Blake Shelton Responds To “Minimum Wage” Criticism
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As we told you, Blake Shelton officially released his new single “Minimum Wage” on Friday, despite the tune being criticized by some as “tone deaf.” Well, now Blake is defending his song.
“I just feel like these days, there are people out there who don’t want to know the truth. They just want to hear what they want to hear, and they want to pick a fight,” Blake says of the controversy. “No matter what your intention is, no matter what the truth is, they want it to be something that they can be upset about so that they can get on social media and try to grab a headline.”
Blake says that at first he thought he “missed something here” when he heard about the criticism but then he realized it was coming from “just four or five people that probably don’t know anything about country music.”
“They clearly hadn’t heard the song or read the lyrics,” Blake argues. “If they had, they couldn’t feel this way about the song,” noting, “It’s literally a love song about how if times are tight and you ain’t got much money — as long as you have love and you’re happy — at the end of the day, that’s all any of us can really hope for. “
Finally, Blake argues, “if that’s offensive to you, then we’ll just have to agree to disagree.”
Source: CMT
