Red Solo Cup

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"Red Solo Cup"
Toby Keith Red Solo Cup.jpg
Single by Toby Keith
from the album Clancy's Tavern
ReleasedOctober 10, 2011
RecordedJune 2011
Genre
Length3:43
Label Show Dog-Universal
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Toby Keith
Toby Keith singles chronology
"Made in America"
(2011)
"Red Solo Cup"
(2011)
"Beers Ago"
(2012)

"Red Solo Cup" is a song written by Brett Warren, Brad Warren, Brett Beavers, and Jim Beavers and recorded by American country music singer Toby Keith. The song was released on October 10, 2011 [1] as the second single from Keith's 2011 album Clancy's Tavern . [2] [3] This is the only song on the album that Keith did not write or co-write. The song was featured in the Glee episode "Hold On to Sixteen". Insider ranked it as the second worst song of the 2010s decade [4] and Keith himself called it "the stupidest song [he] ever heard in [his] life." A remixed version by Johnny Mac appears on the deluxe edition of Keith's sixteenth studio album Hope on the Rocks , released the following year. It was Keith's biggest and final crossover hit before his death in 2024.

Contents

Content

"Red Solo Cup" is about the Solo Cup Company's red style of plastic cups, and their common usage at parties, among other occasions. [5] It is in the key of A major, with a primary chord pattern of A–Bm7–E–A on the verses, which are spoken-word. The final chorus modulates a whole step upward to B major. [6]

History

Singer-songwriter duo The Warren Brothers (Brad and Brett Warren) co-wrote "Red Solo Cup" with Brett Beavers and his brother, Jim Beavers. The four of them decided to write something that would "make us all laugh and smile." According to Brett Warren, Jim did the majority of the writing. [7] Keith told CMT that it was "the stupidest song that I have ever heard in my life" but also "freakin' awesome." [2]

All four writers sing backing vocals on the song. The Warren Brothers also perform acoustic guitar on it, while Jim plays bass guitar and Brett plays six-string banjo. [8]

Music video

The music video includes cameos from Jeff Dunham (and his character Bubba J), Carrot Top, Ted Nugent, Sammy Hagar, Craig Ferguson, Geoff Peterson, Roger Clemens, Eric Church, Joe Nichols, Lance Burton, and Larry Bird among others. [9]

It had acquired more than 600,000 views on YouTube before the album's release. [10] The video surpassed 69 million views as of February 2023. [11]

Chart performance

Chart (2011–2012)Peak
position
Canada Country ( Billboard ) [12] 8
Canada (Canadian Hot 100) [13] 27
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [14] 9
US Billboard Hot 100 [15] 15

Year-end charts

Chart (2012)Position
Canada (Canadian Hot 100) [16] 89
US Billboard Hot 100 [17] 82
US Country Songs ( Billboard ) [18] 53

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [19] 3× Platinum3,000,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Other versions and parodies

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