Luke Bryan Tells Off Concert Critic: ‘Kiss My A–‘
Luke Bryan had some strong words for a critic of one of his concerts this week, and the exchange played out in a series of Tweets on X (formerly Twitter).
Luke responded with anger when a critic in Minnesota who caught his show on October 14 said that he “mailed it in” and seemed distracted and called his Aerosmith cover “embarrassing.”
Ross Raihala of the Twin Cities Pioneer Press posted his review of Bryan’s show and captioned the post, “Here’s my Luke Bryan review from tonight’s show at the X. Luke was kind of a mess.”
Luke reacted to the post by saying, “Wow. I’ve never received one positive review from y’all’s publication since I’ve been to the Twin Cities area in my whole career. The trend continues. The sold-out crowd had a great time.”
See that post here. Raihala then responded with some of his previous (and seemingly positive) reviews of Bryan’s shows. A blog called Saving Country Music jumped into the fray as well.
In a series of responses, Luke wrote, “Either way. The phoned-in thing got me mad. Hell. Im 47. Some nights my damn knees hurt. However. Y’all gotta job to do. Got get some followers. Been 10 years since my last twitter war. Peace and I love.” He then wrote in a separate response, “Another thing. I played from 9:08 til. 11:05. No encore because I ran over the building codes. 10:40 would have been phoning it in. And you right. I did confuse another review from another publication. Check Pollstar numbers if you think I’m in decline saving country, dude.”
In his final response, he wrote, “You can kiss my a– too.”
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Bryan recently celebrated the success of his 30th number-one country single. Times weren't always great for the country superstar. He told us that in 2007, after his career started to get momentum, it stalled a bit, and he was quite upset about it.
Luke said, “When ‘We Ride in Trucks” didn’t make it, that was probably the darkest artist headspace I’ve ever been in because I thought ‘We Rode In Trucks’ was going to propel my career on a fast track. And it didn’t go well for me, and I was pretty upset about it.” He admitted he got really down and had to pick himself back up. Bryan noted, “At some point, I just told myself, ‘Don’t be that.'”
Bryan continued that since then, he’s been appreciative of his career. He said, “For the most part, I just love doing this. I didn’t ask to be born to do it, but I think I was born to do it.”
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