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Sugarland "All I Wana Do-oo-oo-oo-ooh"

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sdh483

What the hell kind of country song is this? This sounds nothing like country music. It sounds like a pop song from 1995! The lyrics and chorus are awful. Just a constant "oo-oo-oo-oo-oh" in the chorus? Please! And the lead singer's voice? I know this song is (supposedly) country, but talk about overdoing it on the twang! I wish I could pick up some rural country stations. These small towns seem to know their stuff when it comes to real country.
 
Even small town Country radio is playing that boring song.  I hear it very often, on the many Country stations I can get.  This includes WDXX here in Selma Alabama.

R.D.P. <><

P.S. Seen the video and wasn't too impressed by it.
 
Well, at least Sugarland looks like a group in this song ... Jennifer gives up a handful of notes.
 
sdh483 said:
I know this song is (supposedly) country, but talk about overdoing it on the twang!
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That's how she talks. Nothing put on.

And she's a tough little girl. She can kick your butt. She chews tobacco. That's country!
 
And yet the album has been the #1 top selling country album since it was release. If listeners are willing to spend their money on a CD, isn't that an indication of what they like? Perhaps more of an indication than reacting to a :10 clip on the phone?
 
Every time I hear it, I turn the station. Period. Maybe the worst song in 10 years to have such a push. The only songs I can remember disliking more are "Morning Train" (Sheena Easton?) and "Brand New Key" (Melanie.
 
Everybody has songs that fall into that category. Someone just did a list of "Most Annoying Songs." I think Achy Breaky Heart was on the list. It was interesting to see how many of those annoying songs were also huge sellers and very popular at the time. Three Dog Night's "Joy To the World" falls into that category. The minute that singer starts out shouting "Jeremiah was a bullfrog," I'm gone. It was written by Hoyt Axton. Great story about how Hoyt wrote nonesense lyrics around a great melody to prove a point. He did.

This Sugarland song was inspired by Kristian Bush's wife singing to their 3 year old daughter. She did the little riff, and that got the 3 year old dancing. They concluded if it got a 3 year old to dance, it just might be a hit. They were right.

Not every song is "Help Me Make It Through the Night." If you had to program a station with that 24 hours a day, the audience would commit suicide. So you mix in some mindless crap every now and then to break up the tragedy and depression.
 
To all the Sugarland haters I have one question ... ever been to one of their shows?
The seven I've been to have been packed and the band puts on one of the best, most energetic shows on the circuit today. Jennifer Nettles IS country and doesn't hide from it. She's freakin' HOT and has pipes that would do the likes of Martina proud. Number 1 songs, hot selling fresh albums, and killer live shows are what make stars, and genres outside of country can take a page out of that book.
Would you like something overhyped? Try a Rascal Flatts show ... Gary's voice is SHOT, and every time I've seen them, he spends 2/3's of the show backstage, and the rest preening as if God Himself weren't worthy.
Just the Bear's 2 bits ...
 
Outside of their great cover of, Life In A Northern Town Sugarland are country imposters! Garbage!
 
Smoking hot show, songwriters, and engaged with their listeners. Ask the folks in Atlanta what its like when Sugarland hits the stage. And BTW, how much more country do you need to be to please the purists here than south Georgian?

Name me an artist that didnt stretch with a song, so this one is theirs. Give em a break, they are great for the format. Selling albums, soundscan top five most weeks in the big markets. we should encourage and celebrate them.
 
I can't stand Sugarland and yes, I've seen their live show. That made me dislike them even more. The show is so obviously choreographed that it's nauseating. I'm also sick of seeing Nettle's armpits all the time. They're just another example of pop posers on the same level as Rascal Flatts.
 
luvhonkytonk said:
I can't stand Sugarland and yes, I've seen their live show. That made me dislike them even more. The show is so obviously choreographed that it's nauseating. I'm also sick of seeing Nettle's armpits all the time. They're just another example of pop posers on the same level as Rascal Flatts.
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At least Jennifer Nettles has a good voice and a good singing style. If I never hear Rascal Flatts again, I'll be happy.

But the instrumentals on most Sugarland songs, that's another matter entirely. "Baby Girl" is the only song of theirs I like.
 
Eddy Arnold had changed his style to include orchestral and strings sounds, and he wasn't country. Billy Sherrill produced Tammy Wynette with strings and innovative rhythms and people griped. When I broke into country radio in the early 70s, Charlie Rich and Freddy Fender weren't country. Then, gripes about John Denver and Anny Murray and Kenny Rogers sounds in later years. Every decade this happens! How about Shania? The days of having to bow to Minnie Pearl and kiss Roy Acuff's ring to be "country" are over.

Now, Sugarland. I understand the sentiment...but change happens, gang. Especially now. It's no longer just about how much people like a song on the radio. It's video, downloading and an artist's website.

To another comment: lousy callout songs getting to #1 have been a staple for 25 years. It's called record company hyping a song up the charts. Enough stations don't test to help that happen.

All this from a forty year radio vet!!
 
cooptulsa said:
Eddy Arnold had changed his style to include orchestral and strings sounds, and he wasn't country. Billy Sherrill produced Tammy Wynette with strings and innovative rhythms and people griped. When I broke into country radio in the early 70s, Charlie Rich and Freddy Fender weren't country. Then, gripes about John Denver and Anny Murray and Kenny Rogers sounds in later years. Every decade this happens! How about Shania? The days of having to bow to Minnie Pearl and kiss Roy Acuff's ring to be "country" are over.

Now, Sugarland. I understand the sentiment...but change happens, gang. Especially now. It's no longer just about how much people like a song on the radio. It's video, downloading and an artist's website.

To another comment: lousy callout songs getting to #1 have been a staple for 25 years. It's called record company hyping a song up the charts. Enough stations don't test to help that happen.

All this from a forty year radio vet!!
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Eddy Arnold, Tammy Wynette, Charlie Rich, Freddy Fender, and Anne Murray did good music! Kenny Rogers, some, but not all.
 
Jen can sing... the problem is that she OVER SINGS just about everything. all of the "oh oh's" and the wild runs... sounds like she's trying to sing Ella Fitzgerald scat.

as for Rascal Flatts.... boring.. and their live shows wouldn't be so bad if gary would stay on mic... half the time you can't hear him.... maybe that's good.
 
I think the point here is that a lot of people would like some real country in their country music. Sugarland has a few good sounding songs but this isn't one of them. Yes they are a Pop group with country mixed in and sometimes when she does that yeeow with her voice I turn down the monitor on our station. Record company brainwashing is all too often pushed on us and anyone who says their video is this or that then show it to me on your car radio because as far as I can tell when it comes right down to it the sound quality and the feeling in a song makes it last nothing else.
 
FYI: Life In a Northern Town was NOT a country song.

If you've ever heard Jennifer speak, there is no doubt that she's as country as a turnip truck.
 
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