thank you #jasonaldean and #florida for getting me into music 🤘(ps my eye is totally fine) #shorts

Name: thank you #jasonaldean and #florida for getting me into music 🤘(ps my eye is totally fine) #shorts
Uploaded: 2023-04-25T21:24:03+00:00
Duration: 56 s
Channel: Kaleb Sanders
Description: In this YouTube short, the speaker recounts moving back home to inland Florida, living in a trailer, and working on a farm where he learned to play…

25 Apr 2023 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, the speaker recounts moving back home to inland Florida, living in a trailer, and working on a farm where he learned to play guitar after receiving one from his father. He describes how a breakup with his high‑school sweetheart at age 19‑20 left him emotionally vulnerable, leading him to find solace in music—specifically the early catalog of country star Jason Aldean. While driving a tractor all day, he immersed himself in Aldean’s older songs, memorizing them and using them as a coping mechanism. The monologue also challenges common stereotypes about Florida, emphasizing that inland life is far removed from beaches and tourist attractions.

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So I moved home, I bought a guitar, my dad gave me a guitar. I don't know, I just like started working on a farm while I was learning to play guitar, and Jason Aldean, I just like got hooked to like his early work. And everyone's like, why are you listening to that sad shit? And I'm like, I'm a sad boy. I was living out in the trailer, in a trailer in the middle of like nowhere, and just driving a tractor all day. So I was barely talking to anyone. In Florida? In Florida. Yeah, people don't know this about Florida. They just think of beaches and whatnot. Everything inland is like I've been to Universal Studios. Oh yeah, so you know. Yeah, so when me and my high school, like, she was like my high school sweetheart. When we ended, I was like 19, 20, and I was just like, "Music's all I have." And I was so dramatic about it, but it was true. It was true. So I'll just sing Jason Aldean in the tractor over and over again. All of his music. I know all of it. Not his newer stuff, but his older stuff. Every single song like the back of my hand.