Convoy is one of the few songs for me that straddles the twilight between “decent” and “bad”, but doesn’t quite fit into either camp because there are so many things about the song that conflict with each other. It’s pretty catchy and really did had potential, but then you get the song’s inherent cheesiness, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing because it would just make it a “cult classic/so bad it’s good” kind of song, but that’s not the worst offender. It’s the utterly ridiculous sounding chorus that takes a big steaming dump over the somewhat decently ‘sung’/spoken verses and almost everything else about the song.

Half of me understands why it became a hit, but half of me just doesn’t. But it’s just a silly, campy novelty song not to be taken seriously at the end of the day.

But what both halves of me do NOT get is why the hell it spawned a movie directed by Sam Peckinpah of all people.