someone to come up with something new. Brad Paisley would be awesome. Something different from McGraw would be fine, too. Lady A. Keith Urban. I’m not a fan of the new song (above).

NOT a fan of rap. I agree that it’s cool for the song used by the Preds to be country music. This is Music City, after all. If we had something that wasn’t country, I have to admit that the Blackhawks’ thing is the best thing out there. Wonder whether there’s anything similar…

and his youngest daughter is best friends with Alan Jackson’s daughter. Don’t you think that would have been better? At least a more recognizable name?

Country music and hockey go together as well as dirt and mayonnaise.

If we use this song as an intro video ours will possibly be worse than Atlanta’s. I dont mean to hate on them b/c I like the Thrashers well enough but I thought this was terrible.

http://video.thrashers.nhl.com/videocenter/console

Page 5 second row farthest to the right as of now. It will move if they add more videos sometime today.

I didn’t want to rush to judgment based on the snippet above.

It sucks. Well, musically, it’s fine, but I’ve never liked songs where the lyrics felt contrived and simplistic. It just sounds sort of like, I don’t know…grade 8 kind of stuff.

“The Preds are gonna knock you down” “Touch the puck, you’re out of luck…”

Really? That’s the best you could do?

It just seems that they could have gotten a more globally recognized artist. I’ll be honest, I had never heard of this musician until today…when I heard Smashville. I went to Amazon and previewed some of his other stuff. Yeah, this guy is no lyrical genius.

I don’t mind country music, but lyrics are important. Copeland’s song just further enforces a certain stereotype.

If we play this CRAP… we will LOSE!!! Stop trying to country up this team marketing people!!! I hated “My Town” I hated “I am a Predator!!!” I hated the way they turned that Van Halen song into “Radulov…Radu-lo-ov”. Stop making team themed music and just do what every other team does; use popular hits!

I wonder if they (he) would be up for writing something.

Ryan Suter is a country music fan—even fussed at Smithers for his locker room song selection which was light on the genre. I am a Ryan Suter fan. So some country in the Bridge is fine with me if it’s fine with him.

This guy probably worked hard to put this together and yall are all on here just destroying it. It may not be the best song but it has to be better than Pekka’s macarena song. He may be reading the posts. Let’s try to have some class here.

Not a fan of country, but I know it’s a part of Nashville so whatever. However, an intro is supposed to be badass, energetic, and get everyone pumped up for a tough game of Preds hockey. Country just does not fill that need. I can think of Classical songs that have more power behind them than this awful song

We are Music City U.S.A.! Music!! Not Country Music City U.S.A.!!! There are so many different types of musics that come out of here. Why not branch out when associating the team with music. Better yet, don’t make anymore Nashville Predators songs! The only song I like that’s linked to the team (and should never be replaced, btw) is “I Like It I love It”.

I’m gonna start off by saying that I’m a musician, and have been accused of being a “music snob”, but…
This song sounds like my 14 year old little brother wrote the lyrics drunk on Jack Daniels and some uber-slick producer went to a game and called his sleazy recording studio and said, “14,000+ people?!? I need to profit on this IMMEDIATELY! Get me the rights to a Predators-themed song right now! What? We don’t have one? Get your 14 year old brother drunk and have him write something, I’ll get one of the poor suckers who owe me a favor to record it! Mwahaha, if even 10% of these people buy this song from my website for $1, I’ll make a quick $1400. Mwahahaha!”
I just feel like this song represents everything that is wrong with the music industry today.
Okay, sorry. Rant over.