Tom MacDonald is a 36 year old rapper, singer/songwriter, producer & former professional wrestler from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada breaking out in the late 2010s off some of the worst singles of the previous decade from “Whiteboy” to “Everybody Hates Me” & “Straight White Male”. Tracks like “If I Was Black” & “People So Stupid” have also publicly professed himself as a racist & a transphobe, deciding to follow in the footsteps of Post Malone’s latest album F-1,000,000,000,000 by putting out a country LP of his own & his 9th overall.
“Can’t Cancel All of Us” is this country alt-right intro claiming the right-wing can’t be criticized for being what they’re are & denying that they have prejudice against minorities when he’s made numerous racist or transphobic lines in some of his previous material whereas “I’m a Rock” compares himself to his father. “Bad Bitch” bitterly wishes death on every ex-boyfriend this crazy woman he knows has ever had just before “Wildfire” sings about his life being a wildfire.
The religious themes of “Man in the Sky” as a spiritual person feel inauthentic when you think of “Hide a Body” singing about his murderous tendencies offering to hide corpses for the safety of his loved ones right away later. “Watch You Leave” disturbingly expressed the joy & sadness he simultaneously feels seeing this woman being taken away by the police, but then “Diana” likens people fiending for clout referencing the late Princess Diana’s tragic death.
“Walls” tries to gaslight Tom’s critics by playing the victim blaming other’s for his shortcomings when he’s done this numerous times in his career to this very day leading into “Broke My Heart” wining about a breakup that he caused himself. “Good Die Young” sings about the “hardships” that he goes through when his supposed struggles are pandering towards the right-wingers who self-victimize as much as him while “Superman” fuses country pop & singer/songwriter asking for the Warner Bros. subsidiary DC Entertainment-owned hero who’s set to begin the DC Universe media franchise & shared universe this summer to appear.
As for “Sinner”, we have this cringeworthy comparison of his love towards his girlfriend of 8 years Nova Rockafeller to the Heroin Hero joke in the timeless Paramount Skydance Corporation-owned Comedy Central series South Park’s parody of the Guitar Hero franchise almost 2 decades back while “Hell & Back” sings about being called a loser since 2nd grade when I find that to be the case almost a decade into Tom’s popularity. “Do Me Wrong” warns what will happen to those who’ll end up crossing him when I guarantee you he’s pussy as the rest of the edgelords he appeals to while “Ugly” deflects his girl’s self-image so he can make it into a “woe is me” type deal.
“Still Need Saving” seems like a deliberate & embarrassing bite of “I’m Not Ok” off Jelly Roll’s major label debut Beautifully Broken while “Good Man Badass” sings about being the capability of being those 2 things at the same time when he’s simply an bigoted, intolerant asshole more than anything. “Under Construction” dejects the idea of self-destructing when he’s literally selling himself out stylistically trying to make a bigger breakthrough than he should’ve had while “Perfect” serves as a failed attempt at tackling the insecurities women find themselves facing.
The song “Drunk Dial” reads as a conservative country answer to my favorite Drake alternative R&B cut “Marvin’s Room” with Tom getting completely shitfaced on the alcohol taking it upon himself to contract a girl he’s no longer seeing at 3 in the morning assuring she’s still in love with him when she most likely moved on like he did because “Goodbye Joe” by GFBF comes off as a forced Joe Biden diss. The title track further embraces a country sound in general for the final time continuing to pander towards the far-right suggesting that they should be proud of being unsolvable.
Like I said when I reviewed WWE Hall of Famer Kid Rock’s most recent album Bad Reputation: I’m NOT democratic OR republican because I personally believe both sides of our 2-party system are flawed as much as most people don’t want to have that discussion unfortunately. However, Tom MacDonald’s music throughout his career has appealed to closeted racist white men to feel he represents them by crying about the struggles he suffers as a white man & he’s been only amplifying it the last year or so. Hip hop never has & never will be the culture for a far-right white agenda, end of story.
Score: 0/5
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