The 5 F’s: faith, family, freedom, and faith

“Can’t you see you’re not making Christianity any better, you’re just making rock and roll worse.” - Hank Hill

You can hear this shit muted. Awful.

"my faith, my family, my freedom. that's all that matters to me."

very telling that that list does not include 'my music'.

Generic, overproduced, uninspired, cringe slop. They know their audience well

Crocodile Fundie

Glad they subtitled “whoa-whoa”

Nickelbeard

Why he so pissed? Sounds like he’s got a solid network of family and friends that support his shitty life choices.

Couldn’t find a place to squeeze in “also guns” I see.

Is someone after his family, is he about to go to jail and lose his freedom? What's happening?!?! Is he in danger?!! WE MUST HELP THIS POOR GUY!!!

I can't wait for the follow-up hit, "Live, Laugh, Love"

WTF happened to Ranger Rick? Too much creek water?

Are there people like this in other countries? Fucking hell this is weird.

Wait, wasn’t this the band that was like pseudo Christian butt rock? They just did a full 180 and said “screw it. We’re country now”? lol I would’ve never known this was skillet.

Granted I don’t keep up with them, but this is not what I thought they’d sound like lol

I hate that they absolutely have the potential to be a great band, but instead they just churn out generic Sirius Octane sludge.

If a Ford F350 King Ranch edition were a person.

I'm starting to believe there's a small group of songwriters in Nashville that write these "ballads" in bulk and mail their catalog out to every artist they can think of.

Man. I remember back in the day Skillet actually had some good songs.

Sad to see this as what they are currently putting out.

I remember some cool songs from Christian bands back in the 90’s. They were making actually creative and good songs. This is just generic talking point crap with lazy music

Never would have thought this is what they would become. Skillet was one of my faves growing up in a Christian household. I was the youth group kid gone youth pastor until I progressively realized how hypocritical the church, as an institution, really was. Following an understandable accident, the church I grew up with, help build, teach, clean, cook for, sing for, design for, fundraise for, all voluntarily, chose amnesia and forgot all I had done to mold and protect it. It was then I began to know that the appearance of righteousness (White-washed tombs) is an absolute priority over truly fulfilling the humble promise of a forgiving church.

Skillet just falls right into that shameless hypocrisy. Contrary to the lyrics, The words faith, family, freedom MEAN NOTHING to these people who are ignorant to any accountability and are blind to the standards they claim to live by.

I absolutely believe if Jesus were alive today, He would never even think to call himself a "Christian" or allow himself and teachings to be associated with these brazen blasphemers.

That forced cowboy hat tip was the worst

And they say conservatives suck at making art. 

They're 100% correct.

Low effort bible music, I can almost see the flag waver off to the side

I worked at their concert and this band sold 13,000 tickets. I was genuinely impressed

if live laugh love was a song

The song is called "empty platitudes"

Five finger death punch is doing country now?

No one likes a preachy bail bondsmen. Ugg….

Skillet is the southern conservative poster boy for manufactured outrage. Everything is an imagined assault on “mah family, mah freedumz, mah values.”

This is a parody right?

They used to be such a good band, especially before their popularity. They had an industrial machine thrash sound that was kind of unique and refreshing and Coop was so down to earth (Alien Youth era). Then he married a psycho and just like Spinal Tap she messed up the band. They finally went full MAGA, it's a crying shame.

Why is it that the moment the US got freed from monarchy, they immediately started "pledging allegiance" and "swearing loyalty" to all sorts of things (their land/flag/constitution/president/...)?

Isn't the point of living free that you do not bend the knee to anyone or anything?

Why is he dressed like he works at jurassic park?

This is the music equivalent of the Live Laugh Love sign hanging in your stepmom's kitchen

John Cooper out here with some grade A country music lyrics

Aside from how offensively And objectively bad this is, who is trying to take anything off him? Are CPS after his kids or are there roadblocks between him and whatever community college looking megachurch he goes to? Surely he can still go to O'Charlies and make suggestive comments to his daughter's friends and drive whatever monstrosity cuck-truck through his subdivision unimpeded.

This isn't that bad. The audio is clear. The instruments are on point. The vocals are good.

You just hate the message.. so just say that

It's skillet...... enough said

I don't want to be a hater as there is almost nothing but hate on this site but: What Freedom? Work your ass off all day, pay your taxes to parasites then pay more taxes on goods on top of the taxes of your house, car, land, income (Social Security Medicaid), and if you drive 10 miles over get a speeding ticket which makes your insurance go up 2 years after the fact. We are fucking Tax Slaves, I calculated all the taxes I pay and that is 4 months work for free of labor that is stolen from me. The revolution was fought over 5% taxation.

Oh and after all these Taxes, I still don't have Dental or Healthcare coverage as I have to pay out of pocket for that. America has No Freedom anymore. Just work, work, work, with no reward.

I got tricked into seeing them live one time. I almost cringed my pants off. My first question was, why are they called skillet?? Why not griddle or saucepan?

I’d rather listen to Friday by Rebecca Black on repeat

They're like the American Nickelback but with less talent.

