*Makes fun of country music - listens to rap that sounds the same about slinging dope and killing people while driving from their 8-4 job in their dodge caravan.*
Country Music: The Beat That’s Killing The Genre
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That's why I listen to Lil Dicky. Dude is about as genuine as a rapper will ever get.
Is that **** even country???
Willie
Waylon
Cash
Jones
Tritt
Black
Roy
Conway ******* Twitty!
This seems like a different genre
Willie
Waylon
Cash
Jones
Tritt
Black
Roy
Conway ******* Twitty!
This seems like a different genre
I'll let the great Steve Earle do the talking for me:
“They’re just doing hip-hop for people who are afraid of black people."
Those guys were pretty generic to start. A lot of the Red Dirt/"Texas Country" artists are pretty close to being pop country, they just have a more obvious rock influence.
That said, there are loads of really good artists in that scene as well, and they don't sound a damn thing like pop country.
Mike & The Moonpies have been pretty well stuck on my Spotify feed lately.
Aaron Lewis? Ha! Ya he’s so country! This is exactly what I’m talking about. The posing filters down to all levels of the genre.
He is real country music. Great artists can cross genres.
Love how they featured Turnpike Troubadours and Tyler Childers. That's some real country!
Yeah, I've been trying to listen to newer hiphop, but with not much success so far.
Aww, thanks buddy. Note the absence of the 3rd P in hip-hop. HipHopp has been doing just fine the past 20 years.
Easily two of my favorite artists going. Tyler Childers and Evan Felker are probably 1A and 1B for songwriters under the age of 40.
Exactly. While I like Jason somewhat the 2 big hits that got him started were actually written and/or previously recorded by other artists. John Rich wrote "Hicktown" and "Amarillo Sky." Amarillo Sky was actually recorded by John on his "Rescue Me" album in 2001 and also by McBride & the Ride in 2002 before Aldean made it popular in 2005.
Probably another reason why I am a fan of Big & Rich's music is because both have written songs that turned out to be bigger hits for other artists than they've ever had success themselves individually or a duo combined. Tim and Faith both had #1 songs written by them, Kenny wrote Tim's "Last Dollar" song and John co-wrote Faith's "Mississippi Girl" as examples. John has some pretty notable songs on his list that made #1 or charted well by others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_written_by_John_Rich
Someone mentioned Jamey Johnson as "new" above. Ummm, nope is not really that "new" if you know of his past and is another one of those guys that clawed their way into relevancy while also writing big hits for others too. He actually re-invented himself a little, his first big hit was "The Dollar" which sounds nothing like the type of music he is known for now.
Maybe I'm just becoming the old man yelling at the cloud, but there are so many generic bro-country sounding guys on the radio right now that I can't tell any of them apart. I flip the channel if it's Aldean, Bryan, or anyone who sounds like them. So I'm flipping a lot. What's most disappointing to me is how I can drive to and from work (about 40 minutes total) and hear bits of 1, maybe 2 songs by a woman on the eight channels I flip through. One is typically Kelsea Ballerini who is pretty much a lady bro-country artist, imo. It's like someone took that douche's advice from a few years ago and treat women artists like tomatoes in a salad. But like a cheap fast food salad that tosses one giant grape tomato in and calls it good.
When I run and listen to Pandora, I hear all these great songs by Kacey Musgraves (love Golden Hour), Maren Morris (probably the only other woman really played much on radio), Miranda/Pistol Annies, Cam, others - where is their air time? I used to think maybe it was cyclical and the big women artists just didn't have albums out but it's been like this for at least 3-4 years now. Miranda is usually bigger than she is now and sometimes a new artist will pop in for a bit before fading. Carrie has been the other big artist but tbh, I don't love what I've heard of her new album.
I just took a look at the current top 40 - THREE songs are by women! Kelsea, Carrie, and Maddie & Tae at 19, 23, and 49. Not sure if Lady A, Band Perry, and LBT are on breaks right now? Always like their stuff as well.
I find myself listening to pop more and more because they seem to have a much heavier rotation of women artists - and are stealing away some of the country ones. Taylor Swift entirely, and Maren, Carrie, Kelsea, and others have all dabbled. And I can't blame them.
When I run and listen to Pandora, I hear all these great songs by Kacey Musgraves (love Golden Hour), Maren Morris (probably the only other woman really played much on radio), Miranda/Pistol Annies, Cam, others - where is their air time? I used to think maybe it was cyclical and the big women artists just didn't have albums out but it's been like this for at least 3-4 years now. Miranda is usually bigger than she is now and sometimes a new artist will pop in for a bit before fading. Carrie has been the other big artist but tbh, I don't love what I've heard of her new album.
I just took a look at the current top 40 - THREE songs are by women! Kelsea, Carrie, and Maddie & Tae at 19, 23, and 49. Not sure if Lady A, Band Perry, and LBT are on breaks right now? Always like their stuff as well.
I find myself listening to pop more and more because they seem to have a much heavier rotation of women artists - and are stealing away some of the country ones. Taylor Swift entirely, and Maren, Carrie, Kelsea, and others have all dabbled. And I can't blame them.
Im just being a provocateur and defending my city. Hayes Carll is probably my favorite artist.
Radio is always going to play what they their listeners want to listen to and rightness now it has more of a pop feel
I was thinking of this when I was watching the OP link. This is funny and sad at the same time......
The Band Perry has been Pop for a few years now