What the hell happened to country music?

[blackjack50]

I don't know if the younger generation enjoys this modern crap? It is all about parties. And I know that country has always been a little 1 dimensional. But it has not always been as I original as it is now. I guess it is just more commercialized music.

It is like they combined country and rap. And we all know that gets you crap.


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[zyzygy]

I don't know if the younger generation enjoys this modern crap? It is all about parties. And I know that country has always been a little 1 dimensional. But it has not always been as I original as it is now. I guess it is just more commercialized music.

It is like they combined country and rap. And we all know that gets you crap.


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Country for me is The Carter Family and those who inherited then tradition.

 

[Winston]

I don't know if the younger generation enjoys this modern crap? It is all about parties. And I know that country has always been a little 1 dimensional. But it has not always been as I original as it is now. I guess it is just more commercialized music.

It is like they combined country and rap. And we all know that gets you crap.


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It's some of the worst music known to man..

Nothing resembling the great tradition of country music.

 

[Crovax]

I don't know if the younger generation enjoys this modern crap? It is all about parties. And I know that country has always been a little 1 dimensional. But it has not always been as I original as it is now. I guess it is just more commercialized music.

It is like they combined country and rap. And we all know that gets you crap.


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Country music has always been about 3 things drinking, working hard/America, and promiscuity/infidelity

I don't see much difference other than the style

 

[Kobie]

I'm not a huge fan of old country -- I dig Cash and Willie, but never had much use for, say, George Strait or Randy Travis. However, the newer pop-country stuff is just awful.

 

[coldjoint]

Country for me is The Carter Family and those who inherited then tradition.

Nothing like some input from Europe on an American tradition.

 

[gdgyva]

George Jones

Conway twitty

Loretta Lynn

Hee Haw (Roy Clark)

The Grand Ole Opry

Charlie Pride

and the list goes on and on....

there are some GREAT artists out there now....

but i do prefer some of the classic voices of yesteryear

but yeah....not a fan of some of the newer stuff where they are mixing for the beat....

if i want Country with a beat....i listen to Charlie Daniels, or some good old bluegrass

 

[ataraxia]

I don't know if the younger generation enjoys this modern crap? It is all about parties. And I know that country has always been a little 1 dimensional. But it has not always been as I original as it is now. I guess it is just more commercialized music.

It is like they combined country and rap. And we all know that gets you crap.


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All music evolves. I remember when the Beatles were just getting big in the 1960s, my grandparents were rolling their eyes and telling us how the younger generation had lost all sense of class, sophistication, and beauty- and now were just listening to this new "noise". I promise you, if songwriters wrote music like the country music of the 50s and 60s, it just wouldn't sell.

I like Beethoven. I know lots of people who like Beethoven. But I listen to it knowing that it was the music of a different time and different era. I also know that if anyone today wrote music like that, it just wouldn't sell. As incredibly sophisticated and beautiful as the music is, the world has moved on.

That's just the way music is. It's a little like fashion in that way.

 

[beefheart]

I'm not a huge fan of old country -- I dig Cash and Willie, but never had much use for, say, George Strait or Randy Travis. However, the newer pop-country stuff is just awful.

Yeah, I saw a story last year that took 8 or so current country hits, put them all together playing at the same time...it sounded like one coherent song, all the beats and rhythm etc was the same..heck most of the words were the same or damned close. I'm not a fan of country, but I like old Dwight Yoakam and Willie and Waylon Jennings (I was at an event a few weeks ago where his wife was at, but I had to leave before she got there, I would have like to meet her)

 

[Crovax]

I'm not a huge fan of old country -- I dig Cash and Willie, but never had much use for, say, George Strait or Randy Travis. However, the newer pop-country stuff is just awful.

I Ike the early 2000s country which was more like rock-country

 

[truthatallcost]

Country for me is The Carter Family and those who inherited then tradition.

Me too. I heard old country was big in Ireland, particularly Jim Reeves. It's also popular in Poland.

 

[Mach]

I feel a great pressure when I hear country music. It's like the power of the one ring, invading my brain and making me think of death and dying.
As such, I cannot make any objective comment about country music then or now.
I suppose the really old folksy country had its charm, but nothing new,and god forbid not the drinking and working and infidelity...make it stop. Frodo, hurry up! Throw that **** into Mount Doom!

I had two jobs in my youth that only played country, I may be scarred from that, no offense to country lovers.