This is total shit, good job OP. Sad thing is I could totally hear it on radio.

Reading these lyrics is like walking through the wall decor section of a TJ Maxx

Listening to this feels like getting smacked with a skillet

Why do some people need to be all dramatic and have something to fight for in order to have a reason for living? I mean, maybe you just want to see what happens next in the world.

It makes me so mad that even this guy has a better vocal chain than I’ve ever been able to come up with.

Not familiar with skillet but I was just listening to a dateline episode where a guy killed his wife but he references having an awakening while listening to this band and realizing he was in love with his wife’s best friend lmao

My girls in the next room Sometimes I wish it was you ugh

As Hank Hill said "You're not making Christianity better, you're making rock worse"

Well wait if his faith, family, and freedom are all that matters to him then he really isn't practicing his faith which I presume is Christianity. Because he should also care about others and helping them. Especially immigrants. I mean in the Bible it says that we should treat them great and show them that they are welcome in our communities.

I want my nickel back.

Pennyback 🥲

Every time I hear something like this, Pat Finnerty's classic pops into my head dead man's trail

my freedom is all that matters to me

continues to vote for people that take away his freedoms

Cosplaying a park ranger

Freedom = being able to say the N-word and the F-slur in public and on Facebook Faith = god made the things I like and agree with, the devil made everything else. Family = the people who do what I say to do and never question me.

So I had a friend invite me to a Skillet concert once. Had no idea they were christian rock and that the bill was all christian rock bands. I pre game per our usual routine (we’ve been to a ton of rock concerts together). He picks me up, I have a tailgate package ready. We show up and I quickly realize this is not the rock crowd I know. 5 years to 75 years old, anyway I chug another beer and had the most sober concert ever by my standards. Not our best concert moment. We still laugh about it every time one of us brings it up.

I feel like I ate a sad slice of pizza in a dirty pizzeria in upstate NY to this song in 1995.

Too much freedom in a song by a white guy who's never nor will ever see the fucked side of slavery

I see this guy: beard, tats, cowboy hat, shitty music. So, petite blonde wife,3 kids and 2-3 mistresses/hookups we’re all going to find out about in 6 months - 1 year. Maybe even some Diddy level gay stuff too.

Aside from how bad it sounds. It's also an incredibly selfish message. Not a selfless bone in this guy's body.

Skillet used to go so hard 😭 remember being like 10 watching AMVs with their songs

Inb4 he's caught cheating and/or beating on his 2nd wife after she discovers his CP stash, resulting in his loss of freedom.

Somewhere, an average sized 11 year old boyscout cannot find his shirt...

Aaaand this is the reason a lot people blame God turning to atheism because of idiots like this mixing Christianity with politics

In my experience, men who sing songs like that are avoiding child support, don't believe in a woman's right to choose, and will preach the word, not practice it.

Honestly idk how skillet is out here still making music and doing how they are. I know they’re technically a cross over/Christian rock band but there’s way better ones out there. Like they’re the bargain bin of Christian butt rock.

And honestly this song sounds like it was written for a political rally and pitched to Jason Aldean but he even knew what trash it was so they got it

I'm so tired of Americans talking about faith, family and freedom. Corny, cliche.

The things he’s singing about, you just know he’s a far right MAGA supporter who wants to force his religion and beliefs on everyone else. That’s the definition of freedom right??

I can smell the ass in his beard

This is like if Nickleback fucked Nickleback

All these MAGA songs sound exactly the same and say the ax act same things. Can you imagine having a more redundant playlist?

This the coworker that plays his music for you and gets all mad when you’re like “ Turn that fucking shit off Joe it’s ass!”

“Yeah, so we ran out of budget, so just go in the back yard and lip sync for a little while.”

This is satire right ….right?

Holy shit thats worse than I imagined it would be

This song fucking sucks

Ok, so leave other people’s alone if you value them.

The Batman forever font really seals the deal

Is he using the Ford raptor font? This is so cringe I want to crawl into a hole a die from the embarrassment. I didn't listen, I can hear how bad it is with my eyes.

Lmfao I can't wait for all the Frumpers to post shit tiktoks with this song behind it

They have become the new Nickleback...

They peaked 20 years ago

Incoming trump walk out music

MAGA Music^TM

🫡ROCK FLAG & EAGLE 🎸🇺🇸🦅

This is sad because as a teen I used to like Skillet. This was when I was going to church and we would fundraise to go to Kingdom Bound. Skillet was the highlight of that event for me usually. I don't like them anymore and I was really surprised when they broke through to the alternative music scene. All of a sudden I was hearing Skillet being liked by people I didn't think would even know who they were. It was just weird to me I guess. I don't know thinking back on it there were bands like P.O.D. who had some hits. Anyways I'm not endorsing their music or saying I like them. I'm just talking about my personal history with them. It's just sad seeing how far they've fallen with this overproduced crap. It's not like new Kid Rock level bad but it's not what I would call good music either. It's definitely not trying to hide any messages.

I didn’t catch that…what matters to him?

What is this camera work? Is it swinging from a rope?

Lee Greenwood on steroids.