Kid Rock's newest music video is here, and it certainly falls on the conservative side of his multimedia endeavors. "First Kiss" is a New-Age, John Mellencamp, country-tinged, pop song that features many of the same tropes that landed KR an international No. 1 with 2008's ""All Summer Long."
The video is about as harmless as all of that sounds. An odd opening in which a grown-a-- woman hops out of a school bus pretending to be a kid is the only "Wait, what?" moment, followed by generic, "small-town" scenes filling up the bulk of the clip.
Here is a sampling of the lyrics, which Kid seems to have copied and pasted from the Billboard Country chart:
And every time I'm a lookin' at you
It reminds me of my first kiss
And those days that I always miss
Tom Petty on the radio
Going steady with nowhere to go
No money just time to spend
An old Chevy and a couple friends
Oh, how I wish that I could go back in time
Just to love you again
Check out the video below:
While the music is much tamer than Kid's old-school stuff, he has not exactly sanded down his edges "off the field," so to speak.
He recently sat down for a controversial interview with The Guardian in which he declared the rap-rock genre "gay."
"Rap-rock was what people wanted at the time, and they still love those songs at shows," he said. "But it turned into a lot of bulls--t and it turned out to be pretty gay ... If someone says you can't say 'gay' like that you tell them to go f--k themselves. You're not going to get anything politically correct out of me."
The new album First Kiss is due Feb. 24.
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