Im not a Beyonce fan
Or a big country music fan, but why is she getting so much grief for her new song? It sounds like a perfectly fine country music song to me.
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It’s kind of gospely, bluesy, kinda country. Traditionalists aren’t gonna like it much but artists like the Chicks, Rascal Flatts, Maren Morris, Little Big Town, and honestly probably starting with Garth Brooks have widened the field to allow for different sounds way before Beyoncé. She’s just putting her spin on it but since she didn’t start country, some people don’t like that and feel like she’s appropriating their music. That argument’s kinda bullshit but she’s got a different sound not everyone in country music is gonna like. It is what it is.
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@JesseInTX I get what you are saying but Beyoncé is probably a pretty poor example of that, though. As a Houston native she grew up with country same as me. But yeah, I get your point.
Barefooter25 · 46-50, M
@JesseInTX Have you listened to Miranda Lambert and Ellie King's "Drunk (And I don't want to go Home)"? I have been listening to country music for most of my life and this song, just like Beyonce's "Texas Hold EM" definitely isn't country music. It's just another bland alternative pop song you hear on mainstream radio every day.
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AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
@FreeSpirit1 I agree that music , or anything else for that matter , should not be exclusive to one group of people . Nothing should be based on skin color or sex either .
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Please read about the origins of country music, the banjo, etc.
Cultural appropriation at its finest. Haha
You are 100% mistaken.Please read about the origins of country music, the banjo, etc.
AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
@LunadelobosIAMTHEDRAGON the banjo is a stringed instrument , like the violin or cello.
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Heartlander · 80-89, M
I haven't heard it, but it's probably like if Hillary Clinton was seen at a Bas Pro :)
Country is different for different people, and I think legacy country fans are also legacy rock and roll fans, and there may be lingering resentment for Beyonce singing Etta James's signature song for Obama. Like "how dare she!"
Country is different for different people, and I think legacy country fans are also legacy rock and roll fans, and there may be lingering resentment for Beyonce singing Etta James's signature song for Obama. Like "how dare she!"
Heartlander · 80-89, M
@JustGoneNow I'm accounting for the pushback not the song nor the people. It was absolutely the perfect song for the ball but the wrong person singing it from the viewpoint of legacy rock and roll fans.
Yea, like the Obamas gave the batton to someone else.
I understand about artist being upset about other performers covering "their" songs. I remember reading Steve Goodman's "face the music" (?) some years ago and it covered the emotions and the betrayals pretty well.
because she was butt hurt that it wasn’t her performing it.
Yea, like the Obamas gave the batton to someone else.
I understand about artist being upset about other performers covering "their" songs. I remember reading Steve Goodman's "face the music" (?) some years ago and it covered the emotions and the betrayals pretty well.
@Heartlander I can totally understand you feeling it was the wrong artist, I however don’t understand tying any blame to said artist or associating it to her creating her own piece in the country genre. I’m sorry, I just don’t see how the two things relate at all. I personally won’t be buying her record. The song was just okay to me. However she has every right to make it and I would not be one to question her expression or suggest she limit her voice. Basically I don’t see the relevance of that to the OP’s question.
Heartlander · 80-89, M
@JustGoneNow Lingering negative feelings. Much like when the Dixie Chicks offended Bush supporters. 15 years later they still have difficulty getting traction with some crowds. Nothing to do with their music. Dropping "Dixie" seemed like they were hunting for a new fan base.
On the flip side, look at the home run Gaga hit when she teamed up with Tony Bennett. We received that DVD as a gift from an old friend and it became one of our favorite. Before she wasn't on our radar. We're old people, still clutching onto our old favorites. Etta James, Tony Bennett. Neither Beyonce nor Gaga were on our radar.
All the above is different, but what they all have in common is that when a performer nudges their fan base or potential future fan base it can have a future affect, one way or another.
