Today's male country music singers

Don't forget about torn up blue jeans, pick up trucks, working some low paying job, and red solo cups.

Almost lowest common denominator. Same crappy lyrics and some of their voices all sound alike

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Don't forget about torn up blue jeans, pick up trucks, working some low paying job, and red solo cups.

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Riding down a dirt road, with a cooler full of beer, with hip hop playing on the radio, hands in the air, tail gates down, etc.

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As bad as it is, some of those guys actually grew up like that, e.g. Luke Bryan.

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Meh. The music is all the same. It is essentially rural hip hop at this point.

Hell, I just wrote one:

"I got my tail gate down,

and Dr. Dre turn up,

heading down the road,

In my Chevy pickup

I got a cooler full of beer,

and freezer full of deer,

and I'm ready to PARTY,

for the weekend,

PARTY,

with all of my friends."


Boom. That's free. It's worth nothing. I have no idea why there are multiple stations in every southern market playing this shite instead of actual, literal country music.

I think people have been complaining about the downfall of country music for as long as it has existed

Meanwhile the money keeps pouring in.

I think this is a chicken or the egg thing. I used to believe that modern country was just pandering to an audience, but then I did a little research into black culture pre-gangsta rap and hip hop.

What if the music isn't adapting to the market anymore? What if the market is being conditioned by the music rather than the other way around?

What if country music is purposefully glorifying a lifestyle to push rampant consumerism of the products of that lifestyle (BMC beers, chevy trucks, yeti coolers, ect)? What if rap and hiphop have been doing the same thing for 30 years?

What if the reason that most commercial radio sounds stale isn't because the market doesn't want anything else , but rather they are being conditioned to only know and buy "stale"?

Commercial radio is creating marketable "molds" for every person in the country to fit into complete with marketing for each mold. Rock is the most difficult genre to successfully commercialize due to its innate anti-establishment, and often anti-capitalist, message, that it has been routinely de-emphasized outside of classic stale rock radio.

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it's pandering 101 to rural/southern demographic

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Not really. I'll bet most fans are suburban teenage girls. That shite is popular amongst them everywhere.

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I think this is a chicken or the egg thing. I used to believe that modern country was just pandering to an audience, but then I did a little research into black culture pre-gangsta rap and hip hop.

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That had way more to do with a thing called crack. Gangster rap was a byproduct of the crack epidemic. So as long as white people don't all get hooked on meth and the government doesn't give out crazy long sentences for minor possession of said meth, y'all will be fine.

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What if the music isn't adapting to the market anymore? What if the market is being conditioned by the music rather than the other way around?

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A lot of good thinking here kingbob.

If it gets played on stations, odds are it will become popular. So say if stations played the hell out of Simpson, Aaron Watson, Whiskey Myers, then it would become popular. It seems as if country is in a rut and hasn't moved much at all in the past few years. It is the same stuff by almost every artist.