"American Ride" is the title track and lead single from Toby Keith's 14th studio album. He told Country Forever it's a song of the times. "All it does is give you an entire list, a laundry list of all the things you see on TV, from Y2K, to Sars to Swine flu, to aliens coming across the border," he said. "From what's going on on American Idol to what's going on in the reality shows to Michael Jackson dying, just on and on, but I love my American Ride kind of thing."
This song was penned by Joe West and Dave Pahanish and was titled "American Life," when it was submitted to Keith. He recalled to Billboard magazine: "They sent it to me to listen to and said 'You're the only guy in the world that could get away with cutting it.' I held it for about a year; it was so different I thought I'd be tired of it. I just left it on my iPod and kept listening to it, and it never got old." Keith added: "I've only ever done, like, four or five songs in 16 albums that I didn't write, and this one sounds like I wrote it."
Keith told Billboard that the song, "Makes fun of all the wackiness that goes on in this country."
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