On the flip side, look at the home run Gaga hit when she teamed up with Tony Bennett. We received that DVD as a gift from an old friend and it became one of our favorite. Before she wasn't on our radar. We're old people, still clutching onto our old favorites. Etta James, Tony Bennett. Neither Beyonce nor Gaga were on our radar.
All the above is different, but what they all have in common is that when a performer nudges their fan base or potential future fan base it can have a future affect, one way or another.
Jimmy2016 · 61-69, M
🤔...............Jumped on my horse
rode to the range
rounding up some cows
stopped at the creek
for a drink to quince our thrust
dark clouds in the sky, rain on it way
come on cows let get a move on
need to get back before the moon light
rode to the range
rounding up some cows
stopped at the creek
for a drink to quince our thrust
dark clouds in the sky, rain on it way
come on cows let get a move on
need to get back before the moon light
I just heard it for the first time.
I am not a fan of this song.
I LOATHE the swearing, it denigrates music.
I know that other artists swear in country music and I hate that.
I can't put it in the category of country music. I have no idea how it hit number one.
I don't love the words, there is absolutely nothing remarkable about this song.
(Miley's Flowers is incrementally 'better',
it won an award. What for?
'Rant' over lol)
I am not a fan of this song.
I LOATHE the swearing, it denigrates music.
I know that other artists swear in country music and I hate that.
I can't put it in the category of country music. I have no idea how it hit number one.
I don't love the words, there is absolutely nothing remarkable about this song.
(Miley's Flowers is incrementally 'better',
it won an award. What for?
'Rant' over lol)
What's the song?
TexChik · F
Post the song!
pdockal · 56-60, M
Who really cares ????
I don't and won't listen to any of her music or rhetoric ever
I don't and won't listen to any of her music or rhetoric ever
uncalled4 · 56-60, M
To some, "going country" is looked upon purely as a contrived, calculated career move, with varied results(Sheryl Crow, Bon Jovi, Darius Rucker, etc.) . Some look at it as a last gasp, empty gesture career move, which surely doesn't apply to Queen B, but there's a stigma about it, that it smacks of a money grab more than an artistic decision. And I really dislike most modern country.
R&B and hip hop are not the musical force they once were. This, imo. is B jumping ship, ahead of the curve, as she always seems to be. Maybe it's the way the biz is going, maybe not, but I wouldn't be surprised.
I'm not the intended audience anyway, and B is quite a good singer. This time out, though, she is not leading the pack, kinda doing a "me also" thing. She's having success with it, so good on her.
R&B and hip hop are not the musical force they once were. This, imo. is B jumping ship, ahead of the curve, as she always seems to be. Maybe it's the way the biz is going, maybe not, but I wouldn't be surprised.
I'm not the intended audience anyway, and B is quite a good singer. This time out, though, she is not leading the pack, kinda doing a "me also" thing. She's having success with it, so good on her.
@uncalled4 While I think everything you said is true, I feel like it doesn’t apply too much to B. As she has country roots just like me, she just didn’t start there when she made her climb. The songs are not bad but I do think her composition in this genre is much tougher, so we’ll see how it ends up ultimately.
@uncalled4 No one said “how dare he” to Cash, covering Trent Reznor’s song “Hurt.” I do get your point, but I just think she’s had a lot of success everywhere and this isn’t her fleeing one genre to try and make it in country but more just a stylistic choice.
OogieBoogie · F
I think rhe song is jivey and cute....makes me wanna bop to it.
But it aint real country.
And the video is even worse. Every part of it is clichéd, contrived, polished, sexualized, urbanised and hollywooded 'country'......
I mean - id love to see how she'd fare riding a horse in bathers and chaps.😂
Chapped thighs most likely .
Good cute song.
But its just a grab at a demographic 🤷
But it aint real country.
And the video is even worse. Every part of it is clichéd, contrived, polished, sexualized, urbanised and hollywooded 'country'......
I mean - id love to see how she'd fare riding a horse in bathers and chaps.😂
Chapped thighs most likely .
Good cute song.
But its just a grab at a demographic 🤷
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