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Question: I have heard some traditionalists say that they think that new country isn't really country, I was just wondering why they think that.
Answers: I have heard some traditionalists say that they think that new country isn't really country, I was just wondering why they think that.
I'm a child of the 70's so new country sounds like rock did back then. So many new artists sounds like rock so why don't they call it rock? In my opinion, and it's just mine, George Strait and Alan Jackson are country. Big and Rich are rock.
I'm not against rock music, I just think it should be called what it is! Hope that helps answer your question!
By the way, I like Nickelback , Bon Jovi, Sheryl Crow, and some of the other rock singers but they don't claim to be country.
haha maybe it's because people like me have recently gotten into it! I grew up liking the hip hop and alternative, and hated country until just this past year and the Rascal Flatts got popular.
What's UP with the thumbs down?????
I like a lot of country now, thankyouverymuch, not Just the popular stuff. I daily flip through the country music channels and listen to a variety of old and new country. The ones like Rascal Flatts and Tim McGraw are what got me INTERESTED, what's wrong with that?? geeze....
Because in our day,
We had no Boodadakondonk Honky-Tonk, Or Save A Horse ride a cowboy nonsense !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
( and we DON'T WANT IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
y'know, Every body thought Traditional Country was dead,but there is always a Randy Travis every 10 or 15 years that sneak in (Thank God!!!!)
Hey !st time mom, (a Little Tip) Spend More time on your kid, rather than cut a genre of music down!!!!!
I like both, but the "new country," is mostly about the money. They are crossover artists that want to have a hit on both country and pop charts. I just like the tradional country better. It sounds more meaningful. The artists today use things in the studio to enhance their vocals. The tradional artists didn't have that. They had to have a strong voice. That's just why I like traditional country music better.
It might be that in today's country, you hardly hear a fiddle, steel guitar, or other instruments that made country music classic. I am not saying anything negative about today's country because I listen to it. If you really want to know what kind of difference there is, take a song from the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, and today and make your own opinion. I think you will see that country music has changed alot over the years, in a good direction and a bad direction!
Country Music?
Randy Travis
Emmy Lou Harris
Ricky Skaggs
George Jone
Merle Haggard
New country is not country it's more rock or pop
Thanks
Alot of the new stuff on the radio I do not consider country music. The song "Murder on Music Row" by Alan Jackson and George Strait about sums it up for me.
I'm not one who thinks the genre should not ever change. No one expects new rock music to sound like Buddy Holly. It is equally unrealistic to expect new country music to sound like Conway Twitty. But the idea that you can have country music completely minus the steel guitar and a fiddle boggles my mind. There is alot on the radio like Rascal Flatts who pretty much strike me as guys who were too old to be a boy band so they started doing soccer mom country music. There also seem to be alot of dime a dozen female country singers who all sound the same to me and half of whom seem to have gotten their break from various reality shows. Finally, don't get me started on stuff like Trace Atkins. I don't care what a honkeytonk budunkadunk is, and that is not what I go to the dance hall to hear.
All that being said, there is alot of good stuff on country music radio today. I enjoy Dierks Bentley, Pat Green, Gary Allan, Josh Turner, Chris Cagle, and Taylor Swift. Even some of the country/rock stuff like Jack Ingram is enjoyable. There is also a bunch of junk that I just can't stand that drives me nuts.
The thing that has always made me love country music is the individual sounds. Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Conway Twitty, and Hank Williams I and II all have distinct sounds to their voices. It's also easy to tell if you are hearing the smooth sound of Patsy Cline or the rough sound of Loretta Lynn. And all of it fit together to make a genre of music that celebrated individuality. Hence, the problem in my opinion isn't that some of it sounds more like rock or pop than country. The main problem is that so much of it sounds exactly the same like it is churned out of a factory.
Hello Steemillcowboy, I will try to answer your question and remember this is my opinion only and whether or not you or anyone else agrees is also a matter of opinion. I really love the sound of a crying steel guitar and the sounds of a lonesome fiddle. I do not play the fiddle nor have I ever wanted to. I do however play the pedal steel guitar and have for many years. I can not imagine a good country song without one or the other or both instruments.
The country music from yesteryear did include those things which seems to be so absent in many of todays so-called country songs. I do not hold anyones personal preferences against them, but I have noticed that there are those who call classic country music hick stuff and not worthy of being listened to. I say that isn't true.
For the most part country music covers just about any situation one could run into in life and is not always about someone running off with another man's wife or the dog being killed or even about always drinking. Real country music does however visit those situations and many others such as songs about love,happiness,children and other family. It does not always have to be about sadness and many are not about that at all but on the other hand there are songs of tragedy,sadness and general unhappiness.
I only wish that some of the people who criticize classic country music would give it a real genuine listen before they condemn the music and those of us who just so happen to enjoy and love it. I thank you for the question and the opportunity to answer it.
because Pop country is trash. It has been overtaken by the money hungry labels, who are destroying country music for the almighty dollar. It happens in pop music. You get one or two originals doing something, and making money so they put out all these other groups to do the same. I read an interview with Hank III and he says they are pushing him to go with pop country for the money. But unlike the money hungry artist who just want a deal he says no, and is doing it his way. As long as money hungry labels are in control I pity where country will fall. And I use to hate country.
This question, or some version of it, gets asked regularly. Check some of the previous answers for more info.
I'll reiterate what I said, more or less, on a question that is still open.
I like country music period. Whether it was recorded in 1927, 1947, 1967, or 2007. The problem is that most of what is called country music currently isn't country, it is pop music.
A better question is why do fans of Carrie Underwood, Rascal Flatts, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney, etc, get upset when others tell them it is not country music? Does it change anything about what they like about it?
People are too caught up in labels, and don't pay enough attention to substance. Those who like Celine Dion would probably like Faith Hill if it were labeled differently. They sing similar material.
Kenny Chesney has much more in common with Jimmy Buffett than he does with any country singer, but neither's fans would probably listen to the other because of the way they are labeled.
I like music that has something to it, whether its Country, Folk, Blues, Rock & Roll, whatever.
Real music is like a good meal-it satisfies you for awhile. Most of the music today, whatever genre, is like cotton candy. It disappears as soon as you bite into it.
all country music is yucky