re: Morgan Wallen cancelled his show at Ole Miss tonight about an hour before starting

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Yeah frick all that....(looks at notes), uh, making stuff people want to listen to

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For mass appeal. Songs that lack any real substance or emotion.

There's a place for that type of music, usually when youre in high school and like to dance.

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Once again missing the point of what a songwriter that makes art does and a pop entertainer that sings other peoples songs deliberately written to lyrically appeal to a certain demographic.

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oh for fricks sake. Wallen isn't the type of country I like, but he has some good songs.


This is some abstract painting bullshite. "It really shows how I was feeling at the time". If country people aren't supposed to sing about country things like beer, trucks, dirt roads, etc, then what are they supposed to sing about?

I DGAF who writes the songs, because without the voice they are just poems on paper. You spend a lot of time reading poetry?

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Is this what you reduce country life to

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There's more, but that's what gets generalized. Have you ever met country people?

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If country people aren't supposed to sing about country things like beer, trucks, dirt roads, etc, then what are they supposed to sing about?

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You’ve just been conditioned to the Nashville pop marketing. If that’s what you think country music is supposed to be idk what to tell you. You are exactly the type of person they are marketing to in their focus groups.

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There's more, but that's what gets generalized. Have you ever met country people?

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If you are only meeting the morons, maybe that says something about the company you keep???

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You don’t understand what pandering is. Ben gibbard isn’t writing mad lib buzz word pop songs to generate revenue from streaming services and have his songs put into commercials.

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Queens of the Stone Age put one of their songs into a commercial.

Just admit you’re an idiot.

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I’m upvoting where I can. I fish with a bunch of young baws that blare MW all day while we fish. I can’t make them understand how awful his music is. For me it’s the exaggerated twang and the ridiculous lyrics.

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The thing is….there isn’t a single person here talking about how great his music is. We’re just saying his favorite bands are doing the exact same thing he’s complaining about.

So you’re riding his dick for no reason.

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But a lot of people don't understand why I spend time and money going to see the same band over and over. To each their own, I guess.

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I don’t understand why anyone would spend thousands to go see Taylor swift but I once drove around 1000 miles total to see Andy Frasco Band perform twice in a 3 day span. To each is definitely their own.

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We’re just saying his favorite bands are doing the exact same thing he’s complaining about.

So you’re riding his dick for no reason.

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I think MW panders more than most artists in the fact that what he does is not authentic. His music is not artistic in any way. It is the result of a huge corporate effort and not the effort of a struggling artist trying to make it.

I would argue that wile DCFC has a song in a commercial, they are pandering much less and trying to make some $$ to further their artistic views on the world.

For Morgan, the money drives the music. For others with some authenticity, the music drives the money.

And I don't ride anyone's dick. I fricking hate white knighters.

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For Morgan, the money drives the music. For others with some authenticity, the music drives the money.

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Well put.