re: When did country music become bro country?

Tons of good Americana/country artists out there.

Won’t find them on 100.7

Hell rarely even Sirius it seems like

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Garth

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He neutered country and repackaged it for the masses. He was basically the male version of Taylor Swift in the ‘90’s- self-aggrandizing, self-centered and a syrupy sweet contrived image. He was not bro country but he kicked the door open for shitty acts like Ricochet and Diamond Rio which opened the door for GA-fig Line and Dierks Bentley, etc.

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Garth

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this is such a lazy take, mainly becuase it's completely wrong

DTD- you even go on to specify in your post:

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He was not bro country

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Which was literally the topic of the thread.

Garth isn't bro country, at all. Not even close. The fact that he was less waylon/merle/conway/etc country and more palatable to a wider audience doens't make him "bro", nor is that even an insult. It's simply a different form of the same genre.

Look at the megahits that really propelled him to populatiry. Much too young, not counting you, the dance, friends in low places, two of a kind, rodeo, shameless, papa loved mama, callin baton rouge, etc. I mean those are all very much traditional "country" songs any way you slice it. To compare all of those songs above to the modern bro country where peopel don't play instruemnts, there's no fiddle or violin, there's heavy rap basslins and backing beats, etc. is frankly an insult.

I'm not even a garth fanboy, I'd say I appreciate his music a "standard" amount just as much as any random sampling of people you may ask. But he is LIGHT YEARS better than the shite being played nowadays. Not even in the same universe.

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Wine Me Up: Faron Young

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Was that greatness or what?