 

[truthatallcost]

In my not so humble opinion:

Real Country:



Walmart Music:

 

[beefheart]

Me too. I heard old country was big in Ireland, particularly Jim Reeves. It's also popular in Poland.

Garth Brooks is a god in Ireland. He regularly performs there and it is a frenzy to get tickets.

 

[ataraxia]

Garth Brooks is a god in Ireland. He regularly performs there and it is a frenzy to get tickets.

Well, it would make sense. Country music has its roots in Ireland.

 

[ttwtt78640]

I don't know if the younger generation enjoys this modern crap? It is all about parties. And I know that country has always been a little 1 dimensional. But it has not always been as I original as it is now. I guess it is just more commercialized music.

It is like they combined country and rap. And we all know that gets you crap.


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According to C&W experts getting drunk (partying?) is an essential element of the perfect C&W song.

Well, a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song
And he told me it was the perfect country & western song
I wrote him back a letter and I told him it was not the perfect country & western song
Because he hadn't said anything at all about mama
Or trains, or trucks, or prison, or getting drunk

That list is from the lyrics of the perfect C&W song but it omits the losing of a love interest - which is definitely a major subject in C&W music.

 

[Winston]

According to C&W experts getting drunk (partying?) is an essential element of the perfect C&W song.



That list is from the lyrics of the perfect C&W song but it omits the losing of a love interest - which is definitely a major subject in C&W music.

"Well I was drunk, the day my mom, got out of prison."

Good memories, drinking and hanging out singing that song.

To me nothing captures sorrow more than country music. Especially heartache/divorce. Something like "Neon Moon" by Brooks & Dunn.

 

[Port & Starboard]

All genres of music changes over time.

All my hard core rock & roll friends say that the new talent sucks, but I love many of the new talents.

All my country music friends say the same thing.

I dunno....... I think many of the recent artists in the past 10-15 years are pretty damn good.

 

[truthatallcost]

Garth Brooks is a god in Ireland. He regularly performs there and it is a frenzy to get tickets.

Wow, I didn't know he was big there. The UK and ireland kind of shuns most crappy modern American trends in music, although there's a rap scene I've heard.
I want to see Ireland pretty bad. It's my #1 country I'd like to visit.

 

[ttwtt78640]

"Well I was drunk, the day my mom, got out of prison."

Good memories, drinking and hanging out singing that song.

To me nothing captures sorrow more than country music. Especially heartache/divorce. Something like "Neon Moon" by Brooks & Dunn.

Yep.

 

[beefheart]

According to C&W experts getting drunk (partying?) is an essential element of the perfect C&W song.



That list is from the lyrics of the perfect C&W song but it omits the losing of a love interest - which is definitely a major subject in C&W music.

Steve Goodman is one of my favorite singer songwriters, he was a folk singer, and he sure could write. Sadly, he died after fighting cancer for nearly 20 years.

 

[beefheart]

Wow, I didn't know he was big there. The UK and ireland kind of shuns most crappy modern American trends in music, although there's a rap scene I've heard.
I want to see Ireland pretty bad. It's my #1 country I'd like to visit.

Its a great place, I need to head back, I have a dual citizenship with Ireland. There are some incredibly low cost flights out there now, Aer Lingus and Ethiopian both fly there non stop from LAX. I'm really glad I got to take my dad there before he died, we found his mother's house and family farm, and his grand parents and great grand parents graves. My nephew was just over there last week on a whirlwind European trip.

 

[beefheart]

Yep.

My friend used to be a DJ, she was tasked with trying to get an interview with George Jones....not a very easy thing as he was always drunk off his ass. Anyway, she was able to at least present his manager with a list of questions and a tape recorder. She waited about 20 minutes and got the recorder back. The tape consisted of "how the hell do I press record on this ****** thing?" And several drunken guttural noises. She said it was so much better than an actual interview!:lamo

 

[ttwtt78640]

Well, it would make sense. Country music has its roots in Ireland.

That Irish influence is surely prevalent in this song:

 

[ttwtt78640]

I don't know if the younger generation enjoys this modern crap? It is all about parties. And I know that country has always been a little 1 dimensional. But it has not always been as I original as it is now. I guess it is just more commercialized music.

It is like they combined country and rap. And we all know that gets you crap.


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Country music often includes the pedal steel guitar which is one of my favorite instruments.