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Post by Zack on May 19, 2010 16:32:05 GMT -5
dear lord help us all.
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Post by Billy Uranus on May 19, 2010 21:07:33 GMT -5
If I enjoyed "Ladies Love Country Boys", will I dig this as well?
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Post by Zack on May 19, 2010 22:51:58 GMT -5
"Ladies Love Country Boys" was like 4 years ago by Trace Adkins But just by the title, this will be something I despise and you, KP, will love.
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Post by Billy Uranus on May 20, 2010 22:26:22 GMT -5
Whoops, I meant "That's How Country Boys Roll". That was an awesome song. But for the record, I like that Trace Adkins song too. TERRRRRN IT UPPPPP
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Post by Zack on May 21, 2010 22:04:46 GMT -5
Yeah I could have guessed you liked "Ladies Love Country Boys" too.
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Post by Billy Uranus on May 21, 2010 22:11:46 GMT -5
^LOL! ;D His song "Hot Mama" or whatever it's called kind of creeps me out though...
And you know what Zack, I was thinking today. I think you're right about this whole country music thing. I was thinking of why I can't listen to a country station for more than 15 minutes and it's because (almost) every song deal with the same topics. Beer, girls, beer, failed relationships, beer, trucks and farming vehicles...and beer. Every once in awhile we get a song like "The Call" or "In Color" that are at least somewhat original. But usually it's just something I'd want to listen to if I was bike riding through "the sticks".
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Post by Zack on May 21, 2010 22:52:17 GMT -5
^LOL! ;D His song "Hot Mama" or whatever it's called kind of creeps me out though... And you know what Zack, I was thinking today. I think you're right about this whole country music thing. I was thinking of why I can't listen to a country station for more than 15 minutes and it's because (almost) every song deal with the same topics. Beer, girls, beer, failed relationships, beer, trucks and farming vehicles...and beer. Every once in awhile we get a song like "The Call" or "In Color" that are at least somewhat original. But usually it's just something I'd want to listen to if I was bike riding through "the sticks". Of course I LIKE "Hot Mama" Of course I'm right! Country music has redefined itself as "hick music about topics like hillbillies, farming, beer, a good looking women". In my dictionary it should mean "songs that tell stories". Sometimes we do get some original songs (although I HATE "In Color" and dont care for "The Call", but there are some better examples I'd use ), and those are the ones that still give me hope that Country music can someday return to what it once was.
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Post by Billy Uranus on May 21, 2010 23:07:19 GMT -5
Now, the reason that "Hot Mama" creeps me out is because of the 17 year-old line. And also it just seems to me that he's lusting after a granny panty wearing overweight mama. But I want to ask you this - do you really hate the "hick songs", or just hate the over-abundance of them we see on country radio today? As you know, I love those types of songs. "That's How Country Boys Roll" was awesome by itself. But right next to "Hillbilly Bone" on the chart and "Ladies Love Country Boys" on a playlist, it just gets lost in the shuffle. I think it's cool if like two songs in the top 10 are "hick songs", but when it's half the chart it starts to get boring. The closest analogy I will use is (as you'd expect) with the active rock chart. There are a lot of raunchy hard rock songs about sex these days (such as the songs released by Nickelback, Buckcherry, TOAD, etc.). But the thing is, there usually aren't too many songs dealing with that subject matter. We've also got violence-inducing songs like "You're Going Down" by Sick Puppies, as well as plenty of "darker" subject matters that country radio would call "evil". Basically, what I'm saying is that the rock charts have a wide variety of lyrics compared to country radio.
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Post by Zack on May 22, 2010 15:17:41 GMT -5
I do enjoy some songs about drinking: "Toes" by Zac Brown Band, "Alcohol" by Brad Paisley, "One More Drinkin' Song" by Jerrod Niemann, "Beer Or Gasoline" by Chris Young, etc.
I do enjoy some "hillbilly" or being country songs: "Good Directions" by Billy Currington, "Save A Horse Ride A Cowboy" by Big & Rich, "Country Girl" by Rissi Palmer, "How 'Bout You" by Eric Church, "Redneck Woman" by Gretchen Wilson, "Hicktown" by Jason Aldean, etc.
and there are some certain songs that I like from the other over-used categories of Country music.
But when someone like Justin Moore comes in and his first 4 singles are called "Kiss My Country Ass", "Back That Thing Up", "Small Town USA" and "Backwoods". This does NOTHING to make me like this kid. Being 'country, hot women, small towns (which apparently you have to live in to be 'country'), and then another song about living in a small town and being a hick. BE FRICKIN CREATIVE FOR ONCE PLEASE!?!? We have enough songs about small towns ("Boondocks", "Podunk", "Hicktown", etc) we don't need any more. And we don't need songs about your rebellious country ass or being sleazy and asking someone to "back that thang up" on you. Could you write a love song? Could you tell about a childhood story? Could you sing about family or friendship and hardships you've been through? Country radio has just become SO monotonous and I HATE monotony and repetitiveness. If every once and awhile a DIFFERENT artist would like to sing about going to a bar, having some fun, being a country man, seeing hot women, living in a small town, drinking beer, and waking up and plowing the farm then FINE! But when the SAME artists do it over and over and over again (*cough Billy Currington, Blake Shelton, Trace Adkins, Toby Keith*) then it makes me very angry. Be creative and stop hiding your lack of creativity behind lyrically identical songs with just different rhyme schemes and instruments.
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Post by Billy Uranus on May 22, 2010 20:48:18 GMT -5
That was a good rant. Although I think singing about childhood memories and writing love songs is also pretty generic for country music. It goes back to the "boo hoo" type country that was heard so much in the 80's and 90's. Personally, I'd rather hear the sleazy songs than the sad ones. I mean, why do all country songs have to be so literal? I have not heard one single country song that was not literal...although I can say the same for rap. Do the Nashville guys not know how to use metaphors or other creative ways of writing songs?
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Post by Zack on May 23, 2010 22:34:03 GMT -5
See love songs never get old to me, because they always get told in a different way (for the most part). But sad songs = the best. Rascal Flatts "Why" & "What Hurts The Most", Carrie's "Temporary Home", Joey + Rory's "To Say Goodbye", Martina's "Concrete Angel", Gary Allan's "Today", Sugarland's "Stay", Brad Paisley & Alison Krauss "Whiskey Lullaby", etc that I shed tears when hearing the song and/or watching the videos are the type of songs that I just fall in love with. They just pull at my heart and the emotion that artists put into sad songs is what I really love. I guess what I REALLY dislike about all these bad country songs lately are that these talented people are wasting their talents singing about rednecks and beer when they could put their talents to good use and touch some peoples lives with them.
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Post by Billy Uranus on May 24, 2010 0:26:27 GMT -5
Well don't you think that's a bit bias though? Because I'd rather hear the hick songs than the sad ones. Neither one is original, and how do you judge that a sad song takes more or less talent to perform than a hick song?
I just want country to stop singing about the same things. Sad songs are almost as rampant as the hick ones.
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