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Jason Aldean's new hit (Paying his tributes to those before him)

Posted on 4/3/13 at 4:59 pm
Posted by DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Posted on 4/3/13 at 4:59 pm
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I was recently informed that this is the #2 country song out there right now

What the holy cornbread frick is going on here? At what point do we quit calling it country and start calling it something else?

This and Merle Haggard's music most certainly do not need to be classified as the same genre.
Posted by Jizzamo311
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Posted on 4/3/13 at 5:02 pm to
I'm so glad someone finally posted this. Oh wait. Everyone else already has too. Nice job
Posted by DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Posted on 4/3/13 at 5:04 pm to
I might start another thread on it.

50 threads is not enough to discuss this.
Posted by TheDoc
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Posted on 4/3/13 at 5:10 pm to
It's Nashville pop and its terrible.
Posted by mograyback
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Posted on 4/3/13 at 5:10 pm to
I think Nashville Pop is the term you're looking for.
Posted by DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Posted on 4/3/13 at 5:20 pm to
So at what point do we start hearing that as the accepted term for it? Never? Or will we just call waylon's music something else?
Posted by mograyback
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Posted on 4/3/13 at 5:28 pm to
Pretty sure to a lot of people they consider that gay country, nashville pop, radio country, or whatever other deservingly degrading term for it...

If you're wondering when the country radio stations will stop calling it country, that would be never.
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Posted on 4/3/13 at 5:32 pm to
Posted by DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Posted on 4/3/13 at 5:35 pm to
quote:

If you're wondering when the country radio stations will stop calling it country


That's what I'm looking for.

Will country music ever be geared towards adults again?
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Posted on 4/3/13 at 5:39 pm to
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The windshield Cowboy
Sporting an always brand spanking new 1 ton pickup truck with a diesel engine and dually tires, he needs this heavy equipment as a middle management quality control paper pusher in a cubicle farm located in white flight Suburbia. He’d like you to think he owns a farm, but a farmers wage wouldn’t even pay his truck’s interest. His yearly gas bill equals the gross domestic product of Myanmar. He’s shining his chrome rims while his children and wife are ignored. He listens to songs about dirt roads, but’ll be damned if he takes his baby off the blacktop and gets a brush scratch in the paint. He wants you to think he’s country, but Nickelback comes up as “Most Played” on his iTouch. He once hauled a 10 lb bag of potting soil in his truck. Afterwards he immediately sprayed down the beadliner and buffed the paint for 3 hours. He’ll never do that again, but he will haul his equally pristine bass boat, four wheeler, and fifth wheel travel trailer with it, all that he bought to offset his misery. He works 60 hours a week to pay for it all, but is two months from bankruptcy. Deep inside he feels trapped and desperate, but that’s OK because his truck kicks arse. He’s under the impression you can take your material possessions with you to Heaven and tried to write that stipulation into his truck’s two year lease. No, he will not help you move next weekend, he has to wash his truc


This PERFECTLY describes somebody I know. Seriously 100% accurate if you discount the word wife.
Posted by mograyback
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Posted on 4/3/13 at 5:46 pm to
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Will country music ever be geared towards adults again?



I think there is a lot of country music that is geared towards adults and mature listeners... but you find most of it in the 'alternative country' scene, which is a shame because it's more country than what the radio calls country.

Have you listened to Ryan Bingham, Lucero, Ha Ha Tonka, stuff like the Wood Brothers, or even Avett Brothers, Shovels and Rope, Jason Isbell...

I like bands that listened to a lot of old country, but have turned their sound into something more rockish.. You can hear the Townes Van Zandt in Deer Tick.
Posted by DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Posted on 4/3/13 at 5:58 pm to
I'm aware of a bunch of the country that isn't on the radio. There's definitely music out there I like, but I never hear any of that style of music on the radio. Even the "country legends" station sucks about 75% of the time.

Why is none of the "alternative country" (such a shite term) on the radio in SE Louisiana when there is apparently such a high demand for it?
Posted by L Boogie
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Posted on 4/3/13 at 6:04 pm to
Hands down the worst song I have ever heard.

I heard this awful rumor that Turnpike was opening for Jason Aldean this summer

Can't confirm b/c TT is currently in Sweden, but I WILL find out.
Posted by Da Sheik
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Posted on 4/3/13 at 6:10 pm to
Country Music Royalty had something to say about this.

LINK

I don't know if he looks like mommy or daddy.
Posted by MrCoachKlein
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Posted on 4/3/13 at 6:30 pm to
Teach me how to Diffie
Posted by AstroTiger
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Posted on 4/3/13 at 6:40 pm to
oh look, someone bitching about country music. how fresh
Posted by DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Posted on 4/3/13 at 6:45 pm to
If you're not here to bitch about the current state of country music, GTFO
Posted by Fat Man
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Posted on 4/3/13 at 6:58 pm to
quote:

Turnpike was opening for Jason Aldean this summer


Cotton's dream concert. I'm sure of it.

Posted by L Boogie
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Posted on 4/3/13 at 7:00 pm to


I was prepared to disown the TT boys.

After some careful investigative work, I was able to determine that it was just a sick, sick joke.

Posted by TheDoc
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Posted on 4/3/13 at 7:19 pm to
quote:

Why is none of the "alternative country" (such a shite term) on the radio in SE Louisiana when there is apparently such a high demand for it?



WYNK won't touch turnpike troubadours, american aquarium, ryan bingham, shovels and rope, hayes carl etc....
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