You Ain't Much Fun by lazarus57

lazarus57 - You Ain't Much Fun

lazarus57

May 01, 2024 03:08pm

VOICES INTERNATIONAL <img src="https://singsnap-cdn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/message-board/threads/KA8E/d24d6ee0c1_PGBW_media.png"> "You Ain't Much Fun" is a song co-written and recorded by American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">country music</a> artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Keith" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Toby Keith</a>. It was released in March 1995 as the third single from his 1994 album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomtown_(Toby_Keith_album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Boomtown</a>. The song peaked at number 2 on the US <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Billboard</a> Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Country_Songs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Hot Country Songs</a>) chart and at number 3 on the Canadian RPM country tracks. Keith wrote this song with Carl Goff Jr.<h2>Background and writing</h2>Keith told The Boot that his co-writer, Carl Goff Junior, "came on the bus, and I was writing one night, and he was telling me some story about his wife. He said, 'Me and my wife have been in a fight, and she said she was going to leave me if I didn't slow down, so I quit drinking. I'm not drinking right now. So now I've been having to mow and have been out working in the yard, and I've had to get that car running.' He was telling me all his agony. She came home one night, and he had hit himself with a wrench or something and hurt his hand, and she said, 'What's the matter?' He told her, 'You ain't much fun since I quit drinkin'.' I was writing songs, and I said, 'Let's write this right now.' And we just sat down and wrote it."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Ain%27t_Much_Fun#cite_note-boot-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[1]</a><h2>Content</h2>The song is about a man who has sobered up and now has to do chores, such as mowing the grass, painting the house, sacking the trash, feeding the dog, mending the fence, and fixing the sink.<h2>Critical reception</h2>Deborah Evans Price, of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Billboard</a> magazine reviewed the song favorably, saying that there is "just a touch of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Miller" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Roger Miller</a> in this shuffle-beat lament of a man lonesome for the shelter of the bottle."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Ain%27t_Much_Fun#cite_note-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[2]</a><h2>Chart positions</h2>"You Ain't Much Fun" debuted at number 63 on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Country_Songs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Hot Country Singles & Tracks</a> chart for the week of March 25, 1995. <img src="https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/3/lyriclyfe-you-aint-much-fun-by-toby-keith-casen-kushum.jpg" alt="LyricLyfe YOU AINT MUCH FUN BY TOBY KEITH Digital Art by Casen Kushum ..."> <img src="https://townsquare.media/site/623/files/2009/10/toby-keith-you-aint-much-fun-lyrics.jpg?w=1200&h=0&zc=1&s=0&a=t&q=89" alt="Story Behind the Song: Toby Keith, 'You Ain't Much Fun'">