But this is country music and we do. Now, country artists tend to sound more like pop artists than authentic country. Country music serves as a whole separate genre within itself and needs to go back to the way it was before it becomes a new kind of pop genre. All an artist needs for a decent country song is a smooth, catchy melody attached to an acoustic guitar, a good drum beat and other assorted instruments that make country songs so popular.
Artists who sound so much like those on pop radio nowadays should maybe consider transferring genres. Above all, I applaud country artists who make music within their realm. They continue to stick to their guns and give the fans what they truly deserve: good, wholesome country music. Column Illinois-Minnesota is the next Big Ten rivalry. Opinions Two-party system splinters Democrats. Opinion What would you change about UI?
Opinion What do you think about UGL moving? Opinion Does Greek life correlate with sexual assault? The real deal are those independent artists who actually put together some of the best album. True country music exist but not in Luke Bryan world! Philip RoarkPhil roark January 29, am. If radio would just play the best music it can things would straighten themselves out.
When a album like sturgill simpsons sailors guide to earth doesnt get played on country radio or win best m on cam you know country sucks. Allen April 19, am. Leo Needletoe January 7, am. Great insight, Trigger! I grew up on pure country in the 60s, then real outlaw country and Southern rock in the 70s. Keep up the good work!! Goaheadandrespondidcbye December 1, am. Roark December 12, am. I recently listened to a dan and shay song and started laughing.
Then I discovered tyler childers albums purgatory and country squire and all was right in the world again. Over the ad thats being forced on them. Hey Arnold January 5, pm. Tracy January 5, pm. Kristen January 6, am. And the most ridiculous thing is that song went 1 and this other lame one is headed to the top 10 right now. Tracy January 6, pm. Junior January 6, pm.
Wah wah wah just a crybaby! Who are you to judge him! Go sit down! Kristen January 7, am. Tracy January 7, am. Good grief, calm down, Junior. JB-Chicago January 5, pm.
If this was , Hell Right for Blake would of been another chart topper. Singles with substance will become the new norm this decade on Country radio!!! Sam January 6, pm. What the audience out there is buying or streaming. And artists changing with the times? The current taste, outside of this bubble, is so different. Every time I check this site all I see is grumbling about the current artists. But they are selling records. Older artists are trying to figure out the new path.
Sometimes it works. Each decade brings something different. The whole music mixing is a kerfuffle. Lefthandednurse January 5, pm. The song is so egotistical. Oh and I went to 2 concert of his in — he did shots all during show. Libby P. January 5, pm. I think everyone needs to calm down. He has always had a spectrum of songs in his last few albums. I dont think this is the time to fight among ourselves.
We all like different aspects of genre. Music services and streaming are changing things as we chat. Give it some time. Not many artist have a true engaged relationship with fans like Luke Bryan. He gives a spectrum oF m as my cream of crop songwriters….
Luke and his mgt and label are astute to know things change and some things are classics and some songs stay on a spectrum of evolution. No one can deny he is one of the most heard artists. The man is on the road filling seats all the year long. So he needs some time to rest. Give him that time and respect. He has given his all to be the best entertainer he knows how to be….
He loves it and is devoted. We are not saving or killing country music t9night by picking apart an artist who has given his all…. He has to be exhausted. Charlie January 6, am. Luke Bryan has had a spectrum of songs in his last few albums like my asshole has had a spectrum of turds in my last few shits. Hey Arnold January 6, pm.
I wish he could be authentically himself in his music, like how Dierks Bentley and Brad Paisley are to their songs. Di Harris January 6, pm. These 2 are clueless. Guess they do not know the beauty of subtlety in certain situations. Michael Strait January 5, pm. Ben January 5, pm. Di Harris January 5, pm. Di Harris January 6, am. Michael Strait January 6, am. And they certainly are memorable. Billy Wayne Ruddick January 5, pm. Completely agree. I listen to pretty wide array of music, from rap, to metal, to Tejano.
The beauty of it is the variety that different genres bring and listening to the craft honed by experts in each genre.
Mixing them badly as country has done with elements of hip hop is where things fall off the rails. Well, except for this one time :. SG January 5, pm. His singles to me are like most of Sheltons. Not worth remembering but they race to that 1 on media base. Not just pop country aficionados, but Americana, folk, indie folk, adult contemporary, roots, folk-rock, rockabilly … all are reshaping the foundation of country music forcing it into a homogenized note.
