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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JesseInTX · 51-55, M
@JustGoneNow I’m talking about the mainstream Nashville machine. It’s just not the same.
@JesseInTX I mean metal people say that about metal. and hard rock people about hard rock. That’s just what music does to stay fresh. Like when Rascal Flatts infused their gospel sound into country. My guess is your talking about melding Pop into country which almost every genre universally hates when it happens because bubblegum pop feels like it trivializes the music in favor of wider commercialization… but for the artist, that’s also where the biggest money is. It’s tough, because we are trying to make money too. But I do get it.
JesseInTX · 51-55, M
@JustGoneNow it all started in the early 2000s when Nashville was overrun with producers, executives and session players that weren’t making it in LA and NYC. Then, as you said, the commercial element sneaks in and traditions are gone in favor of the money. I think Alan Jackson said it best in this song.
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@JesseInTX I mean, I haven’t yet… but if I start writing country and made it big, people could say the same thing about me. I was a fan of country as a young girl but around middle school moved into gothish pop rock like The Cure and Heavy Metal like Black Sabbath & Iron Maiden. When the new crop of industrial metal like Nine Inch Nails and TOOL came in, I was all in. If I started writing country, I’d invariably bring over some of my music influences from other genres in an effort to make my stamp… my unique sound. Does that make me wrong for country or is that the natural evolution of music as performed by me in my unique signature? Keep in mind. I was a country fan first. Truists stifle art and there’s room enough for all expressions. If you don’t like it, don’t buy it… but that don’t mean it’s not perfect for someone else. Maybe that’s just their very own Minor Bird. #NoSilence
A Minor Bird
I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day;
Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.
And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song.
— Robert Frost
A Minor Bird
I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day;
Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.
And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song.
— Robert Frost
@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.