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Post by The Curmudgeon on Nov 19, 2013 16:57:11 GMT 2
Living in the UK, or Latveria depending on who's reading, I've been pretty much guarded from country music. The likes of Taylor Swift and Shania Twain aside, the UK music scene doesn't have much time for country. "Nashville" was a great soap opera style TV show; decent characters, good story, amazing T&A.. but man the music sucked balls. All of it. WWE did a special show this week from Nashville, and as a "treat" had various country music artists on. There was also a bunch of clips of music videos from bands and artists I'd never heard of, and man oh man. Dreadful. Asinine lyrics, beyond punchable looking musicians... like I said, I'm pretty unfamiliar with this genre, but when THIS www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PvebsWcpto is hailed as "the most downloaded country song in history", is it fair to write off the whole genre as brain-dead trash? |
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Post by trashcanman on Nov 20, 2013 3:31:43 GMT 2
Yes. Yes it is. Well, anything you'll hear on the radio, anyways. Classic country is full of great, timeless songs. The shit that gets called "country" these days really bears no resemblance to the traditional genre and is more like watered-down rock and teeny-pop a'la Nickelback and Miley Cyrus. I know there is still good country music out there because on occasion I hear it in a video game or on shows like The Walking Dead, but in terms of popular music, country is worse right now than any style of music has ever been, including disco. I'm literally embarrassed when I hear it, which is something that is usually reserved for the Black Eyed Peas or Bruno Mars.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Nov 20, 2013 16:50:58 GMT 2
It sounds horribly snobby and elitist, but I think there's probably REAL country music that just doesn't get the mainstream attention that would blow this sort of shit out of the water. Some of the clips of the bands WWE were playing had obvious auto-tuned vocals. In fucking country music?? How does that work?
I just.. man, songs about open roads and bottles of beers and meeting a girl in a bar seems to be pretty much all these guys have to sing about. The day I want to hear some long-haired square jaw sing good ol' boy foot tappers is the day I want to shoot myself.
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Post by trashcanman on Nov 21, 2013 2:30:25 GMT 2
That crap has pretty much become the redneck equivalent of rappers bragging about money, being in da club, and booties. A sure sign of a complete waste of sound.
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Post by Ben on Nov 21, 2013 5:56:11 GMT 2
Today's country music might as well be called Country-Pop. I've tried unsuccessfully to get into country music more than once but my ears just won't let me. The occasional song or artist will tickle me a little bit (I can tolerate Staind's Aaron Lewis when he does his country thing), but the state of country today is pathetic. There just isn't anything "country" about it anymore. As a genre, it has basically sold out.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Nov 21, 2013 19:20:46 GMT 2
Hang on, I just realised something; Ryan Adams is country, isn't he? He's a million miles removed from these douchebags though.
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Post by trashcanman on Nov 22, 2013 6:53:23 GMT 2
Adams is typically considered folk, but old country and folk are practically interchangeable. The Eagles were a really great country/folk band. People consider them rock, but it's pretty difficult to make the case that songs like Desperado, Lyin' Eyes, and Take It Easy are rock music, especially when you consider that country acts cover the hell out of their catalog.
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