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Why Are Country Stars Attempting To Rap?
Posted on 4/22/13 at 4:54 pm
Posted on 4/22/13 at 4:54 pm
I rarely listen to country music radio, but when I have lately, it seems that everyone is attempting some weird form of rap. I heard a Blake Shelton song today in which he raps...we have already covered the atrocious Jason Aldean song 1994.
Are we actually seeing a country music transition in which this is the acceptable norm?
Are we actually seeing a country music transition in which this is the acceptable norm?
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Posted on 4/22/13 at 5:21 pm to DeltaDoc
I sit back and think about them good old days
They way we were raise in our southern ways
And we like cornbread and biscuits
And if it's broke 'round here we fix it
They way we were raise in our southern ways
And we like cornbread and biscuits
And if it's broke 'round here we fix it
Posted on 4/22/13 at 5:33 pm to DeltaDoc
Country music has crossed over one too many times.
The shite on the radio get more unbearable by the week. I didn't think there could be a worse song in the history of the world then "Corn Star." A year later I figured we hit bottom with "Truck Yeah." WRONG.
I knew "1994" would hold the crown as the "worst song ever" for a long time, but I was once again proved wrong by the abomination that is "Accidental Racist."
Call a spade a spade; call that shite PopRap, with a fake hick accent, because it sure as hell isn't country.
The shite on the radio get more unbearable by the week. I didn't think there could be a worse song in the history of the world then "Corn Star." A year later I figured we hit bottom with "Truck Yeah." WRONG.
I knew "1994" would hold the crown as the "worst song ever" for a long time, but I was once again proved wrong by the abomination that is "Accidental Racist."
Call a spade a spade; call that shite PopRap, with a fake hick accent, because it sure as hell isn't country.
Posted on 4/22/13 at 6:02 pm to Slickback
What's funny is that so many people started dissing country music in the early 2000's - 2005 or so, now it's really really bad music.
Posted on 4/22/13 at 6:14 pm to DeltaDoc
Please don't judge a few and make generalizations about the whole. While country music isn't Merle and Johnny any longer, there are still some country artists who produce quality music. It isn't all that bad. If you don't like what you hear, change the dial.
Posted on 4/22/13 at 6:37 pm to DeltaDoc
Throughout country music history there have been movements to adapt it to the popular fads of the day. Sometimes this succeeds artistically (Western Swing, Country-Rock), sometimes it does not (the string-drenched, chorus-smothered "Nashville Sound" of the 1960s).
Every year, rap eats more and more into the rock audience/market. In the '80s, 75% of the audience for rap was white. I'm sure that figure is higher now.
So rather than try to capture part of the rock audience, some country acts are moving on to the rap market.
Although the sound and even the very idea "Country rap" may strike some as ludicrous -- Cowboy Troy is some of the hilariously absurd stuff I've ever heard -- it has in fact existed before, in a sense. Many of Woody Guthrie's talking blues records are essentially raps, and Bob Dylan would continue this tradition into the '60s.
I'm told that when country acts play the Texas Club the music payed on the PA system between shows is not country but rap. So a market clearly exists.
I believe the artistic problem of merging the two forms is the emotional difference between them. At its best Country music, like Blues, is about hurt, vulnerability, regret. Rap isn't suited to that. Whatever the words, the sound does not fit the feeling. It's like a punk rock song about your mother dying -- no matter how sad the lyrics are, the music won't reflect it.
Every year, rap eats more and more into the rock audience/market. In the '80s, 75% of the audience for rap was white. I'm sure that figure is higher now.
So rather than try to capture part of the rock audience, some country acts are moving on to the rap market.
Although the sound and even the very idea "Country rap" may strike some as ludicrous -- Cowboy Troy is some of the hilariously absurd stuff I've ever heard -- it has in fact existed before, in a sense. Many of Woody Guthrie's talking blues records are essentially raps, and Bob Dylan would continue this tradition into the '60s.
I'm told that when country acts play the Texas Club the music payed on the PA system between shows is not country but rap. So a market clearly exists.
I believe the artistic problem of merging the two forms is the emotional difference between them. At its best Country music, like Blues, is about hurt, vulnerability, regret. Rap isn't suited to that. Whatever the words, the sound does not fit the feeling. It's like a punk rock song about your mother dying -- no matter how sad the lyrics are, the music won't reflect it.
Posted on 4/23/13 at 11:18 am to AstroTiger
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Please don't judge a few and make generalizations about the whole. While country music isn't Merle and Johnny any longer, there are still some country artists who produce quality music. It isn't all that bad. If you don't like what you hear, change the dial.
Arguably the two biggest country stars right now have songs out as we sit here today in which they rap.
Posted on 4/23/13 at 11:26 am to DeltaDoc
That Big and Rich song is the worst thing to ever happen to College Gameday. 
If I want to hear someone rap with an accent, I'll break out the Kottonmouth Kings. At least they have interesting hooks.
If I want to hear someone rap with an accent, I'll break out the Kottonmouth Kings. At least they have interesting hooks.
Posted on 4/23/13 at 11:34 am to AstroTiger
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Please don't judge a few and make generalizations about the whole. While country music isn't Merle and Johnny any longer, there are still some country artists who produce quality music. It isn't all that bad. If you don't like what you hear, change the dial.
The country establishment promotes shite as country music, so they are funding that "country music is shite" movement. The good artists have almost disassociated with "country music" as western folk or some other genre to avoid getting lumped in with faux-country. It's like me avoiding the term conservative because of the association it has with the neo-con religious tards. I may be the very definition of "conservative" but I strongly disassociate with the term.
Posted on 4/23/13 at 11:58 am to DeltaDoc
Because Jason Aldean is a massive douche.
Posted on 4/23/13 at 12:07 pm to Jester
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The country establishment promotes shite as country music, so they are funding that "country music is shite" movement. The good artists have almost disassociated with "country music" as western folk or some other genre to avoid getting lumped in with faux-country. It's like me avoiding the term conservative because of the association it has with the neo-con religious tards. I may be the very definition of "conservative" but I strongly disassociate with the term.
well said
Posted on 4/23/13 at 12:13 pm to DeltaDoc
They should stop making music all together.
Posted on 4/23/13 at 3:51 pm to CaptainPanic
For the same reason Charlie Pride did country music? 
Ah, anything associated with black culture is cool with the kids these days.
Ah, anything associated with black culture is cool with the kids these days.
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