As goes Nashville, so goes the South...
Faith Hill and Tim McGraw may have just made it onto my list of acceptable country music.
posted by karmajunkie @ 3/09/2006 09:37:00 AM
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2006/03/09
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Oh my God, Gaddis. They are part of the reason country sucks so bad these days!!! You contradict yourself, my friend. You want Patsy on one hand and Faith on the other? YOu have GOT to be kidding me. Agree with them politically; that is fine. There are a lot of stars that I don't agree with but I still like their music. The same goes the other way. EXAMPLE: If Michael Bolton comes out as a conservative, I am not going to say that "he has made it onto my list of acceptable shitty music." Keep your standards and keep your pop shit out of my country
Obviously I've got more than a touch of the facetious to this one...
You're right of course--there are no circumstances in which new country in the vein of tim mcgraw or faith hill is acceptable music.
God bless Johnny Cash.
God Bless (the short list)
Patsy
Merle
Conway
Waylon
Cash
Mother Maebelle sp?
loretta
Hank (the original one)
Willie
Kris
and i could go on and on
I'm gonna have to side with bobo on this one...
yeah, call them capitalists or whatever you want, and certainly if it sells they have a right to make whatever music they want. That doesn't make it quality music, however. Its formulaic and trite, a bubbling cauldron of liquid shit, a testament to the mindless masses who will buy whatever they are exposed to.
There was a study recently that showed that people tend to choose what they think everyone else is choosing, which is why crappy bands get big in the first place. If its playing on the radio it must be because everyone else is listening to it, right?
apple,
can you honestly tell me that if they didn't start playing Wilco or Gillian Welch or Kasey Chambers on mainstream radio stations that people would listen to it? Tommy Hilfiger cologne sells a hellacious amount, but that doesn't mean it is good. I (and you) would take fifteen others before that one. Not to mention cars. I bet Ford Sells more Tauruses than there are Aston Martins. Which one is better?
I don't think you'd see the widespread market penetration with those bands without the benefit of radio, but I do think they'd get quite a bit of grassroots exposure. the RIAA likes to blame all their woes on file-sharing, despite numerous studies that show it to be a boon to sales, when the fact of the matter is that the decline in music sales goes hand-in-hand with a decline in quality of music that they push on the radio. The last year or so was better than the previous four, but still far below what we should demand as consumers who are being asked to pay as much as $20 for a CD. The file-sharing, especially the napster-style sharing that was around when the three of us were in school together, is more like free marketing--the bands get plenty of exposure, the consumer gets to discover new music, and the quality was usually so crappy or full albums so hard to find that it encouraged people to go out and buy the CD. Wilco, for example, released A Ghost is Born to the file-sharing masses and saw great sales both of their CD's and tickets to their shows as a result.
The traditional model that's been used since the 70's is outmoded, and if the RIAA doesn't get it through their heads they're going to have to change to survive, ten years from now they're going to look back on the napster days as a time of plenty, as musicians increasingly produce their own albums using cheap, high-quality recording systems and desktop edition software like GarageBand.
[and on the aston-martin/taurus thing, they're apples and oranges. They are sold to two completely different markets--nobody who would consider buying an Aston-Martin is in the market for a Taurus as a substitute. A more appropriate comparison would be a taurus and civic or accord.]
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