Cucci Galore

Album: Rebel Soul (2012)
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Songfacts®:

  • When Kid Rock got Rick Rubin to helm his Born Free album, he gave the veteran producer carte blanche over choosing the songs that made the final track list. This was one that didn't meet Rubin's standards, but it ended up on Rock's following album Rebel Soul. He told MTV News: "I worked with it for a while, played to Rick [Rubin], and he hated it. So Zac Brown, the country singer, was at my house with his band, early on, and there were some girls there, and I'm playing this song, and they're going 'Man, this song's great, you gotta put this out! And Rick never wanted me to put it on a record, so I emailed him and I'm like 'Dude, I don't know what you're talking about. Zac Brown's here and he's telling me I should put out this 'Cucci Galore' song, and there's girls dancing on my coffee table right now, out of their minds on it.' And Rick texts me back 'Them hoes is so drunk they'd probably dance to "Taps."' So, of course, I put it on the record."
  • The title is a play on Pussy Galore, the name of the Bond Girl in the third James Bond movie, Goldfinger.
  • The song's music video features Kid Rock's new alter ego, a Ziggy Stardust-style character named Bobby Shazam. "Oh, man, Bobby. He probably came from having too many adult beverages, and trying to come up with something fun and different to do musically, and maybe have this character that could come out at shows," Rock explained to MTV News. "He's just this psychotic rock and roller. Like, I picture his dad being a roadie for REO Speedwagon, and his mom was a high-priced call girl somewhere, and he's just out of his mind. So we named him Bobby Shazam, and we'll see if we can bring him to life onstage or not."

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