Sounds like today's AC to me unless it sounds like 70s rock.
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Beyonce Country Project
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You can't generalize. The thing that makes country a successful radio format is that it's very diverse. So you have some artists who were influenced by classic rock, some who were influenced by classic country, and some who are more pop. Some even sounds like alternative rock. The way programmers schedule the music is to make sure they cover all of the various styles and influences in every half hour. That's why it's not unusual to see country artists showing up in other formats, such as alternative, pop, and AC. The Shaboozey song was mainly a country song, and you saw that in its performance last night on the Grammy awards. They did it as a two-step with cowboy hats. But it had success in other places.
To me the only music you can call country is outlaw country. Everything else is just southern pop music.
That's your bias. The format is much bigger than that. It includes current outlaw country, such as Eric Church and Jason Aldean. But also has traditional country from Cody Johnson or Zach Top. Chris Stapleton is pure rock, like Bob Seger with a cowboy hat. So it's very diverse, and that's why it's successful as a radio format.
I like Bob Seger but haven't heard much from Chris Stapleton that I care for. There was that one song on the Real Country radio format that I thought was Waylon Jennings.
Jason Aldean I definitely don't like.
Hahaha, country music dress code.
It would be more newsworthy if they showed up without their hats. I doubt most of those performers have ever gotten their boots dirty on the way home to their mansions.
It's all sorts of things. The dominant sound could be described as pop with a twang, I suppose, but there are r&b influences at work in some songs, traditional country, folk and bluegrass touches in others. And that's just what gets played on mainstream country radio. There's a whole world of alt/progressive/neo traditional country out there, with performers who fill large venues without significant radio exposure, whose music continues more faithfully from the pre-'90s sounds of country music.
Shaboozey is from a comfortable suburban background, growing up in Woodbridge, Va., and playing high school football. His parents were Nigerian. Morgan Wallen and Luke Combs had similar backgrounds -- Morgan in East Tennessee (playing high school baseball), Luke in suburban Raleigh, N.C. Luke Bryan, however, grew up on a peanut farm in Georgia. Ashley McBryde was also a farm girl, from Arkansas. So it's more of a cross-section of American life than you assume it is. Of course, the successful ones do live in mansions in the Nashville area. Why shouldn't they? They can afford them, and they want to live near their workplace. Charley Pride and Conway Twitty didn't stick around the Mississippi Delta for long once they started getting paid to sing and record.Hahaha, country music dress code.
It would be more newsworthy if they showed up without their hats. I doubt most of those performers have ever gotten their boots dirty on the way home to their mansions.
Travis Tritt was even more of a Seger with a cowboy hat than Stapleton is. I saw him in concert in the early '90s and his encore was "Night Moves." He killed it. And Stapleton can rock, but he's much more than "pure rock." He can go folk, blues, country and singer-songwriter balladry all in the same concert or album.
Stapleton can do R&B, too. I think a few adult R&B stations played Tennessee Whiskey.
James Otto Sweet Heart
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How would you label this song?
God bless you and Mason always!!!
Holly (a girl who only loves him more every day)
Auto-Tuned.
Justin Beiber country.
Rolling Stone magazine has a view on the Beyonce Grammy wins:
www.rollingstone.com
Her view is pretty naive. It completely misses how Grammy nominations happen. Members in other genres can vote in other categories. Just because she won a Grammy in the country category doesn't mean country fans all of a sudden accept her as a country artist. NARAS membership has greatly changed from what it was just a few years ago. It's CEO explained that on the TV show. So now the membership is more diverse, younger, and less country. You could see that on the TV show. The only country performance on the show was by Shaboozey, and he lost in every possible category. So this award says more about NARAS than it says about Beyonce or Nashville.
The Grammys Understood Beyoncé Was Country. Why Didn't Nashville?
If the Recording Academy can recognize Beyonce as country music and pivot in a relatively short period of time, what gives with Nashville?
www.rollingstone.com
Her view is pretty naive. It completely misses how Grammy nominations happen. Members in other genres can vote in other categories. Just because she won a Grammy in the country category doesn't mean country fans all of a sudden accept her as a country artist. NARAS membership has greatly changed from what it was just a few years ago. It's CEO explained that on the TV show. So now the membership is more diverse, younger, and less country. You could see that on the TV show. The only country performance on the show was by Shaboozey, and he lost in every possible category. So this award says more about NARAS than it says about Beyonce or Nashville.
The Nashville Country crowd never accepted the Byrds even though they made Country records with Gram Parsons. In the case of Beyonce, it would be naive to say that race isn't a factor. Tracy Chapman never got her song on Country formats when it first came out. Are they any Trans Country artists? There will always be some people that won't be accepted in certain circles.Rolling Stone magazine has a view on the Beyonce Grammy wins:
The Grammys Understood Beyoncé Was Country. Why Didn't Nashville?
If the Recording Academy can recognize Beyonce as country music and pivot in a relatively short period of time, what gives with Nashville?
Her view is pretty naive. It completely misses how Grammy nominations happen. Members in other genres can vote in other categories. Just because she won a Grammy in the country category doesn't mean country fans all of a sudden accept her as a country artist. NARAS membership has greatly changed from what it was just a few years ago. It's CEO explained that on the TV show. So now the membership is more diverse, younger, and less country. You could see that on the TV show. The only country performance on the show was by Shaboozey, and he lost in every possible category. So this award says more about NARAS than it says about Beyonce or Nashville.
Some Beyonce fans may be baffled by her decision to make that record. Is Taylor Swift still a Country artist? Things are no longer confined by strict genres...
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Mason says during this clip starting at the 1:27:14 mark that he doesn't have anything to do with auto tune.
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Keep in mind, it was more than Nashville. Country music fans around the country didn't accept the country rock movement in the late 60s. That's why Willie left for Texas and found a NEW fan base among the college kids. Those college kids did. That's what led to the outlaw movement. He built something new. Within a few years, it grew and ended up changing country music forever.
You can't compare Beyonce's Grammy win to what Willie did in the 70s. She has her fans and that's as far as it goes. She will go continue to make Beyonce music, just as she did with Cowboy Carter.
As I've said throughout this thread, Shaboozey was on Beyonce's record. In case you haven't notice, Shaboozey is black. He didn't benefit from the Beyonce connection at the Grammy awards. He also didn't have a big record label backing him like Beyonce. That's more of the story than race.
Yes that's what I've been saying. The music industry itself has been pushing that view. Perhaps the point of this win is to demonstrate the folly of traditional Grammy categories. Anyone can win in any genre category if they meet the criteria and get the votes.
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Does Justin sing anything that sounds like this? I've never paid enough attention to his material and so I have no idea.
God bless you and him and Mason always!!!
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^^^ Right me if I am wrong, but I don't remember closing up the chat that I started about Mason Ramsey being my idea.
God bless you and Mason always!!!
Holly (a girl who only loves him more every day)
God bless you and Mason always!!!
Holly (a girl who only loves him more every day)