What if..... Country Music dies

[BigDGarciaFan]

Rock n' Roll officially died a month ago according to Kiss' Gene Simmons. what would happen if Country Music went through the same faith ?

 

[nablives]

Then you better count on more acts like Pitbull for Thanksgiving.

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

Rock n' Roll officially died a month ago according to Kiss' Gene Simmons. what would happen if Country Music went through the same faith ?

Well I agree with Simmons only to a point. That being said country music to me has been dead for several years. What you have now is some hipsters making what is basically pop music with a small layer of country thrown on top as well as the prerequisite fiddle solo to seem credible.
It pretty much stinks..........

 

[PJTHEDOORS]

I am sure there are some people still sobbing over the death of Disco. lol.

 

[kimrose]

I am sure there are some people still sobbing over the death of Disco. lol.

I for one. I sure do miss it! But it lives long in my ever lovin' heart.

 

[kimrose]

 

[65fastback2plus2]

i hope every day that country music will die.

 

[Lonestar94]

Country music has been dead well over 15 years.. The stuff your listening to now is pop music with a country accent and an occasional steel guitar or faint banjo.

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

Country music has been dead well over 15 years.. The stuff your listening to now is pop music with a country accent and an occasional steel guitar or faint banjo.

Agreed.....
The party responsible for getting that ball rolling over 15 yrs ago was none other then Garth Brooks. Shania Twain magnified that x10. What they are playing today is a sad resemblance to what country music was and should be.

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

Then you better count on more acts like Pitbull for Thanksgiving.

Then may God help us....
And yes my pitbull{lab actually} can sing better.

 

[Tabascocat]

There is still some classic country out there, just far and few between

 

[JoeyBoy718]

People have been saying Hip Hop is dead for over 10 years. Now Rock is dead and maybe Country.

What the heck is music then? (I haven't listened to anything new in about 16 years).

Heck, all I listen to is Miles Davis, Bobby Darin and Wu Tang Clan.

 

[cml750]

One thing is for sure, they just don't make music like they used to in ANY genre!!!!

 

[BoysFan4ever]

Lots of the great country singers have passed.

George Strait still sings country. He's not giving up recording. Just touring.

Country can be found!

 

[BoysFan4ever]

Agreed.....
The party responsible for getting that ball rolling over 15 yrs ago was none other then Garth Brooks. Shania Twain magnified that x10. What they are playing today is a sad resemblance to what country music was and should be.

Before my time but I remember readiness that Garth tried singing rock/pop as some alter ego guy.

I thought that was so strange. What the heck? Maybe he was doing drugs..

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

Rock n' Roll officially died a month ago according to Kiss' Gene Simmons. what would happen if Country Music went through the same faith ?

I guess then I'd get my job back, my dog back, my truck and girlfriend back....... lol

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Rock n' Roll officially died a month ago according to Kiss' Gene Simmons. what would happen if Country Music went through the same faith ?

Ozzy sang, "you can't kill rock n roll".... It's here to stay.


Now, country on you other hand.... "If a bear does his business in the woods.... Does anybody know"

Lmao

 

[DFWJC]

Yeah, today's country was the past's pop and mellow rock.
The Eagles' songs for sure would be country music today, for example.

Love it or hate it, it brought "country music 10x more into the main stream and made it more tolerable to 10s of millions. Not saying that is better, but that's how it is.

I kind of liked it when the lines were not so blurred, but it has helped the industry (financially and world-wide popularity wise) immensely.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

I used to hate country music as I grew up on R&B and 80's rap. Then I got more into some harder and alternative rock while still loving 90's hip hop. It wasn't until a few years ago that I started to understand some of the truly great music in country western like Johnny Cash, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Stevie Ray Vaughn. Eventually I started to listen to some country singers like Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline and I won't say that I would download their music on iTunes anytime soon...but, I really dug their lyrics and their voices (and the stories of their lives and their personalities).

I think the entire music industry, regardless if you're into R&B, hip hop, rock or country is just so far removed from what it was even in the 90's. Today's hip hop sounds nothing like it did in the 90's either.

To me, it's about a corporatization of music. The money people are always trying to find way to mass produce superstars of any genre of music. So it becomes less about musical talent, whether you can play an instrument, sing, write great songs or create a great beat...and more about looks and a gimmick. They can just auto-tune and put enough production in there to make a no talent look somewhat serviceable.

Hopefully, this will end soon. I think there is a stunning lack of rebelliousness in the millennial generation. Their parents mostly grew up in the 80's when our society became much more corporate (i.e. 80's yuppies) and the musical talents were less skilled (i.e. Madonna...weak talent, but knew how to get over). In the 90's we saw much more depth and a wider array of styles in rock and hip hop genre mainly because the parents of the 12-28 year old listeners grew up in the late 60's and 70's when musical talent was at its peak. So, I hope that in the next 10 years that the 12-28 year old demographic whose parents grew up in the 90's will eschew the corporatization of music and provide their own wave of musical acts where substance overtakes style.





YR

 

[trickblue]

Rock n' Roll officially died a month ago according to Kiss' Gene Simmons. what would happen if Country Music went through the same faith ?

It already has. Country today is pretty much pop music wearing a hat...

George Strait and Alan Jackson had a song a few years back called Murder on Music Row... it's about that very thing...