Elon Musk to Buy Country Music
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@jon-nyc said in Elon Musk to Buy Country Music:
Funny thing is I know a few recent converts to country (last decade or so), including my old boss. They tell me “it’s totally different Jon” but they mean it in a good way.
I'm sure it took them a while to get over the stigma.
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Gone country...
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@jon-nyc said in Elon Musk to Buy Country Music:
I don’t know the genre too well but I have heard it’s gotten a bit too much like pop. Putting the joke aside, is that the complaint of the savingcountrymusic people?
I know the genre well.. there has always been a vocal few in the industry who complain if the music changes. According to them, anything that doesn't sound a certain way is not "country music". I have always both understood their point, but completely disagreed with it. Fans tastes change. I know Alan Jackson wa ts everything to sound like George Jones, but damn... George Jones' music changed and evolved too.
They have a point that Beyonce or KISS or I sent your favorite genre specific artist here are likely to not be able to pull off a country tune, and any genre will be hurt by going that far off course, there needs to be room for growth and change. In the end, the listening audience will continue to determine what is and is not country music, not Alan Jackson.
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Harlan Howard once defined country music as three cords and the truth. It can be gussied up beyond that, but I always thought the best country songs were written by folks who sounded like they had lived a little bit and had something to say. Yeah, it can be cheatin' or drinkin' songs, but there's a lot of stuff out there that ain't. Good country has distinctive voices, fiddle or slide steel work, telecasters, flat top acoustics, maybe a banjo and some occasional elements of bluegrass, since mountain music formed much of early country. But good country takes those elements and says something about life.
Take Walker Hayes...Some of his stuff is ok, like AA, but some of his stuff like Fancy Like...Well, I'd just as soon listen to a Delrio dog fight. Shane Smith? Gordon Lightfoot with an upbeat and less songwriting skills. Jason Aldean. No. Just, no.
There are some acts out there I do like. Chris Stapleton comes to mind. And slurs or not, I like some of Morgan Wallen's stuff.
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@Larry said in Elon Musk to Buy Country Music:
@jon-nyc said in Elon Musk to Buy Country Music:
I don’t know the genre too well but I have heard it’s gotten a bit too much like pop. Putting the joke aside, is that the complaint of the savingcountrymusic people?
I know the genre well.. there has always been a vocal few in the industry who complain if the music changes. According to them, anything that doesn't sound a certain way is not "country music". I have always both understood their point, but completely disagreed with it. Fans tastes change. I know Alan Jackson wa ts everything to sound like George Jones, but damn... George Jones' music changed and evolved too.
They have a point that Beyonce or KISS or I sent your favorite genre specific artist here are likely to not be able to pull off a country tune, and any genre will be hurt by going that far off course, there needs to be room for growth and change. In the end, the listening audience will continue to determine what is and is not country music, not Alan Jackson.
You said it good. Music tastes change, and what I listened and call "country" or "rock" or "jazz" will change. I may (or may not) like the way it changed, but it will change.
I think that musical "taste" is set between the ages of 12-25. What you listen to during that time pretty defines how you define the various types of music.
