["Chesney" refers to country singer Kenny Chesney. Plugged In is a ministry of Focus on the Family that addresses "media discernment" for parents. All emphases are Meredith's.]

The first verse of "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven" finds Chesney rejecting his preacher's advice to "Quit the women and whiskey/And carrying on all night." A few moments later, Chesney's sticking bribes in the church's offering plate, hoping the pastor'll put in a good word for him ("There's one for everything I did last night/And one to get me through today/Here's a ten to help you remember/Next time you got the good Lord's ear"). Near the end of this less-than-righteous toe-tapper, Kenny says he's having too much fun down here to want to go to heaven right now—and he's pretty sure he speaks for the majority of us.

Then, "Ten With a Two" really sets out to shred the ideals Chesney says he grew up with. In this unhappy romp through beer goggles and sex with complete strangers, Chesney sings, "Last night I came in at 2 with a 10/But at 10 I woke up with a 2/I got 20/20 vision when I ain't drinking/But Lord when I do I lose/I ain't never gone to bed with an ugly woman/But I sure woke up with a few." In the album's liner notes, Kenny writes of the track, "I can't count the nights ... that I've lived this song. It's a guy's anthem ... it's not a classy song, but boys—and girls—we've all been there."

Have we really, Kenny? Because I come from a small town, too, and I know not everyone has been there.

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And so we're back to the fact that fun is the reason so many seem to flock around this colossal country cowboy.

Fun—defined as him holding church and family in one hand while grasping a whiskey bottle in the other as he lyrically works his way through the 2s and the 10s of the world with no thought at all for who they might be beyond what they look like. That's not the kind of fun I was hoping to find as I listened to my first Kenny Chesney song in years. That's not the kind of fun that'll make me want to ever try him out again.