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Brad Paisley\u2019s \u201cWelcome To The Future\u201d is on his American Saturday Night <\/em>album. Written by Paisley and Chris DubBois, the song came out in 2009. Coming in at just over six minutes, \u201cWelcome To The Future\u201d became a Top 5 hit for Paisley at country radio. <\/p>\n The song was inspired by Barack Obama becoming the President of the United States.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019ve got my kids\u2019 generation, where you can explain to them that the president is Black, and that\u2019s a remarkable thing,\u201d Paisley tells The Boot<\/a><\/em>. \u201cThey\u2019re never going to understand. They\u2019re going to think, \u2018Why is that a big deal?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWelcome To The Future\u201d is about how life changes and evolves. It says, \u201cMy grandpa was in World War II \/ He fought against the Japanese \/ He wrote a hundred letters to my grandma \/ Mailed \u2019em from his base in the Philippines \/ I wish they could see this now \/ Where they say this change can go \/ Cause I was on a video chat this morning \/ With a company in Tokyo \/ Hey, everyday is a revolution \/ Welcome to the future<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAmerican Pie<\/a>\u201d is Don McLean\u2019s second single, and without question the biggest song of his career. Out in 1971, \u201cAmerican Pie\u201d is more than eight and a half minutes long, an unheard of length in music of any genre.<\/p>\n Written about the plane crash that claimed the lives of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens, McLean never considered shortening the song.<\/p>\n \u201cAmerican Pie had to be over eight minutes long. I wasn\u2019t finished telling the story,\u201d he says (via Fifteen Questions<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n \u201cAmerican Pie\u201d begins with, \u201cA long, long time ago \/ I can still remember how that music used to make me smile \/ And I knew if I had my chance\/ That I could make those people dance \/ And maybe they\u2019d be happy for a while \/ But February made me shiver \/ With every paper I\u2019d deliver \/ Bad news on the doorstep \/ I couldn\u2019t take one more step I can\u2019t remember if I cried \/ When I read about his widowed bride \/ But something touched me deep inside \/ The day the music died<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Reba McEntire didn\u2019t have a No. 1 hit with \u201cFancy<\/a>\u201d when she released it in 1991, on her Rumor Has It <\/em>record. But almost 35 years later, the song remains her most memorable.<\/p>\n Over six minutes in length, \u201cFancy\u201d is a true rags-to-riches story. It\u2019s about a girl who becomes a prostitute, later becoming a wealthy woman, one who lives without regrets. The song is more than six minutes in length<\/p>\n \u201cFancy\u201d says, \u201cMama washed and combed and curled my hair \/ And then she painted my eyes and lips \/ Then I stepped into a satin dancin\u2019 dress \/ That had a split on the side clean up to my hip \/ It was red velvet trim and it fit me good \/ Standin\u2019 back from the lookin\u2019 glass \/ There stood a woman where a half gown kid had stood \/ She said, \u2018Here\u2019s your one chance, Fancy, don\u2019t let me dow<\/em>n.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Photo by Tim Mosenfelder\/Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n A radio-friendly song in country music is typically around three minutes in length. But sometimes, artists defy those standards and end up having big hits anyway. We found three songs in country music that were surprisingly long and still became successful singles. \u201cWelcome To The Future\u201d by Brad Paisley Brad Paisley\u2019s \u201cWelcome To The Future\u201d … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3-Long-Songs-in-Country-Music-That-Were-Surprisingly-Big.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15172,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15170\/revisions\/15172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u201cAmerican Pie\u201d by Don McLean<\/h3>\n
\u201cFancy\u201d by Reba McEntire<\/h3>\n
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