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Country music
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Country music
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Country music
On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 10:16:07 -0500, "Ryan P."
wrote: On 4/10/2016 10:25 AM, wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 06:14:07 -0700 (PDT), Its Me wrote: On Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 12:51:32 AM UTC-4, wrote: We grazed by this on another thread but these days there really does not seem to be much old time country music. It has evolved into pop singers like Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift. There are a lot of guys doing things in the vein of the Eagles and other soft rockers from the 70s and 80s. Then you have guys like Colt Ford who have a hip hop sound, rapping songs about waving the flag and celebrating rural living instead of killing cops and abusing women like the original rappers. We saw Colt Ford this evening at a free open air concert in Bonita along with a couple local bands and a "Voice" runner up (Rae Lynn). The interesting thing is all of my old 60s Motown dance moves still work with his music. The beat seems to be very similar. One thing about country is there does seem to be a lot of music in their music. It has changed from the old "twang and trains and hill billy thing" (Trace Adkins line). Steven Tyler of Aerosmith said it best. "Country music is the new rock and roll". That is really true. Since Lynert Skinnert and that sound, they are edging over into the rock and roll side of things. It is not like the Europop sound or the Seattle grunge/punk stuff. What sells as country is about as broad a category as you can get tho. Country music has the same problem any other popular genre does... Record labels are looking for songs with gimmicky hooks that will grab people and sell a bunch of singles on iTunes. The "old" style of country, which is basically telling a 2-3 verse story doesn't appeal to a lot of younger people who have no attention span. You DO see some of them trying to mix the old and the new sound... Like Blake Shelton. What's funny (and ironic) about Keyser's comment is that one of the more "traditional" sounding current artists is Darious Rucker. Country is certainly where the money is, although it is not your daddy's country music. The highest earning woman in the music business is Taylor Swift. She is not really a country act but she calls herself country. I am not a big fan of her music and she is really not that pretty (she had to buy an ass) but she sure is a good businesswoman and that impresses me. |
Country music
On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 11:30:19 -0400, wrote:
On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 10:16:07 -0500, "Ryan P." wrote: On 4/10/2016 10:25 AM, wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 06:14:07 -0700 (PDT), Its Me wrote: On Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 12:51:32 AM UTC-4, wrote: We grazed by this on another thread but these days there really does not seem to be much old time country music. It has evolved into pop singers like Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift. There are a lot of guys doing things in the vein of the Eagles and other soft rockers from the 70s and 80s. Then you have guys like Colt Ford who have a hip hop sound, rapping songs about waving the flag and celebrating rural living instead of killing cops and abusing women like the original rappers. We saw Colt Ford this evening at a free open air concert in Bonita along with a couple local bands and a "Voice" runner up (Rae Lynn). The interesting thing is all of my old 60s Motown dance moves still work with his music. The beat seems to be very similar. One thing about country is there does seem to be a lot of music in their music. It has changed from the old "twang and trains and hill billy thing" (Trace Adkins line). Steven Tyler of Aerosmith said it best. "Country music is the new rock and roll". That is really true. Since Lynert Skinnert and that sound, they are edging over into the rock and roll side of things. It is not like the Europop sound or the Seattle grunge/punk stuff. What sells as country is about as broad a category as you can get tho. Country music has the same problem any other popular genre does... Record labels are looking for songs with gimmicky hooks that will grab people and sell a bunch of singles on iTunes. The "old" style of country, which is basically telling a 2-3 verse story doesn't appeal to a lot of younger people who have no attention span. You DO see some of them trying to mix the old and the new sound... Like Blake Shelton. What's funny (and ironic) about Keyser's comment is that one of the more "traditional" sounding current artists is Darious Rucker. Country is certainly where the money is, although it is not your daddy's country music. The highest earning woman in the music business is Taylor Swift. She is not really a country act but she calls herself country. I am not a big fan of her music and she is really not that pretty (she had to buy an ass) but she sure is a good businesswoman and that impresses me. Wish you hadn't said that. I'll never look at her the same. Damn. -- Ban liars, tax cheats, juvenile name-callers, and narcissists...not guns! |
Country music
On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 15:14:52 -0400, Keine Keyserscheiße
wrote: On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 11:30:19 -0400, wrote: Country is certainly where the money is, although it is not your daddy's country music. The highest earning woman in the music business is Taylor Swift. She is not really a country act but she calls herself country. I am not a big fan of her music and she is really not that pretty (she had to buy an ass) but she sure is a good businesswoman and that impresses me. Wish you hadn't said that. I'll never look at her the same. Damn. I didn't know it until Bill Maher made a joke about it the other night. He said "now Kanye West has something to grab besides her microphone". Then they showed the pictures. She was pretty bony. I bet Kanye wishes he made 10% of her money. I think the pretty one is Carrie Underwood, maybe Miranda. Both are a little bigger tho. Miranda seemed to lose about 20 pounds when she sent Blake down the road and she looked real good at the CMAs in that black cat suit. Kelly Pickler has a fine hiney too. We saw her at Lakes Park, here in Ft Myers opening for Sugarland a few years ago and she worked the rope line by the VIP seats. Cute girl. |
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