Index > Billboard Year-End Hot 100 - Top 10 (2003) > "Kid Rock was the kind of celebrity that we kids all sort of liked at the time just because of the general idea of him." > Re: "Kid Rock was the kind of celebrity that we kids all sort of liked at the time just because of the general idea of him." > By "we" I assumed that you meant "people who actually post here."
Posted by Tabernacles E. Townsfolk (@billstrudel) on Aug. 25, 2026, 11:57 a.m.
“I’ve heard a bunch of his songs, but when I think about him the one that pops into my head is the one that uses the piano line from Werewolves of London.”“
That was “All Summer Long”, not to be confused with the Beach Boys song, and it also used the guitar line from “Sweet Home Alabama”. It’s probably his best song, since it’s at least melodic and it’s somewhat interesting as a mashup, and it was his last hit. That was like 20 years ago and he’s still relevant, having become a MAGA icon.
He also did “American Badass”, the entrance/theme music of the Undertaker’s early 2000s biker character (still referred to as “American Badass Undertaker”), and his big debut was “Bawitaba” or however you spell it. Let me look:
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68 million views, nooka (don’t censor me benjamin). That’s a lot of rednecks.
I remember he showed up at the MTV New Year’s Eve broadcast in 1998, before his major label debut (he had been kicking around for a decade as a white rapper beforehand), promising to “bring the rock in ‘99”. In an era of slick R&B and teen dance-pop, that was music to my ears. The songs… were not.