This has been making the rounds everywhere on the net...Pay close attention and you will hear that when they mixed this they adjusted tempo and actually did key changes on some of the music, most notably Blake Shelton. Why this is such a big deal is beyond me, club and party DJ's have been doing this for years to create mixes to keep the dance floor full. What is wrong with country is nothing. It is evolving like CHR, AC, Hot AC, Smooth Jazz, I could go on but you get the point. The issue is with people who want progress in everything but this one format...It must stay the same, no changes allowed what so ever...Sorry that's not how it works. To stay popular the format has to change or get left behind. Did it change too much too fast? Yes. But if you remember the horrible disco phase of country it corrected itself and went back toward "normal" but not 100 percent as it was part of a format evolution. There is already a swing back, very slow as they always are, but it is happening. Ricky Skaggs has charted a new single, Bro Country is suffering a backlash, the biggest evidence of this is Jerrod Neimann, who after the fiasco that was the Donkey Song, has failed to have a hit although his record company beat his latest to death they finally gave up. One final thought, Stars 0n 45 had a HUGE hit with the Beatles Medley in the 80's using this same technique....so this is nothing new.....
