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re: Where does the backlash against "bro country" come from?
Posted on 1/9/14 at 10:21 am to Libertyabides71
Posted on 1/9/14 at 10:21 am to Libertyabides71
Not only do I not care for the sound, but lyrically, they try to cram as many "redneck" cliches into one song (someone posted a great youtube video a few weeks ago)--trucks, beer, hunting/fishing by the creek, radio turned up, etc.
I don't mind songs about loud car radios or pickup trucks, as long as they have deeper meanings.
Here's a song titled 6x9 speakers, but the main message of the song is about the invicibility you feel as a teenager:
Max Stalling 6x9 speakers
Here's a song about pickup trucks, but the main message is about the bonds you share with your grandpa, friends, kids:
Jerry Jeff Walker Pickup Truck Song
I don't mind songs about loud car radios or pickup trucks, as long as they have deeper meanings.
Here's a song titled 6x9 speakers, but the main message of the song is about the invicibility you feel as a teenager:
Max Stalling 6x9 speakers
Here's a song about pickup trucks, but the main message is about the bonds you share with your grandpa, friends, kids:
Jerry Jeff Walker Pickup Truck Song
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Posted on 1/9/14 at 10:50 am to Ric Flair
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Country music to today is a cheap money grab gimmick.
Without videos, they'd never make it. Their success is not based on their music, but on their appearance and show portrayed on the screen.
The "artists" today are taking the following lyrics of the Goodman/Prine song a little too seriously and they are trying to make the perfect country and western songs.
"I was drunk, the day my Mama got out of prison/And I went out to pick her up in the rain/But, before I could get to the station in the pick-up truck/She got runned over[sic] by a damned ol' train"
Posted on 1/9/14 at 10:52 am to Ric Flair
Seems everyone read the title and not the post. 
I get everything posted itt, especially Ric Flair's position. In fact I agree with most of it. Not a big fan of Jason Aldean. Then again I made it clear I listen to individual artists/songs not genres. A good deal of it sucks but some of FGL/Luke Bryan's material is actually really good.
I was asking more of where it comes from. And why the derision specifically of it but not the rest of mainstream music which is all corporate sellouts?
The criticism leveled in this thread can threw at mainstream pop, Carrie Underwood/Taylor Swift, Hip Hop. Its simply marketing what sells. Music is marketed to teenage girls because they are the ones who have always bought music hence the Beatles marketing to girls all the way to the Itune era.
Like I said mainstream country has always alternated between the two extremes of authentic and fake. I think it is better now. I certainly believe FGL singing about being dudes in rural Georgia/Florida is probably their real experiences more than a Conway Twitty sang about.
I listed a bunch of independent "country" music as well in the OP.
I was thinking why that specific subset of a specific genre becomes the catch all for the criticism of the whole genre and music in general. Like it is acceptable to hate on the type of music because of political correctness.
Cultural bias and political correctness is where I brought the point up about Glee. Specifically in their song choices for their straight male supposedly teenage male characters in the burbs of Ohio.
I get everything posted itt, especially Ric Flair's position. In fact I agree with most of it. Not a big fan of Jason Aldean. Then again I made it clear I listen to individual artists/songs not genres. A good deal of it sucks but some of FGL/Luke Bryan's material is actually really good.
I was asking more of where it comes from. And why the derision specifically of it but not the rest of mainstream music which is all corporate sellouts?
The criticism leveled in this thread can threw at mainstream pop, Carrie Underwood/Taylor Swift, Hip Hop. Its simply marketing what sells. Music is marketed to teenage girls because they are the ones who have always bought music hence the Beatles marketing to girls all the way to the Itune era.
Like I said mainstream country has always alternated between the two extremes of authentic and fake. I think it is better now. I certainly believe FGL singing about being dudes in rural Georgia/Florida is probably their real experiences more than a Conway Twitty sang about.
I listed a bunch of independent "country" music as well in the OP.
I was thinking why that specific subset of a specific genre becomes the catch all for the criticism of the whole genre and music in general. Like it is acceptable to hate on the type of music because of political correctness.
Cultural bias and political correctness is where I brought the point up about Glee. Specifically in their song choices for their straight male supposedly teenage male characters in the burbs of Ohio.
This post was edited on 1/9/14 at 10:55 am
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