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re: How does the OT think about new "country" music?
Posted on 10/13/14 at 1:05 pm to monsterballads
Posted on 10/13/14 at 1:05 pm to monsterballads
quote:
nashville pop is dumbed down meat head laundry list music marketed to teenage girls and low hanging fruit rednecks. it's basically the same 30 writers that write all of the songs you hear on mainstream radio.
I was thinking about this yesterday as I was listening to the 90's country station while pulling weeds. What happened to the story telling that used to drive country music?
Posted on 10/13/14 at 1:10 pm to Tigerdew
Just to offset the terrible lyrics posted, I'm going to post one of the best country/folk songs ever written.
quote:
My heart's in the ice house come hill or come valley
Like a long ago Sunday when I walked through the alley
On a cold winter's morning to a church house
Just to shovel some snow.
I heard sirens on the train track howl naked gettin' nuder,
An altar boy's been hit by a local commuter
Just from walking with his back turned
To the train that was coming so slow.
You can gaze out the window get mad and get madder,
Throw your hands in the air, say "What does it matter?"
But it don't do no good to get angry,
So help me I know
For a heart stained in anger grows weak and grows bitter.
You become your own prisoner as you watch yourself sit there
Wrapped up in a trap of your very own
Chain of sorrow.
I been brought down to zero, pulled out and put back there.
I sat on a park bench, kissed the girl with the black hair
And my head shouted down to my heart
"You better look out below!"
Hey, it ain't such a long drop don't stammer don't stutter
From the diamonds in the sidewalk to the dirt in the gutter
And you carry those bruises
To remind you wherever you go.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 1:16 pm to Tigerdew
quote:
What happened to the story telling that used to drive country music?
lots of good "country" music exists, it's just not on FM radio.
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