I asked you about a country music publication a few posts ago. I never heard of 6 of the listed artists. I worked in the industry for eleven years. Another 5 of these artists listed were straight up Americana. It was easier when it was country vs pop country or country vs bro country. Those distinctions were obvious. One of the defining instruments of country music actually originates in West Africa and came to America through the slave trade.
That all changed at the dawn of the commercial recording industry, when record labels decided to start segregating their music into racialized genres. Holt: When genres were first created in the American popular-music world in the s, you know, there were just three genres. You had hillbilly music, race music, mainstream. As time went on, hillbilly music became, it was referred to as "country and Western. What defined those genres wasn't so much what they sounded like; it was who was making the music.
And so for race music, it was the music by and for African Americans. For hillbilly music, it was music by and for poor, working-class white people, and mainstream was for middle-class, wealthy white people. One thing that country and hip-hop certainly share is telling the stories of poor and working-class people. Be they urban or rural, part of understanding the genres as authentic has been tied to grounding them in the worlds that they came out of and sort of, in a way, paying homage to those spaces.
Narrator: That's why an artist's roots matter so much in both country and hip-hop. Storytelling and lived experience are part of what gives a performer their authenticity, what's known in hip-hop as "realness. So the classification of music into genres was never just about the way the music sounded, but rather the race and class of its intended audience.
Although the segregation of the record industry took place way back in the '20s, you can still see its legacy at award shows. Drake: Even though "Hotline Bling" is not a rap song, the only category that they can manage to fit me in is in a rap category. Narrator: Yet, a segregated industry has never stopped different genres from sharing common musical DNA. The birth of hip-hop, in the '80s, arose from a variety of black musical traditions, some of which, like blues and rock 'n' roll, have also shaped the evolution of country.
Holt: These musicians, these artists have been kind of influencing each other all along, but it's happening in a very pronounced way. Narrator: We've seen that hip-hop has shaped the direction of modern country music, both sonically and visually.
But what about the other way around? Holt: There has definitely always been a bit of a country voice in hip-hop, even if it's not so pronounced. Narrator: Country's had the most marked influence on Southern hip-hop, the music that's come out of places like Atlanta, New Orleans, and Memphis, Tennessee. Holt: The s into the early s, there were music makers and audiences who felt that the hip-hop that existed didn't really make space for them, because they were Southern.
There was this need to sort of brand themselves as authentically Southern and authentically hip-hop and distinct from the East Coast and the West Coast. Country music and images became fertile ground for asserting the hip-hop aesthetic that wasn't just a replication of the urban landscape.
Groups like OutKast, who, in "Rosa Parks," there is a harmonica solo, there is hamboning and clapping with stomping. Having that type of moment, that very bluegrassy, country moment, at the climax of this hip-hop song was a assertion of saying, well, you know, we're hip-hop, but we're not just defined by this urban centrality.
Narrator: Atlanta, the city that birthed OutKast, is arguably the epicenter of hip-hop today. Home to pioneering artists like Young Thug, who's freely experimented with country-trap melodies in his music. Now, when the South is widely credited as the center of innovation and hip-hop, it's easy to forget that during the '90s, groups like OutKast faced backlash from hip-hop's gatekeepers, who didn't like their distinctly country sound.
That's all I got to say. Holt: I'm sure for some, when that beat dropped It suddenly didn't represent the type of space that people imagine country music should be in. Hip-hop being so centered on poor, working-class urban and country being so focused on poor, working-class rural, those differences can seem like this huge barrier, and now it's a barrier that's much more permeable than before.
Narrator: So why does this genre mingling always seem to create so much controversy? Some fans worry that genre distinctions will eventually erode completely and all forms of music will blend together into a bland, undefined mono-genre. Holt: And that's, I think, one of the fears that sort of underlies that position, is that when genres start to hybridize, is that they lose their potency and meet somewhere in the middle and there's no discernible flavor to either.
But, as we know, you add two flavors, you might get a unique flavor, you know? It doesn't necessarily have to turn into nothing. World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options.
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