How in the blue blazes do Kid Rock and Big & Rich constitute as country? Wasn't he an urban rapper from Detroit a couple years ago? Country music? From what country? The standards these days. Just slap on a cowboy hat, and you're country! I just saw a Jessica Simpson video on CMT the other day if that ain't a sign of the musical apocolypse.
2006-07-01 18:32:43 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
victim_of_fun00 Believe me I have and so have my friends and sisters...several times! Or at least they told me they did.
2006-07-01 18:42:02 · update #1
agree 100%!!
2006-07-01 18:36:40 · answer #1 · answered by macybluedawn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, the first problem is the fact that we feel the need to label and categorize music in specific genre's. Heck, I don't know that, we the fans need to, but the tv stations and especially the radio stations have to, because they are providing a product on a specific format to a target audience.
Unfortunately, there is no longer a format for current/new regular old rock'n roll music. There are stations for new pop, new hip hop, new heavy tunes, 70's rock, soft rock, old country, new country and so forth.
If Big and Rich, Montgomery Gentry even Toby Keith, would have come out in the 70's, they would have been played on the rock stations right along with the Allman Bros, Lynard Skynard, Marshall Tucker, etc. Likewise, if the older bands were coming out today, they would probably be picked up as country bands, because there is no forum for new, good rock'n roll like this.
Country is still country. There is plenty of new, good real-live country music. Unfortunately for you, fortunately for some of us, that like both kinds of tunes, it is buried on tv and the radio with Big'n Rich, Shooter Jennings, Montgomery Gentry, etc.
Remember, Vinnie Paul of Pantera wears a cowboy hat, and you are never going to hear Cowboys from H**l on the country station!
Look, I love every kind of music from early George Jones, Merle Haggard to the Allman Brothers to Widespread Panic to Guns 'n Roses, Motley Crue to Meatloaf, NWA, Snoop and 50.
Maybe my appreciation for it all jades my opinion, but I have to believe that the fact that peeps who play guitars and sing melodies have no other outlet to expose the public to their new tunes is why country music has pulled them in. I mean, c'mon Jimmy Buffett and John Bon Jovi are on the country stations these days!
2006-07-02 02:04:32 · answer #2 · answered by Cing 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I understand your question about how country music has really become different from what everyone is use to.Like for example I saw that David Lee Roth is singing country music.I personally like the older stuff, like Reba,Martina.The new country music is more country pop, than actual country.Give me the older country music, and I am a happy camper!
2006-07-02 01:40:54 · answer #3 · answered by Marna S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ya, I agree. Kid Rock is definately not country. I love Big & Rich though, but they are more rock & roll than country.
2006-07-02 01:41:25 · answer #4 · answered by Becca 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you- but you shouldn't be writing here- you should be writing to CMT and your local country music stations. Tell all your friends and family to write and call and complain. The squeaky wheel gets the oil!
2006-07-02 01:37:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure what has happened to country....perhaps the all mighty dollar and the kids of the old country grew up!
2006-07-02 01:39:13 · answer #6 · answered by rockiesnredroprs 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
country definately ain't country any more.You're right, all you have to do is put on a cowboy hat and you're a country star.
2006-07-11 19:24:54 · answer #7 · answered by dhlover_101 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
so true all the nashville stars arent as country as they used to. only the TEXAS country stars are. did you know that a big country star- before he was big- went to nashville to be a country singer and they told him he was too country. omg right. lol. now there is real country out there and it is texas stars.like jamie richards!!
2006-07-02 01:39:48 · answer #8 · answered by Cj D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i agree to an point
it kind of shows that country music is not all about losing your girl you dog diein ya know the old says about why country music "sucked"
2006-07-02 01:38:38 · answer #9 · answered by shellshell 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes you are right country isn't country but in your heart .It will always be.
2006-07-02 01:37:59 · answer #10 · answered by macki4 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