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Daughtry Shares Candid Feelings About ‘Butt Rock’ and Whether He’d Ever Go Country

If you want to call Daughtry butt rock, the band’s frontman won’t get mad, though his classification of choice is ‘divorced-dad rock.’

By Stephen Andrew Galiher

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We throw the term “butt rock” around all willy-nilly these days. But have we ever actually stopped to think of how it might impact the artist making music that gets associated with this classification? Well, in the case of one Mr. Chris Daughtry at least, he doesn’t really mind it.

During a September 2026 L.A. Times interview, Daughtry was asked about being labeled “butt rock,” and his response was deeply respectable. “It makes me laugh,” the former American Idol contestant confessed. “When we get ready to play ‘Over You,’ I say, ‘We’re about to play a classic divorced-dad rock banger.’ Call it what you want—at the end of the day, to me it’s just rock ’n’ roll.”

The interviewer went on to note how Nickelback “crushed with that crowd” when they........

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