Kid Rock Just Abandoned Nu-Metal for Country (Again) on New Song ‘Ala-F**kin-Bama’

21 December 2021

On his new song, "Don't Tell Me How to Live," Kid Rock blasted "snowflakes" and returned to the pulsing rap-rock swagger heard on Devil Without a Cause, the diamond-selling major label debut album that launched his career. As quick as that return-to-form had come, it's already gone, or at least that's what the country-tinged "Ala-Fuckin-Bama" indicates.

Some people on the internet expressed disbelief that "Don't Tell Me How to Live" was an honest-to-goodness, authentic Kid Rock song and wrongly presumed it was a parody done by Weird Al Yankovic. Other forms of backlash also prompted the often outspoken musician to address "pansy ass woke critics and trolls" in a social media post that continued to drive conversation around the new song.

In that same post, Kid Rock vowed that more new music would soon be released and that a new album would arrive in 2022. He was hopeful a tour in support of his first album since 2017's Sweet Southern Sugar would commence next year as well.

Now, "Ala-Fuckin-Bama," a four-minute country and soul song propelled by slinking bass lines, barroom piano, guitar twang and backing choirs, is here, although it is not certain if this new track or "Don't Tell Me How to Live" will be a part of the forthcoming full length.