The good music - in all genres - is still available. It's public taste that has diminished to low common denominators. Consumers with poor taste drive the large markets in music these days.
For years I have found nothing but mangled metaphors in what is allegedly country music... take away cliche and rap influences and most stages would be silent.
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The good music - in all genres - is still available. It's public taste that has diminished to low common denominators. Consumers with poor taste drive the large markets in music these days.
Agree 100%. The audience has been dumbed down to the point where a 15 year old can be marketed as "the best singer in the USA" That's embarrassing. The good people are out there making money at what sells. Very often, they are capable of far better stuff. People have gotten very superficial
"All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government, as originally organized, should be administered in purity and truth." – Robert E. Lee
What it looks like to me, is that the audience for Country has changed. Music has changed, people have changed. We old fellows like our Country Music a certain way. I guess the only constant in the world, is change.
It is akin to the phenomenon of city folks moving to the country because it's cool and beautiful. They immediately begin making g it like the place they came from, ruining it. People started listening to country because it was considered cool. Then they changed it to a variation of what they had listened to before. They have money, so they call the shots about who succeeds and who fails. Great.
Other than a very small # of artist (most of them never get heard on the radio), Country Music has been dead since the early 90s. The record producers and radio stations are the guilty parties, but they've had plenty of help from the younger market. I can't even stand to listen to the Country stations around here. Not to mention quite a few stores and restaurants play it too. If I'm exposed to that crap for a while, and turn on Waylon or Cash or Miss Patsy Cline, it just feels as if I'd been rolled in pig crap and then given a bath!!! Country Music, much like the United States, has morphed into something that's no longer recognizable to those of us who grew up in it. Oh, they still celebrate the CMA awards and such, just like our government celebrates Independence Day. But it's no longer the thing it was meant to be. And the younger generation ain't got a clue what they're missing. 7mm
"Preserving the Constitution, fighting off the nibblers and chippers, even nibblers and chippers with good intentions, was once regarded by conservatives as the first duty of the citizen. It still is." � Wesley Pruden
