Brantley Gilbert<\/a><\/strong> might have been going for a country music world record with his latest song, \u201cF***ED ME UP.\u201d<\/p>\nIf you want to get radio play, you generally have to avoid dropping certain words into a song. One of the big ones to avoid \u2013 if not the big one \u2013 is the f-word. Brantley Gilbert said to hell with that (might even want to avoid \u201chell\u201d too), and dropped a song with an f-bomb in the title.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s called \u201cF***ED ME UP,\u201d but it\u2019s probably not exactly what you think.<\/p>\n
Gilbert shared the song along with the announcement of his forthcoming album, SINS OF THE FATHER<\/em>, which is set to release later this summer. In the post sharing the news, the country music artist explained how this collection of songs \u2013 including \u201cF***ED ME UP\u201d \u2013 came to be:<\/p>\n\u201cMy new album \u2018SINS OF THE FATHER\u2019 is coming out July 24th! I\u2019ve lived a lot of life to get here. This record is me owning all of it \u2013 the mistakes, the lessons and who I am now.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n It\u2019s all part of the same story, and each track stands on its own, representing its own chapter. To celebrate, my new song \u201cF****D ME UP\u201d is out now.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote>\nNow let\u2019s get to the song that drops the f-bomb 16 separate times, shall we?<\/p>\n
If you are like me, you probably read that and assume it\u2019s some sort of raunchy song, maybe an angry song? After all, there\u2019s usually a strong correlation between a high amount of curse words and a song diving into NSFW material. But this track from Gilbert is actually the opposite. It\u2019s a piano ballad of sorts that\u2019s actually very romantic, and tells the story of his wife coming into his life and changing it for the better:<\/p>\n
\u201cBut you f***ed me up, downhill, full throttle<\/em>
You f***ed me up, I lost my mind<\/em>
If it wasn\u2019t enough, goodbye was rock bottom<\/em>
The man I was wasn\u2019t gonna survive<\/em>
You f***ed me up.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nFor all those pearl-clutchers out there, take a deep breath. Brantley Gilbert also shared a clean version of the song, which swaps out the 16 f-bombs with the word \u201cmessed\u201d (there\u2019s also a clean version of the album dropping alongside the regular SINS OF THE FATHER on July 24).<\/p>\n
Granted, it doesn\u2019t land as much emotionally, but it is more suitable for a car ride with the kiddos than the original.<\/p>\n
You can fire up the explicit version below:<\/p>\n
\u201cF***ED ME UP\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n