/ ‘Cause we’ll put a boot in your a** / It’s the American way."
In a 2002 interview with Los Angeles Daily News, Maines explained why she didn’t like the song.
“It makes country music sound ignorant.
It targets an entire culture and not just the bad people who did bad things.
You’ve got to have some tact,” she said, as reported byThe Oklahoman.
“I’m a songwriter.
She’s not,” Keith said during a 2002 interview, perCMT.com.
She said, then, that it stood for “Friends United in Truth and Kindness.”
The back and forth between Maines and Keith finally stopped.
Keith explained how the two things were connected in an interview.
“It seemed so insignificant.
I said, ‘Enough is enough,'” viaContactMusic.com.
