For music and more, gotta love Kid Rock
With each album, more daringly American.
There are lots of reasons to love Kid Rock beyond the raucous rock he's perfected.
In 2007 alone, Rock pimp-slapped and then punched Tommy Lee, Pamela Anderson's other ex-husband, at MTV's Video Music Awards, and still got to stay at the party.
When he got arrested for some sort of scuffle outside a Waffle House in Atlanta (and how can you not like a guy who eats at Waffle House?!), the Rock had just paid for breakfast for everyone in the restaurant. When Rock got his grinning mug shot after the incident, he still looked better than his famously scorned ex-wife without makeup.
But that's Kid Rock - he steps in the gooey stuff and comes out smelling like a rose. It's that charmed bravura what made him the Rock N Roll Jesus he portends to be on his new album of the same name. Going on 10 years since Devil Without a Cause, Rock's made a case for his brand of sloppy hip-hop and chugging rock by making each album more daringly and proudly American; heartlandish even with sincere allusions to patriotism in the lyrics and to his Michigan Bob Seger rock roots in the melodies he pens.
Rock reached into funk; further still into gospel with new tunes like "Amen" on the new album. But along with the fact that Rock makes stripper-pole-worthy heavy metal that makes the young girls peel on tracks like "So Hott," it's his love of trucker anthems and cool country tunesmithing that's as fascinating as it is fun.